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I'm just afraid
One day
You won't
Be there
When I
                     F
                       A
                            L
                               L
And nothing
Will hold me together
And I
Will just
B R E A K


My life without
You is so
Meaningless
So please
Stay
Don't let me
Hurt
Don't let me
C
O
L
L
P
A
S
E
 Jan 2013 Nigel Obiya
REL
i try to wring my veins of all starlight
to sweeten your tea with, but there’s simply
not enough andromeda. i am unchained of rock
whittled slightly but never disdained by crashing wave

vous voulez un petit fleur, no es como yo
i am not to be picked and toyed with. i lay cards on
mats but they are not for the future, only for a self
fulfilling prophecy of broken bones and soot

i’m sorry you don’t have perfection with an apron tied round it.
sorry enough to lay salt on your grave so no green grass
ever grows, and dance on it to punish the crystals
deeper so you can feel it where you are
 Jan 2013 Nigel Obiya
Ayaba Babe
She blinks.
And such an ordinary unnoticeable movement
Creates movements in places he never intended to landslide.
She's a super natural rip tide
She's an extraterrestrial tour guide
To the universe
Of his dreams.
The
Space
Of her smile
Sends his pupils rocketing space-bound.
The black holes of her throat are cautiously slippery,
She wants him to drown.
She's ******* him down
Down
She's gathering him up
And escorting him around
Like shooting stars in a moonlit sky
His pupils search for the skies in her eyes
And she blinks.
She etches the disguise of his demise in her memory,
And she tattoos her name in his heart with permanent ink.
:):
If Life has taght me anything yet, it is that a person can never have enough notebooks.
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