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Like a summer breeze,

you came and I was inattentive.

A September blast,

surrounding me from everywhere.

An October wind,

Making cold hearts melt and yearn for one another.

In November, you were there.

Fresh, but blowing with care, invading my lungs, brains and elsewhere.

Changes hadn’t occured,

Of alcohol you reeked, yet still poured.

A warm body, a juicy mouth,

Hours of absence, days of hound.

I said December rain would wash you off.

But, January came and startled me off.

Visions, dreams and blurred eyes

Disguised as feelings, were your lies.

Texts and calls and pictures sent

In order to please, rules were bent.

Souvenirs of moments never lived.

Marks of lips as though I sinned.

Your fingertips trace my body,

My body tingles, aching and bloody.

Mars came and I was born again,

Drunk calls and texts unsent remain.

I was born again but you forgot,

And these little details, they mean a lot.

Days go by where I ache no more.

Others come where you flood and pour.

June came and you were born anew.

And of your life, nothing I knew.

This new year starts and I’m all alone.

Because what better company, than your very own!

Writen by: Cherifa Beji

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« what are you so afraid of losing when nothing in this world belongs to you. »

I think of this quote way often, way more than i should.
Every time the sunset is too beautiful, the trees cast the shadows on the streets, and i catch myself missing old versions of me, of how everything used to be .. every time a train passes by and i just stand there, standing still in a world that’s constantly moving forward.

Every time i raise my eyes to the vast deep blue sky and the stars are flickering with light, a passionate light, showering the world with their magic. Every time the moon is following me down a long heavy road from home to home — a feeling I’ll never get used to. Every time i catch a bird doing its little dance in the misty rain and it all feels a bit too good to be true .. every time a familiar face passes next to me on a road busy with people, with life.

Every time i feel safe, scared, hopeful .. every time i feel, i am reminded of how « nothing in this world belongs to me, and i belong to everything. » Of how i have nothing to lose yet everything to experience .. what a wonderful gift it is that none of this grief i carry between the palms of my hands belongs to me, none of this beauty around me belongs to me. I get to live through it all. I get to experience it all.

Written by: Hadil Khalili

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