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You came carrying reinvention, wore it like a second skin. Not the kind in mythology— not a grand becoming, but the quiet violence of survival. You taught yourself to live when so many disappeared. In you, I saw a life that survived itself Next to the ghost of my own Ripped stitches, frayed ends Our cut threads so similar— They must have been of the same tapestry Even if we were careful, courteous, This untangling would have nicked our hearts I am a maze of contradiction Fashioned from a life of postponements Each path leading back To this final act— Tomorrow is where lies go to disguise themselves as intention
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4d ago
May 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM UTC
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You came carrying reinvention, wore it like a second skin. Not the kind in mythology— not a grand becoming, but the quiet violence of survival. You taught yourself to live when so many disappeared. In you, I saw a life that survived itself Next to the ghost of my own Ripped stitches, frayed ends Our cut threads so similar— They must have been of the same tapestry Even if we were careful, courteous, This untangling would have nicked our hearts I am a maze of contradiction Fashioned from a life of postponements Each path leading back To this final act— Tomorrow is where lies go to disguise themselves as intention
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May 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM UTC
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