It's Mine

Not yours

Pedro Rafael
Paper Poetry
Apr 21, 2021

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– It’s mine.

– No, it’s mine!

– I should catch it, not you.

– Well, you don’t deserve it as much…

– No, it's my turn, not yours!

– You can have it later, it's not your time yet.

– But… it's not your time either…

– I am sorry, my son, but this bullet is mine to get.

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Paper Poetry
Paper Poetry

Published in Paper Poetry

We are living in the digital world, covered in the autonomous aspects & tracked motions of life. Yet, somehow we are losing some critical elements. Keyboards, touchpads, & speech-to-text are there, but we believe that handwritten words on paper is still meaningful to some poets.