Long Selflove Poems

A pain so surreal it leaves you breathless; your dignity thrown out as if it were a mistake to begin with. The sense of nothingness; swallowing the scraps you left on the surface. Yet despite...

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A girl with innocent heart is here,
She loved a boy who was practical everywhere,
Surprisingly he proposed her with a rose
And she too was ready to ooze...,

Struggled through a lot of difficulties,
Be it caste, status or...

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Let's listen to the Adamantite who radiates his glow
Although he may be riddled with cracks that are deep
They never reached the center, they never went that low
Instead of tarnishing his worth, they inprove him indeed...

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He is, 
A colossal anchor clenched to my ankles. 
Constantly trying to drag me downward,
into the deep, dark sea of his beliefs. 
I try with all my might to rise high,
to fly the sky, to...

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A body built on nerves and signals.

So many little paper airplanes,

they fly from head to toe.

Expect when they get stuck in my hands and rattle.

Uncontrollable. 

Flex and refocus, 

 they are gentle;

 fragile.

They understand me

they...

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The true self is still hidden
For me it's not too sudden
Still immature to travel alone
And a girl that is not flown

It's a story of fairy with unconscious feeling like dreams
Of becoming an Astronaut and fly...

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Africa is the best place for every peaceful
people to be,
Remember you belong to Africa and come
back.

Your ancestors tried their best to come back
home but they failed.
Are you failing too? 
Are you happy there?

Your home does...

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10 years later, you will read this 
I know It’s hard and you hate it
I’m telling you now that
You made it

Everything you are going through 
Is happening for a reason
And I see why
You will understand...

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When you sit around waiting for the pain to kill you
Waiting for the loss to destroy you
When you sit around waiting for the sadness to consume you, the anger, the frustration to eat you inside...

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Help me to
find identity in you
understand my worth
value your standards
recognize my unique qualities
designed by you
Lord, to you I pray

Help me to 
appreciate me
see myself the way you see me
understand that you Lord
fashioned me too a...

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I want to be a strong and gentle lover,

Who grows insatiably lovesick in sweet parting from the sticky sadness of summer.

I want to be a beautiful bluebird,

Who flew north faithful because of some splendid story...

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You feel like you would be darker for me than 
I would have ever seen
But trust me, my friend...no one else could 
ever be darker than me for myself 

I made double attempts for my...

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Born with chains on my wrists,
wondering through life a mist,
lost and forgotten for so long,
in a dark tunnel no light shines through,
growing and learning as life goes on trying 
to find myself in this harsh...

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Freckles and spots more than stars in the sky
Scars and marks visible to the eye
From farther away or close by
No matter what I hold my head high
Many are redder than some 
Few like the sun
Deep...

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My curls are the frame of my temple, my curves an embellishment.
My skin smooth as silk.
My lips fill with contaminate cherries.
Your impenetrable eyes flow everywhere like torrents of sweet waters, rummaging in my past, crumbling...

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I hope you heal – from no apology
I hope you heal – from Un - reciprocated love
I hope you heal – from the emotional abuse
I hope you heal – from being scared
I hope you heal...

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