health

poetry by SamiraDecember 30, 2024December 30, 2024

Night Run

Ever since They cut my head open Drilled through my skull Explored and excavated Where my tumor grew I stopped crying But only From my right eye Maybe the nerves they cut Just a little too close to As though they flew Too close To what was my sun My eyes Squinting in the light […]

poetry by SamiraJanuary 29, 2022

Tired

Tired To my bones My pace Relentless My body Fatigued It is invisible So am I And that makes me all the more Tired.

poetry by SamiraJune 16, 2020

Cancer

Cancer I wrote down her diagnosis So I could learn it Control it Manipulate it somehow As though deleting it from the page Would release her I wrote down her diagnosis So I could memorize it So I could feel close to her Protect her Fix her I wrote down her diagnosis But the words […]

poetry by SamiraJanuary 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Face cream

My mom mixed me this fancy lotion She took all her face creams Her favorite ones Mixed them all up In a fancy jar And gave them to me That was two years ago I use it sparingly So it lasts forever Like I hope she lasts forever Because I cannot bear to think of […]