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My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…

— Warsan Shire

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I wrote the poem for them, for my family and for anyone who has experienced or lived around grief and trauma in that way.

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.

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