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 Apr 2020 Harley Hucof
Shamai
Have you ever had a day
Where nothing seems
To fit together
It’s like
I can’t find a place for myself
As I move
From activity to activity
And never quite
Complete
Any of
Them

It’s like
Trying to find myself
In a mind field
Of emotions

It’s like
Playing Russian Roulette
With an
Unloaded gun

Unsettling
To say
The least

So
How does one right themselves
As they fall from a high building
How does one attempt to complete life
In the slow down
Lane

How does one attempt
To live
A life that is
In stasis

Homebound
Twiddling my thumbs
Wondering
What to do
Next
The shape of the sun; circle
The shape of a city block, square
The shape of a baseball field, rhombus
The shape of a house, pentagon.

But the shape of a home
Is based on what lives inside.

A pyramid proves a simple structure can still succeed
All lines involved
Connect to complete a common goal.

An octagon interludes
So all sides can solidify
A promising whole.

So what is to happen
To a house with
No shape?

When the lines are misconstrued
And the corners are mismatched.
A splatter on a plane
Lacking effort to be real.

A shape is not a shape
If there are breaks within the lines.

A shape is not a shape
If everyone neglects the vertices.

Geometry should have been priority
while planning a family.
 Apr 2020 Harley Hucof
sankavi
i like to stay up all night
just to watch the sun rise
 Apr 2020 Harley Hucof
Lily X
Because I've always seen my life in other people,
Don't worry, the irony makes me choke,
That I can't just reach out and touch them.
My hand slips through them like smoke.

Because I study my life in other people,
But it's getting harder to tell
Whether it's memory or reflection I'm watching,
Either way, it all feels like hell.

Because I hold my life in my hands,
But everything's just that bit numb.
I can't feel if it hurts or I'm breathing,
Either way, I think that I'm done.
 Apr 2020 Harley Hucof
Lama
night
when the day’s sun kisses us goodbye
the moon
shinier than all the bumblebees in my yard
I confide
in the stars, to them I wished to fly
flowers
in my room, to death they fought
papers
escaped to hide my pain, dimness is near
words
they dance, feet bleed until dawn
poems
they utter a powerful light
mouth
sealed off until death tear the soul apart
eternity
is a wisecrack
but the night
is enchanting
even my words
failed to describe
Pull me out from depths of the prison of panic and fear I inhabit

One small phrase willing words straining against bars of my ribcage to slip through
And be released

Passion the officer responsible for overturning the former guilty verdict
In favor of a tentative plea bargain

To let solitary confinement end

Along with the silence that had been my cell since the very first day
Of my self-inflicted sentence

Now I sense a shift
As the emotion locked tight finally is allowed the sweet taste of freedom

As the door to jail my heart was enclosed in opens with a click
The words I have been holding hostage are trapped no more

Escaping my lips with surprise

My feelings in chains no more

"I love you too"
About the first time my boyfriend said I love you after we had been broken up for a year
an ill did blow in
on the east's virulent wind
carrying a malady
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