P-T-R-P : EP 1 AyahSpeaks

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POET

Ayah Speaks

Ayah Speaks is a poet and writer. She offers the universe poetry in a medley of mindfulness and uncomfortable truths usually served in a comical way with a hint of sarcasm.

Her writings indulges in mindfulness, mental health and identity.

POEM:

Between the doorbell Sound and my hand reaching for the door,

I grasp to a prayer for my fate to be overturned.

I mean it’s only been a couple of hours so there must be hope… right?

I tell the world I hope this human on the other side of the door is you.

Say I have been having a really bad dream.

And you are here to wake me up.

I turn the handle,

swing open the door;

The September wind strikes my chest and leaves with me breath.

My lungs fail to inflate as my retinas capture the truth.

There stands a sobbing human;

It’s not you.

I blink twice, move to the side, unable to speak I let them in.

They walk in.

And I am still standing at the door struggling with news that isn’t ready to fuse with truth.

Your soul has returned.