Maya Hanson Poems

I want to run like I'll never reach the ending
I want to dive like I'll never touch the deep
I want to grow everything I ever lay my hands on
I want to breathe in afternoons spent asleep
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Can you make yourself love?
Can you make yourself be loved?
Can you waste away the sorrow
Before you're even all the way hurt
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It's at times like these
when I miss you the most
It's at times like these
when I wish I was home
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When we stare at each other strangely
There’s something in between our eyes
Something that defies gravity
And we think it’s called courage
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It spreads fast
From my head to my toes and
I’m coughing and moaning
and running a fever
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Spinning
in circles
I can't concentrate
Messing up
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Over the river
you’re laughing
I can hear it,
the sounds of starting again
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I am a symbol
of the red-hot fire
burning in your heart.
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Eyes staring through me,
humans with strange hearts
Love hangs in the air,
filling balloons on a string
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A shimmering shadow
made of fresh, forbidden air
and laughs
and memories
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