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153 · May 28
Fornication
Maria Etre May 28
"What are you doing?", they asked.
"Life, softly and roughly.", I replied
153 · Jun 2020
Should I?
Maria Etre Jun 2020
I felt karma whisper,
"You thought I'd never visit?
Open the door."

Should I?
Could we be friends?
Did she stop by to say "HI"
or to throw my irresponsibility
on the table?
Better yet, throw my selfishness in my face?
151 · Feb 2020
I am Everything
Maria Etre Feb 2020
I slipped and fell from reality
Going down, I saw the silhouette
of myself waving back from the cliff of reality
getting smaller and smaller

My fall carved the air
with a bundle of chaos
dense with fear
and weightlessness at the same time

I am lost
between letting go and wanting to go
everybody goes at some point anyway  
between waving goodbye to what's better
and saying hello to what's bad
between loving to love, and loving being loved
or both,
I am lost between loneliness and aloneness
between confidence and bitchiness
between opening my heart and keeping it
and giving it to you, naked, want it?
between sobriety, and faking it
I am scared of changing and I am attracted to change
of walking away, when walking is my favorite hobby
I fear losing something, when there was nothing to begin with
I am addicted to turmoil, I lather my skin with recklessness
I inject my veins with the soothe intoxicating taste
instability
I question my lust for instability for chaos
for heartbreak and heart-mend
for unreciprocated love, for ... everything that doesn't make sense
I question my fabrication of a future, before I even say hi.

I am confidence wrapped in anxiety, that wears me like a gala dress
hugging my curves, with self-doubt
I am fake, a hypnotized being, programmed to smile
to blend, to speak less, to love less, love like that,
to compare, to compete
I am tired
150 · Jan 2020
Distrust
Maria Etre Jan 2020
Why are you still dressed
when I am fully naked in front of you?
The tense feeling of knowing they're hiding something when you have already given them your all.
146 · Feb 2020
That Good.
Maria Etre Feb 2020
You know that feeling
when you finish a poem
and smoke a cigarette?

That one.
143 · Jun 2020
.The End
Maria Etre Jun 2020
It feels like
there are only so many times a heart can break
until the pieces get so small
that putting it back together
will take a lifetime
140 · Feb 2020
Mislead
Maria Etre Feb 2020
Why is it goodbye
when there's
nothing good about bye?
139 · Feb 2018
Pull Me Closer
Maria Etre Feb 2018
Tug at my
heart strings
sing to me
our song
of 9 years
let me
tug at yours
and create
the greatest
duet
lovers have yet
to hear
138 · Jan 2020
MY COUNTRY
Maria Etre Jan 2020
TOGETHER
TO(GET)HER
BACK
Bring my Lebanon back.
#LebanonRevolts
136 · Nov 2017
Winter
Maria Etre Nov 2017
I looked up
at the sky
only to see
my heart
migrating
with
the birds
134 · Mar 2020
Home Run
Maria Etre Mar 2020
I threw my heart at you
when my words
failed to move
you
133 · Jan 2020
Dress Up
Maria Etre Jan 2020
I tend to question niceness
for I always met it
dressed in something more like
slyness
113 · Jan 2020
Mathematics
Maria Etre Jan 2020
It's fine to ask for more
when you have nothing to lose.
97 · Feb 2020
Now What?
Maria Etre Feb 2020
My heart chose you as a friend
by my mind as a lover
97 · Feb 2020
Who Wins?
Maria Etre Feb 2020
You checkmate
but I was playing
a different game
89 · Jan 2020
Beyond the Face
Maria Etre Jan 2020
I was petting a cat on the streets
a woman passed me,
smiled
&
I
felt
her
humanity

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