I realised today that
I know the cats have peed on my clothes.
I know there's dirty laundry piled up
with clean shirts.
I know you've been waiting for today
for the last two weeks, two years,
too fucking long to remember.— % &

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Living is the kindest thing I've done

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The world often tells us
to measure the depth
of our love for women
by how the inches of her waist
sit within your palms,
how her navel marks
the centre of her body,
and the extent to which
your fingertips fit tells
of her worth.

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I'll mourn your loss
as I add wood
to your pyre,
let the fumes
burn my eyes
even as they go
from white to red
like the fire.

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Depression tastes like
the sour taste
of colourful pills
that attempt to diffuse
the landmines of your mind.
But a stick as a weapon
in a war of the worlds
will get you nowhere.

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Don't tell me my body
isn't enough.
My heart was birthed
from the inner chasms
of the sun.
My mind has lived
a thousand lifetimes
within itself,
and many beyond
a mortal shell.
My feet have carried me
from places where
the ground beneath me shook
to ones where I can call home.

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The princess dies in this one.

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Wasted on my youth,
I gorge on
the blood of my veins.
Biting yet not swallowing,
chewing and spitting.
I wonder when my time will come.

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Haiku
Hello Starshine

Under the moonlight
A sea of blurry faces
All I see is you

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To my lover,
I am a passion project,
a broken home wreaked in debris.
To my father,
I am a reminder of his failure
as a parent.
To me,
I am nothing.

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