I close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.
MIRA R. ARIDI
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 close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.
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You pull away and suddenly I have more room to grow.
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The clock ticks by and all I could think of is that at least I’m a day closer to seeing you.
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I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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I got used to temporary things. I’m afraid I might not want anything permanent at all.
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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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We reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.
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You touch me and a thousand different particles come alive beneath my skin.
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Maybe that’s why it was so easy for you to break me, you can always tear the pages of an open book.
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I’ve always had a fear of endings, but it comes as relief to me that among all the dying things, I am one too.
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Refrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.
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You say we’re nonsense together, but nothing makes more sense to me.
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I’ve come to see that life does not only exist where you do. There’s sense of life here too.
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Of all the lies I’ve lived, and all the lies I’ve been told, the lies I told myself hurt the most.
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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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Lay your head on mine and let me breathe you instead of air.
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