When she laughs, her soul floats outside her body and I can touch it.
MIRA R. ARIDIWhen she laughs, her soul floats outside her body and I can touch it.
MIRA R. ARIDII’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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. ARIDIIt was always your dreams we focused on, you never thought I’d have dreams too.
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. ARIDIOf all the lies I’ve lived, and all the lies I’ve been told, the lies I told myself hurt the most.
MIRA R. ARIDII close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.
MIRA R. ARIDIYou say we’re nonsense together, but nothing makes more sense to me.
MIRA R. ARIDIYou’ll roam the world and come to realize: It’s all in you, to be free or not to be.
MIRA R. ARIDIYou float underneath my eyelids – a dream I never seem to get enough of.
MIRA R. ARIDIRefrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.
MIRA R. ARIDII taught myself the art of forgetfulness. If they were meant to be remembered, they would have stayed.
MIRA R. ARIDIThis is face blindness, but not really it. Among all the faces I see, I could only see yours.
MIRA R. ARIDIYou touch me and a thousand different particles come alive beneath my skin.
MIRA R. ARIDIThis year, I will let grief walk by my side, but I will lead the way.
MIRA R. ARIDIWe reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.
MIRA R. ARIDI