Anisa Tara

Where are you,
Why have you not come,
I spend days in pursuit,
Of those who could be the one.
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Grief is the thing I eat,
I chew till it hurts,
Till everything falls apart.
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I write in the dark
After I've turned out the light
When the fan blades are wild
And the crickets come to life
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I am my father's daughter,
I am my mother's child.
I wear his body like a sleeve,
Her intellect in my smile.
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If my father were standing here today,
Only sorrow would mar his face.
For all that he held on to in life,
His daughter is a disgrace.
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Another day begins and ends,

The honorable Emptiness presides.
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See how fast the onion burns
Faster still the garlic turns
From a nice yellow tinge
To a smelly black singe
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The clocks of ticking aspirations tock
While sounding bells of expiration toll
A symphony without a crescendo
Exemplified by the sighs of the old
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When I think of her
I think of a field that is endless
That the eye cannot contain
For which measurements are petty
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You told me not to drink and drive
But it's all I ever do
Only the drink can parch me dry
Of every thought of you
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Please don't come back to my country
Dont roll up in my backyard
You'll find life has shriveled up
And its softness has gone hard
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From last April
To a June spent in misery
It once came for me
Eagerly
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There was a person I once knew
The color in her eyes were blue
I saw her in the mirror for 24 years
Then one day woke up to find
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Anxiety is there, at the stroke of every pen
She sits by degrees on my fat, stubby fingers.
Between my elephantine words she hides,
After every minuscule period she lingers.
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Time turns on her little hands,
Left, right and otherwise.
She turns like clockwork,
More often than not, to my demise.
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In the insidious dark of night,
He creeps up on my mind.
He slithers through my work,
And eats up all my time.
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If we are all moments,
And all this is only space,
Then there is only one,
I would like to erase.
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Can you miss someone forever,
Have their name between fingertips,
An unwritten song always on your lips?
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