Salma Deera, Letters from Medea
Books make me feel like i belong.
They give my mind wings,
and hence i fly.
Warm my heart,
and let my ego melt.
Make me feel all the emotions
that I've never felt.
My partner for warm and cold nights,
helped me twinkle in the darkest times.
Never make me feel lonely,
a friend in disguise,
like the sun under the bright blue sky.
Even when melancholy pours,
so does sadness in my heart.
I keep you close,
you're a part of me.
- Anneshwa
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat.”
— Robert Frost
the beauty of details
I hope our words heal us. I hope every letter flowing out of our mouths embraces our wounds and heals them in a way, that even the scars disappear.
never send it”
Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “The Loop"