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Truth

I say Truth with a capital t

But I mean You with a lowercase me


I mean the eyes under your face


I sold my own to comfort

In exchange for eternal slumber


But I was tricked, you see

For comfort was to claim to be


So i went into the black market to purchase back my eyes


Socks off, belly full--i got prepped for new vision


Tore open my eye-wrapper, but don't you see?


I had sold them my sockets to trade for eyes


And so I got angry, squished the newly brought balls, squished them into nothing 


Yes, i put them into the fruit blender, mixed in peanut butter and sugar

And drank them away

Belly full, i could never see


Half starving, I could've still seen

You



©2024 by Azra Keskin. 

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