Love Poem: The Pen
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Written by: Fatima Nusairat

The Pen

The pen struggles to 
draft a new sentence 
I gave him my imagination 
to shake it
to raise it, to
throw it onto his pretty face. 
To drag this old love
across. 
coarse wheel sharp glass
pieces of my memory 
spread over our floor.
Then I let him bite my fingers 
deeply, 
deeply until I shouted with tears.
Then I gave him my imagination 
once, twice and again another time.
So from my pen
thistle could bleed
and the lyrics flow .
So from his heart new
words could be written.
between us.