Tag: pain
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Love Letters
#L How your fragrance and love Ooze out as I unfold Each carefully pressed layer Of your tattered letters. As my shaky fingers smoothen out Each wrinkled word, phrase and line, I regale moments shared. Magically you appear, as if to Speak to me, in absentia: Oh ’twere that I could fold you into my…
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Muted Spectators
Ominous high-pitched voices In some sort of emergency On the phone, calling up for An ambulance, mingle with shushes. Tongues click in despair. A shrill “We-oow-we-we-oow “, Echoing far and wide, Pervades my being as if A dozen sirens were Piercing my ears. My senses, I muffle with Familiar sounds: Hushed cries of a baby,…
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You Always Said…
Trigger Warning: The poem contains incidents of self-harm ***** When the flowers lay crushed on the ground It was an accident you said * When the succulents began to die in succession It was an accident you said * When the pages of the books were found in the bin It was an accident you…