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Bruised Passports
Write a poem about travelling using this title.
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Before my eyes close forever
and I take my final flight,
I want to see the world,
and wallow in the sights.
I want to swim with the dolphins
in Hawaiian water so blue.
I want to climb the Great Pyramid,
and stand next to the statue of Zeus.
I want to visit the Empire State Building,
looking down on the world below.
I want to stumble around and explore
the Mayan Ruins in Mexico.
I want to ring i...
I am leaving the airport a different woman than I came.
The me I knew before you simply no longer exists.
She doesn’t laugh at what was.
She doesn’t cry at what could have been.
She is simply not here.
She is nothing.
She died when you decided she was no longer worth it.
But, I do not mourn her passing.
She didn’t know,
The hurt, the pain, the cost
Of loving you.
She did not know t...
Being locked
Impossible to breathe
Even if I’m trying
My spirit want to move on with itself
While my body still under gravity
There is surely a bridge
Between my reality and my dreams
Should i get a ticket?
Or something like a passport
I get really confused when i realize
That it already was a bruised passports ...
They say traveling is fun.
I like to see the children in
The foreign places run.
I like to feel like the happiness in my
Life has just begun,
But I think I forget where I came from:
Broken windows and houses filled
With loaded guns.
Bruises that when touched
Are no fun.
They say secret secrets aren’t fun
They say secret secrets hurt everyone.
I can move from city to city
And feel sprun...
Jess stood in front of her father. He stares through her holding an old sock he found on the floor. He slowly taps it against her leg like a ticking clock in slow motion. She stood waiting for a hug but not wanting to ask. Across the room her older brother is in his bunk bed. The duvet is wrapped tightly around him and he refuses to budge.
“C’mon Dylan! We’re going to miss our flight,” said thei...
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