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Aminah Tasnuva

Memory Hill Cafe

A shoebox

Cassettes on top

Layers of folded papers

Fragile pages

Vintage ink

Reminisce of those days


A big hit

A big fall

Rise and rejection

Move out but keep them inside

In case you ever decide


What you meant when you were younger

What you loved when you were weaker

What you did when you were standing strong

Levitating on top of deep dark waters

That black hole is blacker now

And you learned to be kinder yet

You can't reach the shore in sight


Bravo for not letting it go

Bravo for keeping it together

Even when you stretched out torn apart

then glued yourself together

Bravo for keeping us alive

Applause for letting us stay

Under your bed in a box named

Memory Hill Cafe


By Aminah Tasnuva (@strongerkinder)


This poem was a submission to our prompt "what lives under your bed?" from October 10, 2020.

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