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Seashore
White foam drifting, turquoise waves swaying gently / to the shore. Looking out to open endlessness. Feeling / insignificant and vulnerable, yet relaxed as the sand
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Infinity
*My vocabulary is not large enough to contain you / To figure you out and narrow you down / I approach problems with a calculator in hand
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Finals
Their way: / Nothing final about it. / They will haunt me for the rest of my life.
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Expectations
I am *suffocated* by their eyes. / These watchful expectant glares keep me trapped inside. / My mind fails me as jumbled ugly words project like slimy *****
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Wallflowers
Green vines sprout from my finger tips, / they etch themselves into the gritty cement. / Like a **** to never surrender.
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Used love
I cannot write sappy love lines. I have no use for them. / They will not feed me or clothe me or bathe me. / Therefore, all I can say is I have no use for love.
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Long Distance Lovers
You follow my outline / sinking harder into my flesh / stoking the flame
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Hope
*Hope dashed / To play with / Drenching drops which
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****** from this dry earth / Where your soul once flourished / You were stolen
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Life and Death
Smokey room clouds my mind. / I reach for you as the outline of your face breaks the fog, but my hand only meets the damp air. / *Instead* you e x p l o d e into sparks of gold and red.
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