Another short poem here. Please leave a comment, I love feedback and ways I can improve. Thanks :)

I just edited this poem. added a bunch and took away a bunch. figured I'd leave the first poem, and then add  the next poem here as well.

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Our hearts are smudged across these pages

Marked with ash and tears of regret

Letters to our past lives are scrawled

Words crossed out in deep aggressive red

Hearts are smudged across these pages

The papers ragged at the edges

Emotions are torn from piercing words

Ink stains all of the memories

Our past, present, and future.

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Letters from the Heart

Hearts are smudged across these pages

Pieces of patched-up paper, cracked and old

Collected by some lonely soul

Who thought them wondrous treasures.

In these books, in these letters

Words are crossed out, others added in.

Anger is scratched in deep aggressive red,

Sorrow is found in the twists of letter,

The blotches of tears that mark the fading words.

These papers, like puzzle pieces,

They hold the last words of many strangers

Who’s lives can be glimpsed at

Through the way they wrote.

Hearts are smudged across these pages

Letters to past lives and lovers

Are scrawled on these worn tablets;

They are keys to the heart

And pictures to the soul.