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 May 2019
Zeynep Çiçek
It's slow and underlying
It's so little that
you could miss it with a blink
It's so soft that
you could barely feel it

It exists there as part of you now.
It is in your being.
This love you feel,

it's the kind you can't live without.
It's the kind that doesn't show itself.

It's invisible. It's there.
At some point, it becomes routine
 May 2019
Zeynep Çiçek
I've been all over, I think.
It's confusing.

There's this thing I love. I love it so much,
I don't think I could go without.
It's bad for me,
in excess.
It holds me under my arms and carries me to celestial bodies.
It turns me alive.

There's the real world. I  despise it.
If it means to part with what I need.
I cling so desperately but-

-has anyone noticed why?

It doesn't really matter the reason.
I don't want to know.
But it's the one thing I want to hold onto.

Ah, I remember the times I'd lay really quiet.
Thinking all day and night about magic.
It's what I need. It's what kills me.

I feel the farewell a bit too close, it is near.
And I
feel the farewell a bit too much.
It saddens me.

Growing up and leaving this, are you crazy?
I'm a madman, when has anyone seen me let go?
I'll cling with each particle of my being, at the risk of sounding dramatic.

But I'll be happier than the housewives and the office men.
I'll have it-

-this thing I love. It's something I do.
It's nothing interesting.
It's my whole world.
I noticed that if I want to survive, I'll have to pause living
(Just joking hbghbj I started studying for exams)
 Feb 2019
Zeynep Çiçek
A world for you, a world for me
No one else dwells
To sing in the rain

A world for you, for your comfort
Shut your apartment
Sleeping away the day

A world for me, no one has seen
To hide and be free
And I’ll sing as much as I want
Take advantage and weep
Because no one here will ask why
With no one to see

A world for me, it’s what exists for me
Perpetual rain
Chilly warmth but I’m with my coat
And while I weep
I’ll sing myself a song
Walking in the rain

A world for me, not for you
No space left, I’m afraid
All reservations filled
Can’t wait
I got to
Sing in the rain

A world for me, another for you

I’ll weep because of the rain
Because the love of life it’s too much to contain
I’ll let it all out
And I’ll
Explode
In a world for me
 Jan 2019
Zeynep Çiçek
Taste of sugar - maybe stevia
In the back of my tongue
Where the throat meets the muscle
And draws the line, the border
It’s so sweet despite not having a sweet tooth
I can’t handle it though
Some can’t handle the thought

I don’t understand
There is
This sweet taste
At the start of my throat
Every night when I lay awake
I wonder why
It won’t go away
Every time I pull an all-nighter I have this weird sweet taste right there. It’s so weird and it always appears after four AM
 Jan 2019
Zeynep Çiçek
I love you
Like I love the fall of snow
Like the clear sky in May
Like the night stars in June

I love you
Like I love the truth of life
Like the smell of my books
Like the ache in my bones

I love you
Like I love the ache in my throat
Like the scorching in my gut
Like the flood of tears in my eye

I love you
Like I love the warmth of a kiss
Like the hug that I miss
Like the hand that holds mine
Like a loving smile

I love you
I know I’m right
There is no other
Explanation for this
There can’t be
What is this
This expanded space in my chest
If not true love?
I know that a fangirl’s feelings get brushed aside as a silly thing but I know my feelings. Others don’t. They’ve never experienced what I have.
 Nov 2018
Lunar
i am forever
stuck
in a flurry of words
while you hurry out
of my
book

and i realize
you
are not
a protagonist
i've made up
in my head and heart

i can only do so much
as to write about you
and make believe
that you were once
beside me
that i'm trying to read
a book that's incomplete

i lost my words
when
i
lost
you
i wish i could write about you forever. would that get you to stay, always?

(j.m.)
 Nov 2018
Maria Etre
I tend to give people
their own story
in my stories
I give some halos
and others horns
for
the truth
seems too
*sboer*
for me
sober is meant to be (un)sober
shuffled
I crave paper
I long for its smooth space
Open fields of hidden words
Carriers of life
Forever anticipating the touch of a hand
The caress of a pen
Judging not content
nor the needy desire to speak
through silence
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