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closer

closer.

can you hear the way it feels for the wind to kiss my face? the sigh, the breath of air that escapes my lips? that sound contains Everything i feel for you.

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can you taste the way it feels as i swim in the warmth of the 3 o’clock sun? the honey and cinnamon that masks my face can you feel the Peace underneath your tongue?

close your eyes and walk backwards. let the Earth hug your feet in the prints they leave behind.

and as you step every step as you climb every fall as you take it apart brick by brick the house you built around the bruised, broken thing that once held the brilliance of your baffling dreams

can you still say that the choices you made (i think you call them mistakes) can you still Say they were wrong?

take my hand and i will show you how i walk, blindfolded;

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iAM POETRY 2020

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