Snippets (Prose and Poetry)

May 2022

Gea Venise

You never notice how much you have grown until you have seen how small your room has become.

Apr 2022

Gea Venise

Does it count as object permanence
     When you can’t see the details of the mountain
          Each rock formation
          Each tree
          Each leaf
          Only its greenness
     When you can’t see each line the waves create
          Only the horizon that is impossible to miss
     When you can’t see the clump of the clouds
          Only where light starts and shadows end
Yet you know it’s beautiful
Always have been
And always will be

ngl this is just about watching a sunset with poor eyesight lmaooo

Apr 2022

Gea Venise

Like a Moth to a Flame

"The closer the moth is to the flame,
the higher the chance it'll burn."

If you think the light
could hurt the moth,
but the moth thinks otherwise,
who's to say it's not a happy ending?

If the last thing the moth wanted to do
was touch the light,
death
in the form of warmth and comfort
comes upon touching it.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful way to die,
still?

#moth #flame #burn #light #death

Apr 2022

Gea Venise

I Heard Too Much

I wanted to hug you
Close enough to hear your heartbeat.
I wanted to sleep to the sound of it.

And so I did.

I hugged you.
I heard it.
It was as beautiful as I expected.

But I am afraid I hugged you too close.

I heard too much
That I was not able to sleep
To the sound of it.

I heard how it did not beat for me.
It kept me up.

Still, I took my time listening.
Then I thought
How I will never be able to afford
Something that beautiful.

I failed to feel it beating my name.
It tore me out
So I just slept to the thought of it.

Oct 2020

Gea Venise

The Strong and The Weak

Stop telling me I’m strong
When I know how weak I am

Strong people aren’t hunted with thoughts
That keep them awake ‘til sunrise
Only to sleep through tired eyes
From either staring all night at the ceiling and the walls
Or crying.
Strong people don’t cut
Nor punch walls
Nor starve themselves
Just to feel pain

Because strong people wouldn’t have the need to feel pain at all
In order to stay sane.

Trigger warning // This is how I see myself, I'm not saying you have to apply this to yourself as well.

#tw

Oct 2020

Gea Venise

My Muse

If you ever wonder why I write about you
It’s because writing about you never goes wrong.

You remain certain when everything is uncertain.
So if I’m going to write about you
That’s when I know that I’m writing about something right.

Oct 2020

Gea Venise

What Are You Fighting For?

I fight for the people fighting alongside me, who continuously believe in me and share the same love I give.

I fight for the dreams the child in me is yet to achieve; to travel places I am yet to see; to discover things I am yet to learn.

I fight for the battles I have won, giving all those fights the value they deserve.

Oct 2020

Gea Venise

Give and Take

The time you felt I started giving less
Was the time I started giving more to myself.

Oct 2020

Gea Venise

Until When?

Or so they say
𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕.
And so I ask
𝑼𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏?

#idk #4line

Oct 2020

Gea Venise

The Ocean at Night

Like the ocean at night
She's calm
Quiet
Glistening
As the moon reflected in her eyes.
You thought, perfection.

You wouldn't wish for light to return
Where every crash of the wave is present
Running across every shore.
Where everything is exposed
Seeing things concealed by its absence.

What you fail to remember is
Without the light
She's an ocean at night.
Deep
Dark
Cold
As you keep sinking further.

#ocean #night #deep #dark #cold #calm #quiet #moon #wave

Oct 2020

Gea Venise

I Stopped Swimming

It's not that I don’t know how to swim
It’s just that I'm okay with drowning.

I'm okay with sinking
Staring up at the light
That I'll never be able to reach

Because a part of me
Doesn’t even want to try.

#drowning #emptiness #sadness