Poetry
© Susan Be.

It Is Love
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The rain on my window
is drawing your eyes -
in sailing colours
of water and light.
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Time is a feather
rising with the dawn,
and distance a leaf
that turns in the wind.
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It is love
in the space between us.
It is love in the promise within.
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We touched the earth and released the sky,
into unchained fields of faith and wings.
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We climbed the mountains and gave up our names,
carving our hearts into the mist of the sun.
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Your eyes held the storm to cradle the rain,
and left the world turning in the stillness of us.
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Published In: [S]CRIPTED – Art and Poetry Exhibition, 2025, p. 21.

Fog​
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where the fog
builds its hazy
walls around
the city that
does not know
how it is circled
in white air
floating free
on earth
to emerge
maybe never
again
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Published In: Susan Be. The Same No More. Poetry Book and Music Album, 2020, p. 7.

More Than We Were Told​
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Come and follow me
up on the tree in our garden.
Let us watch the sunrise
moving with the sea.
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Do we really know
all the colours of the ocean,
or how a desert wind
carries the snow?
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There’s more than we were told -
we can only go that far.
Knowing how to love
is knowing who we are.
No map can hold it all -
the wonders, tales, and places
where the hills touch the sky
and bring the light to fall.
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Where do our shadows go?
Do they grieve when parting?
Can the earth become
where our tears flow?
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I’ll write them down—
the words for you
that need to be forever.
The scent of rain paints every stroke
on paper made of ember.
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Lyrics by Susan Be., from the album "Love Letters", 2025.

