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You hurt me in places only God could restore.
In wounds too deep for apologies,
in spaces where words could never reach.
You took from me pieces I thought I could never get back,
and left me with scars I didn’t ask for.

But what you broke, my God is mending.
What you stole, He is restoring.
What you meant for harm, He is turning into strength.
Because no matter how deep the cut,
God’s healing always runs deeper.
Smell, touch, sight, hear, and taste
These are the five senses
Those make you unique
No one has the same smell
Same touch or sight
Or even doubt and taste

Smell
You can smell common things
Like pies and popcorn
But me?
I still smell your cologne

Touch
You can touch everything
Like pies and popcorn
But me?
I still feel your touch

Sight
You can see a lot of things
Like pies and popcorn
But me?
I still see you in the shadows

Sound
You can hear the same things
Like the timer for the pies and the popping of popcorn
But me?
I still hear the words you told me

Taste
You never take the same thing
Like the pie and popcorn can be good to you but not someone else
But me?
I can still taste the ***** you shoved into my mouth

You can smell pies and popcorn
You can touch pies and popcorn
You can see pies and popcorn
You can hear the timer and the popping
And you can taste pies and popcorn
But me?
I still smell your cologne
I still feel your hands
I still see you in shadows
I still hear your voice
And I still taste you

The five senses can be so good
But one person can make them so bad
Biblically:

Joshua 1:3

"Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, just as I promised to Moses."
(Notice it’s past tense — God said it was already given, even before Joshua stepped into it.)

Deuteronomy 1:8

"See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers…"
(The gift was already there; they just needed to claim it.)

Luke 12:32

"Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
(It’s already granted — God delights in giving.)

2 Peter 1:3

"His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness."
(Has given = already done, already yours.)

Jeremiah 1:5

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
(God’s plan and calling for Jeremiah existed before he was born.)

Ephesians 1:4–5

"For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ..."
(This shows God’s purpose and blessing were decided before time began.)

Psalm 139:16

"Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
(Every blessing and assignment was already known to God before your first day on earth.)
Lewis 7d
I find myself existing above where everything else is.
I do see the cars gliding in heavy rain, painting me with white Hollywood flashes but I could confidently argue that they wouldn't cast a shadow behind myself. I find myself existing outside of my body and away from everything I can see in some muted soft space in between.

I wonder if it is because I turn everything into symbols or is it because I am 26 and just trying to feel different. To feel smarter or better or kinder. Is that the goal of all this? There is space between everything I touch and no ability to feel the jagged edges or cold surfaces underneath my fingertips. A numbing that would drive me insane if I wasn't so bloated and churning with random thoughts; some good, some bad. Nothing specific.

I lay on the sofa and notice the moon reflected in the large windows. Two moons, a nice distance apart and somehow the same size and light. The only thing that tells me that one moon is a reflection is some guttural instinct. A discernment. I would love to say they emulated the eyes of a cunning cat or some other great power instead, but they looked blank. But they looked at me.

I feel myself reaching the end of this current mind shift. The one where everything has a meaning or everything is connected. I wonder if it has actually poisoned how I see things but I understand it is a natural progression. Instead I am moving towards the prophecies that things just happen. People can say things without meaning, things can exist without history. Pretty existential and less poetic. It should be less freeing but at the moment it feels more non-sensical and there is less music in everything. Ironic that I should find bliss in less blissful things and I wonder if that is an excuse. My next thing should be to write something beautiful.

To fashion something that is delicate with an expanding and deflating tidal force behind it so strong you could feel it in the muscles of your tongue. Or how the knocking on the door in the night pokes crashes of adrenaline into the top of your chest and contracts your torso with sickly electric, charging your muscles to move and how we are in all fact some weird victim to this wet newspaper slurry and sewage mosaic of stone greys and denim blues all coming together as one when you shake your head but leave your eyes open. And we are just trying and trying to swallow what things happen to us and around us all the time
Sleepless Times, which can conspire at any time even in the tamed land of dreams – if they so choose. Signs of the past should be nursed, who carry the pain of stigma wounds unnoticed. Like the children who were made to sit in silent silence or were scolded, who could not get gummy bears, Playstations, or anything else – now, as if the dawning morning light involuntarily humiliates a person deeper and deeper... Like the tiny ants, a person can also increasingly – if you are not careful – break into broken mosaic pieces, which nothing, not even the laws of the Universe, can put back together;

The secret worldly materials of humanity and spirit can no longer be realized by the balancing desire for certain instinctual satisfaction. Unsuspecting, they cross so many belittling, forbidden thresholds, because they are sufficiently careless, unwary, and involuntarily violate the inner silence of the secret circles of the soul. On the fate-woven veil of Being, a stray, clinging cobweb thread often tips over; the secret mood melancholy of joy and sorrow, just like the secret pendulum of moods, changes every second, like the devil's spasm. Because the eternal Nothing can still be lost by the crumbling Lack, because it lacks the secret umbilical cord that once organically chained its defenseless, lonely victims to Life!

The fragments of memory, like the potsherds, can break at any time; first only the found, yet hesitant movement falls apart, then the hug, or perhaps the handshake. We reserve the pitiful entrance to our cold, cheap, petty secrets – at least for now – for the competent love who would bring the One-Dear!
Why do I feel so cold and empty when everyone around me is warm?
Am I made of ice?
Or rather, is it the fact that they choose to blanket themselves in quilts by the fire, while I shiver outside in the cold?
Am I a fool; ignorant and selfish?
I hope not.
Maybe I'm just...  l  o  n  e  l  y  ?
Ieri era il tuo compleanno
Purtroppo è stata una giornata impegnativa
Tuttavia, sono andato nel giardino
Del mio cuore questa splendida mattina
Dove ** colto una rosa invisibile che poteva portare:
Felicità, gioia, buon umore e un inizio di primavera.

Mi sono rasato barba e baffi per rallegrare la tua giornata
Con tutto il cuore, ti auguro un felice compleanno
Oh! Vorrei incantarti fino al tramonto
Quando l'arcobaleno non c'è più in autunno
Verso un altro orizzonte, per un'altra stagione
Per favore, accetta questa rosa, questa poesia, questa canzone.

P.S. Questa poesia è dedicata al mia cara amica.

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Translation in Italian
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