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NoHayPila Sep 18
I’ve never known how to keep balance.
Work to live or live to work…
I’ve been on both ends.
Is there ever a middle?

A middle where I don’t have to choose
between rent or dinner?
A middle where work isn’t my topic
of every conversation?

It’s a longing I can’t describe,
only feel.
Feeling tired
Grandma’s kitchen didn’t
have room for me.
There were no warm fuzzies,
honeyed memories, or even
a space at the table.

With her smothering, mothering
of my cousins I was an end of the line,
barely know your name, grandchild.

My arms never reached nor did my lips ask
for affection…Grandma didn’t have any urges
to spoil an apple outside the walls of her orchard.

Times were tough…I didn’t get a choice
to be angry or sad…I slipped into the slot
life made for me, and was taught my first
dandelion lesson of how to bloom in drought.
Norbert Tasev Sep 18
Somewhere, it seems as if the hidden, almost Apocryphal-smelling locks of Life are starting to open again; hunger and greedy thirst are following in its wake. The human shadows, like walnut kernels, carefully peel the rarely revealed one-essence from the slave back, as if everyone is waiting for the deliberate fall of their unsuspecting victims. Like tiger claws, the scornful sins of rejections and unworthy attitudes bite a person one after another, with which he can hardly do anything.

Because the World would crush everyone sympathetically a little, if it did not watch in readiness forever, as if a buzzing ant swarm penetrated the networks of blood vessels unnoticed. Because sooner or later, the mere Soul also rebels against its servant, the gaping of its instincts becomes arrhythmic. Even now, in a dazed stupor, this city with the smell of Nineveh slumbers like a drunken beast, which - it may seem - denies itself a little in exchange for petty, flattering benefits at every age, its compromising actions come face to face with man, and everything reveals how much easier it would have been to act differently, in a different way.

- In the grimace-games of dimples, the age histories of wrinkles get stuck halfway, which tell of shipwrecked childhoods... Something still rings better in a holey bag, and something just rings like a sound; making a big deal has become fashionable, just like unadorned, provocative ******, so that the number of viewers always brings the daily quota profit, the grass of innocence, like some unknown marijuana derivative, always rots. It may seem impossible to walk the peaks of silence that have become songless.
Marwan Baytie Sep 18
Shadows dance, light sways in tune.  
Roots and winds share ancient secrets.  
Darkness whispers truths, unbound, untamed.

The light bends, tender, in knowing embrace.  

Harmony hums where opposites collide.  

Steps falter, rise, then learn to fly.  
In balance, stillness moves, serene, alive.
Artis Sep 17
Space

A beautiful sight,

with stars
showering meteors,
a blazing sun,
and the ever—
radiant moon.

A space of—
eternal silence,
and ethereal beauty.

But without oxygen,
we would all die.

Beauty always has a price.

Treat life with the same delicacy,
live it with a thrill;
life is the price you pay,
for death always—
collects its debt.
Nick Sep 17
Yes, But Do You Know You Deserve the World

Through the sunshine and the rainbows,
through the dark and stormy nights,
your light shone the brightest,
and whomever it touched, it lit their world.

And in that light, do you know

you deserve the yellow of the sunflower below?
Your gleeful smile thawed the frost in the air,
rushing into me and all around me—
like the fresh breath of air on a winter morning,
like drops of water slipping through a cracked rock,
carrying beauty in an ethereal glow.

And maybe you don’t see it,

you changed me and the world around you.
Your words carried a voice of reason,
filled with warmth and understanding—
sometimes childish and playful,
but always fiercely protective,
like the sunflower guarding its yellow.

So I tell you again,
your eyes shine bright like the stars above
Your radiant smile took the blue out of my day,
set butterflies to dance in the world’s wake
Even when your cries dampened the world below,
in my eyes you still appear so beautifully yellow,
since the day I first saw your glow.
Right here: surface level regrets— a smile rehearsed hides too many
oceans underneath. To lose the mark of a purpose, drowning in
the weight of it, falling asleep too far from tomorrow, and begging
the clock for hours to borrow.

I was almost crushed, a branch torn from its root— still green,
still alive, but already withering in the dirt. Among circles of people,
most days stack like square bricks; I fly too low, chasing reflections,
the heron staring back from water’s despair.

Fresh lipstick still stings— beauty sharpened into a lethal injection.
Kindness can be your only mistake, forcing a straight smile onto a
crooked day. Faith rubs raw against friction; love can be a salvation,
but fatal is it's attraction.

But to stay still, makes a silhouette pinned to the wall, lonely but
lovely in outline— as the shadows above become surface level
regrets. But tomorrow, I’ll trace the same lines again, hoping each
cycle might end better than the last.
Before there were walls and temples,
before kings forged crowns of gold,
the first light rose — a gift from the Creator.

He placed the sun to pour warmth upon our skin,
to stir the sleeping earth awake,
to mend weary bones with its radiant fire.

Yet we remember —
it is not the sun itself that heals,
but the One who set it burning.
He fashioned it as His messenger,
carrying light to our eyes
and strength to our souls.

When I stand here at the edge of the world
and feel its golden breath on my face,
I feel Him near —
the true Healer,
the giver of every dawn.
This is how I feel every morning when I stand before the rising sun at the edge of the ocean...
This is where I am healed...
This is where I belong...
RH Sep 17
Water
Smoke

Are they any different?
One drowns the Body. the other; the Mind.

I’d choose to drown in both if given the chance.
I wrote this today in a moment of clarity in the fog of my mind. Enjoy! -RH
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