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healthy

angry

   people walk

by me with

    sneers on their faces

as i continue walking

    with a smile

on my face knowing that,

      i have cancer

and not angry

    about

              it

leaving me,

    more approachable

      than the folks

that haven't

   been given


a death sentence.
Ilana Lind Aug 2019
Where are you going in such a hurry,
Human bean?

We are raining for you.
Listen.

Why do you hold so steadfastly
Your form?
Let your edges dissolve.

Read the ink of rivers scrawling the changing story
On stone again, again, again, embellishing tales.

We are herded by the dogs of wind.
We rise and drift wherever they corral us.

We heard you wish to live among us.
We heard it from your jet fuel engines.

Why do you want to sail our oceans?
Yours are so vast that you’ve never visited
Their heights.

We spin wool into yarn, then spool it out again.
Wee groundlings, you ought to unstitch
More of your stitches.
Keerthi Aug 2019
When you walk with me oh god,
everything seems so beautiful,
the blazing sun in shadowless sky,
the thundering storm and deafening wind
I see the savage beauty through you
and I reckon wandering wilderness in me.
Carl D'Souza Jul 2019
Does each of us
see the universe
from our own perspective?
If so,
does each of us
live in our own perspective-universe?
If so,
is objectivity impossible
and only subjectivity happening?
If so,
to achieve a cooperative society
does each of us
have to empathise
with each other's
unique perspective-universe?
Sabila Siddiqui Jul 2019
There are days,
when I feel emotionally overwhelmed
with negativity.
I start to notice the hesitancy
in people's voices,
I start reading and interpreting
between lines.
I start to notice all the
negative intricacies that can hurt me
and over analyze to have found myself
creating chaos within myself.

It is during those days,
do I feel drained that I don't
have the energy to positively
reinforce my own thoughts.

These are the days,
I need reassurance,
perspective change
from someone, other
than myself.
Dylan McFadden Jul 2019
Morning by morning
I wake to the glow
Of the Yellow Sun warming
The frost on the window

Melting away
All that keeps me from seeing
The dawn of The Day,
And deceptions of dreaming...

.
Olivia Daniels Jul 2019
I realized tonight
that you'll never
be able to understand.

Numbers and statistics
don't always equate
to what I'm feeling.

and it's not because
you're ignorant
and it's not because
I'm smarter

We're just clever differently.

logic can't explain
the feeling of connectedness
beyond mere feeling accepted

No this is different.

This is the part of me
who can't be religious because
there's no proof
At War
with the part of me that truly believes
that magic is real just because
I've been drawn to it

Perhaps magic is real
but exists beyond logic.

Everything is connected.
I'm sorry Lovely,

but I don't think you'll
ever understand
and I don't think I'll
ever be able to explain
blackbiird Jul 2019
do you ever see yourself
from the lens
of someone else
and marvel at
what you see
or do you paint a scenario
in your head
of what you would
change about yourself?
Devin Ortiz Jul 2019
We shared stories as the hours passed by.
Each secret detail, leading to more intimate detail.
Hearing each others mistakes, failures, blunders..
It is an open invitation to share in the humility of the human condition.
We live within the tales of another, carefully refitting the pieces of each other.
So far from the picture we once held, but ever better, imperfect even.
The refined inadequacy is all the truth we ever needed.
For who would we be without them.
F A Pacelli Jul 2019
mankind is but a speck of sand
yet we are blind
to our insignificance
for we are only
what we know
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