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Weight on my chest,
each breath a struggle.
My head pounds,
distracting me
from the ache in my heart.

How did I get here?
This isn’t real. This isn’t fair.

Sharp right, sharp left-
East? West?
A slow curve in the road-
which path is best?

Is peace found at the end of the struggle,
or through the struggle itself?
Should I fight loud,
or be still,
let God prowl?

There’s confidence in dominance,
but strength in surrender.
Is the high road the way,
or must I wade through the ditches,

Decisions.
Celestial Feb 16
It's hard to know,
When knee deep in ebb and flow.
Legs weakening to stand,
with your feet buried in the sand.

If you pull one up,
you'll lose your balance and even your cup.
One we keep selfishly filled,
While others sit in what they spilled.

The whole balancing act,
Unknowingly keeping us back.
From the overreaching progress,
of what may be regress.

What was the goal?
To keep us whole?
I'd like to drop my part.
I don't believe I have the heart,

To keep moving unknowingly on.
Past what we saw of dawn.
Laying down I have my relief,
"I've reached my end." is my belief.
Vianne Lior Feb 10
A coin tossed in air,
its shadow stretches on stone—
is it fate or desire?
Two roads diverged within her heart,
One bound by vows, the other past—
I hoped she’d choose to stand apart,
From ties that held her firm and fast,
But love she gave would never last.

I spoke of paths we both had crossed,
Of how I chose her over mine—
Yet to her own she turned and lost
The chance to walk with hands entwined,
A love divided, left behind.

A thousand times I let her know,
Yet still she strayed where I was not—
A bond undone, the weight would grow,
Till truth revealed what she forgot—
Her heart was sworn, but love was not.

And so in time, the day will break,
Her path will call, as paths must do—
The choice she made, the road she’d take,
Will lead her far from what she knew,
And I must take my own road too.


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Norfhel­­ V. Ramirez
February 6, 2025
inspired by "The Road Not Taken" by "Robert Frost"
but written in my own words.
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Caio Gomes Jan 23
Life,
built and driven by dreams,
compelled by needs,
conquered through opportunity,
sustained by dedication,
longed for by desire.

Desire, which drives dreams,
with the folly of burying them
in the present routine
and in superior external decisions.

This partner desire, divided,
by indecision and power,
by wanting and duty:
yields and withers.

Surrendering to destiny and fate,
woven into the horizon,
blind to the present,
credited to the past,
premises of the future,
entangled in possibilities
irreverent to the central,
present, and adjacent conditions:
of life, like metamorphosis,
mutable, unavoidable, and relentless.

Faced with assumptions and
eventualities,
is what’s meant to be, to be?
Perhaps, in the undulations of the search
for the fleeting existence.
"I only know that I know nothing," yet trying to reflect a little about life.
dead poet Jan 2
a sense of desertion
combined with
a sense of purpose
is a lethal combination;
false, or true.

a gust of wind sweeping through
an abandoned campfire,
in the right direction
(𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦)
will take down the
entire forest.
Malia Dec 2024
Daredevil laid dead
Dialed aid, leave dread
Viral liar lived idle
Vile drivel, aired live.

Evil idea, veiled lie
Real Reel, diva died
Dire dealer, ever realer
Revived, live, revived, dead
Revealed vivid red.

Redial, aid evaded arrival—
DRIVE, DRIVE, DRIVE!!
Evil deed, via viral
Reel, red river.
My first anagrammatic poem! I hope it made some sort of sense XD.
Pax Dec 2024
Never blame me when it was your choice in the first place.
a quote.
Imagine the world smooth and polished
Imagine the world skimming water
Imagine the worlds ripples on the water
Imagine the world that is smooth, polished and skimming is you
Now imagine that the smooth polished skimming world that is you suddenly drops with a splash 💦
© JLB
15/11/2024
04:16 GMT
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