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Two nights ago he woke me up for work. I haven’t gotten that in a long time. We talked for a while, my eyes adjusting to the early morning light and my brains slowly coming alive. I might have mumbled something totally irrelevant, as I fumbled for my cellphone.
He seemed to be doing [...]

Here is what you leave me with:
echoes of your beating heart,
and the heat of your lip prints.

Sometimes I see your footsteps walking on the dust.

Or hear your cough that reasonates from the other room.

At night I can still feel your messy hair through my fingers.
And I say hello to sleep.

Because I’m an Information Nazi, this category is closed. Thanks for all the great emails you guys wrote regarding the poems I have posted up. We have great taste in poetry don’t we?

I turn a year older yesterday, and the favorite addition to the birthday wishes I get from various acquaintances was, in different versions – ‘May you find yourself a nice guy’, ‘Hoping to eat your nasi minyak one day’, or the truest of them all, ‘Dude, you ain’t getting any prettier or better. Find [...]

You eat chocolate with
peanut butter
     licking them off your fingers
our feet touching
you say they make you feel better
  the sun highlights your hair
casts shadows on your face
when I met you
it was raining
heavily
   you were in that
grunge phase
I’d go through layers of
  your insecurities
and     baggy clothing
before reaching your
skin.
Here is to our achievements
your hard work, my persistance
120 miles from where [...]

I still have the butt of your joke
on the corner of my smiling lips
         remember when the sky
came alive at 3 in the morning
painted by our imaginations
& conversations;
    about coffee, money management
and colonial town houses.
You were that electric surge
I needed
   to shock me back into the
   [...]

My parents are here for a day, and they brought my cat over too. I have no idea why I don’t cuddle her when she’s here. I think my cat smells better than I do most of the time.
I love nice smelling people. I think that it epitomizes classy people. I have never [...]