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Boy

June 18, 2016 Shanil

You erupt from a valley of silence. "These streets suffer dreamers,

I've grown enough to sow

my own fertile ambitions

into a different earth,

free of these preclusions,

My bones hungry for the sun

and not its rippling reflections."

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In Family, Poetry, Urban Tags Childhood, Coming of Age, Family, father, poetry, shanil samarakoon, Son
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10 Years On

February 20, 2016 Shanil

A poem commemorating ten years since my father passed away.

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In Family, Poetry Tags Death, Depression, father, Grief, loss, Marriage, Memory, Son, sorrow
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