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Where the cheerful childrenof unwritten poems, play all around, you will find me there.Khadija Rupa
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Only to close these eyesto sleep in the lap of loveand stay there forever.Khadija Rupa
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From all my dreams where you felt everlastingto all my clothes your words used to wear, to the old end, to the new beginning, you have lost me everywhere.Khadija Rupa
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Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?Khadija Rupa
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What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words– Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.Khadija Rupa
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The way your curious eyes were chasing mine when I stood in front of you, I knew I had known these eyes before.Khadija Rupa
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I threw myself so far in your depth that it took me a month to come out and notice I was actually sitting in my room. Nowhere else. Not with you.Khadija Rupa
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Someday, even my existence would be felt.Khadija Rupa
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Do you love me enough that I am allowedto be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?Khadija Rupa
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I didn’t want a story–a beginning. Not anymore. I have long ago stopped walking on a road where my dreams walk around. I change my destination a hundred times if I ever see an old wish of mine standing there in its real form. I don’t know them. I don’t want to. They too must not know me. They too must not recognise me as their owner.Khadija Rupa
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She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.Khadija Rupa
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But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.Khadija Rupa
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But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.Khadija Rupa
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This is a girl you can’t keep. You aren’t allowed to.Khadija Rupa
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It’s a poem, of our love, that doesn’t rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.Khadija Rupa
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In that silence, I dream to be.Khadija Rupa
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There is a sad end I used to liveeven before I knewthis is how I was meant to begin.Khadija Rupa
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To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful.Khadija Rupa
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But I hope you don’t feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache. Remember, you always will be.Khadija Rupa
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And they can’t understand, what hurts more– Missing the other person, or pretending not to.Khadija Rupa
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How could she be someone’s mistake?Khadija Rupa
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Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.Khadija Rupa