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kwana
kwana
18 The world is my muse, and these blank pages are my canvas. / Message me to discuss poetry or bsd
crazy klepto nepo baby esoteric and apologetic having heartbreaks and toothaches field trips and explicit clips poetry books and deceiving looks endless games with forgettable names revealing lace beneath her face a heart of stone under her bones as wild as any summer storm defying every social norm Mind clad with iron, she never grows sad But after each night The glow of her light dims away.
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Apr 27
Apr 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM UTC
verge of a breakthrough
leafing through my threads, i thought about the cut ones, the ones that had been severed too soon, too early, and only the frayed ends remained. all entwined and tangled now. i missed the time when they were all organised, but now, i found my indulgent vermillion looped between sage, violets and sky blues. none the actual colour they claimed to be and i sat as dusk faded into night and into sunrise for days, weeks, months time passed, or perhaps it stopped? just for me, as i untangled my threads, but desperate as i was they only seemed to grow more knotted, as though they had coils of steel rather than the soft textile i was so familiar with. but for all my efforts, i had failed to see my own threads begin to unravel too.
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Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM UTC
threads
i'll run my fingers through your hair and it will fall apart. you'll run yours through mine, for all i care, but it was over from the start. your scent is oddly comforting, i think, as i glance down at your pale legs but the look in your eye, telling me everything. Don't be someone who begs me for love at three in the morning i'm probably watching lesbian **** when you talk, i always find myself yawning. and i guess, your heart will be torn into tiny pieces. it's completely my fault that our conversations will soon cease i love you as much as i love salt.
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Mar 2
Mar 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC
the price of salt
i never left our favourite place a dusty staircase, quiet and old, sunlight would splay against the wood and the dust in the air looked like tiny fairies. we used to sit there without a care in the world. And now i tread up and down them from time to time and i always remember our silly conversations; dreams and hopes, strange realisations, useless gossip and seemingly endless homework and school and home again and loves and crushes and friends and fetishes and clothes and places and food and i loved those stairs. it’s strange that i always walk them alone now. i don’t think i could have fathomed that back then, sitting with my back against the wall, ready to take on the whole world, so ready to live, and now that i am living, i crave those stairs once more. i don’t think i ever left them, only took breaks maybe a long break, maybe a short one but at the end of the day, i could come back to them and i came back to them. but upon doing so realised that there was simply no one beside me.
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Mar 2
Mar 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM UTC
i never left
i was crying over something that i could not yet name. just a fleeting emotion, so heavy, like a thunderous wave, yet with the grace of a nymph’s whispers in a forest in summer, sunlight laying in fragments, filtering through the leaves. it was longing for everything that could have been. everything that i ever was, everything that i had been. everything at once i was a canvas being painted in midnight blues, fresh reds, like tiny blossoms gleaming in the moonlit night. the brush was always so gentle on my skin. and yet, i felt as though i was being struck each time. but i wasn’t crying anymore. just living, accepting and breathing and living.
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Mar 1
Mar 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM UTC
alive
The reality in front of me is ignored as soon as i open up my laptop- Addiction is a killer. Or so i have heard from my beloved online safety haven. us with our own circle in hell with our own sick and twisted desires and with our unwound moral compasses, spinning like a ballerina wavering, like she is nervous and anxious on the world stage, eyes looking straight through her and she knows, she knows that the eyes are meaningless and cruel and yet she cannot help but crave their presence, their reassurance, their approving nods and silent praise. i suppose my cravings are not equally matched i take more and more, until my eyes roll back and for a brief period, washed over with a blanket of contentment but the blanket is ripped away suddenly- and the harsh light of day dawns upon me and i am going to be late to school.
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Mar 1
Mar 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM UTC
cravings
once the boats were bunt (finally) and once you left, i pulled my duvet up and let the waves of the tragedy crash over me Take me as a prisoner of their storm. crying, but with dry eyes, fists seeking the damp sheets mulling over the words spoken, the lies wondering how next you'll greet me with a warm smile, or an expression of indifference? i hoped for the former but knew i'd receive the latter nothing even matters anymore because this was perfect and i turn, and it's the ghost of your presence fading warmth, lingering perfume and i wish the teardrops would stop falling! and i wish this didn't happen and i wish you didn't leave me alone with a phantom, and drowning, and not knowing how to swim- and that swimming even exists in such a storm and i wish you didn't make this storm But really, we were both the clashes of rainclouds, so dark and deviant but with so much on our chests but then i was on your chest and then the storm happened But somehow the storm has passed and the ghost had left and now i'm washed up at a new shore.
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Feb 25
Feb 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM UTC
swept under and forgotten
a vice-like grip i had on your fingers, How fine and soft your hair was, i kept thinking to run my fingers through the strands while you unspun me, like tangled yarn coaxing...clinical. Transactions. But i had to save face so instead i focused on your fingers entwined in mine, palm to palm skin to skin skin to soul Seeing me, and i wonder what thoughts you had what emotions what intentions what love? what wanting what needing what were we and in a way i'm glad i left the stands, silken and loose and so fine i would have clung on for dear life and would never wish to let go.
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Feb 25
Feb 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM UTC
soul seeking
It's my defect, I say, my flaw. "Don't worry, there's only a little." You say, my hands in your hair, my nails are rather brittle. "It's completely legal. We're abiding by the law". You know, I say, they used to be bright red, And if you lift my dress- There you would have: my own man-made mess. "Nonetheless. They don't matter to me. Come back to bed." And I say, no, I think not, I should be in therapy, looking at a Rorschach chart Should be in a gallery, admiring the figurative art. I don't need you, I am the kettle, and you are the ***
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Feb 23
Feb 23, 2026 at 11:29 AM UTC
Just Being
You’re ruining my life! Day by day, Hinting at the possibility of me being your wife- But after our most recent strife, i am proven otherwise With every photo, i never fail to make you blush, The adrenaline rush becomes more than worth it, Waking up some days, in the harsh morning light, i realise it’s only just a crush. But quiet now, it’s fun and not that big of a deal- And one day, i will look across the barren land While you stand near, or perhaps miles apart, My hand clutched in yours, or held by another stranger Am i only temporary…? i hear You say you’d like to run your hands through my hair But at the mere thought i crumble in despair, at all the knots, The coarse, unruly wilderness that is far beyond repair, It is a spear through my soul. And you are the one yielding it.
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Feb 23
Feb 23, 2026 at 4:56 AM UTC
time will heal me