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Saving this to read over and over and over ❤️

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Damn!! So perfect for this day and this time.

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This poem is a rollercoaster -- powerful and funny and dark and and and...

Thank you so much for sharing.

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"bright dark of my soul" reverberated in my bones. Thank you Saeed.

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love this so much, came across it at the perfect time

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This perfect, especially god as a Black woman considering Chaos was feminine force that used parthenogenesis to create her children like Gaia and all humans can be traced to a single mitochondrial Eve in Africa. :-)

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Every time I read it (six times and counting) I feel more and more like it’s possible. Thank you!

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The bright pangs of truth and pain are shouting to me. Thank you for your voice and thank you for sharing your voice.

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I think I stole bright from your poem. Brain is pulsing--my apologies! Going to try and sit within this for a bit.

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This this this

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Mercy! Thank you for this energy!

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My God, Saeed!! The last two paragraphs of this poem have me in tears.

I don't have the words to express how amazing this poem is. THANK YOU, for writing and sharing this.

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Truly madly deeply needed this this this. Thank you 💜

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I’m so glad you’re here. Thank you Saeed.

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Stunning. Thank you.

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Beautiful.

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