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Bedtime
Cutout smile pasted to my mouth / as my head hits the pillow. I feel at peace and myself. / This effortlessness of our time spent is
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Dec 6, 2011
Dreams or delusions
I feel an irritating **tick** in the back of my head. / A ghost whispers your name in my ear, with **urgency** and a / fierce **persistence**. I crave to drink in our silence as we intertwine in
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Dec 6, 2011
Effortless Love
*Never have I felt so at home with a stranger, / I am awakened by your laughter, / I have always known how to be yours
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Dec 6, 2011
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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Dec 6, 2011
Finals
Their way: / Nothing final about it. / They will haunt me for the rest of my life.
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Dec 6, 2011
Hope
*Hope dashed / To play with / Drenching drops which
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Dec 17, 2012
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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Dec 7, 2011
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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Dec 6, 2011
Long Distance Lovers
You follow my outline / sinking harder into my flesh / stoking the flame
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Dec 6, 2011
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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Dec 6, 2011
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