Maya Hanson Poems

I'm searching for a simple movement
a rundown heart misplaced
I want back all this time I spent
memorizing your face
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Saltwater runs down the bathroom wall
I hug my legs so tightly they might snap
as I tear away from your gaze,
read into every letter your lips write me.
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Slips and slurs
I fall on the sidelines
Loosen my tongue
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I'm alone, I'm surrounded

This is the part of night
where nothing makes sense
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Winter's supposed to make me
feel like I belong,
safe in my own skin
but instead I pick this war
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I've slipped, I'm stuck in a mystery
If only I could get out of my head
Her hand's too slick to save me now
In a mudslide I'll drown instead
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If I lower my whisper you'll hear
so much more power behind my voice though it's
just words, just words
just words.
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Years ago she bent her breath around her life,
tore its own worth into pieces

but no matter, she lives a better
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You don't give me a word and now
you give me every word but
I'm kidding us, nothing really matters here
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Not over you, not under yet
though the water's looking good
I'm starting on the slippery slope of
forgetting your face
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