olga-valerevnaEcho

Ukrainian

a metal kindthere’re certain kinds of metals I can carry in my mind / I like to think they break me out of shells that seem to bind / but every time I heat them, they turn nothing into gold

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May 29

Ring the bell!I’ll take your judgment, raise you Grace / put subtle glow upon your face / I’ll take the stories you don’t want

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May 9

A ConversationI want all the options and all of the time / I want to let choices take space in my mind / I want to know something, not nothing at all

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Apr 21

alone in the valleyif I can’t be your mountain peak, I will a valley be / I’d rather lower low than go, choose mediocrity / the people and the places upon which you cannot sow

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Mar 19

get her a lighterthe smoke between the grassy knolls came floating back to me / I set them all on fire but I couldn’t let them leave / I needed all their vigor and I wanted all their pain

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Jan 8

PersonasI walked around the world one day in hopes I’d find some *rest* / I let my body wander off, put my soul to the test / I found a lot of *vacancies*, the likes of which I’d seen

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Oct 25, 2025

The Good SamaritanI left my body broken on the corner of a street / where I watched people pass me by but Jesus spoke to me / He picked up all the energy I never knew I had

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Aug 24, 2025

July decided for meI looked down at my belly and I only saw myself / a baby I was growing in a body that was hell / what little strength I had in me, I transferred it to you

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Jul 12, 2025

the bellow quenchwhen we hopefully, simply, by living / and by loving and laughing enough / can outgrow all the mindsets we’ve been in

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May 31, 2025

All is FairI’ve ten feral *f*ingers, I’ve ten feral toes / I’ve dipped them in things with whole body and soul / I’ve questioned intentions, but not of my heart

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May 6, 2025

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