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Above the Earth

12:42 AM With one eye open, you become the canvas spread above the earth all tender blue with cotton candy clouds parading in your mind....

The Red Sea

10:53 PM White tiles of a bathroom floor, a clean canvas spread beneath me, stained with crimson ink that flows from the crack of my...

Dark Waves

4:55 PM blue, darker and darker as the depth increases and the waves wrestle, pushing one another— wanting to be on top while i struggle...

Heart Strings

10:55 PM my eyes follow your silhouette as you walk by as if you are the only one in colour, and the rest are ink on paper. the look in...

To the Stars (Ad Astra)

2:00 PM He thought he succeeded when he saw his dad blue eyes bloodshot, nose dripping with black blood as he rose above his son. Alone...

heart shaped canvas

11:00 AM i feel you in my dreams sometimes wafting like the wind caressing my cheek combing through my hair i see you in my dreams...

Ghost

8:40 PM twisting and turning like my feet are tangled in vines that are your sheets without the presence of your soul, my ghost heart...

Stardust

5:45 PM above you, i spread like the canvas of a blue sky— perhaps i am stardust trying to sprinkle magic upon your cynical soul; but you...

Solitude

9:28 AM the day could be gray or the sky could be blue, but even when i'm in a crowd i feel alone. it feels like nobody cares, or maybe,...

The Weight

8:00 PM look, over there do you see that? there’s your sister working hard so she can provide for her five kids and you. don’t you see...

You Think

2:41 PM what makes you think that i will be there for you when you never show up at my lowest of times what makes you think that i will...

Triolet

12:12 AM the ocean, endless with no turn, we get so near, yet far away. its waves consume the thoughts we burn. the ocean, endless with...

Human Nature

6:43 PM look at the ocean tell me what you see are my waves too harsh for your human feet? look at the mountains tell me what you see...

The Last Six Years: A Letter

The Mother I Never Deserved: A Letter (Edited) 11:11 PM Colours adorned a two-story building Where I dreaded and cried. You combed my...

The Mother I Never Deserved: A Letter

9:06 AM A year came about when I had turned four I tugged at your sleeve, begging not to let me go. Even as tears brimmed my eyes that...

Tree Swings

4:54 PM the blue of the sea like the one of your eyes the calm of the breeze like the one of your arms the fun of the swings like the one...

I Remember

12:20 PM i remember when there was no you when you didn’t exist in my life when you meant nothing to me but now you are the reason why i...

Why?

8:45 PM why must it be you? the person i fall for the person i can’t have why must it be you? the one who breaks me the one who...

Wronged

7:23 PM Is it so wrong to be myself when most of the time I am not? I know by the rules I am not allowed to do as I like. But that’s the...

10 Years Ago

5:48 PM To be perfect, would just be a fantasy. I know that I am far from that; always have been. But I also know that I do not deserve...

© 2017 by Nadiah Zakaria

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