I'd forgive you for your past when you were at your worst, to have you in the present at your best

At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined

She was still holding out for something that wasn’t going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again and then the phone rings and you hope it’s them, It’s the most twisted logic of all time

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Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.

Maybe I just
want to be adored
Maybe it's cold
inside the body
no matter how
close you are

She was the moon and I loved her for that; so far away, so out of reach.

All flowers want to be looked at, and chasing the moon
is a chronic condition. How can I translate where my finger lands into language?

Diannely Antigua, from “Diary Entry #28: Ars Poetica,” Poetry (December 2021)