Invisible Lines
The Weekday Musing
I’m standing here
making no sense of this Tuesday
have I miscalculated what the best
day is to have a nervous breakdown?
which one of us is dead
which one of us is smaller
who of us can’t take a joke?
I see them walking across
the sign clearly says do not walk
yet there they are
smiling as if life is more precious
on the other side of the street
who is sitting while the rest of us stand
where do we make the invisible lines
between us, where I end and you begin
some days I’d rather be you
Fridays I’m myself
by the end of the month
I should officially be someone
someone who knows herself
Speaking Of Silence
We are sitting around a table
not saying the things we want to say
instead we are talking in quiet metaphors
about the sun and the stars
Neither of us has a real name
we are both pretending to
speak the same language
but in reality we are dancing
away from each other with long words
Please translate this awkward silence
into a song I can sing while I stare
at the space between us
as I say nothing instead of all of it
There is a window in the corner
that I think I could jump out of
if you say one more word
about the weather of your thoughts
I don’t want to know how you think
I want to know what you feel
about nothing, how nothing is us
even though we have passion for
that blank space that envelopes us
Without Voices
Who said it? Was it me?
the thing that matters is not
the words but the tiny moments
when we laugh at absurd theories
about colors in our dreams
We stand together, our faces without expressions
our tongues without voices, our eyes seeing
through each other’s auras
we are here but nowhere to be seen
We tell each other secrets that are lies
interpreting each other’s dreams
until our minds are tired of thinking
and we are left with our hearts feeling
Why do we feel nothing when once
we were more than we could even
know, more than we could even feel
we were more like each other
now we just hate the same thing: ourselves
nina
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