open your eyes
Mostly love poems, because there is mostly love.
Some fruit poems, of flesh and seed and juice,
some war poems, of unfathomable truths,
some day poems and some night.
But mostly love poems, because there is mostly love.
Firstly, when you see the world,
look past the fighters and the lovers.
We play these parts from time to time,
but we're all just sisters and brothers.
This will help calm you down quite a bit.
Secondly, meditate on a thing until you no longer loathe it,
and then keep going until you love it.
Then, open your eyes.
Do this every morning, rather than complaining
about the paint peeling off the walls,
which is no surprise.
Everything dies. Open your eyes.
All this came to me in just a few minutes time.
Even the smell of books was there,
the texture of paper under fingertips, coriander and lime.
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2017 - 2021