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ilias Feb 2023
This inhuman behavior of not knowing
where to exist
put your feet outside
never come in again
stay outside, where the danger waits
come inside, feel the warmth of your family
sit and stay, go away
nowhere to go, restless feet
where am I able to exist?
ilias Feb 2023
i am dying in the moonlight
suffocating in all the dust
my mother left behind
ilias Feb 2023
the voices are telling me to
drown myself in the
waters of my body.
ilias Feb 2023
don't touch me,
she whispered,
I might not come back
  Feb 2023 ilias
Kurt Philip Behm
The road to paradise
begins in hell

If you long for peace
—embrace the war

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)
ilias Feb 2023
he couldn't see how she clenched her jaw to swallow her mothers servility;
and he would certainly never
understand
why she did not want to be torn apart
by the looks of virile men
ilias Aug 2022
i let myself fall
to leave all misery behind
and when I hit rock bottom
it felt like I could fly
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