BlogHide Resteemszev-de-akhter (25)in poetry • 6 years agoThe wound is where the light enters youLike tiny black hole ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ crystals draping the skin ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤof a bride sucking all the light in ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ such that beyond that bleakly ㅤ ㅤ dark exterior & the ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ drastic gravitational pull ㅤ…zev-de-akhter (25)in poetry • 6 years agoAnd you are growing smaller in my mind.I’m a mess of broken hearts thrown in a drawer ㅤ and I tell you I feel nothing now eyes still like gazelle’s but not liquid nomore just coarse ㅤmechanical ㅤ like love it doesn’t matter if you…zev-de-akhter (25)in love • 6 years agoYou and me forevermorePlease don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere. ㅤ ~Taylor Swift. New Year’s Day “How peaceful mother Ida lies today, I over her, under the incessant pines, and the…zev-de-akhter (25)in life • 6 years agoI am ready to be every animal you leave behind.every contemporary poet is either a woman or queer.ㅤ ㅤ it’s almost an achievement, an empowering phenomenon. no I don’t consider men my creator now–– the only job they’re left with is…zev-de-akhter (25)in life • 6 years agosomeone sneezes at a Mai Der Vang readingand I am infumed. ㅤ ㅤ I missed that word you hypocrite ㅤ you jerk you have no right to be in this room witnessing this monumental display of art. I am infuriated because she resembles my…zev-de-akhter (25)in poetry • 6 years agoPast stretching to acrophobic heightsif there wouldn’t be no could-have-beens & should-have-beens, this won’t be called life. they hold the ideas of faith & afterlife & heavens. ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ to forget the past, I go from rooms to…