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What is Perfection? [3/16/24]

What is perfection?

Certainly not my reflection.

My, shoulders, full of tension,

and a failed introspection

My judgment is clouded

My thoughts are, too

The only thing keeping me grounded,

is, well, you

Maybe you are the definition

You could tear out of me, every admission

God, you could be some divine vision,

Cos’ I’d let you make every decision

Perfection is holding

each other together

til one of us is scolding,

for getting them ‘under the weather’

Perfection is the marks I leave on your neck,

while kissing every dark, freckled little speck

Later, covering it up, groaning, “dude, what the heck?”

But you know I adore leaving you a wreck

What is Perfection?

An attainable zeal?

But I’ve got you and your attention

so perfection must be real.

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Understandable Identity [11/9/23]

my hair is in two tight braids

at the bottom, they merge into one

I didn't do them by myself

And I adore the feeling of getting them done

By someone else

My dog has a hot pink collar

It complements the colors mixed in her hur

she paddles up next to me

she tilts her head, asking,

"I love you; what are you doing?"

What am I doing?

I'm keeping myself grounded

everything should feel very real

not philosophical

and nothing like last night

I had three presentations this week

I abhor the whole ordeal

but it feels really good

to look really real

to look like I know what I'm doing

My ducks are in a row

but sometimes that row is a circle

I get things done

I always get them done

just with an added layer of stress

I sit, I read, I go, I return

it's simple and normal and beyond

but is there more, like everyone says?

or is it just a

Dream?

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A First Meditational Poem [10/30/23]

In death, there is life, and in

beginnings, there are ends. Why do

we see life as a segment of a line

when it is simply a misshapen but

perfect cycle of the seasons?

The warmth of a human body

only matters

when the reality of its absence

is known

The kindness of a heart

is only appreciated

when the world

contains gaps

Pandora knows this,

and so do you.

Hope cannot survive

in a destructive world.

It must be locked away.

Yet it MUST be shared.

Or else-

It is fragile

unprepared.

unloved.

What happens the day that Hope

loses its hope?

What happens when she flies away and forgets

that she is the reason to LIVE

to STRIVE

and to BE?

could you survive?

put in that situation?

I cannot say that you would.

But after all,

life is a cycle,

and surprises are welcome.

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Fungi Funeral [1/4/24]

Who decomposes

a fungus, when she dies?

Does her next of kin, break her down,

thinking "Oh, oh, dear mother of mine"?

Does a mushroom return

to the earth that she's built?

The earth that she's turned

into dirt made from silt?

Does a mushroom grieve

for her family, forgotten?

And is she alone

until she herself is rotten?

Do fungi feel

as alone as we do?

Does a mushroom want

a love just as true?

I've read that fungi

make paths in a way

similar to those

that a computer may.

Are we the same?

Both inside and out?

After all, after death,

we become a brand new sprout

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to my one and only [2/1/24]

i love the way your hair falls

right in front of your eyes

and i love the way you push it back

getting rid of your disguise

i love the way you say some words

slightly different from the norm

an extra "u" or an extra "i"

as you give your voice its own little form

I love the way you hold me close,

in your arms, so tight

you listen, and you hold so sweet

god, it feels so right

and i love the way your eyes are so wide

like you're taking in the whole world

and you love everything you see

i love the way your eyes are so bright

like you're looking at the whole world

but all you see is me

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Small Revolutions [2/8/24]

a million small revolts

can add up to a revolution

if now it seems pointless,

like what you're doing isn't enough

you're not alone

there is a story

it's always stuck with me

it's about a man who tosses

starfish

back into the sea

someone tells him

that he can't possibly

save all those starfish,

but he saved so many,

did he not?

just because your small revolt

doesn't make a dent,

in the giant hurt of the world,

some individual, someplace,

was saved

and what happens,

if many more people were on that beach

how many starfish could be saved,

if enough people

did something deemed insignificant

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Ever Before [1/21/24]

I think I'm more in love with you than ever before,

And I hope beyond hope that I'll love you evermore

your presence in my life is like a spark to a star,

and I still feel your love, even when you're far

I think I'm more in love with you than ever before,

and I hope beyond hope that I'll love you evermore.

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Running Out of Time [1/20/24]

I have this overbearing feeling of doom

buried deep within my lungs

It keeps me in a state of gloom

every day, since I was young

the problem is, if I must say,

though I cry, and try, I die,

every, single, little day,

I feel I'm running out of time

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Leaky Water Bottle [1/17/24]

Morning has come

and the water has gone

Dropped and abandoned

but he's lasted this long

Tomorrow is over

Today is his last

All of my memories

left with him in the past

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emotional permanence [1/2/24]

will you be there for me?

even when I don't recognize myself?

even when I don't know that it's me

looking back from the surface of the mirror?

will you be there for me?

when my body doesn't feel like mine.

because I'm floating above,

and there are too many hands touching?

will you be there for me?

when I'm so weak

and so hurt

and so gone?

will you still be there for me?

when I'm not

here

anymore?

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fridge door poetry [2/20/24]

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Hold Me Closer [1/17/24]

hold me closer

hold me tight

you're the only one I trust

to protect me all night

hold me closer

within your arms

you're the only one I trust

to keep me safe from any harm

hold me closer

don't let go

you're the only one I trust

to not leave me all alone

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Why Not? [1/17/24]

If any seems pointless

I write it down too

Cuz it can still be enough

If not to me, then, to you

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Poem for a Story Pt. 2 [10/24/23]

Oh, to be a victim of the love

that some would call profane

How could something so gentle

and pure face accusations

of lust and evil when all

we did was smile?

a hand in a hand shouldn't

be afraid of a gun to

a head.

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Give and Take [10/23/23]

When it stopped.

I stopped talking.

But it all stopped.

So I stopped giving.

I can't give anymore.

Yet I take nothing.

But the act of not giving,

is taking, is it not?

I've given my whole.

And it's taken me in time.

I have nothing left to give.

And I can't take it anymore.

I'm going to lose it,

by the end of the day

Give or Take,

a few hours.

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Estoy Vacía [10/29/23]

you do not seem happy.

well, that's because i'm not.

you no longer seek adventure.

there's nothing to be sought.

you seem so trapped.

well, that much is true.

your actions are so passive.

because i'm just passing through.

you don't like where you are.

i wish to start over, another.

you can't unbreak what you shattered,

to recollect a lover.

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Newton's Cradle [11/29/23]

Pull Back.

Limitless potential

at least, that's how it feels.

you've got your whole life

ahead of you, darling.

Take a breath

(a deep one)

Release.

You're in motion now

reach that potential

you've got so much time

Don't even worry

you'll figure it all out

in no time

Collide.

A barrier?

or an opportunity?

Still swinging,

but slowing down

don't worry,

you still have so much time

Stop.

no more motion

you've run out of energy

no more potential

all run out

But don't worry

you've got so much ti-