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Nora Agha Jan 2013
It's a sleepless night
and I'm drowning
in my reverie.
I'm missing you
and craving you
next to me.

I'm sorry I upset you
with those things I said
about needing someone
(anyone)
with me in bed.

I forgot
you don't think
the same way I do
Love and ***
mean the same thing to you.

You know that
I love you
and you're the only face
I ever want to
wake up to.

But *** is just ***,
a **** and a ****
I know that you hate this
but I need to be blunt.

I guess we just
don't see eye to eye
and I have no desire
to ever bid you goodbye

So once again,
while you're away

I guess I'll just use my hand.

Or the too-slender
neck
of this bottle of wine.
Maybe I can get off
alone
this time.
Nora Agha Nov 2012
I don't believe in Reality
                                                         ­                                                                                 Please let there be God
                                                             ­                I can't Fly

                                                            ­                                                                                I don't believe in God
                                                             ­       Please let there be Flight
I can't be Real

                                                           ­          I don't believe in Flight
                                                          ­                                                                 ­               Please let there be God
I can't be Real

I don't believe in Reality
                                                         ­            Please let there be Flight
                                                          ­                                                                 ­                             I can't see God

                                                            ­                                                                                I don't believe in God
Please let there be Reality
                                                         ­                         I can't Fly

                                                            ­            I don't believe in Flight
Please let there be reality
                                                         ­                                                                 ­                              I can't see God
Nora Agha Oct 2012
High and mighty
Jaws well defined
High brow
and high cheekbones.
Sharp.
Sharp like your tongue
when you mean to be mean.
A face well befitting
Your cold-
Your cruel streak.
The incline of your chin
Your smirk on thin lips

You think you intimidate?

Maybe...
Maybe if I didn't look
beyond your angles.
Maybe I'd be hurt.

But your eyes.
Round-
Round, shining, bright eyes.
No angles there.

No matter how hard you try
to darken your makeup
to sharpen your gaze.
You still have the eyes you had as a child.

Before you sharpened your angles

You think you can hold a steely gaze?
You think you intimidate?

When I look past your angles
the fear falls away.
And in your brown eyes I see you naked
stripped down to the barest form of your rage:


Hurt.
Nora Agha Oct 2012
This is a model city.
No, that implies perfection.
This is the model of a city.
A minuscule construction
plastic and glass.
Minuscule.
But if it is small
I am smaller:
A mere rodent
little white mouse.
Let loose
Set free
out into the maze.

And when the sky is dark
dark like this
Cloudless and looming
I look up
at model buildings
gleam and glisten
In what light?
I imagine
the countless windows
are their eyes.
Gleam
Glisten
Glisten
Gleam

Watch the mousie

Watch her squirm

Watch her indecision

Miniscule model of a model city
Plastic and glass
Close to collapse.
and I-
I am claustrophobic.
Too big and too small
simultaneously.

I am so uncomfortable.
Nora Agha Oct 2012
I can see the sound of seconds
As they slowly slide by
Like a hospital waiting room
Where the lights are too bright
And the walls, and the floors, and the people
Too white.

Where is this place?
Am I trapped in my mind?

Any semblance of sanity
Long left behind
The ticking is sliding
Like the beats of my heart
The sound of the scraping
Sand against sand

Caught in an hourglass
Sifting, sliding

Grains of tears spill
Scraping my skin
Rough without
Was once smooth within
These rough, salty flakes
Tear at my eyes

Until I am sifting
And sliding inside of these sounds

I miss when clocks just ticked.
Nora Agha Oct 2012
The olives groves you uprooted
And the homes you bulldozed

They may be gone now
But the soil must still know

To whom the land belongs.

From the rubble,
From the blood,

New branches will grow.
New homes will rise.

Because doves will fly on blood specked wings
To pass on the message
That Palestine still sings:

of the children you shot
and the blood that you spilled

The young men you imprisoned
and the hope you hoped would rot.

Our children have been promised
Your so-called promised land

So don't get too comfortable
On my well-worn couch.

I'll come back to reclaim it
My couch, my country, my land.
Written in a moment of anguish. But the sentiment is completely sincere.
Nora Agha Aug 2012
There is cake.
The cake is here
on a plate
right in front of me.

I do not need the cake.
I want the cake.
I want it bad.
I really really really want this cake.

I could reach out
devour it in 10 seconds flat
10 seconds of caramel filled
spongy ecstasy

Then I'll feel bad.

I don't think I'll have the cake.
I really ******* want this cake.
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