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Words are Gifts

A New Friend

I never knew

I would need you so much

Until I came here

I look forward to spending

more time with you,

especially when there is so much

silence around me,

the lull of the refrigerator greets me

the hum of the A.C comforts me

the knowledge of your existence

reassures me

knowing that no matter what,

I will find your comfort,

that peaceful slumber that

sometimes takes me to another place

Could it be my thoughts or memories

disguising themselves as dreams?

Is that what it is?

I’m happy to call you my friend

and these days I look forward

to meeting you.

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Juliette Awua-Kyerematen

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    Trish

    Sleep as a welcome friend—that’s an idea to embrace. The comfort of rest suffuses your poem, and gives substance to the frustration we feel when good sleep is hard to come by.

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I am an Elementary school teacher , I taught at an International IB School in Accra, Ghana. I am now teaching in Hanoi. Writing is my passion and I try to write daily, at least in my sentence a day journal, to capture all the blessings around me. I write with groups of writers, such as Teach Write and sometimes Ethical ELA. I also encourage my friends to write , so I created a platform to make that possible -Writing Run.

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