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At 17, I remember the first moment— it didn’t shine in the sky, I didn’t feel its presence. Was it a sweet curse? I woke up with a pen in my hand and a wild need to write. A first word? A fragment of nonsense, dressed in lies. Years passed. The girl I was has grown. She’s no longer 17, no longer holding an unknown pen. Because now, at 24— with over 300 poems, I have this feeling: I am not just a poet. I am me.
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Dec 20, 2025
Dec 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM UTC
At 17.
At 17, I remember the first moment— it didn’t shine in the sky, I didn’t feel its presence. Was it a sweet curse? I woke up with a pen in my hand and a wild need to write. A first word? A fragment of nonsense, dressed in lies. Years passed. The girl I was has grown. She’s no longer 17, no longer holding an unknown pen. Because now, at 24— with over 300 poems, I have this feeling: I am not just a poet. I am me.
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Dec 20, 2025
Dec 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM UTC
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