Creativity, Poetry, Personal Growth Talib Hussain Creativity, Poetry, Personal Growth Talib Hussain

Play-Doh

Imagination,
use your imagination, child.

Looking up at me,
eyes wide open,
curiosity and confusion.

Choosing Play-Doh over the truck.
Three.
Home.
A seed planted.

Hours with Play-Doh—
an ice cream store,
a hot dog stand,
play.

Imagination.
Not knowing,
but knowing.

Redefining intelligence.
To change is to imagine.

Peter Pan.
Non-fiction.

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Double-Sided

Separation is an illusion.

Colour is everything and yet means nothing.

Everything is double-sided, and there is no one-size-fits-all.

Do with that what you will—or throw it to the side if your preference is to do nothing.

But there will be a lifetime when, one day, you will need to pick it up if you want to graduate to another playground.

The same merry-go-round gets tiring.

At some point, the soul is so dizzy it can’t tell whether it’s awake or asleep.

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