Maya Hanson Poems

Throw me a paper airplane
and I'll leave your arms behind
But take me home, pour me a cup
and I'll remember this is mine
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Years have passed,
I could leave it behind

I'm just
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I would sprint into the wind
anywhere
as long as I know you're there
to catch me at the finish line
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We're hanging by a thread
on top of the world
spinning out of control
A candle flame flickers,
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When I sweat my scars until they run off my chest like a landslide,
paint them on a canvas in galaxy colors,
they look an awful lot like magic.
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Can I choose what to keep
and what to lose and what to hide
Can I push back the river
so you can cross the bridge I can't hold
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If I'm a stone let me be
Let the world play tricks on my crumbling dust
but still feed me at the end of the day
in colors I can't help but breathe in
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Only you have ever said my name
the same way I hear it in my head.

You chant and murmur until
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From thirty thousand feet
I'm contemplating what
I probably shouldn't be
wrapped in airplane lies
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I'm stubborn, they say,
let's keep it that way,
I'm stronger than the rocks on this road.
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