Love Poem: A Kiss of Death At 4 Am
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Written by: Maya Kaabour

A Kiss of Death At 4 Am

Woke up from a
nightmare 
at 4 am

clenched on to 
my cold sheets
and stared at the
dead stars
in the ceiling

looked to my right
and gave my
sleeping sister
a peck on the
cheek

she woke up
scared for her life

I don't blame her.

being a poet is 
-inevitably-
a curse as much
as it is
a blessing;
our emotions 
always burst out
at
the
wrong
times.