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Writing About Writing

Posted on 17 September, 201217 September, 2012 by Ikhlas

Hello friends! So despite my claim that as I begin to focus more on my W.I.P (work in progress), the blogging will go down, I still haven’t actually been able to follow through with it! Maybe it’s because I’ve been finally getting some good writing done, so that I feel like I can blog at the…

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Falling

Posted on 15 April, 201215 April, 2012 by Ikhlas

Spinning and sparkling, you make me shine. Dizzy with emotion, my heart pulses with life. Your flaws are endless, but so are mine. Despite all the strife, I want to sing from the mountains and dance in the meadows, want to laugh under the covers and cry in the face of the sun. And suddenly I’ve…

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What

Posted on 8 February, 201215 April, 2012 by Ikhlas

My heart it beats. It beats a rhythmic drum, as it crawls up my chest and suffocates my throat. I am drowning in thoughts, plunging headfirst into longings and desires and questions. I am floating in waves of anxiety, which beat against the walls of my stomach, crying out hallow cries to my heart, who…

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Elevator Love Letter

Posted on 23 September, 201113 October, 2012 by Ikhlas

Her heel was broken. And to make things worse, it was raining. She sat under the green awning of the Starbucks, on the dry cement stairs, on the corner of Yonge and Charles.

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You + Me

Posted on 17 September, 201113 October, 2012 by Ikhlas

You. You stand there, eyes open, glaring. You can’t understand what I’m saying. Why I’m saying it. All you know is what you want. What you need. You can’t hear me. And don’t know how to listen. You twist and you turn my heart, make me cry and beg for mercy. You don’t stop because…

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