Of Blood and Sugar

By Riley N. Raye

To you:

the words here are written
uncensored as possible
and though something inside
definitely still wants to forget
so much more
still needs to remember

A note for the reader

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984539267

Riley N. Raye

Riley and Jackie are a newly engaged couple working out of Arizona, Oregon, and sometimes South Carolina. Young and healing, they chose to put 20 years of good and bad love into paper. This is the first project that the couple began working on while continuing to attend university for history, French, and chemistry. -About the creators

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Copyright © 2018 by Riley N. Raye

Library of Congress Control Number:      2018907862

ISBN:                  Hardcover                        978-1-9845-3927-4

                            Softcover                           978-1-9845-3928-1

                            eBook                                978-1-9845-3926-7

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Rev. date: 07/13/2018

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Contents

I.      Summer’s Exposure

II.     A Tinker’s Idol

III.   To Feel

IV.    To Rebuild

V.     To Find

VI.   Found

You tore yourself in two

opening, crackling, screaming

What you want is in writing

cindering away, leaving me to find

Summer’s Exposure

Do not be afraid

of a little blood

you cannot fear

what is inside of you

Drink it down you alcoholic

forget I asked

forget I came in

forget I loved you

forget I am part of your life

and forget my name

-Can’t act like it doesn’t matter

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He will tell you

you always want it

because you said yes last time

-How it starts and ends

Of the lessons your hands taught

compassion wasn’t one of them

Companionship

was a distant and unnecessary idea

in a household split to pieces

I was