You Don't Know My Name Zine

Y O U

D O N ’ T

K N O W

M Y

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I find meaning in everything, This they say is my gift.

But in you I find none I try time again, but i fail in justifying you.

I never knew your nameNot once did I speak to you.

But you were there, like the sky above.

Not once did I approach you, Just admired from afar.

I never thought to ask you Who you were, how you wereBut I lived with you and beneath you.

You were nothing, And yet the memory of you satisfies meMore than anything else could.

You are like the sky, Changing in my mind each time I remember you.

Fading from a sacred golden sunset, To the hour of a silver sunrise, Never once disappointing me.

You were like smoke slipping through my fingers.

I desperately grasped and tried to find you But you had evaporated, Disappeared into my very lungs.

Why do we fall?

If everything must return to where it comes, Why do I float when I think of you?

yo u s et

my s oul on f ire

IT’S GETTING KIND OF CRAZY

waterworks are easy,

are you happy now?

the story unfolds page by page

It’s perfectly harmless, it lives in my mind.

that is, until i remember...

did i mention? you’re about to miss a good thing.

because my love feels like...

you better hurry before it fades

will you ever know?

I truly cannot blame you.

is this what it has come to?

oh well, I’ll never learn.

Images: James Tortorelli Design: James Tortorelli Words: Alicia Keys/James Tortorelli

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