saudade, saturnine, beautiful

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(influenced by Ryan's poem for Kelly from The Office, and also a Discord status I had a while ago)

[2022]

I am a saturnine wayfarer
I am nothing but a flightless bird's feather
I am saudade and nothing but that
I am a lost traveler looking for what doesn't exist
I am a drifter out to sea
I am a busted melodica thrown out by small hands
I am a piece of driftwood
I am merely the aftermath of the war
I am the debris of this tragedy
I am a child on a lifeboat
I am all for you
I am covered in luminescent green paint
I am blue in my natural form
I am turquoise in your eyes
I am beautiful to someone at least
For I am far from it to myself.

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