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lewis-2
25/M/UK London
Feeling a fugitive state between white linens and odd pillows in a bed that is not my own. Laying flat, slow and still, spinning webs as I sleep, because tonight I am finally alone. Wallowing close to spheres light with burnt etches on the table, humoured by the lamp like a dying moth. Opening the door to invite the city’s sounds to sleep but cradled heavily in god’s own cloth. “Let go of it all”, a clumsy angel ushers me asleep, tone bored and aim not perfected. I am just a guest and this bed is nor mine but at least I know my friend is protected.
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May 20
May 20, 2026 at 5:50 AM UTC
In another bed
Growing my hair out to let my looks become themselves on my body and face, I have moved across the world and been around these past few years forgetting every place. It has been so much time now, 5 years and a few months and I can't actually remember you. I can't remember if I like you and if I loved you. There is something that exists where when I feel alone I can conjure up some dramatic reunion or a text from your phone where we break down in tears and you fall into my arms. Maybe we will find love there. Maybe the time between us has ripped the space so that the paper tears don't match perfectly onto each other. Or maybe it is because you were my famed pivot, a person that I was known for and known because of. I don't miss you, as much as you can grieve a childhood- farming purposefully for a tear to form for some remembrance that you are possible of human emotion. Or maybe I just think I should miss you, but I don't think that feeling exists as missing someone is not ego-inclined. There is nothing there but some breath of a rigid phantom, someone who's outline I could not even trace
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Mar 9
Mar 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM UTC
I have room for you now
I find myself existing above where everything else is. I do see the cars gliding in heavy rain, painting me with white Hollywood flashes but I could confidently argue that they wouldn't cast a shadow behind myself. I find myself existing outside of my body and away from everything I can see in some muted soft space in between. I wonder if it is because I turn everything into symbols or is it because I am 26 and just trying to feel different. To feel smarter or better or kinder. Is that the goal of all this? There is space between everything I touch and no ability to feel the jagged edges or cold surfaces underneath my fingertips. A numbing that would drive me insane if I wasn't so bloated and churning with random thoughts; some good, some bad. Nothing specific. I lay on the sofa and notice the moon reflected in the large windows. Two moons, a nice distance apart and somehow the same size and light. The only thing that tells me that one moon is a reflection is some guttural instinct. A discernment. I would love to say they emulated the eyes of a cunning cat or some other great power instead, but they looked blank. But they looked at me. I feel myself reaching the end of this current mind shift. The one where everything has a meaning or everything is connected. I wonder if it has actually poisoned how I see things but I understand it is a natural progression. Instead I am moving towards the prophecies that things just happen. People can say things without meaning, things can exist without history. Pretty existential and less poetic. It should be less freeing but at the moment it feels more non-sensical and there is less music in everything. Ironic that I should find bliss in less blissful things and I wonder if that is an excuse. My next thing should be to write something beautiful. To fashion something that is delicate with an expanding and deflating tidal force behind it so strong you could feel it in the muscles of your tongue. Or how the knocking on the door in the night pokes crashes of adrenaline into the top of your chest and contracts your torso with sickly electric, charging your muscles to move and how we are in all fact some weird victim to this wet newspaper slurry and sewage mosaic of stone greys and denim blues all coming together as one when you shake your head but leave your eyes open. And we are just trying and trying to swallow what things happen to us and around us all the time
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Aug 11, 2025
Aug 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
Two moons
I find myself existing above where everything else is. I do see the cars gliding in heavy rain, painting me with white Hollywood flashes but I could confidently argue that they wouldn't cast a shadow behind myself. I find myself existing outside of my body and away from everything I can see in some muted soft space in between. I wonder if it is because I turn everything into symbols or is it because I am 26 and just trying to feel different. To feel smarter or better or kinder. Is that the goal of all this? There is space between everything I touch and no ability to feel the jagged edges or cold surfaces underneath my fingertips. A numbing that would drive me insane if I wasn't so bloated and churning with random thoughts; some good, some bad. Nothing specific. I lay on the sofa and notice the moon reflected in the large windows. Two moons, a nice distance apart and somehow the same size and light. The only thing that tells me that one moon is a reflection is some guttural instinct. A discernment. I would love to say they emulated the eyes of a cunning cat or some other great power instead, but they looked blank. But they looked at me. I feel myself reaching the end of this current mind shift. The one where everything has a meaning or everything is connected. I wonder if it has actually poisoned how I see things but I understand it is a natural progression. Instead I am moving towards the prophecies that things just happen. People can say things without meaning, things can exist without history. Pretty existential and less poetic. It should be less freeing but at the moment it feels more non-sensical and there is less music in everything. Ironic that I should find bliss in less blissful things and I wonder if that is an excuse. My next thing should be to write something beautiful. To fashion something that is delicate with an expanding and deflating tidal force behind it so strong you could feel it in the muscles of your tongue. Or how the knocking on the door in the night pokes crashes of adrenaline into the top of your chest and contracts your torso with sickly electric, charging your muscles to move and how we are in all fact some weird victim to this wet newspaper slurry and sewage mosaic of stone greys and denim blues all coming together as one when you shake your head but leave your eyes open. And we are just trying and trying to swallow what things happen to us and around us all the time
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Ink powdered and illuminescent sparkling rain drops on concrete ground Dashed and so divided Drinking frizzante or other wine we can’t pronounce Skyscrapers fuzzy in July rain and cloud I need love, and show me her Show me what I could be and what I am without, three ghosts of then, now and when No chakra could prove this craving for sweetness on my lips Do I miss July or do I need her?
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Jul 26, 2023
Jul 26, 2023 at 7:12 PM UTC
Raining in July
Once again this, once again love. A memoir so sublime, summered and peppered, folded in lustre and sheen of a blue lensed and buffering sky Once again love
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May 25, 2023
May 25, 2023 at 3:02 PM UTC
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my crooked wings cannot fly wrapped in white linen their ridges rise like mountains their feathers are beautiful and soft like harp strings i will write letters inked with your name but these letters are for me and the birds that watch me in pity from the sky do you love me? will you hurt me? i have not been scared for a long time do you need fear to feel love? leave me lonely i cannot fly but you must please
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Feb 11, 2022
Feb 11, 2022 at 8:28 AM UTC
my crooked wings
well it must be love when our bodies crash together caramel pleasure rushing and swilling hot and sweet bourbon heavy breaths hold still my snakecharming lover when gravity bends well it must be love when in dark times we rage and seethe dragon tongues with words like blades phantom fists for pounding hearts we crumble together my siamese lover when the world ends
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Nov 29, 2021
Nov 29, 2021 at 4:37 PM UTC
well it must be love when
we drive in your car, me in the passenger seat talking about your new boyfriend and how kind he is playing songs that i don't like i can't drive but i watch the roads with you your hand on the steering wheel your hand so close i can feel a current run through us different from before-not as warm or electric in my dreams this was different but it's nice to no longer be enamoured by you to not think about the stupid things i would do things that would leave me red faced things that i would think about before i went to sleep spinning in my head like an unwound tape gruesome and divine i know that i am over you when i can feel the scabs from where cupid struck no longer hurting but still there i am healed but i still like you you are kind and funny and everything else but I am no longer drunk on the toxins of your love we could be friends, i think as you pull up outside my house i get out and smile this was nice is love dead? will i ever love again? my thoughts shift like sand but i am just glad that this tape will never play again and i will never hear the music
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Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM UTC
we drive in your car
spill, spill me my intoxicating friend your dark red lipstick smooches on my tongue take me to warm valleys and flowing rivers gush and pull me my cheeks as red as wine burn my throat and make me sing acid in my cheeks together we must dine as we drink the last of the january wine
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Jan 5, 2021
Jan 5, 2021 at 7:16 PM UTC
last of the january wine
Because I am a man that wants the world And you think it's simply too much So hold my hand as we dive into strangers Because this is the last time we touch
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Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 at 6:22 PM UTC
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