Greetings

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Are you happy or have you been ...?
I ask you how you are but I don't want to listen
I know you'll mould sound waves of sadness
"I'm fine". Such cliche.
So boring!
Tell me you're happy
And we can breathe
Tell me you're sad
And we can leave

I shouldn't ask you questions, I know.

I see you crying every night
Newborn tears, so funny in the daylight
Tell me you'll be okay and I can rest.
Loving ourselves is by far the hardest
I speak to myself so I can't disappear
So, are you happy
Or shedding tears? 

Bones of glass

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I hide my heart in a skeleton closet
My arm fat is melting into lumps of grease
How long does it take to be human?
I'm waiting.
Don't look at me with so much pity
Don't look at me
Please.
I've lost my watch, long ago
When I wanted to be a mother of two
Now I am not even a child
What will I do with this massive room?
The rickshaw outside moves, empty
Sullen afternoon in a winterscape
How to mourn something never started
Sunlight frozen on an unborn day?