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January 24, 2019 Poetry

The Tension

Leisha Douglas

The Tension photo

THE TENSION

Sliced peach cool

under fresh yoghurt,

steaming creamy coffee,

the slow, dark wake of an October morning.


Difficult to pull myself

away from comfort and

the waves of you but if I don’t

I forgo what keeps me whole.


How to be oneself yet blend?

Our differences,

rocks strewn along the path

unavoidable sometimes,

damaging.

image: Mélanie Desriaux


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