I close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.
MIRA R. ARIDIHow is it that we mourn the shattered pieces of the love we willingly broke?
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I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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This is face blindness, but not really it. Among all the faces I see, I could only see yours.
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Lay your head on mine and let me breathe you instead of air.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m only a drop in your ocean and the waves will soon carry me away.
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You feed me poison in a spoon of gold and I always ask for more.
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I shed skin after skin, seeking my true colors, expecting a rainbow or a stripe of black, but all I get are maps of red. We are all human underneath.
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I am grieving a connection that never really happened, a dance of souls that only lasted one day.
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You float underneath my eyelids – a dream I never seem to get enough of.
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Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
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No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.
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Perhaps their voices never leave us and we spend our lives fumbling for quiet corners where we can hear them most.
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When she laughs, her soul floats outside her body and I can touch it.
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This year, I will let grief walk by my side, but I will lead the way.
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I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
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I run from my thoughts of you and meet them in my dreams.
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