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Poetry

dust

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dust

I once trusted you to shield me from the storm: the unrelenting chaos that is my psyche. You failed. You retracted your talons and took off. A lone wolf, a kamikaze solider in the Congo fog of night, you surrendered my trust and left me to wither and die. I called out to you; my [...]

Poetry

aloe

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aloe

When I find myself bored, unsatisfied, It is consequence that I also find myself helplessly in love. An allusion of the fateful fall, I idly daydream, dangerously imagine myself in the arms Of someone who is undeserving. The wispy dreams are hazy at first, The golden-touched skin And the puckered lips Of sophomoric ideology, I [...]

Poetry, Thoughtful

take your time

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take your time

i wash myself in tranquility; the scent carries in my hair, my skin, my smile. i scrub away the dark thoughts, brown sugar sticky on my skin, i trace crescent moons all over my stomach. caress layers and layers of love into my tired muscles. knead the saplings of tropical trees into my curls, press [...]

Poetry

like ashes

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like ashes

i must be on your mind, right? it is not fair that out of the two of us, i am the only one suffering? sleep evades me, i question each and every bite, the mirror and i are no longer friendly, my moods shift, augment, dissolve like the faces of the moon. it eats at [...]