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who are you under the weight of stolen skies? when the oceans are chains, what will you say? what will you do when your feet slip into the earth, and the earth asks: where are you going? is freedom a tree? does it grow, or break when you touch it? or does it whisper in broken syllables? can you hear it? or do your ears fill with the static of silence? do you taste the fire, burning in your chest? or is it just a name etched in the walls of your soul? how many shadows can you count in a crowded room, how many hearts can be broken before the pieces ask for their own names? will you stand in the rain of forgotten promises, and still say: "i was never part of the storm?" or will you turn, and claim the sky that was always yours to hold?
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Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM UTC
under the weight of stolen skies
who are you under the weight of stolen skies? when the oceans are chains, what will you say? what will you do when your feet slip into the earth, and the earth asks: where are you going? is freedom a tree? does it grow, or break when you touch it? or does it whisper in broken syllables? can you hear it? or do your ears fill with the static of silence? do you taste the fire, burning in your chest? or is it just a name etched in the walls of your soul? how many shadows can you count in a crowded room, how many hearts can be broken before the pieces ask for their own names? will you stand in the rain of forgotten promises, and still say: "i was never part of the storm?" or will you turn, and claim the sky that was always yours to hold?
sometimes the weight of everything feels too much. we carry questions in places we can't reach, and wonder if anyone else hears them. there's a quiet in the world that speaks louder than anything else. wouldn't you agree?
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14/beatopia
Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM UTC
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