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The Imperfect Present

It's not easy to love me. . . I Know by Maya Sotirova (Cyprus, 42)

12/10/2023

 
​​It is not easy to love me…I know.
There are days when I'm a storm.
I will send you winds,
tears and a hurricane of
love,
disguised and burned.
And I don’t want to beg,
I don't want you to come back out of pity
and see me cry.
I think about everything, I don't sleep.
I mask my pain with irony.
It's not easy being with me…
I am chaos, the tree without roots.
I'll be your friend and we'll sing in the rain,
I will leave ,if you are kissing memories.
It's not easy...trust me, I know.
But that is the way I love-
to the limit, to madness, to the end…
So strong. And forever.





Maya Sotirova is a Bulgarian writer,mostly focusing on creating poems and short stories,inspired by human connections and the power to be a woman in nowdays world.
She published a debut poetry book in her native language two years ago and have publications in Bulgarian literature press.
Maya lives and work in Cyprus and publishes her work mostly on social media at the moment,while working on her first,unpublished novel.

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