Hands

When I was little, people used to tell me that I had big hands, you should play basketball.
They would tell me so often in fact
That one day, I started to believe them
Until I asked my construction worker mom:
“Mommy, mommy, mommy could I be a basketball player?”
To which she said “No way!”

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I Can Fly

Hills stretch into mountains
A squall is on the horizon
the chasm becomes the jaws of a beast
like rocky cliffs manifesting out of fog

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The Beauty Found in Unexpected Places

When you look up at the sky, what do you see?
Beauty at different times of the night and day,
in lightness or darkness,
it’s a place of beauty existing so far away.
Bright lights, stars in skies
that one can only imagine how it looks up close,
but how the creator created such beauty in an unexpected place

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Hope

You’re attractive from afar,
Even with the distance of a star.
Mixed emotions when I think of you
Because I wonder where you are.

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