Imaanah Saleem Poems

Cross legged on a mountain top, I sit writing you this letter
Conveying all my love in a happy fair well.

Although I am pleased to move on, rest assure, my memories will not be discarded;
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I want someone to love
For someone to love me
I want someone to see me
Just as well as I'd see thee
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I tend to be dramatic
Can't help it
But I do
The trait is buried within my makeup
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El principio de todo es El

One of The Lord's many names
The Definite Article of everything
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I put the ingredients of you and me together,
Because I was craving a life.
For a time it baked.
Now I have this little bundle of joy,
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Black, white, yellow, brown,
Red, fawn, tan,
Bronze, copper, mahogany,
These are the colors of man.
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I come—
In many forms,
Depending on the type of party,
And I have this—
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A damaged seed just below the surface of the earth,
Never to be anything other than what it was when it was first placed there,
Of this I am certain,
Still I find myself treating it as though things could somehow be different,
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