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Take it all in

August 10, 2018
By Kimina_Kat PLATINUM, Youngstown, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
"In Hamilton, Burr spends years waiting for a chair to be offered at the table in 'the room where it happens.' Patience and timing will play a part in your ultimate success for sure. But I found the happiness and consistency I wanted for so long at the exact moment I decided to build my own table and my own chairs." ~ Leslie Odom Jr.

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Inimitable hope inflates within me,
my heart a balloon
expanding maniacally
to fill each of my fingers and
each of my toes
until I float away.
I purse my lips and
glue them shut
for fear that the infectious light
inside
will leak out from the gaps
in my madman’s smile.
How could I not know
the way that dreaming fills you up?
The woozy-wild wonder
that burns my throat
and slips out  
at the corners of my eyes.
I could consume everything
in this world
with this hope inside me,
cracking like a crazy fire.
I am made of starving mouths
and flame,
of longing
and eternity.
Wild wind and thunder
roar
ruffling my paper lungs.
Good thing I don’t breathe anymore.
I absorb.

© Kevan B., Beaverton, OR

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