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Just another writer of this manmade tragedy…

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coup

August 26, 2020kohaku818Leave a comment

twenty-four hours
in which everything could change —
so fragile, so weak;
we act as conquerors, but
in hiding, depose ourselves.

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waves

August 25, 2020kohaku818Leave a comment

amid the heat, we
lay on the floor, defeated —
dry lightning crackles;
new challenges every year,
and our future still to come.

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shattered asphalt

August 17, 2020kohaku818Leave a comment

we seek to forget
all our broken promises
as the days go on;
now, I wonder if ever
they meant anything at all.

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collection

August 14, 2020kohaku8182 Comments

beneath umbrellas
people who gather, alone
now finding power;
because the whole is more than
simply the sum of its parts…

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living spirits

August 13, 2020August 12, 2020kohaku8181 Comment

waiting for the day
when we can meet again, I
feel the hours pass;
slipping through my fingers, these
moments I cannot regain.

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hollow men

August 12, 2020kohaku8181 Comment

ringing in my ears
drives out all thoughts and feelings —
a river made clean;
sometimes we don’t realize
just how empty we must be.

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cloud cover

August 8, 2020kohaku8181 Comment

with no storm in sight,
the cloud cover only grows —
waiting for nothing;
we gaze up at our own skies,
searching for a better time.

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flux

August 7, 2020kohaku8181 Comment

gradients of light
bathe our nightly memories —
never to return;
I promised to let you go,
and yet the known times have changed.

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smoke screens

August 6, 2020kohaku8181 Comment

at this time of year,
the hummingbirds start to dance
and the bluebirds call;
hidden within our cities,
the patterns of yesterday.

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timeslip

August 5, 2020kohaku8181 Comment

slipping through the cracks,
another year passes by —
like the seasons now;
just indistinguishable,
almost unnoticeable.

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