What are you afraid will come back with the warmth?
47 responses
Here upon a promise
a promise to return
the broken hazy yearn,
the pull of reality,
the wish to bleed...
blue creek
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM UTC
the feeling that summer gives little reason to leave the house and small hot towns with no way to get around without a car act as glue traps for the people-flies that have no way of leaving
weary hearth
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM UTC
the weight of everything that is still wrong,
lack of feeling towards someone who birthed me,
and the same day i was born.
hushed cloud
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 3:10 AM UTC
I worry I am returning to the version of me laced with depression and hopelessness.
early ferry
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM UTC
midnight illusions and the weight of the wait
the mornings full of dust
my hands numb like a sea without salt
the fractured silence in the debt of bruises
restless hearth
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM UTC
i am afraid of the sun
warmer each year
each summer surpasses the last
how long before it is no longer
unusually hot for this time of year?
fierce kettle
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM UTC
I'm afraid of my past life,
I don't want its comeback,
It had ruined me,
Had torn me apart from within.
copper hearth
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 8:06 AM UTC
Unconditional love.
Fireplaces where urns do not adorn
the mantel piece.
Down comforters that come without guilt.
imagination without hindrance.
Parents who apologize.
thin lark
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM UTC
Something worse than your bittersweet love
weathered lark
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC
I sit beside a wound
One tended to and dressed
As an identical joy appears
To confide in me of innocence
And I fear the mind will not age
Only spill in the fountains of youth torturing me to madness
warm porch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:13 PM UTC
I'm afraid that all that bugs me will eat me alive whilst I writhe in my own uncomfortable skin, forced to scratch until I bleed out and make others carry my burdens.
tiny ridge
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM UTC
I'm afraid that death will come back and this time take so one who was my warmth and now I will have to start over from the dark and if I lose all the light I have I will part ways with the little happyness I have today so yes I am afraid death will come back not with warmth but for warmth and I don't know if I will freeze again and is this death of a friend the end
patient marsh
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM UTC
Afraid of my frozen heart melting at the sight of you. Then what will I use to survive? Your fire will keep me alive. Living on overdone love.
frail swallow
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM UTC
The Sun, like an orange, or a sweet half-eaten mango, as every morning, it always does return, amidst all this life of chaos and displeasure, I know I'll have the sun to wake me up, that's a god i can trust and believe in, and i see that god in someone else, and i do see god in someone else, and i see it as if, they have returned, and now those seem like my mornings, with warmth, and equal coldness, the sun that had never left, has somehow entered my life.
wide field
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM UTC
I'm not afraid of much,
or so I like to say,
but the thought of losing you again
would make the bravest lions cower
tender birch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM UTC
The overwork underlying their vacations
open elm
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM UTC
I've cocooned myself
Warm,
Cozy,
Safe.
Unraveling slowly
Exposing my hand
my arm
my foot
then leg
Burning sun
bronzes my skin
Tempting me
To come out
bathe in it's rays.
When I return
to the warmth
to the sun
to the spring
and summer
Will I bring what
I've learned about
myself?
Or will I return
to the same habits?
small cloud
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM UTC
Bugs, sweat and more bugs.
lonely cedar
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC
Surly sunburn will make a return
moonlit ridge
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM UTC
I'm afraid that one day
When you return once again
It will not be me
That warms up your hand
When it's cold.
And all I can do is smile
That finally, someone found you
Worth it to love
Just like how I found you
Worth it to love.
tender thrush
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM UTC
a flitting gaze
a summer's warmth
a cold and desperate loneliness
stuck between
a restless land
and a copper tang on my tongue
copper birch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM UTC
There you are,
Weighing me down,
Glaring through me.
I thought you’d gone;
I thought I was better.
But here you are,
Back.
You smother me in your arms
Like you never left.
You anchor back into the place you once vacated;
You fill me with your warmth
With familiarity.
wandering ferry
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM UTC
I'm scared that memories of others lost that will come back...that people will leave again
-I'm also scared of the mosquitoesT_T
restless stone
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
The red wing black bird that sings
Bomb dives me as I walk to the swing.
still dune
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM UTC
When the weather warms up he starts acting like an ass again. Thinking he's 20 ,not an old man and starts treating me poorly to impress other people.
shy stone
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 11:52 AM UTC
Here upon a promise
a promise to return
the broken hazy yearn,
the pull of reality,
the wish to bleed...
blue creek
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM UTC
the weight of everything that is still wrong,
lack of feeling towards someone who birthed me,
and the same day i was born.
hushed cloud
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 3:10 AM UTC
midnight illusions and the weight of the wait
the mornings full of dust
my hands numb like a sea without salt
the fractured silence in the debt of bruises
restless hearth
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM UTC
I'm afraid of my past life,
I don't want its comeback,
It had ruined me,
Had torn me apart from within.
copper hearth
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 8:06 AM UTC
Something worse than your bittersweet love
weathered lark
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC
I'm afraid that all that bugs me will eat me alive whilst I writhe in my own uncomfortable skin, forced to scratch until I bleed out and make others carry my burdens.
tiny ridge
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM UTC
Afraid of my frozen heart melting at the sight of you. Then what will I use to survive? Your fire will keep me alive. Living on overdone love.
frail swallow
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM UTC
I'm not afraid of much,
or so I like to say,
but the thought of losing you again
would make the bravest lions cower
tender birch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM UTC
I've cocooned myself
Warm,
Cozy,
Safe.
Unraveling slowly
Exposing my hand
my arm
my foot
then leg
Burning sun
bronzes my skin
Tempting me
To come out
bathe in it's rays.
When I return
to the warmth
to the sun
to the spring
and summer
Will I bring what
I've learned about
myself?
Or will I return
to the same habits?
small cloud
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM UTC
Surly sunburn will make a return
moonlit ridge
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM UTC
a flitting gaze
a summer's warmth
a cold and desperate loneliness
stuck between
a restless land
and a copper tang on my tongue
copper birch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM UTC
I'm scared that memories of others lost that will come back...that people will leave again
-I'm also scared of the mosquitoesT_T
restless stone
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
When the weather warms up he starts acting like an ass again. Thinking he's 20 ,not an old man and starts treating me poorly to impress other people.
shy stone
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 11:52 AM UTC
the feeling that summer gives little reason to leave the house and small hot towns with no way to get around without a car act as glue traps for the people-flies that have no way of leaving
weary hearth
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM UTC
I worry I am returning to the version of me laced with depression and hopelessness.
early ferry
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM UTC
i am afraid of the sun
warmer each year
each summer surpasses the last
how long before it is no longer
unusually hot for this time of year?
fierce kettle
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM UTC
Unconditional love.
Fireplaces where urns do not adorn
the mantel piece.
Down comforters that come without guilt.
imagination without hindrance.
Parents who apologize.
thin lark
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM UTC
I sit beside a wound
One tended to and dressed
As an identical joy appears
To confide in me of innocence
And I fear the mind will not age
Only spill in the fountains of youth torturing me to madness
warm porch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:13 PM UTC
I'm afraid that death will come back and this time take so one who was my warmth and now I will have to start over from the dark and if I lose all the light I have I will part ways with the little happyness I have today so yes I am afraid death will come back not with warmth but for warmth and I don't know if I will freeze again and is this death of a friend the end
patient marsh
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM UTC
The Sun, like an orange, or a sweet half-eaten mango, as every morning, it always does return, amidst all this life of chaos and displeasure, I know I'll have the sun to wake me up, that's a god i can trust and believe in, and i see that god in someone else, and i do see god in someone else, and i see it as if, they have returned, and now those seem like my mornings, with warmth, and equal coldness, the sun that had never left, has somehow entered my life.
wide field
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM UTC
The overwork underlying their vacations
open elm
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM UTC
Bugs, sweat and more bugs.
lonely cedar
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC
I'm afraid that one day
When you return once again
It will not be me
That warms up your hand
When it's cold.
And all I can do is smile
That finally, someone found you
Worth it to love
Just like how I found you
Worth it to love.
tender thrush
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM UTC
There you are,
Weighing me down,
Glaring through me.
I thought you’d gone;
I thought I was better.
But here you are,
Back.
You smother me in your arms
Like you never left.
You anchor back into the place you once vacated;
You fill me with your warmth
With familiarity.
wandering ferry
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM UTC
The red wing black bird that sings
Bomb dives me as I walk to the swing.
still dune
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM UTC
Here upon a promise
a promise to return
the broken hazy yearn,
the pull of reality,
the wish to bleed...
blue creek
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM UTC
I worry I am returning to the version of me laced with depression and hopelessness.
early ferry
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM UTC
I'm afraid of my past life,
I don't want its comeback,
It had ruined me,
Had torn me apart from within.
copper hearth
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 8:06 AM UTC
I sit beside a wound
One tended to and dressed
As an identical joy appears
To confide in me of innocence
And I fear the mind will not age
Only spill in the fountains of youth torturing me to madness
warm porch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:13 PM UTC
Afraid of my frozen heart melting at the sight of you. Then what will I use to survive? Your fire will keep me alive. Living on overdone love.
frail swallow
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM UTC
The overwork underlying their vacations
open elm
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM UTC
Surly sunburn will make a return
moonlit ridge
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM UTC
There you are,
Weighing me down,
Glaring through me.
I thought you’d gone;
I thought I was better.
But here you are,
Back.
You smother me in your arms
Like you never left.
You anchor back into the place you once vacated;
You fill me with your warmth
With familiarity.
wandering ferry
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM UTC
When the weather warms up he starts acting like an ass again. Thinking he's 20 ,not an old man and starts treating me poorly to impress other people.
shy stone
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 11:52 AM UTC
the feeling that summer gives little reason to leave the house and small hot towns with no way to get around without a car act as glue traps for the people-flies that have no way of leaving
weary hearth
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM UTC
midnight illusions and the weight of the wait
the mornings full of dust
my hands numb like a sea without salt
the fractured silence in the debt of bruises
restless hearth
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM UTC
Unconditional love.
Fireplaces where urns do not adorn
the mantel piece.
Down comforters that come without guilt.
imagination without hindrance.
Parents who apologize.
thin lark
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM UTC
I'm afraid that all that bugs me will eat me alive whilst I writhe in my own uncomfortable skin, forced to scratch until I bleed out and make others carry my burdens.
tiny ridge
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM UTC
The Sun, like an orange, or a sweet half-eaten mango, as every morning, it always does return, amidst all this life of chaos and displeasure, I know I'll have the sun to wake me up, that's a god i can trust and believe in, and i see that god in someone else, and i do see god in someone else, and i see it as if, they have returned, and now those seem like my mornings, with warmth, and equal coldness, the sun that had never left, has somehow entered my life.
wide field
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM UTC
I've cocooned myself
Warm,
Cozy,
Safe.
Unraveling slowly
Exposing my hand
my arm
my foot
then leg
Burning sun
bronzes my skin
Tempting me
To come out
bathe in it's rays.
When I return
to the warmth
to the sun
to the spring
and summer
Will I bring what
I've learned about
myself?
Or will I return
to the same habits?
small cloud
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM UTC
I'm afraid that one day
When you return once again
It will not be me
That warms up your hand
When it's cold.
And all I can do is smile
That finally, someone found you
Worth it to love
Just like how I found you
Worth it to love.
tender thrush
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM UTC
I'm scared that memories of others lost that will come back...that people will leave again
-I'm also scared of the mosquitoesT_T
restless stone
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
the weight of everything that is still wrong,
lack of feeling towards someone who birthed me,
and the same day i was born.
hushed cloud
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 3:10 AM UTC
i am afraid of the sun
warmer each year
each summer surpasses the last
how long before it is no longer
unusually hot for this time of year?
fierce kettle
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM UTC
Something worse than your bittersweet love
weathered lark
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC
I'm afraid that death will come back and this time take so one who was my warmth and now I will have to start over from the dark and if I lose all the light I have I will part ways with the little happyness I have today so yes I am afraid death will come back not with warmth but for warmth and I don't know if I will freeze again and is this death of a friend the end
patient marsh
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM UTC
I'm not afraid of much,
or so I like to say,
but the thought of losing you again
would make the bravest lions cower
tender birch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM UTC
Bugs, sweat and more bugs.
lonely cedar
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC
a flitting gaze
a summer's warmth
a cold and desperate loneliness
stuck between
a restless land
and a copper tang on my tongue
copper birch
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM UTC
The red wing black bird that sings
Bomb dives me as I walk to the swing.
still dune
Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM UTC