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silverliningofmelancholy
silverliningofmelancholy
19/Bigender/Philippines I write the tragedies, the aches of the dolorous soul
I am bored. There’s nothing interesting to watch. I only hear in the phone are celebrity gossips, politicians’ unkept promises, accidents, and the stagnant decay of the nation. When I am scrolling through games that **** the time, nothing beats up the vacant expression plastered to my face. When I finish the quest–then there’s another. Always another. If you want the easy way, it costs real money. The tech companies want only my money and attention, draining my life into endless torture. It’s a rat race, but the race is the torture and pain I have to begin with since the day I am born. I always see on YouTube how the corporation workers chained up to their desks, slaves to their bosses’ whims. I wasn’t born in a billionaire’s penthouse nor an old-money family. I am birthed by my mother in a place where things should be competed. As my youth flew into this century, colors faded—only black, white, and blue lived and sometimes hiding in the shadows of once was. The world is a monotonous hell, where the devils thrive and everything is bought with pain.
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May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM UTC
monotony
I hear whispers on waters that crash and swell a calling to my distant lover who never returned to lift the dews of my sorrow, the fog is still there and i wait, aching— to be seen, to be joined, to be merged as one
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May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM UTC
a calling of the sea
an inspector who tracks every move every move i take—a reward or a crime whether i watch a movie or series that mirrors my past or a drift through a day where nothing feels wrong or sleep soundly through the forgiving night--- his eyes, like a cctv, never sleeps but when i slip, when I commit a sin… he interrogates me, “why did you do it?” and there, in a grey, unblinking light i stand arrested by my own intent it’s like a serial killer replacing the skin of myself he acts without care, so i'm caught red-handed
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May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM UTC
the body keeps counting the crimes I've done
crash and slam--- into the silver reflection, where I see myself on the waters, my thoughts go astray and begin a riot in my mind, shattering what's left of me
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May 3, 2025
May 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM UTC
These violent waves
work, sleep work, sleep, work, sleep, work, then work again stuck in this digital timeline the days never passed it’s always on repeat like time is a concubine living with wealthy billionaires working endlessly day and night making her ends meet so nobody will know what day it is who will make this world a better place? huh, the rich only care for themselves we’re disillusioned to the fantasy that money will fix everything in a flash a bandage on a wound, as they say but it leaves gaps and crevices it will never be healed from the blood it leaves the blood will always fall like rain on a wedding day i am not a robot who will end up in a dumpster if i am no use to everyone if i am no use, what i am then? a entertainer? a maid? a office worker? a human? who i am?
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Apr 26, 2025
Apr 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM UTC
robotic slave
barked and barked and barked beneath the light-bulb moon a careless whisper in the twilight winds that opened the doors in the house walked beside the corner of my bed questioning me, talking to me, persuading me, like a market vendor who tells me to buy its products when I got no answer to tell only cut phrases or words stacked. I am afraid to tell that the future is not on my hands nor to everyone only existence and existence
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Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM UTC
insomnia is the dog howling at night in the neighborhood
emitting a light that is blinding the faces of people displayed and multiple texts swirled like a fruit salad the light it shines is an act of artificial prayer a saccharine heaven or a bitter hell
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Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM UTC
the phone screen