Stitch

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Stitch by stitch

I’m sewing my blanket together

Combining materials and colours

Textures that feel right

Not too warm- not too cold

But something that is comfortable on my skin

My people and experiences form a shape

In this yellow blanket.

Stitch by stitch

I try to bring it together for myself

To sleep in at nights.

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But for some reason, my sleep has gone

And I just noticed a tear in my blanket

Weeks of effort gone to waste-

It seems like a knife cut that saw no blood

Just a few stray threads and a broken heart.

But it is okay, I tell myself

Needle in hand, thread in another

I sew my blanket and bleeding heart

A sleepless night in the cold won’t kill me

But it will teach me a lot.

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~insight07 •

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Myself

Each night, I sit with my fears
Match their finger tips with mine
Weave a bond that makes me tremble.
So strong, it fills my hollow insides.
I want to remember what love felt like,
For now, there is only a sense of duty
Towards people who cut me a thousand times.
I am beyond reach now,
Treading alone in lands of no shadows.
I miss seeing even the dry leaves.
We walk on paths to reach our end
I am moving in circles within myself.
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~insight07
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Sky and sea

I stand here at the shore
Just looking, as always
I stood still for hours, it seems
But the water kept on moving
Rising in waves, huge and small
Racing to reach the shore
Bathing the sand, engulfing it
Then receeding back in itself
Again it arose in waves
The cycle kept on going
In the lull of the whispering water
I lost sense of time
My feet, like the golden sand
Bathed in the water pure
As my eyes look
At the sky, the sea, and the sky again
Until I can’t tell them apart
The horizon has faded, lost
In the brilliant shades
Of blue, green, purple, blue
The ripples of water sparkling
In the light of the day
It is the stars twinkling
From beneath the blue
Soon my vision is greeted
With the big ball of fire
As it dips lower, lower still
Into the endless blue
The shades give into darker shades
Deep replaces light, to be replaced by dark
And yet, the transition is not complete
Every moment, it changes
The moon appears from behind dark clouds
At once it is a white vision in the dark
Each moment breathes life in me
In my stillness, I found meaning
To my feeble existence
In the chaos of everyday
I confuse myself
But now, I am at peace
My eyes twinkle like the stars
In the depthless skies
That are reflected by the waters in the depthless sea
In this moment, I realise
How insignificant I am
In the grander scheme of things
I imagine, how many others
Have stood here, just like me
Contemplating life
All has changed
But this shore, the sky, the sea

I move from the spot I have been standing in for hours
Instantly, the water washes away my footprints
Fickle, indeed
I walk away, becoming a part
Of the silent shadows in the night.

This world is full of love and meaning.
You just need to look for it in the right place

~insight07

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Latitudes and Longitudes

Fruits fall and crack on the ground
Flowers fly and land on the wall.
A tree that stands, a tree that wishes to sleep
With its curved spine and lover’s bite
A pigeon with two nests on different trees
Flaps to cross clouds in the same blue sky.
Mobile, transitionary maps.
With latitudes that don’t cross longitudes
But lovingly kiss lips
As the universe boils down to-
A pair of laughing brown eyes.

~insight07

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