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ToT Oct 3
Welp….
Today 10/03/2025
You told me to let you go
I know I know, I asked you to
Not because I wanted to let go
But because I couldn’t do it
I couldn’t let you go. I still can’t
Even with the reality of this moment
But with all the words you said
I know that I have to
For you to be without me
For you to move on without me
Yeah it hurts like hell
My stomach has this weird feeling
I don’t know why I thought we could’ve moved passed it all
Don’t know why I thought the distance would bring us back
It’s not okay but it is because I prepared for this
I prepared for that verbiage
Clearly I didn’t prepare as efficiently as I thought
I love you
I loved you
And I always will.
Maybe in another lifetime.
Zywa Oct 3
These old thoughts of mine,

they are hiding like grey moths --


in a curtain fold.
Poem "De nacht ligt volgestormd met sneeuw" ("The storm has covered the night with snow", 1994, Frida Vogels), published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The ******* 3" [part I, Amsterdam]) - March 29th, 1952, Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
When I was small
I needed nightlights
in the farmhouse by the swamp.

Shadows gathered in corners
like animals without names.

Before the move
I stood in the field at night,
no outline of trees,

the sky clouded,
air held still by heat,
depthless black before me.

Later, streetlamps
cut alleys into squares,
windows spilling yellow

from kitchens and bedrooms,
a neon sign dripping red
onto wet asphalt,

engines keeping the day alive.
Not dark.
Thin. Unfinished.

What I knew as a boy-
dark was company.
It held me,

steady as the breath
in my ribs.
Older now,

I long for that silence.
I have grown
so unafraid
of the dark.
i read 'small talk'
out loud
at the ripon cathedral,
opening the fourth
annual poetry festival.

i always wanted to light
a candle for him.
but maybe
what i did tonight
will count for more
than a tealight
priced at a pound.

i read about him
and the way
i hold his memory
in this monastery
from the seventh century
and my voice
climbed the arches
dressed in stone.

i doubt
he could hear me
but i hope he knows
i’ll guard him
like a fragile note
cradled in velvet,
no matter how far he is
from home.
this one is about my brother.
No one will wait anymore—
Here, this silence hums its lonely hymn.
If anyone on this earth remembers the path you once took,
If anyone still hears the echo of the door you closed,
If anyone had stood beside you in that relentless rain—
That rain from a season long forgotten—
Will they return to find you here once more?

On the verandah, where evening moths swarm the fading light,
Or inside, as they reach for a half-forgotten tune—
When the fragile thread of melody suddenly snaps—
A withered petal will tremble, then fall,
Unraveling from their grasp like memory itself.
abyss Oct 1
Late nights
Car rides
Came into my life
Like the most beautiful star
In the dark sky.

Souls made of broken promises
And shattered dreams,
Trying to find a safe haven
In the arms of the other.

Will the demons that haunt us
Dance together?
Will they destroy
One another?

Souls made of scars,
Our shattered pieces
Trying to fit one another.

Is it too early,
Is it too late?

Late nights,
Car rides,
A dance of naked bodies
In the moonlight.

Shattered souls
Of broken promises.

Will this, too,
Become nothing more
Than a memory—
A story our future selves
Tell about the past?
The fear that we will become nothing more than a memory in the minds of who we cherish the most.
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!!

My past is something like no one care,
A beautiful childhood,
Where morning is just begin,
Rush to open television
In the sharp morning of 5
A world where I get my peace to reside.

BY VEDANTA ANAGHA
I wrote this piece to remind me and all of others that, past become so past we didn't able to that. Did you still remember that time when your favourite cartoon show was coming early in the morning at 5 am. When everyone is sleeping you rush to open your television to watch that show, to me it was "Poo-Bear" and it's so frustrating back then when instead of your cartoon show any **** online Shopping show was going, when it ends, it's you time to go to school. I am not old but I am not that kid anymore too. I am an Adult. I wish to leave in the past. Watching TV at the summer morning. I know you all remember.
They were born of glass four shards in bloom,
A boy, two girls, then dusk’s last plume.
A house once held their laughter tight,
Till fate collided wrong with right.
Steel kissed steel, and silence screamed,
Two souls erased, two dreams unseamed.
The cradle cracked, the walls grew thin,
And strangers bought the blood within.
One sold to silk, one sold to shame,
One wore a badge, one lost his name.
They wandered near, yet knew not kin,
Their roots erased beneath their skin.
A mother’s love, a borrowed lie,
A party mask, a hollow eye.
She danced for men who broke her grace,
While daughters drowned in silent space.
One touched by hands that should not dare,
One blamed for truth too raw to bear.
One drove the wheel, one wore the crown,
Yet none could see the blood run down.
The eldest searched with fractured breath,
To stitch the seams of scattered death.
But destiny, that cruel disguise,
Kept every answer veiled in lies.
They should have grown in garden light,
But bloomed in shadow, out of sight.
One moment tore their world apart
A crash, a cry, a shattered heart.
So let us hold what time can break,
Each breath, each bond, for memory’s sake.
For life’s a thread, not iron-spun
And glassborn souls can still outrun
The silence.
This poem traces the aftermath of a family torn apart by tragedy — a crash that shattered not just bodies, but identities, futures, and the fragile threads of belonging. It explores how trauma disperses lives into roles, masks, and silence, while one soul searches to stitch the scattered pieces. A meditation on memory, loss, and the quiet rebellion of glassborn resilience.
That week was so hot,
every shotgun house gasped,
windows flung,
screen doors striking wooden frames,
the squawk of rusty springs.

Touching skin felt like punishment
at first,
then penance,
then prayer.

We were thin, androgynous,
switching cut-off jeans,
sharing tank tops,
slick with sweat and shaved ice.

Strays ourselves,
barefoot thieves,
pirates of the quarter.

Hibiscus syrup stained our mouths
outside the Prytania,
where The Abyss flickered
and you cried like a boy
pretending he didn’t.

Inside your walk-up,
we dipped into quiet love
like bread in stew.

The radio’s crackle carried The Ink Spots,
which I recognized but couldn’t name.
You mouthed every note like a secret
you wanted me to guess.

Faint smiling lines near your eyes
from knowing,
like you’d seen me
long before we met.

Not woman,
not man,
just two bodies
leaning toward the same heat.

I wouldn't see your fall or your winter.
When the seasons change,
I’ll be gone,
back home,
watching rain from a train window,
each drop undoing what we were.

That last night,
you placed your key by the door.
I saw it,
watched it glint,
and said nothing.

The snails were climbing.
The air was too sweet.
You slept through goodbye.
I left the key where it lay.
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