Tag: life
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Parallel Lines
i am half drunk and half in love as i look at you from across a bar window. you are out there in the street in your brand new jacket but every piece of you, it is desperately clinging on to last bit of life in your flesh. your parents skipped the good groceries to…
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Little Big Things
the meaningless of life haunts me even as i am half awake, brushing my teeth or running to attend a lecture i will half remember. it haunts me as i think about the languages i cannot speak, lovers i cannot touch and the people i cannot love. but then some morning when i starve myself,…
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The Giant Next Door
i am the giant who lives next door to you. too big to sit in your dining room with your friends who half fears and half envies me. too loud to talk about the wonders i feel. too enormous and too eccentric, perhaps too shameful be called as your friend. i am the giant in…
Prena Poetry 