Poetry

Do You Really Have To Come?

Eko B
A Taste for Life
3 min readMar 13, 2022

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The Illusion Of Break You Offer Me…

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Photo by Lien Van Win on Unsplash

Prelude

You told me it was just going to be a little bit more,
I was excited, for a moment, not too long.
The idea that you came expectedly, but unknowingly.
The illusion of how great you sounded, forgotten your similar features.

I was sitting, facing the window, with a page of three-hundred twenty-eight.
Which I opened three minutes ago, which I read four lines repeatedly.
With a mine that half blank and half dreary,
Counting of your disappearance.

You looked at me, I looked at you, and I said, “Okay, is this too depressing?”
You nodded.
So, I stopped.
And I changed to….

Factual Emotional State

It’s a rainy, windy, somewhat snowy Saturday. The sky was dark during the day, and now that it is close to seven o’clock at night, it’s even darker. The wind sounds like a monster breathing in my ears. Steady.

There were rainy, windy days that I felt content with. Today isn’t it. I am restless. My thoughts are scattered. I am worried…

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Eko B
A Taste for Life

I'm in love with imperfections and possibilities. The commitment to unlock and shine by keep on putting together the broken pieces to create a masterpiece.