Death catches up

Death marches with Time, its shadows lengthening with each year that we pass.
The first experience of Death might be a great grandparent–as young children, we don’t notice the details. It just happened: they just passed away. They simply are NOT anymore. Life is too full of other things to learn, too full of pretty things, [...]

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butterflies

I saw a school of butterflies, flitting up and down around a tree crowded by red blossoms. Sunlight filtered through the leaves, blinding me sometimes, shielding the delicate yellow wings from my sight. They flipped, flirted, three-some-ing and enjoying the gentle breeze that almost seemed to blow them away from their flight.
I don’t know what [...]

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rainy day

It’s been raining since daybreak.Three times it started drizzling, and then stopped, only to start again one or two hours later. I’m in the meeting room right now.
It’s raining outside. A soft drizzle falling softly, not unlike the weaving of the earth with invisible threads. The sound of raindrops is a cool blanket wrapping me [...]

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my childhood contained

It's just a toy to you
but please
Don't touch it
you're desecrating my past
Don't lift it
you're hurting my childhood days
DON'T throw it
I bled inside and cried
It's just a toy to you
but that is my whole childhood past
When laughter means nothing else but happiness
and tears mean nothing else but sadness
It's just a toy to you
but it holds my [...]

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I miss you

I'm grumpy
'Coz you're not here to make me smile
I'm sloppy
'Coz you're not here to remind me of my stuff
I'm lazy
'Coz you're not here to scold me
I'm sad
'Coz you're not here to hold my hand
I'm lonely
'Coz you're not here beside me
I'll grow grumpier, sloppier, lazier, sadder, lonelier
Everyday
Without you here

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