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Ink didn’t leave Even when I did. It stayed at the edge Of the table — untouched. It splashed onto one of my pages. I didn’t touch it, I didn’t notice — Pain arrives silently. That’s when I found myself Not staring at his eyes, Not between his arms, But In between the lines. The girl The ink had been waiting for — Finally between her fingers.
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Feb 11
Feb 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM UTC
Finding myself
Ink didn’t leave Even when I did. It stayed at the edge Of the table — untouched. It splashed onto one of my pages. I didn’t touch it, I didn’t notice — Pain arrives silently. That’s when I found myself Not staring at his eyes, Not between his arms, But In between the lines. The girl The ink had been waiting for — Finally between her fingers.
I thought I had left poetry behind, but it never left me. This piece is about finding myself again through writing realizing the ink had been waiting for me all along.
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19/F/Kenya
Feb 11
Feb 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM UTC
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