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 5d selma
Joel
Belief
 5d selma
Joel
I didn't believe in god,
But I believed in you.

For some reason
I thought that that was the same thing
 6d selma
Flower
And suddenly
I don't feel so tough
And I'm still the same girl
Who wrote you that letter
And cried
Because it didn't change your mind
 6d selma
RED
Why?
 6d selma
RED
I was raised as a mother,
Never as the daughter.
A burden they carried,
Never the healer.

I was the giver,
Never the receiver—
And for one single mistake,
I became the villain.
 Sep 25 selma
Steve Souza
Man
 Sep 25 selma
Steve Souza
Man
I feel
nothing now.

But once—
the sun was fire,
the water cool.

Once…
I heard the wind.
I felt a feather.
I swam.

Once, I fell in love.

But now just this drifting,
this drifting,
away.
(This is one of three companion pieces exploring the same story from different perspectives. "Drifting" tells the narrative, "The Taker" speaks from the ocean's voice, and "Man" captures the man's perspective.)
 Sep 22 selma
Anwar Ghani
Come closer to me, sit here, under this tree, here is a bird singing and a pink flower that never lies. Come, reach out and shake my hand. Come closer to me, and remove all the leaves of distance and gray veils. Come, let's sing of love, and write a poem on this beautiful night. Our hearts are warm and full of dreams. Come and sit; don't stay standing, for my eyes are tired from tears and my heart is tired of waiting. Come, warm yourself with tales of love, for our souls are pure rivers that never know cold. Come closer to me, let's write a new story.
 Sep 22 selma
Anwar Ghani
Your eyes are my world, and I desire nothing else. I truly desire nothing else.
Your eyes are my world, and I have lived with them for hours and days, deeply and intensely.
Your beautiful eyes are my happy world, my hidden world, my only world, and my very special world, which I desire no other.
Your blue eyes are my beloved world. I do not miss them because they are always with me, and my blood inhabits them.
Your eyes are my world, and all these flowers, colors, rivers, and birds are an outpouring from them.
Your eyes are the world in which I truly live. Your eyes are enough for me, and for that I am very grateful to you.
 Sep 22 selma
Anwar Ghani
I TRY
 Sep 22 selma
Anwar Ghani
I try to hide my flowers
So you don't see
The traces of your love on my face

انا احاول ان اخفي ازهاري
لكي لا تري
اثار حبك على وجهي
 Sep 20 selma
Arpitha
Life
has become
a game of
finding one
coping mechanism
after another.
 Sep 20 selma
Arii
And I think ‘bout
Everything
More than just
Anything

That the universe could
Give,

Sometimes it means
Everything
Sometimes it means
Nothing

At all.

A man would give all of
Him
Just to lose most of it,
Just to get some of it back,

Or nothing

At all.
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