AK Kerani

with the fragile beats of your heart 

and the cracked sound of your voice

You fought to be this way

You fought when you didn't want to

You fought when you didn't think you could 

You fought because you never wanted someone 

who looks up to you to think 

They can't fight 

with...

At some point 

I would like you to meet

the real me

Not because you deserve to

but because I'm curious 

to see 

if you crumble 

at the sight 

With enough blood 

in my system 

I'll be able to withstand

the sound of your nasal voice 

just long enough 

to determine 

which of your many...

I know what you did
in a way I can't recover
The story blow by blow
broke the back
of a camel
who spent all of his days
laying in a bed of straw
waiting for it to be over

Watching you try
Try to bury love in any way possible
Trying to be the force that breaks
any re...

I don't think you know

what you mean to me

and I have no voice

so I can't tell you

I write in the quiet

between the sentences I would say

if I could talk

but I've forgotten how to sing

You are calm and taciturn 

but you have a strength so loud 

I could hear the vibrations

for yea...

The first episode of Buffy I watched was "Amends." I was with two of my favorite people in the world - the only people who in opening their home to me, gave me one solid reason to be grateful that my previous one fell apart.  

For the past six years, I have suffered fro...

And he said he's proud of me 

in the way you never could

so it felt like the closure I need

You no longer control my security 

You never could 

treat me as anything apart from you 

You controlled my security 

so I was never safe 

Treat me as anything apart from you

If...

In honor of International Women's Day, I'm going to share a poem by one of my newest friends, Hallie Widner.  

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Home 

When the final light had faded

And arctic winds embrace me

When loneliness is everything 

And hope becomes my misery 

Where the heavy crush of roses,

...

You are my friend

There's nothing I wouldn't do

I'd raise the world so you can pass underneath and breathe

You know I struggle too 

There's nothing I wouldn't do 

To make you feel safe

You know I struggle too 

A lot goes unsaid

I'll make you feel safe 

Because you've done the s...

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and I thought it had something to do with you 

I let it ring through 

and clasped my own hands before listening 

It wasn't. 

But it could have been 

It could have been them - the people you hid me from 

telling me your goal was to be hidden forever

After all 

Don't they alw...