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Missing Shadow, Broken Mirror
Chapter 3 of 7
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Samina

Paper Cuts

Folding a paper plane, sealing the letter enclosed in it. I sent it to you

Fractured legs, broken heart, a paper heart, paper cuts

Trying to remember all the good times,

Polaroid that is decorated on my closet, where I closed my heart

I wrote cute letters, decorated with stamps,

Cards doodled with memories we built together

I folded the paper plane and sent it to you.

You opened it and smiled

Fractured legs, broken heart, a paper heart, paper cuts

Paper cuts hurt just like the bloodstains on my carpet, the lavender fragrance of freshly made card cuts my paper heart,

Where are you gone? I have a piece of your heart. I am making a paper plane, I hope it reaches you

Wings holding paper cuts, taped them back put your footsteps burnt

Fractured legs, broken heart, a paper heart, paper cuts

I am breathing mist into our photo frame, we engraved the mirror with cute designs as a prank, now where are you pranking me

I was blinded by the august heatwaves, brushing rain on us like no one wanted us to stay together, putting paper boats in puddles,

Fractured legs, broken heart, a paper heart, paper cuts

Sugar-coated donuts falling your black hoodies, bubbles rising to the top of the glass, honey dripping down your lips,

Falling

Falling

Faith

Pictures I am living now, being lost in the past like the January coldness wraps me into august humidity on my specs mixing with hopelessness, roll down like my tears,

I believe imagination and reality have a gap, a paper gap, I wanna tear it, but these paper cuts

Fractured legs, I can’t move apart,

Broken heart, a paper heart

Paper cuts