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Sep 15
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your poem read,
awoken by lightening flashes of
morning notifications arriving,
postmarked from
"I liked it"

but it does not
end there,
continues,
to a new ending

who and why,
who and why,
did this one find
their own
worthy in it
that was writ unknowingly
just for them

and
you look them up,
guessing
who and why,
rereading your hand's work,
which verse was it,
was it for a blessing or a
curse,
that touched them,
that made them
touch
you

each "like,"
a work in itself

re examined,
re searched,
re imagined
in the
light of
who they are
and
why they are
liking words I wrote

a single poem
bring hours of imagination,
each "like"
individually gift wrapped,
each human liking rapt,
each imagine a rapture,

each "like"
a new poem
about the who and why
each name a disguise to unravel,
each name a title
of a new different,
imagined poem,
who and why,
we
like
each other

~~~
6:53am
 Sep 15 Khadi Alza
alia
Am I doing enough?
Or falling behind?
Do they see the real me?
or just what I hide?

Will I ever belong?
Or always pretend?
Is this just the start?
or already the end?
 Sep 13 Khadi Alza
Lostling
I always hated them--
how they left me behind the curtains,
worthless, unseen, forgotten

So when you told me
I was part of one,
shame flooded the courners of my soul

And yet, so did joy;
spreading like a warm fire.
Finally, a place where I belonged.
The thing that brings my joy is the thing that erases people, the same way I was erased. Far. Too. Many. Times.
 Sep 9 Khadi Alza
Ellie
"If you think it, it's yours"
Hopeful
 Sep 9 Khadi Alza
Flower
If I'm a bit more agreeable;
If I'm a little nicer;
Maybe you'll like me more?

If I'm submissive
If I'm patient
If I bite my tongue
Maybe it'll be enough?
 Sep 3 Khadi Alza
Nobody
she
 Sep 3 Khadi Alza
Nobody
she
i'll never forget
the way i screamed
when i woke up and saw her note.

the moment inbetween
where i didnt know
if my only family
the only one who had loved me
was even alive.

i knew from a young age i wasn't right.
i knew my parents didn't like that.
i knew that i couldn't be as perfect as my brother.
i knew that they wouldn't accept me.

but my sister
she loved me anyways
and she tried to die.
what if she had succeeded?
what if she was gone?
what would the last 4 years have been like?
would i still even be alive?

thank god
she's still here.
to the only one in my family who loves me, to my first friend, to my fellow outcast, thank you. ily moya <3
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