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A Letter About My Friend Ana

A letter about my friend Ana

She stood tall, skeletal, and proud
Her glowing locks choking those that were drawn too close,
Her blinding smile removing the vision of anyone who dared to smile back
She scared me,
But being scared is better than not feeling at all
And having someone is better than having no one,
So I followed her. 

One day I fell and scraped my arm,
She swooped me up and took me to her home,
Cleaned up my wounds with a stinging liquid
I couldn’t tell if I hurt myself or if she hurt me more,
But I gave her the benefit of the doubt
Putting the pain aside
I followed her. 

My friends warned me for years, 
Telling me that her intentions were as sticky as syrup,
That her conscious was as guilty as I felt when I ate around her,
Her meticulous laugh as I tried to nourish myself,
I pushed those people away,
Because the moments she didn’t laugh, didn’t hurt me,
Filled me more than any food could,
So I followed her. 

Ana held me by the unforgiving ties of insecurities
She made me her puppet,
Controlling me to burn everything I knew,
Everything I loved,
Just to prove that she was more important,
More loved by me,
In the desperate moments of burning flames,
I followed her,
One fire turned into another and soon my entire world was engulfed,
All I had left in the sooty darkness,
Was her gleaming strands of hair,
Her blinding fluorescent smile,
She wouldn’t let me turn around,
To dissolve into the flames,
The only thing I could do
Was follow Ana.

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I Am Who I Am

I am the ocean waves
An unsteady rhythm
Swells of overwhelming anxiety
Never knowing just when to crash
But when I do
You’ll know

But

I am also the salty tide 
Pulling the people in my life close
But then pushing them away
To protect their hearts
Because
too much of a tide
Can be dangerous

I am the intense yellow sun glimmering
When you see me you smile a true smile
Sharing a much needed, bronzing warmth
Sharing my protection from the booming storm clouds
That ruin your day

I am not just another face 
Although I might not be the prettiest pink shell in the sand
I won’t shatter when you pick me up
I won’t wash away when you see me 

I am not anything I don’t know
I am not going to try and be something I’m not
If you can’t accept that
Leave me in the sand for someone else that will

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Raindrops

raindrops

Keep
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Down, They go
Absorbing in
       Sea glass waves bumbling
from the stormy electric grey eye
Extronicing 
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Umbrella season
       the world 
 stopped 
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Can’t help
The grainy salt of the erratic drops
Thick like honey 
Without the sweet
Bumbling across the mirror shards of stars
Stretching past your swollen meringue lips
Helpnot no one
Shall I help you
Take my

               
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