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Gaze
You looked at me, one day, and you told me, “you can’t even look yourself in the eye”. And you stood up behind me, and moved me, like some kind of poseable mannequin, pushing me closer to the old mirror… Continue reading
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You
My love, alone, was worth a thousand of you. And you shattered it into such tiny pieces that I couldn’t even see what you’d done. But even tiny pieces can spark a fire so fierce that it clears entire forests, and darkens the skies with its ash. And when it’s done. And it will be… Continue reading
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Choice
You would tell me I was chosen. As if that somehow made me special. As if the shame and the indignity that you saw in my roots could be washed clean with my repotting. But when you took me to your home, you would forget I was from elsewhere. That my leaves needed different light. And you’d… Continue reading
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No Hesitation*
Content Note: this poem references death by suicide. Please proceed with as much care as you need. <3 Continue reading
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Difference
When she’s nice to me, it feels like entrapment. I need to watch what I say. Because it may be used as evidence against me. Against my belief that I am innocent. And there is nothing I can say that won’t incriminate me, that would Continue reading
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Stay
By making it impossible to do so, they nurtured my tendency to imagine escape. It’s become such a part of me that longing to be elsewhere, to just… go, is automatic, echolalic. It’ll waken if I cross over railways. Or when I stare out to sea. And it will linger. Whispering, because it found some part… Continue reading
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Blank
Today’s been empty. Just a lack of… Just a space, in which i’ve waited. For something, anything, to happen. As if the answers would just appear. Or the gaps, in which i’ve lost things, might release our children to my trust. But it’s been empty. Just a waste of… Just some hours, in which i’ve waited.… Continue reading
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