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‘Can you believe it?’ Dare’s fiancé gestured wildly as she riddled him with stories of school, friends, family and pet – the rabbit she’d bought on a whim from her best friends’ farm. A year ago, she’d travelled to the states for an eight-month program, but when it was time to return, a global health…
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Fairytales told me; That a prince would sweep me off my feet, But I wasn’t one to stay in a place, So, I must’ve missed him. That true love’s first kiss would wake me from poisoned sleep, But I never took food from strangers, nor did my mother let me sleep past 7am, So, I…
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Darkness, despair, doom and gloom. To your left and right, day and night, you fight. To the world you smile, but within you hide. You stand in plain sight, yet daylight covers your pain. Who would see? Who would hear? Sight your tears and hear your cries. The screams for help, that your words can’t…
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Cheers of Wins and Hails of Glory. Telling one that he’s done so much. Never asking if ‘so much’ matters. Tears of failures and cries for lost dreams. Taunting another that he isn’t good enough. Nudging him to give up on what truly matters. Two lives, Two men, on the same journey. Unknowingly brought together…
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Remember me as a brightly coloured rainbow after the rain; not as a dark heavy cloud that cuts short the glee of kids at a playground. Remember me as your favourite hip hop song, playing on a long drive along a traffic free expressway; not as the knock of a bad engine on a hot…
Simi Joel 