There is a girl on fire a woman choking a body walking into the ocean and they all have my face. They all have my heart because I give that away so easily.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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