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 Jun 2019 Ruth Nadler-Nir
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Sleep
 Jun 2019 Ruth Nadler-Nir
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too much of it means you're not living
too little, and it means the same thing
I know
You care about me
10 more people do
Yet I can't get rid
Of this feeling
Of doom

I know
I have you
10 more people too
Yet I can't find a person
To talk to
late at night
At least say something.
Please don't leave without saying anything,
It causes me pain that you won't have to witness.
But it makes me wonder,
Did I do something wrong?
The truth is I'm scared,
But what is there to fear?
This is everything I've wanted.
So, then why am I in tears?
 Jun 2019 Ruth Nadler-Nir
laura
feels like putting my hand
on something sharp kinda day
invincible temporary, of course
fight the system on a february dawn

where the lamp's lambent spheres
bob in and out of existence
as the sunshine overcomes their presence

first kiss with you, like hands
dancing in the fires
trying to stay warm in the winter light
an ogre of a dream, a curse to be this shadow

compared to the glow of an angel like you
 Jun 2019 Ruth Nadler-Nir
R
Too Much
 Jun 2019 Ruth Nadler-Nir
R
This will sound stupid
and it is definitely dumb
but I don't know
how else to say it
so I will:
I'm just a little gold fish,
and you
are air.
Too much of you will **** me.
 Jun 2019 Ruth Nadler-Nir
Liz
Air
 Jun 2019 Ruth Nadler-Nir
Liz
Air
oh sweet love,
with those long arms that once held me so gently
now push me away.
but i'm holding on to you so tightly.
no one else really matters,
and without you i'm so alone.

this existence is now so bittersweet.
i still get to breathe,
but not the air beside you.
the air i thirst for and crave,
it tastes like heaven.

but if you must go,
than i will miss you.
all of me will miss you.
i will feel this agonizing loneliness,
in all the pores of my skin
in all the crevices of my bones,
and the tunnels of my veins.

because you have become a part of me,
your breath was absorbed into mine when we kissed.
but now you have ripped this breath right out of my lungs,
and i am left gasping for your air.
my body is so incomplete without you.

i know i am the one that first walked,
but i tried so hard to come back.
now i know how it feels,
to be rejected
by your love.  

i feel myself gripping to the walls of this canyon
my nails making trails as i hold on for dear life
but i have fallen without a parachute
or a net
and now my wings are gone.

i will probably die without
you

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