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eves-affliction
eves-affliction
30/F/Outside of Eden My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Selah
I loved you with the kind of love they tell me is unintelligent The kind of love they told me was reckless The kind of love that comes with a high price to my ego… Ah yes, I do love you like that The kind of love that kills me every night The love that stirs me with bittersweet longing in the morning And I just don’t care, I will love you to my own detriment I will love you to my own demise You are my death and you are my life
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May 9
May 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM UTC
That Kind of Love
Mediocrity will ALWAYS punish The extraordinary
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Apr 25
Apr 25, 2026 at 5:55 PM UTC
The Problem With Pedestals
He devoured me But I wasn’t asking for it It’s “your fault” he told me Because I am honey And fresh cream And cinnamon And chocolate I’m too delicious to be left alone It’s my fault for being too sweet
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Apr 21
Apr 21, 2026 at 5:53 PM UTC
Too Sweet
Palm fronds trampled The palms laid flat Like welcome hands Turned up towards me Like hands raised in worship An entry fit for a king Like I was welcome in their hearts How quickly they phased from shouting my name To demanding my demise
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Apr 15
Apr 15, 2026 at 11:04 PM UTC
Palms
I remember the day I was disenchanted When the cold hand of reality Slapped me hard across my face I didn’t whimper, I didn’t sob I wouldn’t let the coward have the pleasure of seeing me cry I wiped the blood from my mouth And smeared the sticky, red, iron tasting goop on my lips like lipstick Smiled a ****** smile And asked “Did that make you feel like a big man?” And spat in his eyes
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Feb 28
Feb 28, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTC
Disenchanted
There is no sunlight in this god forsaken place The underworld is my world I buried myself here long ago Became fluent in danger My hands stopped shaking when I had to pull the trigger That’s how I knew I was finally numb I learned their lingo and spoke like one of them Transactional relationships, my means of survival How sick I am of myself I want to be…. remade in the soft embrace of his faith That “everything will be ok” But the underworld clings It stains It whispers “you are what you have done” I study my reflection in dark windows. I wonder if someone like him can touch someone like me without becoming ruined
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Feb 17
Feb 17, 2026 at 5:42 PM UTC
Remade
With her hands pressed against the glass window of normality Dancing on the outskirts of polite society Always an outsider looking in Daydreaming of being acceptable, palatable, one of them.. But no She was something rare Her life wasn’t 9 to 5s, debts and bills She was altogether something different, Something wild An exotic flower Poisonous, but beautiful Untamable Barefooted and sun soaked hair She was warm rain water dripping off leaves in a rainforest She was misty, green mountains Lucious, bursting with life She was meant to be observed, admired, studied even Not domesticated
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Feb 14
Feb 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM UTC
Something Wild
Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall I have born witness to them all The clocks have turned their passing hands Centuries shifting, falling sands I have walked through ages, dust and flame And through each one, they whisper my Name For I Am and always will be There’s not one who could overcome Me I ignited the beginning and will be at the end I am longing for you to grab My reaching hand How holy is this endless ache And My hand that I wish for you to take
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Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM UTC
The Creation of Adam
My mind is ancient The more I attempt to translate it into modern lexicon The more frustrated I grow Like a language that is unpalatable A sun that cannot be observed too closely But the true agony is To watch a crowd cheer For a mediocre imitation of what I first conceived of A flicker of a candle in comparison That is hell
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Aug 27, 2025
Aug 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM UTC
Echos of the Original
I dreamt of you last night You’re the face my subconscious likes to wear most You said “I know you’re sad, but you have to take control of your life.” So I will pull back on the yoke Darling, I am going to fly
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Aug 27, 2025
Aug 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM UTC
Holding short for runway 27