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That’s it

Most people bore me

That deserves a poem

A title

A prelude
A culmination
And
An end
It’s one of those realizations
It’s one of those wounds
It’s one of those facts
It’s a moment stuck in time
Not just a moment
A string of events
A life time of accumulation
A realization
An epiphany of the sorts

Leave your mundane pity at the door
It is not welcome here

You who are reading those words
It is not to evoke your pity
It is not for you to say:
Oh, thats a bit dramatic

And to you,
The person writing those words
It is not to evoke self pity
It is not for you to belittle:
Oh, thats a bit dramatic

It is a profound realization

That nothing comes easy for me
Nightingale Jul 22
Life has a way to toss and turn you around
To burn the surface
To blow away your shell
Life is funny that way
Creating motion from paralysis
Stripping you to your truest self
Life is funny that way
Chewing you into a being you no longer recognize
Then when life has done its part
When you have had your share
You emerge unscathed
Full of wounds but intact
You no longer run
You stand tall
You no longer run
You bend
You no longer run
You pause
You shed
You rise
Nightingale Aug 2023
An urge to write
A compulsion to unravel

A voice unheard
A scream falling on deaf ears

A generation of influencers
Humans locked to screens

An urge to dance
A compulsion to express
Nightingale Aug 2021
Hold on to the smell of lingering basil as you prune the newly formed buds
Hold on to the warmth of his embrace after a long and tiring day
Hold on to the sight of a flower turning into a fruit
Hold on to the beauty that exists
Hold on to the simplicity that overflows
Hold on to your inner strength
Hold on to your dreams
Hold on so you can let go
Let go of your anxiety
Let go of all the wrongs
Let go of all the pain
Let go of disparity
Let go of differences
Accept life is what it is
Accept love
Accept help
Accept reciprocity
Accept we are all the same
Accept we are all the same but different
Accept the beauty of life
In spite of it all
The beauty remains
Lebanon is going through unfathomable crisis, a tragic deprivation of basic human rights. In light of this lived humanitarian disaster one questions humanity.
Nightingale Jun 2020
You march unified by a cause
A moral high ground on life and death
You live preoccupied with trivialities
Unwavering, rigid, hooked
Instant gratification
Hashtags
Selfies
Likes

Drowning in avoidance of death
Under the umbrella of virtues
You march unified by delusion
A primal fear of dying
A self defense mechanism
Denial, projection, distraction
Consumerism
Objects
Money
Power

You, an army of the dead
Nightingale Jun 2020
It is time to be
The wave of pleasing others
With the price of self sacrifice
Is gone
It is time to reconnect
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