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Many times over my eyes have devoured the layers of your skin but I’ve never seen you naked.
Raha ArazRaha Araz Living in a constant paradox, begging to be held and released by gravity, to be grounded and free. But my feet pressed against the earth yearn for the clouds above my fingertips adrift whispering I don’t want to be at the mercy of gravity.
Raha ArazRaha Araz The cloak of death has favorites when its strings are being controlled by the puppeteer of hatred.
Raha ArazRaha Araz Let your memories fall into place, you don’t have to carry all of them at once.
Raha ArazRaha Araz Why are we told to be afraid to hurt? Why do we avoid, run and hide? Cover up inside with shields of armor, Our shins, and elbows made of pads of plastic; We are not made of glass and tattered bits, It’s not weakness when our strength builds us to last.
Raha ArazRaha Araz There is no sunrise as beautiful as the one where you realize you are worth a million suns.
Raha ArazRaha Araz Where do I stand when neither side recognizes me as one of them.
Raha ArazRaha Araz I am suffocating in the vacancy of the overflowing space, can you feel me reaching out?
Raha ArazRaha Araz Can you taste the colors your ancestors weaved into, The armors of resilience they wore; Can you taste the colors of the unpaved path before you, waiting to be colored by you?
Raha ArazRaha Araz Have you ever heard silence? How do you hear the silence? You don’t, you feel it. And they stared at the silence between them.
Raha ArazRaha Araz How can I not love you from a distance when you breathe the same way I do, Have the same needs I do? Search for the same purpose and meaning that I do? Why must there be me over here and you over there that do not live in the same world?
Raha ArazRaha Araz They are simple creatures they see right through you and if by chance they miss you, they will make you believe you were never there.
Raha ArazRaha Araz Why must your suffering cause my peace and my peace your suffering?
Raha ArazRaha Araz It is not thanks to you but in spite of you that we have just one day to look down from the top – The mountains we move should have never been there.
Raha ArazRaha Araz For him, my body was for him.
Raha ArazRaha Araz If ever happiness happens to forget you even a little bit, never completely forget about it.
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