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  May 26 Nicole
bleedingink
We all walk,
slowly and steadily,
toward death.

But regardless,
we keep living,
even if it is just surviving.
  May 26 Nicole
Olamilekan
Life doesn't come with a map.
It throws curveballs, storms, and silence.
You take the hits. You get back up.
You wear the scars like armor—not shame.

Not everyone's going to clap when you rise—
Good. You're not here for their applause.
You're here to own your story,
Not beg for a role in someone else's.

The world will try to crush you.
Lie to you.
Tell you you're too much, or not enough.
Laugh when you fall.
Doubt when you speak.
But guess what?

They don’t get to define you.
You are forged, not broken.
Bent, not beaten.
Every bruise is a blueprint.
Every fall, fuel.

So break the rules they wrote for you.
Set fire to the limits.
And walk—no, run—into the life
you were told you couldn't have.
  May 25 Nicole
Blue Sapphire
When raindrops fall,
rivers are formed.

When teardrops fall,
epic poems are born.
  May 25 Nicole
Neville Johnson
Every time I hear that song
I want to leave the room
It brings back memories
Of sadness, such gloom
There I was trying to accept
To understand why she didn’t believe
In me, in us, in what could be
That song told the truth
About a girl confused
It hit me hard
I tried to hang on
No can do
I was stuck in a foreign land
Dumped, distressed
Dejected and mad
At her, at life, at myself
Stuck, out of luck
A man overboard
  May 24 Nicole
Leila adel
Hidden from the view
Laid down within a white shell of spiral
Commenced
a new chapter of life
Looked at the burning sun
Through these tiniest pores
Looks were a call through the oceans
Fishes were invited by the shell
To narrate each party evening
Of the little white pearls
In quiet dark, in silence.
Nicole May 24
Whatcha looking for?

(
Uhh
My old self that was actually ok when she said she was, I think she fell off somewhere.

Wait I can't say that...)


I'm looking for my favorite pen.


Oh. What does it look like?

I forgot.


What?
  May 24 Nicole
1DNA
The process of life
is like knitting fabric-
A slow, tiresome art,
calling for a lot of patience.

There are ups,
there are downs,
encountered by twists and turns—
and eventually,
in the midst,
tight knots.

But that is what sews it up!

In this course,
none are left in abeyance.

Every thread is distinguished,
with its own sole purpose
in making "living" whole.

Even one plucked out—
and the garment entirely unfolds.

All of us are strands of yarn,
crafted by the hands of God
bound together by the cosmos,
to make one beautiful piece:
Life.
Trying to grind my gears!
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