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Category: Of Love and Verse
Of Love and Verse is my heartfelt (and sometimes chaotic) attempt at poetry, prose-poetry, and love stories. Read slowly. Feel deeply. And resist the urge to text your ex.
(Seriously.)
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The Match
When our house was burning, it did not surprise me. I told you it would burn, but you thought me too weak to strike a match. “You’re too soft”, you would say. You forgot that your neglect weighed me down like bricks on my back. I yearned painfully for you to hear me, to…
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Call me your baby
“Babe” “Hi.” “Hi? Is that how you greet your baby?” “…” “Babe?” “Just stop. I don’t find any of this thing funny.” “I’m sorry.” “Sorry for what?” “I shouldn’t have talked to you like that last night. Not to make excuses but I had a bad day and I transferred my frustration on you, my…
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You’re losing me
My eyes lit up every time your name appeared on my phone screen like a child, whose eyes shone wide in wonder at the first taste of ice cream. I ran to the window when I heard the sound of your Volvo, jumping the same way I did when Papa’s Mercedes wagon…