But that’s what imperfection gives me.
\nAnd lately, the weather has been unfair to me
\nthan the mosquitoes in my room.
\nShocking, how my body rejects what it once accepted.
\nThis I called a reminder that I am still here,
\nin the old world, that this poem is a paradise,
\nthis paradise is an imagined world in my poem,
\nand I live here in, that this poem is a therapy.
\nA wall gecko climbed my father’s hut more than
\nthe number of falls recorded.
\nThe truth is: for as needful as prayer is to survival,
\ndoggedness is another quality God searches for
\nin his creations. Did I tell you
\nthat for as long as this poem continues,
\nI’ll continue to imagine. Imagine that I find a time capsule in the backyard of my new home, I’d remember that it was written
\nthat no resident will confess of sickness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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