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And I've
Reserved words
Here and there

To demarcate the places
Where we used to go
In verses

For our memories
Will play like notes
On a piano

And our conversations
Will be the lyrics

All that will be left
Is
to
Sing

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I am
An inefficient
Machine

Failing to
Persuade
and
correlate
Direct
And
Disorient

I voluntarily burn
In afternoons
Because
I saw the way you looked at art
So I started
Pulling paper airplanes
From my bloodstream
Hoping that
For every ten thousand poems
One would catch your eyes

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Do not love
A poet
For every poet
Is a monster
They feed on hurt
And they break you
Into words
Until you're no longer
But a poem

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And I burned my poems
Smashed each pen
Tore each paper
And broke every convention

For poetry is
Asking for solace
When chaos is
Nailed on your fingertips

How can I propose peace
When my traumas scream
For war

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There is
A flame in your chest

It feeds
On failures and regrets
It burns your flesh
boils your blood
And scorches you from the inside

Agony
Is the malevolent fire
Beneath your heart
That threatens
To make wildfires from your skeleton
To celebrate the flame
To reduce you into ashes

Agony is
Not a bonfire
It is
A witch-hunt

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The
Ache
Is too much
For one poem to write
They mutate
Consummate
Flounder on clumsy arms
Distant and dissonant
The way I numb my reckless body
The pain
Is too much
For one night to handle

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Hesitation is
Is a hole
Above the heart
Under the throat
Because
Right here is where
Unspoken words go

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When I travel
I hope to travel far
Go to places where
My footprints mark the paths new
And etch my fingerprints
On walls and glass facades

Because when I go
I hope to travel far
Detach myself
From my reality
To live outside familiar windows
And memorized roads

Let me breathe in
Air from distant lands
Rest and recover
In strange sunlight and unusual nights
Let me take this new experiences
And incorporate them
As my own

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You might notice
How much I write about sadness
Bear with me
Because I aim to write it all out
And hope that some day
I'll run out of words
To write about sorrow

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