Dry Heat

Peru

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by Sara Neves Pereira

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Undress me

Take away all the weight of judgement

And let me lay my tired head

On your lap

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Together in a silence

That holds the secrets of our universes

And is richer than any words or poetic sentences

We watch the true riches of this life

Collide and melt into distant children's laughs

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Lead me to that simple life again

Where less is more

And more is a burden

We don't care to carry

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Where the word freedom

Becomes and overwhelming feeling

Of peace and mindfulness

And to draw a breath is not

A calculated move

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Undress me

Of all my fears

And open my arms

To welcome life again