1. [ “Be Happy with what you have”and other miseries I’ve heaved ]
To want more is not a sin
it is a voice from you
for you
which conveys
that you were made so full of dreams mankind couldn’t help
swallowing them
2. [ I will come home but Not Return ]
Do not worry
mother
I will come home
I will
before the sun
calls out to leave
the skin of sky
before the hour
of preachers
I will come home
but I will not return —
I will shed my skin
behind
and take in
my bones
which is to say
I’d unlock the door
and take in
what is veiled to you
for it is home
only when mystery
finds room
3. [ timid the anger towards tender hearts ]
How easy it is
for you to spit your anger
in rugged words
at people with shrinking hearts
/ for you to drown a
sinking ship
that is still battling
what comes difficult will be
the tragic engulf of both
silence and storm
from the endured
4. [ scrambled poetry left for the quiet stranger who met his eye with mine once , only once ; I feel it too , little boy ]
surreal how silence is a weapon that can both kill and honour you / swinging like a melody without a listener / whispering and residing in the coarse of midnight into a lover’s dream /
it bears so many meanings except empty / because it is always full and heavy /
sometimes most times I don’t want words that comfort me / I only want to share my quiet / my stillness /
grief has made home in me / but it is the silence that built it / it knows how to rest in my belly deranged and yet in control /
I always find a way to kiss it in my
unhinged moments — how I ignore when I cannot afford to be angry /
but how that can still not protect me /
Bio:
Reya Raffi is a 16-year-old known for her poetry and art journaling. She found her key to the free world of literature and art through the lens of Instagram’s budding community of poets and artists ; of which she is now a part. For Reya, Art journaling came as a therapy before passion. She blends both her writings and collage art into her journals that she shares on her Instagram page @mumblesofart
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