So many poems
and stories
have gone unwritten
due to fear of not being good enough

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Check
Look;

When did relationships
Get defined
By a read receipt?
Will we
Now
Only measure intimacy
By a tweet?

What do we have left,
Why can’t we
Go back
To laughter
In a diner seat

His eyes spoke profoundly what his lips couldn't utter.
©Sonia Ettyang