from “remember that we made this together — cherry wine”
.
i’m just an ordinary person,
looking for peace and sincerity
in a society where cruelty
is already normal.
adults plant hate,
raising their kids
to dehumanise their friends.
consequently, empathy dies,
and violence becomes breathing.
i had an ex.
he was a nationalist, a racist,
and every time i saw him spreading hate,
i ended up carrying it inside myself.
i became the mirror
of what he said.
he even named his email
by pasting “hate”
onto a country
and its leader’s name.
how do you explain anything
to someone blind at heart
and deaf to logic?
they don’t give a ****
they believe what they know
is absolute truth,
never realising
there are other ways
to loosen the strings,
to choose paths
where nobody loses.
but the mirror cracked,
and i shattered with it.
pieces of me fell away
and he didn’t see any of them.
violence kept breathing.
and i still kept dreaming
a better world would come one day.
Apr 26
Apr 26, 2026 at 3:31 AM UTC
from “remember that we made this together — cherry wine”
.
i’m just an ordinary person,
looking for peace and sincerity
in a society where cruelty
is already normal.
adults plant hate,
raising their kids
to dehumanise their friends.
consequently, empathy dies,
and violence becomes breathing.
i had an ex.
he was a nationalist, a racist,
and every time i saw him spreading hate,
i ended up carrying it inside myself.
i became the mirror
of what he said.
he even named his email
by pasting “hate”
onto a country
and its leader’s name.
how do you explain anything
to someone blind at heart
and deaf to logic?
they don’t give a ****
they believe what they know
is absolute truth,
never realising
there are other ways
to loosen the strings,
to choose paths
where nobody loses.
but the mirror cracked,
and i shattered with it.
pieces of me fell away
and he didn’t see any of them.
violence kept breathing.
and i still kept dreaming
a better world would come one day.
