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My Desires: A Poem by Caylee

Caylee was the sixth winner of the World Poetry Publishing Prize Contest. She is currently working on a poetry book to be publishing alongside the rapidly growing World Poetry Collective. If you would like to join the Publishing Prize and create your own book alongside the Collective, click here. My desires burn through meleaving traces…

Caylee was the sixth winner of the World Poetry Publishing Prize Contest. She is currently working on a poetry book to be publishing alongside the rapidly growing World Poetry Collective. If you would like to join the Publishing Prize and create your own book alongside the Collective, click here.

My desires burn through me
leaving traces all around my body
I hold my memories close to me, longing for what I’ve lost
as the smoke of my own burning flesh consumes me
my memories are like embers, and I am the dying flame.

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