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HippoHelios Dec 2023
Death is not a predator.
It is what was before
and what is to come.
Life is but a disruption
of eternal nothingness.
The way that moment feels
is really up to you.
Don't let darkness take over!
474 · Sep 2020
Dilemma
HippoHelios Sep 2020
Indestructible.
Why do I have to be?
Indestructible!
Try me! - I always seem to cry.
Disappointment. Again. Again!
I dare you, I invite you!
Sadness. Tears. Again. Again!
And yet, still I stand.
Or, the very least, I get up. Again. Again!
But why am I indestructible?
I wish I could break - or worse: Shatter!
Surely, then MY feelings would matter?!
But all your blazes are but tealights for me.
Indestructible.
I am!
Indestructible!
I sigh. Again. Again!
Smite me - at worst I‘ll buckle;
but never break or shatter.
390 · Sep 2020
Selfless
HippoHelios Sep 2020
I wonder: Can the „I“ be fixed whilst being a „we“?
Or will you fix yourself, reducing myself to just me?
Will that, then, be forever so?
Will you take what‘s yours and left of you and go?
I will have neither options nor choices,
I‘ll be stripped of what I value and cherish.
What will be left? Echoes of distant voices
from a fairer past that once was but now did perish.

Most of all I‘ll hope for one thing, should it ever be this way:
That you could master to respect and love yourself; every coming day.
137 · Apr 2021
Tears and sorrow
HippoHelios Apr 2021
As the days go by ever so slowly:
Tears and sorrow,
an endless source of darkness.
Any light is merely a false hope
of ever seeing daylight and happiness
again.
Again.

— The End —