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Meet me at the Chapel baby,
You'll be borrowed, I'll be blue.
Pay every priest in county,
Let me spend my forever with you.
Sa paglubog ng araw at pagsikat ng buwan.
Sa ihip ng hangin at patak ng ulan.
Sa pagdaan ng taon.
At sa bawat paglagas ng dahon.
Pangalan mo ang baon.
Sa pag-agos ng luha at sa paghikbi,
Sa pagsibol ng mangilan-ngilang ngiti.
Pauli-ulit na tatanawin,
Mga ala-ala mo na kumikinang kasama ng mga bituin.
Ikaw ang hiling.
Ikaw ang tinatangi.
Ikaw ang minimithi.
Ikaw ang sinta.
Ikaw ang payapa.
Ikaw ang pag-ibig.
Ikaw ang dalanging, nawa'y marinig.
Ngayon at sa paglipas ng panahon.
Pangalan mo ang sambit ng puso sa bawat alon.
Hahanap-hanapin ka sa kalawakan.
There are words I never speak, yet they echo in my mind,  
Like whispers of a love unclaimed, a bond undefined.  
She stands there, untethered, a dream I cannot chase,  
Yet every thought of mine finds solace in her embrace.  
  
I send her verses, the echoes of my soul,  
She reads, she smiles, yet never takes the role.  
She says she won't be mine, yet she never drifts away,  
Like the moon that lights my night but never meets the day.  
  
And I wonder—what am I to her? A fleeting thought, a gentle phase?  
Am I the endless sky she gazes at, or the home where she stays?  
Like Amrita’s heart torn between the vast and the known,  
Am I the dream she admires or the shelter she calls home?  
  
I wish she knew the weight of my silence, the storm in my chest,  
The longing in my veins, the ache that never rests.  
But love is cruel, it lets you feel but keeps you blind,  
It makes you yearn for presence, yet leaves you behind.  
  
Could I be both? The sky she soars in, the roof where she hides?  
Could I be her wildest journey and her safest side?  
Or am I just a whisper in the wind she lets pass?  
A beautiful pause in a story never meant to last.  
  
If only love required no words, no confessions, no plea,  
If only hearts could hear what lips never set free.  
But love, my love, is a tale of what never aligns,  
Of longing without answer, of unsaid yet felt signs.
This poem captures the dilemma of unspoken love, where one soul longs to be both the vast sky of freedom and the sheltering roof of comfort for another. Inspired by the contrast between Sahir and Amrita’s love and Emroj’s steadfast presence, it explores the pain of being deeply connected yet never fully claimed. Love is often a paradox—where one wishes to be everything to someone who may not even see them the same way. The poem leaves open the question: Can one ever be both—a dream and a home? Or is love always destined to be an imbalance of longing?
B 5d
I will come back to you
A little taller than before
You will never know what's true
How my legs and arms tore
I really hate the summer
The breeze makes me sad
I’ll try not to be a ******
But you know I can’t make you glad
I’ve always been scared
That summer brings death
(Sticky hot and flies buzz round
Upon the roadkill on the ground)
I’ll never know if you cared
Getting close so I can feel your breath
The summer is worse than spring
In that the birds won’t sing
Anonymous Mar 23
Sometimes.
I do not wish to speak to you with words.
But rather, to see you with feeling,
Admire you through them.

For to use only words would be to limit myself.
To deceive you.
arriving to you fractured, blighted.

within every emotion that lies within me,
Lies every word  and idea I could only hope to shape for you,
Yet fail to capture.

Still, I will use them,
knowing their futility.
So you may see these emotions.
Through every ounce and aspect of my being.
And they, in turn, may touch every part of you.

And i will choose to not break free of this struggle.
The conflict of my words and emotions will only serve as a reminder of the effect you have bestowed upon me.
To live for.
And what you left for me to suffer for.
Feelings that will not reach, hear, or touch
Zywa Mar 27
He is back, being

a foreigner in the land --


he longed for so much.
Novella "Tralievader" (1991, "Nightfather", 1994, Carl Friedman), chapter 'Vreemdeling' (Foreigner) - [1] Odysseus, [2] people who survived a German **** concentration camp, [3] ...

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Kahawa Tamu Mar 26
I miss you,
I miss your good morning texts,
Your messages lighting up my phone,
The special ringtone I had for you,
Calling you mpenzi -
Because that’s what you are,
My darling.

I miss your voice,
Your laughter,
The warmth in your words.
I miss how we spoke of everything,
How we made each other feel alive.

I miss your kind heart, beautiful soul and spirit.
I miss your wild ambitions,
Your endless *** of kindness,
Your relentless singing of love ballads after your favourite drink,
And your desire to truly be a great person.

I miss Kivuli’s sweetest face,
The comfort you both brought me
Whenever I was lost in sadness.
I miss your smooth, dark skin,
Your handsome face,
Your gorgeous body in all its glory,
Your kindness and gentleness.
Your laughter.

I miss how natural we were together -
Effortlessly almost.
Perhaps that’s what went wrong,
Was it too easy, and is life not?

I miss the hope we shared,
The late-night conversations,
And the way your deep voice
Would echo through my heart.
What happens now?
I don’t know.
But I miss you with every fibre of my being.
I haven’t stopped loving you -
And I don’t know if I ever will.
Come back to me, mpenzi.
Come back to us.
I dream
of the apocalypse
long for it
fantasize daily
of what it would be like

the world as we know it
ending
never to be the same again

the pain of lost nostalgia
society crumbling
a fresh start

I long to see human nature
stripped down to animal form
raw fury
primal instincts

we would all be killers
wild and desperate
so focused on survival
we'd forget about all the petty things that used to matter

everything would be different
no one would have to hide anymore
I WOULDN'T HAVE TO HIDE ANYMORE!
we could succumb to it
the darkness
the Monster

it wouldn't matter
the demons that plague you
who you love
who you are
all your deepest
darkest
secrets
suddenly simply methods of survival

I would survive, I think
we would
alone
together
just fighting zombies

let's be honest:
they aren't that bad anyway

someday, society would be reborn
a new one
post-apocalyptic
we would go back to what we once were
creatures of the night
of blood and beauty

but for a while, nothing but
anarchy
lawlessness
pure desperate survival
where nothing matters
and everything goes

I dream
of the apocalypse
It would be so much... easier, don't you think?
a girl
oddity
out of time
wrong place
no reason
no rhyme
wasting space
a rich commodity
unfurl
was i born in the wrong time?
and nada Mar 26
Pain disguised as boredom
masked by being high all the time.
Hotboxing with denial,
thinking there's nothing wrong with mine

mind drowned in reassuringly comfortable lies.

**** controlling without objection -
past trauma hidden deep with suppression.

But one more hit will make me feel wise.

Had to quit to grow and wake up.
I'm sorry we had to go and break up -
but an addiction to numbness
can't be what I continually take up.
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