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Growing Pains
I hold old photos like apologies I forgot to send,  like postcards from a timeline I accidentally left behind in the dryer,  faded, ...

Maitha Alhabtari
6 days ago2 min read
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How to Hold Lightning
The storm said, "It's okay to be loud." Said, "Even thunder has a pulse that trembles." I said, "But what if I break the sky?" The storm...

Maitha Alhabtari
Apr 181 min read
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A Lighthouse in Plastic
I never learned how to close doors without checking if someone’s running to catch them. It’s a habit like apologizing to furniture,  or...

Maitha Alhabtari
Apr 182 min read
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Unread
For the girl who never turns the page. The person I write for doesn’t read. She doesn’t know that the poems are about her. Doesn’t know...

Maitha Alhabtari
Apr 132 min read
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Teapot
I used to think love looked like your hands on a teapot. Not in grand gestures not roses, not rings, but in the way you lifted the lid as...

Maitha Alhabtari
Apr 132 min read
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The Way Silence Sings
Fairouz reminds me of beginnings. Of something sacred starting like rain on parched land, like my name finally pronounced the way it was...

Maitha Alhabtari
Apr 132 min read
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Where Her Hands End and Her Voice Begins
Her hands know everything love should know. They find my back like instinct, press gently like prayer, like muscle memory in a world made...

Maitha Alhabtari
Apr 132 min read
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The Things Her Hands Know
Her hands know everything love should know. They find my back exactly when my lungs forget how to breathe. They pour my coffee before I...

Maitha Alhabtari
Apr 132 min read
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Things We Never Say Out Loud
You are playing a game I never agreed to.
 Calling checkmate on a board I don’t recognize.
 Leaving me to wonder if the rules are written...

Maitha Alhabtari
Mar 152 min read
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Checkers
Everyone's playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. But I'm not ready to get out...

Maitha Alhabtari
Jan 291 min read
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Can we be friends?
"Can we be friends?" You softly spoke, A question lingering like wisps of smoke. Absolutely I thought, what harm could it bring And I...

Maitha Alhabtari
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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The Room
In my room, I sit and stare At the walls so bare, and the empty chair And I miss the happy girl who once lived there Who would laugh and...

Maitha Alhabtari
Nov 9, 20232 min read
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The Painful Confrontation
I have learned to romanticize my trembling lips Filled my life with sayings that were always empty, to begin with If I can romanticize...

Maitha Alhabtari
Nov 7, 20232 min read
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Call Of Duty
The screen flickers in a kaleidoscope of colors, A world of pixels, emotions, and triggers, I wield a gun, a soldier in this digital...

Maitha Alhabtari
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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MissedCall
I feel an ache in my heart when the phone rings My fingers tremble before I look at the screen Will he call me back I think? Could that...

Maitha Alhabtari
Oct 3, 20232 min read
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Yellow Paint
Vincent Van Gogh, a man of incredible art, Yet, a soul tormented, forever torn apart, Swallowing yellow paint to heal the hole in his...

Maitha Alhabtari
Oct 2, 20232 min read
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Under Construction
I am a work in progress, a puzzle incomplete, A construction site amidst a storm that won't retreat. Each piece that fits unlocks a new...

Maitha Alhabtari
Oct 2, 20232 min read
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Love Letters
Love letters are sweet and all, But between the lines, pain can crawl, Hidden from view, kept out of sight, A painful truth, hidden in...

Maitha Alhabtari
Oct 2, 20231 min read
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A Love That Never Fades
With gentle hands and a heart of gold, An old man sets the table, as he's done for so long, For two, even though only he remains, A tear...

Maitha Alhabtari
Oct 2, 20231 min read
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Lovesick
This whole time I thought you were curing me, Healing my heart, setting me free, But like a lovesick fool, I now see, You were the...

Maitha Alhabtari
Sep 27, 20231 min read
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