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Acceptance comes in spaces
Pills of truth and realisations
You swallow down your throat
They fill your empty stomach
Spread throughout your system
Mix with your very blood.
Your knowledge of this world
And you and your world
And you that is a world
Dissolve to reform
Maybe into something more meaningful
Something that will cure this fever
This delirious fever
Of headaches, heartaches, and a want for a simple life
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I am staring at a point.
Eyes don’t change shape or size.
This point, however, it keeps changing.
It is my life playing in front of me, you see.
A point is a line
A line is time.
Sun plays with me, then comes some waves
I look deep into my lover’s eye
Feel him at the same time.
My mother grows old in front of me.
Her mother comes wobbling towards me.
I see stars and mountains
Snow for the first time. I remember the cold touch of it as it slipped from my hands.
(I can’t hold sand or snow in my palms)
I try capturing moments instead.
Line my skin with their feel, as they hold me
When the line is going too up or too down.
September 2023. Another point. Another time.
Yet, I am scared of a known change.
People come and go, but why do I stay?
Air from the same city as my childhood home sits trapped in my lungs.
I’m holding on.
I’m hopeful.
Points don’t stay the same.
I am also not the same.
Eyes don’t change, but mind does.
And times too.
~insight07
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Feelings for a penny.
A vending machine.
Smile on display.
Bubblegum colors on stickers.
Temporary tattoos because permanency is a scare.
A round neck piece, fake pearls
For princess plays.
Sadness stuffed in a corner.
A gold watch with a broken dial.
Rust laden metal with no time.
No time for grief.
Jealousy is a hot heart
Cup noodles waiting to be opened and eaten
A spice that will cut your mouth.
Anger is a glass bowl
Unbroken, pristine, see through.
Would you dare hold mine in your palms?
Conversations, hidden conversations sit in plain sight.
With their eyes wide.
And open hearts.
Love is the vending machine.
Spare it a penny?
~insight07
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I see dust everywhere
In crevices well lit, in crevices well hidden.
Ants too, fighting for their home
In my home as I try to rid them off
My food, atleast food I purchased for myself.
Does this intrinsic monetory value make this impartial food
More valuable than a life?
It’s all about the size.
Buildings manhandle humans
Ant sized, we build these mammoths.
On top we place small plants that are never supposed to grow beyond a palm,
Human palm.
Under the harsh sun that they are not used to, leaves dry
Dry and become dusty with city pollution.
Millions gather and flock together-
Dust, people, ants, buildings
In cities- dark and dull with electric artificial light.
(The sun is where it has always been-
Burning, raw, real)
I find myself as
Dust, people, ants, buildings-
A collection of stale stories.
A city with vacant homes and memories.
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~insight07
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