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Las nubes se arrodillan  
sobre la ciudad de granito,  
donde los árboles son estatuas  
y las rocas
—negras—  
lucen corbatas de asfalto.  

Ellos huyeron:  
esas almas con miedo a mojarse  
se esconden en cuevas de cemento,  
en casas que, aunque llenas de gente,  
tienen el mismo vacío  
que los buzones sin cartas.  

Pero los cristales...  
esas pupilas transparentes  
que se niegan a usar cortinas,  
ansían besar a la lluvia,  
beber los relámpagos,  
dejarse desvestir  
por los truenos.  

Los faroles parpadean  
como luciérnagas ancianas.  
Las banquetas se hacen cunas  
para el viento cansado  
que pide permiso  
para dormir.  

Las calles son ríos de tinta,  
las avenidas —arroyos  
que arrastran poemas  
nunca recitados—.  

Las tuberías gimen:  
son venas de hierro fundido  
que llevan el dolor  
en placebo de agua sucia.  

Solo unos pocos  
—los que no temen  
a las sombrillas rotas—  
saben que la lluvia  
es el único abrazo  
que disfraza lágrimas  
sin pedir explicaciones.  

Ellos entienden:  
es mejor el frío honesto  
que el calor mentiroso  
de una casa  
con rejas en las ventanas  
y telarañas  
en el timbre.  

La lluvia es nuestra cómplice.  
Nosotros, los despiertos,  
esperamos su llegada  
como otros esperan el sol.  

Porque nuestro día  
comienza cuando la luna  
—esa sonámbula perfecta—  
se recuesta en el cielo  
y todas las estrellas  
se hacen gotas.  

Mel Zalewsky
NM!
No more performing —
No more presenting —
No more people-pleasing,
And seeking attention.
Can I do that? With no treason?
Is there a people-pleasing anonymous?
PPA?!
Dismissed from long ago,
When? I don't really know.
Wallowing can now wait
It’s time to live, not hate!
Wounded,
But loved —
Coveted;
Beloved.
From the archives
zestree 1d
Fragrance lingers in the stairwell
I ascend the same path a thousand times

It’s a cold morning
in the empty concrete space

I breathe in the familiar scent
that once filled my heart with pleasure

Pleasure that turned to pain
with its passing beauty
What peace exists at the bottom of an empty bottle?

The torment of the mind only silenced,

quietly growing,

pressing against the walls you built.

I'm still tracing the outline of what we were,

still searching for myself in the wreckage of us.

I once made a home in your sorrow,

and now, without it,

I don't know where I belong.

In dreams, I bear your sorrow, grasping for the

moments you escape your demons.

Release me from this endless ache—

find the strength to let go.

My soul will not rest

until you are at peace.

I wait for you still,

hoping you can heal enough

to set me free, and rise beyond the grip of this

endless night.


Time slipped away as I watched you spiral,

and I needed to reach you, to speak, to be heard

but you were only there in fragments—

the version of you clouded by liquor,

a hollowed shell, shrinking deeper into your

shame.

You pushed me away,

the distance growing,

until I became a stranger.

You left me no choice,

no escape but to walk away.

You gave me only one option:

leave, or be consumed

by the slow, painful erosion of you.
Loving and addict…
I'd stick fake stars on the ceiling
so we could lie on my floor
and look them up together
pretending we're still in that place
where your name was a song I loved to taste
and you'd look for my eyes in every minute of the day

I realise only now
just how much I'm still grieving you
It's been years since I've called your name
Keegan 1d
Some days,
it feels like I am outside myself
watching my child-self drown
beneath a skyless surface,
eyes wide, arms reaching,
and I, the adult,
do nothing but stare.

The water is still,
but heavy,
each second dragging me down,
each memory a stone.
My child-self drifts deeper,
hair flowing like seaweed,
a mouth open but silent,
watching the shape of me
blur in the distance.

I see the small hand
reaching upward
not angry,
not afraid,
just desperate
in a quiet, aching way.

And I,
frozen,
feel sorrow crack open
like a fault line,
a grief so old
it forgot how to scream.

I want to dive,
to pull them up,
but my feet won't move.
I don’t know why.

Maybe it’s too late.
Maybe I never learned how.
Maybe I believe I’m the one
who let them fall.

And still,
the hand rises,
the eyes search,
while I remain above,
a ghost
with lungs full of air
and a silence I can’t explain.
Ordinary life
Eating, sleeping, drinking
Laying alone in bed
Thinking thinking thinking

Protection for my boys
Protection for their friends
Als Ick Kan
Until the bitter end

                         Amen.
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