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LN May 2014
Please tell me about your life
I don't mean everything in it
I just want to know
what makes your cheeks flush red?
I just want to know
what do you think of
that makes your mouth curve up with satisfaction?
I just want to know
what do you remember that lightens your chest
in times of stress?

Spill out these answers
Carve them with every ounce of passion
onto paper
so i could have imprints of them on my skin
as I hold them close to me.
LN May 2014
Entropy is inevitable
We have made a mess of ourselves.
LN May 2014
With each verse I try to write
I try to inhale bits of hope
i'm breathing heavily
as I gather my tears
so that they don't drown me
like my thoughts did.
LN May 2014
Poems are fingerprints
of the broken soul

Poems are the breath
that revives our lungs
  May 2014 LN
Fatıma
my mother says her

vision is fuzzy
it is 
difficult to move 

she takes more naps 

than she used to 

it seems as i

grow up she 

grows down 

disintegrates 

before me so 

slowly it takes a while to 

notice i am becoming 

the parent as she 

becomes the baby
  May 2014 LN
Poetic T
Words are wasted breath,
             you only
listen
          to my emotions.
LN May 2014
The power of the listening ear prevails.

Their worries in words
Turn to dust that eventually scatters
But first and foremost,
Unclench their wrist
Untangle all knots
Allow their peace to find its way home.
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