Perhaps their voices never leave us and we spend our lives fumbling for quiet corners where we can hear them most.
MIRA R. ARIDIPerhaps their voices never leave us and we spend our lives fumbling for quiet corners where we can hear them most.
MIRA R. ARIDILay your head on mine and let me breathe you instead of air.
MIRA R. ARIDIWhere once there were a few houses between us, now there are seas.
MIRA R. ARIDIYou touch me and a thousand different particles come alive beneath my skin.
MIRA R. ARIDIWe reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.
MIRA R. ARIDIAnd when you win all wars of life, there will remain the one you must lose. Time.
MIRA R. ARIDII’ve come to see that life does not only exist where you do. There’s sense of life here too.
MIRA R. ARIDIHow is it that we mourn the shattered pieces of the love we willingly broke?
MIRA R. ARIDII am grieving a connection that never really happened, a dance of souls that only lasted one day.
MIRA R. ARIDIMaybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
MIRA R. ARIDII’m breathing dreams like air, like there will never be enough of them to fill up the space in my lungs.
MIRA R. ARIDIThe clock ticks by and all I could think of is that at least I’m a day closer to seeing you.
MIRA R. ARIDIAnd it scares me that if I ever get my wings, I might not know where to fly to.
MIRA R. ARIDIMaybe that’s why it was so easy for you to break me, you can always tear the pages of an open book.
MIRA R. ARIDII’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
MIRA R. ARIDISometimes I feel like I’m only a drop in your ocean and the waves will soon carry me away.
MIRA R. ARIDI