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forgetting

forgetting

you think you won’t forget your lover but darling, you will like… a white Christmas snowy days you know you can’t expect just like that deep inside you know somewhere in the future this is over you will forget him slowly you’ll wake up in the morning not being able to recall his way of...

fifty-four

fifty-four

on our date fifty-four months from now you are thirty wearing new clothes talking with a voice rougher than i remember you seem confident as you always have and you still make me smile i am twenty-five i have finally figured out my style but today i look feminine, a little too much ’cause i...

distant places

distant places

take me back take me back to my grandfather teaching me how to play chess telling me stories and laughing so hard his face turns red take me back to my grandmother who doesn’t have dementia but has a mind smarter than our whole family combined who is so strict when we study grammar and...

that’s when

that’s when

as my mother says that others will come, i am trying to imagine them a dark-skinned boy who looks nothing like you approaching me on the dancing floor a long-haired girl wearing confidence i never had me, approaching her others will come, my mother says  to what she says, i respond quietly: i know they...

about loss pt. II

about loss pt. II

it’s been a few months since you disappeared since you vanished without a warning trying to fall asleep, i always pray for the morning because then and there i think so intensely i can hardly stand it the way you left is still rewinding in my mind how you went just like that, out of...

about loss – a poem for my grandmother

about loss – a poem for my grandmother

i think about you every day not knowing how to accept the fact that you’re gone that you will never hear any of the words i might like to say there’s no way to escape something is pressing me against the wall this, i don’t possess the knowledge how to fight you were always interested...

memories

memories

my stomach twists as i imagine you with someone else i don’t want to think about you two falling asleep together, cooking or fighting her in your sweater all those things which you may still recall i can’t stand the idea that she was anyway better it’s not fair that you have already felt this...

in the candlelight

in the candlelight

on warm evenings like this, we are outside in my garden tonight i’m sitting on your lap my fingers in your hair seem to be drawing a map your body comforts me and feels familiar no matter how tightly we hug, it is never close enough i think we both are afraid of losing each...

a letter

a letter

your letter smells like you fresh and sweet only the thought of our meeting gets me through i smell an excitement in my veins a safe place your arms offer part of me knows you have my heart in chains during the day my thoughts can be pushed down night hours are those when it...

a battlefield

a battlefield

i miss your presence i miss being close to you and the way you make me feel both safe and aroused i can still recall your touches careless while watching a movie passionate while trying to set the flame in me not knowing it is already burning memories with you, those is my mind framing...