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Poetry On Odyssey: You And I Are From Different Skies

Loving people through ups and downs...

Emilee Cameron
Apr 23, 2018
Eastern Michigan University
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Poetry On Odyssey: You And I Are From Different Skies
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You and I are from different skies


Brighter than a star my heart glows, every time I talk to you

You and I like two magnets...always drawn together but never able to touch

The words spoken in the heat of the moment forever written in my heart, try as I might to erase them they will never completely fade away

Forever banging on the bolted door that protects your heart

My heart growing cold and hard as pain seeps deeper inside

Your words that make a million butterflies fly out of my chest

Your smile that brightens my day

Your hands that warm my body


You and I are from different skies


We mix and we mold together, not always in harmony

Like a cat to a dog we fight

But like a torch, you are the light that guides me through the darkness

Our hearts beat as one

Life is not complete without you with me

Chasing each other with laughter and joy

Holding each other in sadness and pain

Not knowing when to pull and when to push


You and I are from different skies


There is no perfect, There is hard work

There is pain, There is love

There is hurt, There is happiness.

In differences there is beauty

Hard to trust, harder to lose

Tears of joy mixed with tears of sorrow

Connection deeper than the ocean

Feelings stronger than steel

My hand in yours


You and I are from different skies

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