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Nov 2019 · 746
What is Love?
Malia Nov 2019
What is Love?
What is love?
If I may ask.
Is it butterflies
When they walk past?
Is it warmth that seeps
To your fingertips
When they gift you
With a soft gentle kiss?
Is it the trust
That gives you comfort
Or the peace that they give you
That you only used to have in slumber?
Is it the bond that you share
That can’t ever tear?
Is it dying for the one you live for?
What is love?
If I may ask.
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Nov 2019 · 76
Thoughts I’m writing down instead of doing math
Malia Nov 2019
Thoughts I’m writing down instead of doing math
Only in our blind beliefs can we ever find the truth
The deepest precepts come from the youth
Contradictions never fail to make sense
And I can’t even see through my own pretense
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Nov 2019 · 79
Waning Faith
Malia Nov 2019
Waning Faith
There is a God
But he ain’t showing himself
Why is he letting his “great power”
Rot on the shelf?

My faith is waning
My awe is fading
It’s too loud
Too big of a crowd
Looking for peace
But that hasn’t happened.

Where the frick did you go?
Why did you leave
When I needed you the most?
If you’re really there
Show yourself
Come back.
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Nov 2019 · 100
Snap Back to Reality
Malia Nov 2019
Snap Back to Reality
Living in a fantasy
Isn’t gonna change reality
This calamity
Can’t you see?
We’re breaking down
All this sound
Is slurring
These lines
Are blurring
Confusion rules the world
Leading to angry fists curled.
The title is a line from the song Lose Yourself by Eminem and that line has been stuck in my head for days!

“Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity”
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Nov 2019 · 189
The Pityful Little Girl
Malia Nov 2019
The Pityful Little Girl
I look in the mirror
And I don’t recognize
The pitiful little girl
Gazing back.

There is so much sadness
In her eyes
In these moments
When it’s just me and her
No one else there
No one I have to be happy for.
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Nov 2019 · 81
Gentle Warrior
Malia Nov 2019
Gentle Warrior
Truly
Do you understand
It’s crazy how you withstand
All of that pain
And yet you’re still there
For me.

Your quiet strength
Supersedes
Loud and showy bravado
Thank you
For you are a gentle warrior.
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Nov 2019 · 181
Dear Younger Me
Malia Nov 2019
Dear Younger Me
Consult with the rain
Speak with the flowers
Keep your individuality
Don’t be like the others.

Keep your angelic innocence
But if you lose it, don’t be bitter
Be a misser or hitter, but don’t be a sitter
Follow your gut and also your heart
Your intuition matters.

Don’t doubt yourself so much
Have faith in yourself
Keep your kindness
Always offer a hug, even when their tears soak your shirt.

Just be you.
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Nov 2019 · 80
Freedom
Malia Nov 2019
Freedom
Freedom
Is more than being able to be
But to be able to express
Freedom of thought
It’s what our founding fathers sought
The freedom to speak
And say what is needed
Without getting persecuted.

What a world it is
When children in grade school
Don’t have freedom.
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Nov 2019 · 96
Silence
Malia Nov 2019
Silence
Sometimes
I am so quiet
I’m afraid I disappeared.
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Nov 2019 · 107
Careful Calculations
Malia Nov 2019
Careful Calculations
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YOUR CAREFUL CALCULATIONS MEAN NOTHING FEEL FOR ONCE
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Nov 2019 · 136
Please and Thank You
Malia Nov 2019
Please and Thank You
Chatter fills the air
Stop blabbing away
Your empty words
Mean nothing
Speak when you need to
But don’t be fake
Please
And thank you
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Nov 2019 · 126
BUT I AM NOT BLIND
Malia Nov 2019
BUT I AM NOT BLIND
I may be dark
But I’m not blind
I won’t stick my head into the sand
I will not ignore
What is happening.
I may be dark
BUTIAMNOTBLIND
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Nov 2019 · 465
Deteriorate
Malia Nov 2019
Deteriorate
Decay, degenerate
Rot in hell from all this hate
Lessen, languish, lower, regress
Back to when I was a mess
Sink, slide, undermine
I don’t think I was ever fine
Fade, fail, fall apart
I wasn’t “okay” from the start.
When you’re so messed up you make online thesaurus results dark.
#deteriorate #fail #notfine #notok
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Nov 2019 · 193
Thank You For Answers
Malia Nov 2019
Thank You For Answers
Thanks for an answer
That’s all I can ask for
When “knowledgeable” people
Don’t tell me anything
Thank you for answers
Thank you for hearing me
Thank you for listening
And not talking as much.
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Nov 2019 · 78
Swimming With Sharks
Malia Nov 2019
Swimming With Sharks
I’m swimming with sharks
Leaving me in the dark
They try and limit
My limitless art
Don’t even start
Because these blood-red words
Come from swimming with sharks.
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Nov 2019 · 102
SOMEONE ANSWER MY QUESTION thanks
Malia Nov 2019
SOMEONE ANSWER MY QUESTION thanks
Can someone please
Answer this important query
For me?

Once you grow older
Maybe 23
Does it get easier
When you are free?

Or does it get harder
When you’re not told what to do
Weighed down by responsibilities
That depend on you.

Does it get better
As time goes by
Or does it stay the same
Or does it get worse?
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Nov 2019 · 167
A Nightmare Set Free
Malia Nov 2019
A Nightmare Set Free
If this is all a dream
A messed up fantasy
A nightmare set free
Into the real world
Why haven’t I woken up yet.
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Nov 2019 · 68
Winter Rhapsody
Malia Nov 2019
Winter Rhapsody
The snow lands on your long eyelashes
Strike a few matches
The blinding white
Mingles with the white light
Not quite
In this world.

By the fire we chat quietly
For me a mug of hot cocoa
And for you some warm tea
This is the best thing that has ever happened to me
Not just chatting, but you
And the warmth of the fire
Mix wonderfully.

This Winter Rhapsody
Is a fantastic fantasy
Snap back to reality
I’m all by myself.
A blizzard in Colorado.
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Nov 2019 · 71
I Succumb to the Cold
Malia Nov 2019
I Succumb to the Cold
Knee-deep in the snow
Don’t know where to go
My fingers feel numb
To the cold I succumb
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Nov 2019 · 63
Untitled
Malia Nov 2019
Untitled
All these stories in my head
I’d rather write instead
Of changing my real life for the better.
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Nov 2019 · 55
This is more to myself than you guys
Malia Nov 2019
This is more to myself than you guys
Get lost in the music
Get lost in the words
Look up to the sky
See bright blue birds.

Rose colored glasses
Won’t fix anything
But clear magnifying ones
Will help you see more closely.

Don’t put your shades on
Don’t put your head in the sand
Just because things may be going south
Not everything’s sad and bland.
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Nov 2019 · 47
Untitled
Malia Nov 2019
Untitled
Don’t you dare
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Nov 2019 · 67
Untitled
Malia Nov 2019
Untitled
I’m not a kid
Not an adult
I’m something else, something more
Not an adult
Not that mature
But some of my innocence left
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Nov 2019 · 68
I’m out of breath
Malia Nov 2019
I’m out of breath
If life is a marathon
I’m losing the race
Because I am so lost
I’m a forgotten case.
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Nov 2019 · 45
I wish
Malia Nov 2019
I wish
I wish I could figure out people
They’re such a big mystery
I don’t know if it’s possible
We can study and learn our history
But we’re so complex, it is not plausible
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Nov 2019 · 80
Dogs are way better than people
Malia Nov 2019
Dogs are way better than people
Dogs are way better than people
That is a well-known fact!
But people smell way better than doggies,
But people still lack tact!
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Nov 2019 · 76
My non-drug addiction
Malia Nov 2019
My non-drug addiction
I crave affirmation
I live off of praise
Why do I need this
Is it my curse?
Why do other’s opinions matter?
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Nov 2019 · 356
This World of Ashes
Malia Nov 2019
This World of Ashes
This generation
Is obsessed
Begging for an ovation
This nation
Is in preparation
For the worst
But it’s already started
Things have gone south
Into the uncharted
Hard-hearted
That’s what I am
You are
We are
All the phony stars
The famous people
Standing a top their great steeple
They’re not better than us
None of us are
We try
But this world is so bad
It’s enough to make a grown man cry
Grown men cry
Single moms sigh
Because this world is going south
No one trusts
Each other anymore
We ruined this world
Anger swirls
At this world of ashes
From the fire of hate
I hate
This hate
Contradiction.
#world #ashes #fire #hate #ovation #ruined #contradiction
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Nov 2019 · 68
Warm dog
Malia Nov 2019
Warm dog
This dog is warm
Pleasedon’tmovePleasedon’tmovePleasedon’tmove
Gosh dang it he woke up!
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Nov 2019 · 81
Why do people lie
Malia Nov 2019
Why do people lie
Why do people lie
Why do they always deny
That they did something wrong-
No one will actually play along.
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Nov 2019 · 63
Why do people hate
Malia Nov 2019
Why do people hate
Why do people hate
No good things will it create
All it will ever do
Is make people hate you too.
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Nov 2019 · 62
Why Do People Scream
Malia Nov 2019
Why Do People Scream
Why do people scream
Yelling won’t fix anything.
What do they think volume’s gonna do?
It won’t help them gain any power over you.
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Nov 2019 · 86
If you are, I am.
Malia Nov 2019
If you are, I am.
If you are a pristine crystal surface
I am rough wood covered in shattered glass
Which doesn’t have a purpose,
Hurts people, and looks like trash.
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Nov 2019 · 55
If the World
Malia Nov 2019
If the World
If the world keeps getting worse
Happiness will go first
Moral compass will go second
The weak will be left to fend
For themselves.

If the world keeps getting better
Your own daughter can change the world, just let her
Wars would never start
There would be less shattered hearts
And more love.
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Nov 2019 · 225
Smarter
Malia Nov 2019
Smarter
I just realized
We kind of get stupider
As we grow up.

For example:
5 year old: doesn’t care what mean people say.
10: starts to care
15: is obsessed

But we also kind of get smarter
5: no patience
10: no patience
15: no patience
20: no patience
25: no patience
30: patience
89: a crazy amount of patience

Humans are weird like that
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Nov 2019 · 75
I Still Wait
Malia Nov 2019
I Still Wait
I can’t find the butter for my bread
I refuse to have anything else instead.
I can’t find the missing puzzle piece
That will complete my masterpiece.

I still wait.
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Nov 2019 · 173
A Conversation With Myself
Malia Nov 2019
A Conversation With Myself
You are not the same on the inside
You wear a mask
Why won’t you let me see
The beauty you keep from me?
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Nov 2019 · 61
Random thought
Malia Nov 2019
Random thought
I’d be hot as a guy.
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Nov 2019 · 71
I am a puddle, you are a stone
Malia Nov 2019
I am a puddle, you are a stone
I spill over my skin
An over-emotional mess
I am a puddle
You are a stone
I feel so much
That I overload and forget how to feel
But you are a stone
I don’t know if you’re sad
You wouldn’t tell me if you could.
What if I told you I’m both of these people!
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Nov 2019 · 106
Miracles
Malia Nov 2019
Miracles
Miracles happen all the time.
We just need to pay attention.
They are there.
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Nov 2019 · 77
I am slowly deteriorating
Malia Nov 2019
I am slowly deteriorating
I am slowly deteriorating
And going insane
And c r u m b l i n g
My supports are bending
From the weight of my burden
My brain is rotting
From lack of use
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Nov 2019 · 71
Tick tick tick
Malia Nov 2019
Tick tick tick
The clock is ticking
The clock is ticked at me
For killing time
Then running out.
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Nov 2019 · 82
Untitled
Malia Nov 2019
Untitled
Help me
Cuz I need you
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Nov 2019 · 163
A Dark Cloud
Malia Nov 2019
A Dark Cloud
I look up overhead and see
A dark cloud that’s constantly following me
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Nov 2019 · 124
Still Waters, Deep Soul
Malia Nov 2019
Still Waters, Deep Soul
Still waters run deep.
Still water people are rare to find
And even harder to keep.

Loud waters run shallow
Some of them are rather foul.

Still waters run deep
With an even deeper soul.
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Nov 2019 · 56
Why my Best Friend Cuts
Malia Nov 2019
Why my Best Friend Cuts
She would like to feel something again
She thinks she deserves the pain
She thinks she is a living sin
And that it is not worth living.

She is wrong.
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Nov 2019 · 68
Other six word narrative
Malia Nov 2019
Other six word narrative
Perfectionism is begot from high expectations.
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Nov 2019 · 98
Six word narrative
Malia Nov 2019
Six word narrative
Extroverted introvert: ignorant to social graces.
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Nov 2019 · 63
“ You’re not any better than me”
Malia Nov 2019
“ You’re not any better than me”
You’re not any better than me
Just like the land’s not worse than the sea
We have different strengths
But that does not make
You any worse or better than me.
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Nov 2019 · 80
Definition of normal
Malia Nov 2019
Definition of normal
If the definition of normal is
usual, typical, or expected
What if what’s typical
Is people being weird
Does that make weirdness
No longer weird
And instead normal?

My brain hurts.
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