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I want you to wear me like your favorite t-shirt
that you throw on during rainy days or
lazy Sunday mornings.
Drink me as if I am your daily cup of coffee,
before it's safe, too hot on your lips.
Touch me the way you read a novel during a silent midnight
when you can't put it down
and you have to know how it ends.
Let me kiss you the way the wind does.
I want to follow your veins like they're highways
leading to my favorite city.
Let me be your piano
and I will play music when you touch my soul.

Love me the way you love your life.
Beautifully. Fully.
Without noticing.
There is no word more painful than the word

Maybe

Maybe they loved each other or
maybe she could have made it or
maybe it would have all been okay.
If they had tried. Maybe. But it never was and never will be.  

A word with so much potential.
So much unknown.
Maybe, but no one will ever know.
I stand in solitude

the person you see
is just a blank canvas

you can paint me
in any color
and assume my feelings

and that's one thing
I wish you didn't do

The internal being
a different creature inside of me
that lives in a different world
and loves differently

it can't mould me
and make me the person
you want me to be

It's the only thing
That holds me together

I'm nothing but a hollow figure
In this hollow world

-Kaya
Do not walk in my shoes
They don't fit, they bite
said my mother,
when I was born

Barefoot, I walked
my entire life
and I couldn't stand
the regret of others
piercing through my feet

In eager to escape the suffering
one day, I placed my foot
In her shoe
to realize that
There were needles in them

-Kaya
the page laps ink
like milk from a bowl

sometimes there’s
enough for
my hungry soul.

my mind,
like Richard Parker
with a mutton shank,
gnawing away.

it all moves at
a snail’s pace,
never fast enough.

it is not a pleasant
thing to think
that there is so
much more to be
done.

I know I’ll never
get to it all.

It’s not right,
in fact all wrong,
there is no warmth,
there is no song,

not enough steaks,
not enough ham,
all that is left
is blackberry jam.

*

-JBClaywell
©P&ZPublications; 2016
random notes turned into something.
 Mar 2016 Minal Govind
Bailey
Paint
 Mar 2016 Minal Govind
Bailey
I walk around as acrylic.
But when I'm selfish I wish I'm watercolor, so that...ya know, maybe I could start my life over with ease.
I live most days as acrylic.
Some days are really hard. That's when I'm oil, and the pressures of it all build up and build up and harden so fast...
I'm constantly reminded that I can't erase a color. I have to keep going.
Layerlayerlayer STOP
Wait, wait I'm turning grey--
I mean gray...
Just wait it out. It's okay. Don't throw my canvas away.
I'm acrylic.
Another color,
There's a layer.
I'll hang up forever.
To be looked at,
and maybe loved.
I walk around as acrylic.
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