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Myriad There is something about travelling, your feet touching unknown ground and the music of that particular patch of land playing into your body There is something about awakening, when you see yourself In others, you in dark skin, you with brown eyes, a myriad […]
Strangers In a strange land the sky was not my own I wandered through the streets alone and no one looked like me In a strange land the food was not what I had grown; table for one, I dined a million miles from home […]
Meander
Come take my hand,
let’s meander with no
particular destination
on our compass;
just endless possibilities
of finding a hollow
in the scrub of noise;
a clearing in the treesCome take my hand,
let me tell you of
the hidden words
that won’t leave my lips
the ones I keep
deep below the
surface of helloCome take my hand,
let’s meander through
the woods where
clouds can’t find us
and it’s just
the two of us
in dappled sunlightCome take my hand,
let’s jump on a plane
and meander down
the cobblestones
of our hearts and history.
© Tanya Southey
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