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sometimes, you breathe, and you breathe, and nothing changes. if you can just look outside of yourself, you find the suncast sky, blue turning black, lit only be street lamps. if you can just look outside, the tears stop, they still. but things like pain -- things like hurt -- they linger. in the words I try to form, in the mistakes I try not to make. they tell you to breathe in, breathe out. count your breaths, center yourself in the present. an anchor, a tether. I wish it could be enough to stave off other things: like sadness, a crescendoing echo in my heart; like hurt, a tangent constant at the edges; like love, because you can never hold them close enough.
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Jul 25, 2021
Jul 25, 2021 at 5:43 AM UTC
drifting
sometimes, you breathe, and you breathe, and nothing changes. if you can just look outside of yourself, you find the suncast sky, blue turning black, lit only be street lamps. if you can just look outside, the tears stop, they still. but things like pain -- things like hurt -- they linger. in the words I try to form, in the mistakes I try not to make. they tell you to breathe in, breathe out. count your breaths, center yourself in the present. an anchor, a tether. I wish it could be enough to stave off other things: like sadness, a crescendoing echo in my heart; like hurt, a tangent constant at the edges; like love, because you can never hold them close enough.
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sam9w
Tokyo, Japan
Jul 25, 2021
Jul 25, 2021 at 5:43 AM UTC
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