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 Jun 2020
nivek
you can escape to far off lands
-yet still be found

extinction is happening
now

where will you rest your bones?
all that calcium ?

all you have is borrowed
-from stars and the World

Hunter, gatherer
without love, you are lost.
 Jun 2020
nivek
Two metres away from death
one sneeze from infection
a handshake and its goodbye.
 Jun 2020
Unpolished Ink
No one asked for this year

For universal fear

Or tears for those lost

There is no division

When every home becomes a prison

We are all scared

By what we have shared

We were in it together

Whatever the weather

Now we need a jump start

A shock to the heart

To get the world turning,

New life and learning after the burning

Fresh seed from the ashes of clashes

Will grow

If we want it to be so
Trying to make  some sense of the world!
 May 2020
Butch Decatoria
It is said that even in the darkest of places, deepest pitch of spaces, betwix the stars and distances of dream or wasteland, even in sleep, the Light will gleam, a heart will beat—so life is scene —through eyes we’ve seen, the truth of dark places, Light is found. Sight is sound.
 May 2020
Salsa AK
When your existence is weaponized
Your suffering legalized
Your revolution criminalized
But your ****** televised

Stop and think...
Maybe the world knows your worth
Wants to dim your light of pride
Make you forget your history
Force your greatness to hide

But never forget,
When the world was striking fire from stones
We were kings and queens of emerald thrones
 May 2020
The Wonderess
How wise of you
To go at your
Own pace

To leave their lane
And reject their
Silly race...

-growth is a process
 May 2020
Lotus May
there is beauty in
the mundane
when we slow down
amidst the hustle and bustle
and let ourselves
get lost in the vastness of the sky,
wonder aimlessly like
dandelion heads in the wind, then
get drunk on waves of nostalgia
while we ponder where our
dreams floated off to,
yet remembering again
to flow with time—not fight it,
for it is when we live in the present
that we see what we already have
is more than enough and
it is only through a grateful heart
that we can make the most out of
this beautiful mess
called life
 May 2020
Sarita Aditya Verma
Worries
When you set them free
It sets you free
Happier

In a cage
The bird knows its resting spot
Free, it has many
On the tree

There is no better place
To allay your fears
Other than your own head
At rest
 May 2020
John Destalo
there is a
loneliness

in truth

the path to get
there is hidden

and not easily found

and once found
it is jagged and

difficult to hold
onto and share

in any known
language
 May 2020
nivek
Cells keep on dividing
(built in mechanics)

Love is an engineer
(loves using tools)

Dreamers keep on dreaming
(even in the face of death)

At heart all life is a mystery
(but wants to be discovered)
 May 2020
jordan
the deepest truth lies
between the lines
of every sentance

the deepest beauty lies
between the colors
of every painting

the deepest reason lies
between the being
of something and nothing
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