Scrub her name from my heart. Can you?

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Tiny beads descended from heaven
Some sank into the soil,
Some into swelling rivers
The others, graced the hillsides 
And scrubbed clean
Our faces sooted with scorn.

Pic credit @sibanandabhanja

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Give me words
and I shall
smear them on my skin
and use it to scrub
all those rust
that makes me
feel ancient;
till the time
I polish myself
shiny enough
to be worthy
of reflecting you
the poetry
that you deserve.

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BITTER

I can't erase you from my life
No matter how hard I try;
I can't scrub you off
Like the dead skin cell you are.
You have infested my memories,
Making me wish to
Photoshop you off of them.
You somehow manage to
Crawl back into my head
Through the songs,
The quotes, the places,
The simplest of things which exists.
I am tired and I am
Still very much bitter.

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Being naturally beautiful,
It's a women right.

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Scrub

There is much to recommend
the act of scrubbing
to demolish the grime,
for it soothes my soul.

As I scour the surface,
again and again,
there's more burnishing
that happens within.

Though a menial job,
a rewarding one
for it lets my mind think
of the ifs, the buts, and the if not.

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