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Ciara 20h
Reflections on water,
sun’s shining bright —
and it made me think of you.

How hard can you be?
You drive me off
my sanity.

The long enough I wait,
and I see —
I’m running into your arms,
arms that forgot
how I had been.

I am burning.
And I know —
nothing
will stay the same.

We are gnawing
at each other.
Nothing stays.
Nothing stays the same.

You embrace me.
You throw me off the edge.
Still, I know —
nothing stays the same.

THE CALL OF THE VOID.

Everything’s dictating me.
What’s to be done?
Off with you, dictator!!

Nothing new to me —
just the void.
All the same.

Here’s to that call —
again.
Again.

Dreams scream real
while I lay asleep
in my bed.
Ciara 23h
All the things you do—
echo like footsteps in ribs.
I am an idiot,
who doesn't know questions,
not the kind that make sense,
not the kind that leave answers.

Am I you?
Or are you me?
Or are we mirrors
cracked in different colors,
reflecting only where we broke?

A part of me
doesn’t want to see you—
but every part of me
craves that which is you.
I don’t know what’s breaking
or what’s already broken.
I only see tricks.

So am I tricking myself
to believe it’s love?
Is it madness?
It isn’t everything—
but in the silence, it becomes everything.
Sometimes
it’s a movement in static
I feel
that’s dancing.

Did I forget
to move on my own?
It’s been a while.

I’m just a filter now,
a filter of remembrance,
catching echoes
from a self I almost remember.
Ciara 1d
What does courage mean
when you can't say
the words you mean?

What does clarity mean
when you don't mean
the words you say?

Did you say anything at all?
Nothing you didn’t already know —
at least, that’s what they say.

“Don’t question and answer yourself,”
they warn.
“It’s just circles
with tangents
that promise escape
but never really leave the center.”

Labyrinth.
Nature of madness.

I think my own reason is flawed
to make sense.

Blinded
by the light of the moment —
so yes,
I can say
it’s dark inside.

— The End —