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Tap water slides off my face and if all water finds the sea then fish swim in my tears.
The tree is heavy with fruit. Yet blandness stains the tongue for it is too early in the season.
Invisible buses ferry dust and leaves without anchors past my window. I wonder if sometimes they snatch up my dreams too.
Eyes that see only as far as light travels are blind to the lessons of the night.
John was adventurous, bold, charming, driven, exciting, friendly, gentlemanly, hilarious, intelligent, jealous, a keen listener, married…not, outrageously playful, quiet, romantic, sweet, tactful, understanding, versed…very well…x-free and youthfully zen. John was also a character in a movie.
©wanjeri gakuru
It
comes and goes
a fever
that flares up
and
breaks
a searing heat
incinerating reason
from the mind
a damp coolness
over the heart
a see-saw
balancing things that she saw
not
crooked images
half lies
palms riddled with broken life lines
until finally
all that lies broken
is that thing
that has become
nothing at all.