Tag: self help
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A world alone
i could never live in any of the worlds offered to me; the patrimonial word of my family, the world of my friends, the world of my own people and politics and prosperity. i could never belong to anywhere—even on the wasteland in between my very longings and nostalgia. i had to fabricate a world…
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humanness in my ribcage
As I watched the children younger than me—plucking grasses off the lawn and gifting it to the sun above. As I watched my mother fight her traumas, and as I watched the people around me waking up to carry their burden, and so easily smiling at the strangers they met. I began to fall in…
Prena Poetry 