“When You Stay Alone” is a collection of poetry by the author Zera Princ that speaks of love, loss, life, people and the world around us – of what brings us together, separates us, hurts us, ennobles us and changes us.
In this section, you can read all the poems from the collection.
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Falcon with a Hundred Faces

You wear costly feathers,
you defy your own truth—
that you didn’t know love,
with you, everyone strikes out.

Every day, a new hotshot,
the wealthy—your kind,
they deck you out in costly feathers,
never seeing your true face.

There is no heart in your chest,
only an iceberg slumbers there,
no one has ever understood
just who has suffered because of you.

You are a beautiful falcon,
but you have a hundred faces,
no one truly knows
which nest you come from.

Zera Princ