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boy who craves a darker shadow
not just shade, but hunger wrapped in smoke and bone,
under headlines wife’s sister’s affairs rot at the root.

hemlocked, nameless, hair knotted with cuscuta string;
ghost-vines rope his wrists like hungry knuckles.
the hollow-eyed boy carves a bar and calls it scripture,
trades green for powder, profit for blood;
he’d slit a throat before he spares a leaf.

how does that nameless leaf keep grieving?
how does it stay alive?
it roots in rot
it drinks their blood and keeps on green.
.
not a story, just the kind of rot you meet when survival forgets its manners.
A sentence sent on silent wings,
A hope the lonely spirit brings.
A thread is thrown across the night—
A sudden,answering, gentle light.

Wishing you a day filled with those gentle lights.
Usha 7d
By Usha Maniar

Many times my mind tells me,
“Delete your number,
erase your name from my phone.”

But my heart…
it never agrees.
It clings to every memory,
to every hope,
and whispers—
“Some bonds can’t be deleted,
they live beyond logic,
inside the soul.”
🔹 Summary

This poem reflects the conflict between the heart and the mind.
The mind says, “Erase the number, let go.”
But the heart refuses, bound by memory and longing.
It shows that moving on is never about deleting contacts—
it is about healing the soul, which takes time and love.
Norbert Tasev Sep 25
Just as eating is the test of pudding, we can't really do anything with our deliberately inward-flowing, draughty tears. Our residual, mushy, pathetic life is divided into three hundred and sixty-five tiny particles not only by Time or the calendar - but every day has that cheesy, almost shameful story to the core, according to which: we should adjust better to our alternate endings. Love ready to unfold would draw in vain increased comfort if there were no roots, seeds-germs left from which the whole emotion would sprout; why does the delicious roasted coffee, which we brew in the dim light of dawn, also have the smell of burnt *****?!

Because we must naturally inhabit the accumulations of lasting annoyances, so that later they can't say about us: "Well! This was also that kind of person!" As if the spiritual-physical connection had already - in many cases - finally come to an end, i.e. a person must always compromise with himself first and foremost, and bargain at the same time.

He often stumbles or gets lost in flooded jars if he is not paying enough attention, and because sooner or later the body also stretches itself towards the horizon of Nothing. The goals and planned ideas seem to testify to conscious helplessness; why should the disillusionment nicknamed permanent be skinned when there is still usable emotion there?! A state of voluntary death also outlines the order of the living, where they can go. From inside, the World already seems like a torn Band-Aid.
Artis Sep 24
“Your smile is so beautiful,” they say —
but little do they know,
half of my face is paralyzed.

one side, playing the great pretender
the other,
basking in my sadness,
trying to heal the ache —
one side smiles, the other weeps,
tears running down
my freshly made clothes —
now sagging in my tears.

Do I really deserve skin
if I’m not comfortable in it?
Do I deserve a mouth,
if I can’t sing a sad melody
out into the world,
with the window open,
painting a scene,
spilling my mind on pavement
for anyone that stops
and cares to listen.

everyone still laughing, still smiling;
they walk past my cracks,
blind to the dark picture
I’m trying to open their eyes to.

half frozen,
half dead,
reaching —
for empathy.

the air picks up,
pushes me back from the window;
it shuts, sudden, cold.
I am lost, cut out —
again.

with my body barely able to move,
I reach for poetry,
hoping I can still write
when my voice feels thin,
my fingers trembling, half-paralyzed —
hoping it can set me free.
Set yourself free 💗
Von Winters Sep 24
I woke up late today… 16 alarms couldn't disrupt my peace.
I now sit out, eat my breakfast and enjoy my tea. September's Breath, a gentle comfort as it rustles the tree tops.

My phone remains in its pocket, as I watch the pine tree's branches sway.
As the lowest layer of clouds in the sky rush by, and I allow my mind to float upon the sounds of chipmunk, squirrels, and birds.

I slide down in my chair, embracing the symphony, and watch the sky.
The first memory that pops in my head was how many years ago, when I broke my foot as a child. I had been playing with the dogs, and an ill timed Ottoman caught my foot with its edge.
Broke my baby toe at the knuckle, and where it connects to my foot. Never processed so much pain before, at least until whatever pain took its place.

I don't remember much from that time, but I remember watching the 1980's Transformers movie until the DVD couldn't be read anymore, as I slept on the couch.
I remember fake friends using the fact I couldn't go outside because of the snow, to l stay in and play computer games, specifically with me.

It's hard to describe faded memories, but what a truly miserable time that was…
Usha 7d
✍️ Usha Maniar

There is one undeniable truth of life — death.
One day, every heartbeat will fall silent,
and all that we built, dreamed, or feared will fade into stillness.

But there is another truth, far greater, far deeper:
If you live with kindness,
if you lift others when they fall,
if you share inspiration that lights their path —
then you never truly die.

Your body may rest,
but your spirit continues in every smile you created,
in every life you touched,
in every heart you awakened.

This is the only immortality that matters —
to live beyond death,
not in monuments of stone,
but in the gentle echoes of love, compassion, and hope
you leave behind.
"Death is the truth of life,
but kindness is the truth beyond death.
He who inspires and uplifts,
never truly dies."
— Usha Maniar
Cassie love Sep 24
Is writing really my thing ?
Yeah I may create stories—
Fulfilling ones.
I may craft poems
That flows like rivers.

But every one can write.
Everyone can imagine

So what makes me unique?
What makes me special?
We all wrestle with the thoughts that come with our art — wondering how we are different, and how we’re supposed to know if writing is truly our thing. It can feel so confusing.
I revisit long-forgotten places
and a past that no longer offers warmth.
I yearn to return to where the spark ignited, to the realm
of genuine emotions and dreams.

I flee from my own essence, reaching for the stars,
as frigid as my heart.
I have become a stranger to all that once was.

The day concludes, giving way to night,
during which my heart
awakens to beat more fervently
in a torrent of memories
and illusions that rise repeatedly.

Only in the morning do
I rediscover my true self within the vacant walls.
And I aspire to become a star –
Just as frigid, to radiate from the heavens
and remain unattainable to all.

My thoughts drift to distant valleys as
I seek the ancient past that eludes me.
I experience a continual demise within myself,
yearning to feel the warmth of beloved hands,
if only in my dreams.

I escape from my own being by reaching for the stars.
There is no affection in castles built in the air,
and my heart remains shattered.
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