Biyaya YOHANNA Poems

The way you love me is different.
Different from what I thought love was, or what I had come to know it to be.

You care about the wounds no one else sees.
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Learning detachment is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.
In the world we live in, many people are so consumed with themselves that they rarely consider how their actions affect others.
People hurt people.
People betray people.
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Someone once said to me,

"I wish people could see
beyond the gallery".
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Someone once said to me,

'Be patient
with everything
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Friendship was all we had.

A quiet truth I tried not to name.
I dressed my hopes in borrowed dreams,
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Some people walk into your life
and they bring you peace.

Their presence alone is healing.
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Just like grief,

pain is an emotion
one cannot truly explain.
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This is me.
The version of me
I have no regret
showing or sharing.
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Sometimes,
all it takes is meeting
the false version of the real
to finally understand
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Oh Death!

The knock on the door
that everyone dreads,
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