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In the theater of souls,
I am a man!
But I think the thoughts
of a human.
I walk the eternal path
of spirituality,
Reflected in the light
of my reality.

I reached for the higher truth
as the old wives fables disintegrate
into the light of rational thinking.

Our light shines brighter
when we open our minds
and see through the darkness
we’ve been making.
Traveler 🧳 Tim
Arii 2d
Happiness comes from
somewhere

far away


Happiness comes from
what the world could not stave

For I reach out to the light

but inside I find
nothing but a reflection
I face
no comprehension

and I reach out again
with

nothing;

in my hand,
my heart,
my soul,
my self,

unbeknownst of the answer
I already
held.
Ivan 3d
life hunts never far
at your heels always
as you run and hide

sprint and run
then hide again
as much you can
but life will find you

life runs hard
harder you must be
or run and hide

yet this hide
always
life will find
Yesterday
The streets were wider
Now they're narrow
I would go
To the place of mystery
Is gone

Truths revealed
The wide-eyed wonder
Of a child has seen
Into the eyes
Of that distant dream
I had dreamt
The visions
Of a peaceful life

I live
The remnants
Of that child's
Dreams come true

Take my hand
And take my feet
On the paths
That no one
Has tread before
No one knows the pain
That dreamer's feel

I cross these rivers
Deep and wide
I search through
Valleys deep and wide
The other side starts
Where each new day begins

Now today
I will walk the streets
Of yesterday have passed
Into a new beginning
Is in what I see

From the bridges
On the rivers
That flow from yesterday
It's clear
That I am dreaming
My reality

Dreams are real
Make them happen
As a child
Plays the games
That are reality
At any age.
©2017 Daniel Irwin Tucker

Lyrics to a song i wrote & recorded
Beauty, soft as morning light,
a golden glow, a breath so bright.
It lingers sweet on petals fair,
a whispered song that stirs the air.


It rests in laughter, light and free,
the way the waves embrace the sea.
In fleeting glimpses, lovers’ sighs,
the stars reflected in one’s eyes.


It lives in youth, in uncreased skin,
the way a tale of love begins.
It hums in silks, in mirrored glass,
a spell we chase but cannot grasp.


But beauty’s hands are laced with thread,
of woven myths and words unsaid.
The colors shift, the echoes fade,
and shadows creep where light once played.


They carve the lines upon our face,
remind us all: this is a race.
The painted lips, the powdered cheeks,
a mask we wear, afraid to speak.


The whispers turn to cries at night,
"Be softer, smaller, more polite."
"Be brighter, bolder, never old."
"Be worth the weight of all this gold."


The hunger grows, the mirror calls,
distorted truth in silver walls.
The scales, the numbers, counting sins,
a war where no one truly wins.


The rose is crushed beneath the hand
that once adored its beauty grand.
What once was soft turns sharp and cruel,
a hollow voice, a hollow rule.


And so the petals drift away,
the laughter lost in yesterday.
But beauty never learned to stay—
it flits, it fades, it slips away.


Yet in the ruin, something new,
beyond the glass, beyond the view—
a beauty raw, untouched by chains,
not drawn by hands, nor bound by names.


A beauty real, unshaped, unscorned,
not bought, nor sold, nor torn, nor worn.
Not weight, nor skin, nor youth, nor face—
but fire, wild, and full of grace.
Writeability Feb 17
His blue eyes have darkened
I know what this means
The man I love is breaking
Traveling
He's on his way
To another place
Where sanity breaks
I step back and prepare for his cries
Cries of desperation to know himself once more
He's here but not
Himself yet another
Lost behind a mesh curtain
Disturbing his veiw of what's real
I see him still
Part way here
And I am frightened
My selfish desires to have him return
I yell and scream inside my head
Searching for a way to make him see that I am right in front of him
That he is still inside somewhere
I worry for us
That it will never be as it once was
My self-obsessed needs
To be free of the person he is not
His anguish is destroying him
Destroying me
I am changing
I'm losing myself
My desperation with the seperation of self
It's tearing me apart
My selfish heart
I need him back to show me that I am not alone
I want this over
I want his strength to return home
I need him back
As he was
Obsessed with me
I wrote this back in October.
Mishika Feb 17
I miss the days
When the stars would smile
And the trees talked about you.

When your voice was still music
And your hair; my night sky,
I truly cherished it.

I miss the moments
When art was you
And everything else was you.

Writing about you
And dreaming endlessly,
I exceptionally enjoyed.

But I never miss
The days that I
Regretted missing reality for you.
Aurora Feb 10
They make us climb as fast as we can.
The one who climbs the fastest gets to shine.

And the rest of us?
We watch from the bottom.

We stand there while the toppers glow.

We are all told to climb higher.
"Keep moving." "Don’t stop."
Because if you do, someone else will reach the top before you.

It’s a race.
It always has been.

While the one at the bottom of the hill
Carries a chain of shame,
A reminder that they will never be good enough.

Their splintered knees,
Their trembling hands,
Obey every command thrown their way.
They accept the painful words,
Beaten with rods to push them forward.
No one ever stops to check on them.

My legs have turned to wood.
They refuse to move.

My legs have turned to wood because of the many years
I was told I wasn’t good enough.

And so, my legs became harder and harder every year.
Now, they have turned to wood.

Waiting for a hand to pull me up.
But no one looks.
No one understands.

While the world claps for the students who make it to the top,
They turn to me and ask,
"Why don’t you just try harder?"

I promise you... I really did.

But I wasn’t made to win like the rest of them.

And yet, they don’t even spare a drop of water
For those left behind.

We are forgotten.

Welcome to our school system.
"everybody is a genius. but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
-Albert Einstein
As a dyslexic student, I never received the support I needed at an early age. This led me to struggle silently with it for many years. My teachers only ever criticized me, never once taking the time to understand what was wrong. This is my experience, and I would never wish it upon anyone. I share this in the hope that others who face similar challenges will feel seen and understood.
anna Feb 5
The world around me is unknown. The
swirled images, harsh stone,  blue eyes,
skyscapes, confused sunsets.
Each whispered word, each empty touch.

If the moon shone just as bright,
what would be the sake of the beauty of the sunrise?
If the stars could fill the void,

why would the sun bother rising?
Why would clouds cover horizons?

when all I want is it to stop,
to still, to stunt, to sigh, to breathe
to be. But the world spins faster,

and I blink through a clouded haze
at the calm of now, the facts,
the brink of crowded days.
Tanmayp Feb 3
सपना कभी सही राह नहीं होता, अपना हमेशा सही इंसान नहीं होता,
कभी गैरों पर भरोसा करके देखो, कभी क़ाबिलियत से आसमान छूकर देखो।
राहें तो बदलती हैं, पर इरादे नहीं बदलने चाहिए,
विश्वास भी टूटे, तो खट्टे आमों में, मिठा वाला ढूंढ़ना चाहिए।
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