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one day
your careless words and carefree glances, you laughing ones down the way, you don’t know what burning lurks beneath a cold shoulder on a hot summer day it’s hilarious to think of how you go about your days without any … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Songwriting
Tagged can't stop laughing, hilarious, poem, song, writing
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Am I To Believe
Everything I have been gifted — these fingertips, this tongue. Everything I’m waiting for under the burning sun. I am a monster in my own right, but you already knew. Tearing open my own flesh but then — who am … Continue reading
Posted in Love Poems, Poetry
Tagged devour, eat, food, food of love, good enough to eat, love, love poem, poem, poetry
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What If
What if they gave us everything we asked for, what would be left to want, what would be left to pray for? What if they gave us everything we needed, What would be left to lack, what would be left … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Songwriting
Tagged 100 words, bigger picture, hope, lyrics, need, poem, poetry, questions, song, what if
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Know ( )self
Intangible thing, a belief in self — how is it that you cannot hold it, cannot wield it, cannot shield yourself with it? Because it cannot be grasped? But in the hands of another, it cuts deeply enough that you … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Poetry
Tagged 100 words, mental illness, personality disorder, poem, poems, poetry, poor coping mechanisms, self hate, self-talk, writing
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Named
They said you were Aphrodite, when they found your face washed upon the shore. They saw the curve of your cheek and the angle of your jaw, and the curl of your hair, and named you Venus, named you Beauty, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged 100 words, bias, colonizers, discovery, ignorance, immigrants, poem, poetry, racism
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