the slap of the wind on a sunny day - Rabeyah Nezrin

unwilling to leave , but reluctant to stay 

peaks of rainbow when the sun glares

too bright to keep, selfish enough to stare

translucent under the club lights with no shadow 

miles from home you'll never see my kitchen window

haunting me on the birch trees and in her conversations 

there's a picture of us on my window sill with frayed edges that match my frustrations 

images of you in london, paris, drinking in vancouver 

there's no more space in your weather app i'll choose to move over 

used to nights out in different cities 

you don't believe the lights on my street are just as pretty

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Rabeya is an English/Education double major and she enjoys all forms of creative expression such as music, painting, and writing. She mostly writes poems, short stories, and songs. She loves to express herself through fashion. She also likes playing video games and watching anime but doesn’t have a lot of time for them anymore. She writes because it is the only thing she can imagine doing when she can’t explain what she’s thinking and she loves to understand other people through their writing.