tatiana-arredondoWhisper

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************There’s a strong urgency in ************ / The longing for there to be another human body / pressed up against your own, so much so you envision

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A letter I wrote to God once*"God I hope i'm not wrong or doing anything bad by writing to you / directly. Jesus is cool but in prayers it just seems like religious red- / tape. I hope you're everything I hope you are. I hope that doesn't

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You are the quiver withinI want you to destroy me / because I know you'd enjoy it. / Rip me to shreds because that's what

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DecisionsHe said it's only a risk if we're scared, / they asked him what they called it / if fear wasn't present.

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Time is of the essenceToday while I was at work I saw a little girl grab some candy from the shelf and shake it in front of her mom to make sure she didn't forget to buy it. As she inched closer to the counter where I was scanning all of the items all I could see were the little girls eyes and the hands that hung on to the edge of the counter. She was so tiny and was still holding the candy in her hand, so excited. Liberated. / I don’t know why that made me so nauseous but all I knew was that this little girl was given a handful of years on this earth just like me. In that instant all I really wanted to do was stop time for this little girl that I knew absolutely nothing about and give her that opportunity to enjoy her candy bar to the very last crumb and let her lick clean the left-over smudged chocolate on her small fingers and small corners of her mouth. / I hope it pleases you to know that she did enjoy it, I didn't need to stop time for her to manage that. As kids, we don’t really have that extreme perception of time and maybe that’s what so beautiful about childhood and also what’s so tragic about what comes after.

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Cloak mePermission to disappear... for a few years? / I ask to be pardoned, while I become a stranger / as I'm so uncomfortable being so ******* familiar.

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The surest of lovesThese are the kind of thoughts that I feel like I need to swallow / because they're on a level of pathetic that I can't even admit to myself. / It's that level of pathetic that really makes a person naked.

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RecyclingLove is a recycled word, / used and resused in time and again. / Love like so is that of a chliche,

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naivetéThere's not enough alcohol in the world / to fill the void you've left. / Your silence holds enough torture

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AnyoneI am someone who can dismantle you as easily as I promised you the world and managed to mean both with all of their heart. / Someone so prone to accidents. / Charming you with all of the little mistakes I make in preparation to surprise you when the big ones break you.

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