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i wish

November 6, 2017by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

i wish you could see that i understand that there is more to life than pleasantries. you shy from me; i am a crackling fire, if you were to lean over, would you welcome my flames? im falling for you, but will you flee and leave?🌲

Poetry

mercy

October 4, 2017October 13, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

you decayed, slowly. dripping all over my window-still, you lingered. i should have shown you mercy; you drooped, you wept, i watched idly, i dreamed breathlessly. i never knew, the exact time of your death...🌙🌸 @amateur_poet {check out MORE} https://www.instagram.com/p/BZuQIVAhvcS/?taken-by=amateur__poet

Poetry

the silence of the trees

September 6, 2017September 6, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

the silence of the trees, wise and foreign to a flower like me. i use to trace my fingers across the bark, witchy stories and hard truths rough against my skin, i allowed the language of the trees to overwhelm me🌲 @amateur__poet

Poetry

submerged

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

submerged in my dreams, I am lost within an ephemeral fantasy. phantom kisses on my neck, I still sit under the tree, where we first meet. You have gone overseas, leaving me for girls with wide hips and lips stung by bees. But in my heart, you shall stay, even when you promised to meet [...]

prose, writing

unrequited

July 28, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

unrequited love, is a disease. It eats at me, ravages me. I am no longer me when the waves hit me. I am slumbered beneath the sea. I am in mourning. I am tree that has lost its leaves. The autumn of my life, I must salvage what is left; I will replant in the [...]