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Chris Brown

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

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Poet, fluent in heartbreak, but still trying to make the world better one poem at a time.

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Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

I'll write you a poem...
#writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity

I'll write you a poem...
I’ve never felt ready,
Not even a little bit.
I’ve never felt ready,
not since that day.

But I‘ll write you a love poem
that’ll leave you weak in the knees,
wondering if you’ll ever catch your breath again,
and wishing those stomach knots would leave.

But I reserve none of that for me.
This heart holds fear like I might die if I let it go;
like I might perish if I ever opened it again

But you know what? There is this one girl…
And she scares me because she makes me brave!
What have I done? Why did I give her the key?

-crbrown

November 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

It's time...
#poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

It's time...
It’s time.
Time to tell you.
To tell you what I’m feeling.

The mornings hit different with you.
My coffee tastes like you conjured something
deep from my soul, hidden since I can’t remember when.
The sun is a bit warmer on these chilly New England mornings;
chasing the cold from my frost encased heart.

And at night,
when my demons come calling, flooding with terror,
you know just how to chase them away
and breathe life again into my fearful heart.
Falling asleep entangled in your arms brings a peace
my soul has not known these many years.

God, it’s gonna hurt when you leave.
I hope you don’t. But it’s all I know.

-crbrown

October 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Poem...
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Poem...

you started in the margins of my life;
on the periphery, lurking in the shadows,
only occasionally stepping into the light.

but slowly, almost deliberately, darkness faded
and my heart danced like it hasn’t in an age.
you became the words sustaining a wayward soul;
the rhythms and rhymes of a redeemed life
one worth living desperately daringly.

and now…
you’re the whole damn poem.

-cbrown

September 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Soul on Fire...
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Soul on Fire

It has always been her;
I just got lost for a while.

I thought she set my soul on fire
only to keep herself warm.

But no…

She did it to keep my heart from freezing
and falling into the abyss of its own despair.

-crbrown

September 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

The curse of the hopeless romantic...
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The curse of the hopeless romantic...

Move along now,
this heart is closed.
Don’t look this way again,
you won’t find me here.

Wait!

Maybe, perhaps maybe,
I’ll leave just a crack
for you. Only you.

-crbrown

August 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Patience...
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Patience...
This heart is patient,
perhaps too prone to waiting.
Always here, but living on anticipation;
holding on for a perfect moment;
one which many never come.

-crbrown

August 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

2:34 am
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2:34 am

It’s 2:34 am…

I can’t sleep.
The gentle, lapping water
so often a soliloquy,
turns to cacophony;
now a raging torrent
competing with the moon
to reveal my deep secrets
to no one but myself.

Things I’d half forgotten,
feelings squirreled away,
love stuffed in a basket,
simply waiting for time
to heal this old man
from imagined hurts
and a fallow heart.

It’s 2:38 am…

Been asleep this whole time,
but awake in your dreams
as the old legends portend.
Maybe the ancient magic
will work wonders again
and bring you closer to me;
this time in my own dreams.

-crbrown

July 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Hope...
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Hope...
I let these words percolate forever
because I didn’t know how to tell you.
You looked at me like no one
has in a very long time.
You made me feel alive
for the first time in forever.
You made my heart full
since I can’t remember when

But now your gone.
Yes, my heart is broken,
but it’s somehow different.
What have you done to me?
I don’t know what to do
with the gift you’ve bestowed.
The gift of hope.

-crbrown

July 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

New beginnings...
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New beginnings...
New beginnings, chosen or not,
often leave us lost.

But remember:
We can only start from where we are,
and you have everything you need to begin!

It might not feel that way right now,
but beginnings, especially new ones,
are always messy and unscripted.

I know you’ll find your way!

-crbrown

July 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Love again...
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Love again...
I go to sleep with a heavy heart,
full of doubt and longing;
one bereft of feeling,
bruised and battered
within an inch of itself.

I don’t know how to navigate this.
My compass spins and spins,
my north star obscured,
the southern cross ablaze.
I’m dead in the water again.

How did I end up here once more?
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t know.
I do know, but to admit it would mean
my entire life a fraud, a farce, a fantasy.
Instead, as always, I’ll find hope in the heartbreak
and love again tomorrow or maybe the day after next.

-crbrown

July 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Secret...
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Secret...
I have a secret…
one I’ve told many times
in weighted metaphors,
cleverly chosen words,
tortured, sonorous similes,
and a well-placed rhyme.

I’m sure she already knows
for this secret is about her.
She sees right through me
and my efforts to be coy.
I guess if she already knows,
I don’t have much of a secret.

Damn, I wish she would tell me.

-crbrown

July 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

I could...
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I could...

I could write a hundred poems
about your captivating eyes
and a million about your smile.
They wouldn’t do justice
to the depth of your soul
or the love in your heart.

But the one I need to write
illuminates the peace you bring
to my own heart and soul.

But I just can’t find the words
describing something so beautiful
that it defies imagination.
I’ve never felt this before
and it frightens me, just a bit.

So, keep doing what you’re doing,
and let’s find the words together.

-crbrown

July 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Second chance?
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Second chance?
I want another chance,
but I’m unsure how to ask.
Usually surefooted, I stumble
when you pop into my heart,
my words become jumbled,
and my stomach in knots.

All rational thought disappears
and doubts take up position.
Fear that what I want is
simply not what you want

I want to try again;
to discover if that magic I felt
was only an illusion,
the mind playing tricks
or something beyond real.

-crbrown

July 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Why...
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Why...
I’m doing it again
I can tell it’s happening
But I feel powerless to stop it

Why is my heart so damn afraid?

It always does this – pulling back
when it’s so close to happiness.
I don’t think I will ever understand.

-crbrown

July 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

You...
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You...
You’ve become but a face
in an ever-growing crowd,
but I still look for you, always.

I look for you in these
tortured, rhythmic rhymes;
in the alliterative beating of
a heart so damn fragile
it might break if I let you
touch it again,
or if again I let it feel.

-crbrown

July 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Light...
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Light...
Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere.
Give me your pain, your trauma, your scars
and I’ll turn them into something beautiful.

Cry all you might need to. Get it out.
I’ll catch your tears with my heart
and we can pour them into the fire
watching past ghosts evaporate.

Haunted no more, our hearts open
to a new beginning, a solid foundation
one built from the hearts faint light
we’ve both kept alive these many years.

-crbrown

June 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Yes, I will...
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Yes, I will...
Much have I written;
so many words and
thoughts and feelings.
All the while using
heartbreak and hurt
as a shield and sword.

For too long this heart, my heart
has dwelt in the sonorous shadows
of this melancholic and wistful verse,
hidden from her, hidden from possibility.
I wish to break these clandestine chains
and I will do it, but only for her.

-crbrown

June 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Love delayed...
#writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity

Love delayed...

I’ve locked my heart away for over a decade;
I thought to protect myself and my peace,
but I realize now that was a selfish aide.

I was afraid. Afraid no one else could love me
and under no circumstance could I be swayed.

Oh, I did let it out to play now and again
dipping my toe in love, but always a charade.
Seeking connection, but I’d always pull back
when they didn’t fit the template mislaid.

But then, something happened my heart did not intend;
someone who was willing to smash that maze, a renegade.

She came like a grenade – strike one!
She came like a parade – strike two!
She came with a toll unpaid – strike three!

Or so I thought…

I found my heart escaping its chains to be close to her;
I found my mind wandering towards her constantly;
I found my soul craving the warmth of her heart.

And in that space, my heart was no longer dismayed.

-crbrown

June 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Heart of stone...
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Heart of stone...
I pulled out my heart of stone today
and found only echoes of the past,
things I’d rather forever forget

I don’t know what happened
when I was looking the other way,
chasing those who could never love it

But to my surprise when I put it back,
your name was already etched there;
as unexpected as you arriving to my life.

And now I can’t help but wonder –
has the universe been conspiring again?

-crbrown

June 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Don't worry...
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Don't worry...

You don’t have to worry about me
I’m not going anywhere

I’ll hold your hand the entire way
until you can crawl again

I’ll hold your heart the whole time
until it can beat again on its own.

I’ll hold your soul forever
until you find peace

And I’ll help you fix your broken wings
until you can fly again

You don’t have to worry about me
I’m in. No matter how messy we are

-crbrown

June 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Truth...
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Truth...
I convinced myself I didn’t care;
that it meant nothing at all.
You couldn’t possibly have
meant anything you said

But my heart called bullshit,
and let me love you again.
Truth is, I never stopped
even for a second.

-crbrown

June 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

I'm in...
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I'm in...
I saw it in your eyes
the first time you caught me looking.
You were going to be trouble,
you were going to be hard,
you were going to fight.

But I also saw everything
you didn’t want me to see:
A certain sadness hovering around,
a smashed heart two times over,
the hurt you carry everywhere.

And I’m sure you saw the same in me.
So, let’s be gentle with each other,
let’s take our time to figure it out
let’s build a home in the darkest
recesses of our hearts for each other.

I’m in! Are you?

-crbrown

June 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Courage (again)...
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Courage...
I’ve read everything,
watched every video,
but I still don’t know

How do I tell you I like you?
If I were to list every reason
it would fill volumes upon volumes,
but how could I pick just one?

Maybe I’m just chasing a fleeting feeling
or on the path to breaking my own heart.
Oh well, if it’s one of those, so be it;
I can handle that, I’ve done it before

But I think I’ll just tell you;
run to you with an outstretched heart
hoping you won’t let me fall on my face.

Damn, I think I’ve found my courage again

-crbrown

June 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Believe...
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Believe...
She’s got ahold of my heart;
all I can think of when apart.
I don’t know how I let her;
it’s certainly been a blur

Why did I let this happen?
I’m so careful, armored,
but she broke through
just by being herself

She’s chaos, but brings me peace
she’s impulsive, but makes me think
she’s vulnerable, giving me courage
she’s a warrior, lending me strength

And she’s bestowed perhaps the best gift:
I’m starting to believe again;
believe that I do deserve love

-crbrown

June 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM

Chris Brown

@cbrown0929.bsky.social

Maybe...
#writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity

Maybe...
Maybe, I don’t want to be ok

Maybe I hold onto this pain
as a reminder of who I was then.
For sure, I’ve grown, but my heart
remains heavily shrouded in a fog
of my own making

Maybe, in some perverse corner of my heart,
I still harbor hope for a chance at redemption;
a chance at something beautiful and right;
but my head knows I’m telling stories again

Maybe, I don’t want to be ok

I play with words
the way you played with my heart.
Reckless abandon filled your every move,
wholly clouding my judgement

But these words spring from that pain still,
and for that, overwhelming gratitude abounds.
For you set me on this path, on this journey,
although I doubt that’s what you intended

Maybe, I don’t want to be ok

-crbrown

June 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM