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Peace 1d
It’s been so long since words melted from my finger tips,
I’d forgotten the passion of words as I became worn,
worn down by a passionless love,
profoundly I’m willing to grow again,
and remember my soul once (again),
how could I have forgotten what it meant to write?
foolish me thinking love could merit,
and turn me away from such a miserable fate,
I am finding happiness and reminding myself to breathe,
fresh air is starting to fill my lungs,
oh how winter approaches but spring still lives in me,
welding my life back together,
I’m finally remembering (me),
someone I plan on never forgetting evermore..
I’d forgotten what it meant to live and love with passion.
I think love is wonderful.
When I imagine it, I see fingers intertwined.
Cuddles on the couch.
I see two people opening themselves up fully to one another—
and not running away from what they find.

My version of love is everything that should be...
not what I, as a little girl, have seen.
My version of love holds no place for control.
No room for lies dripping in sugar.
In my version of love, you hold each other up.
You make each other better,
and everything feels lighter when you're together.

Because, hey—
nothing says "I don't love you" like screaming words behind closed doors.
Like the emptiness of countless sorries.
Like trying not to set a person off
who is supposed to be your "significant other."

My love is... confusion.

I don't know if I can catch feelings.
My butterfly-catching net is frayed and torn,
so they just keep flying away.
It seems so easy and natural for them...
I just wish I knew for sure.

Could love ever be in the air?
Or is friendship truly where the line ends?

I've been so focused on self-love and self-growth
that I've not been able to see beyond me.
When I try,
there is only emptiness—
and more questions.

What I want to know is this:
Why can't me, myself and I be enough?
Why does everyone I meet
see me as incomplete
without a man or woman on my arm?

I know I love my things,
my music and my art.
Tisane, quiet contemplation,
and poetry.

Maybe the loves I've seen
have left my heart scattered.
Maybe The One is still out there...
but maybe they just aren't.

Kissing is weird.
*** is weird.
It's almost always the last thing on my mind—
it's just not something that I crave.

Let alone trying to get someone
to like me enough
to even want to do those things with me—
seems like so much EFFORT.

...is being alone really so bad?

Maybe I'm not built for romance,
but GODS does it seem wonderful...
I just don't know if that kind of love is for me.
Love, confusion, and not fitting the romantic mold. A mix of childhood memories, social pressure, and self-defined truth.
Blueberry Ice Aug 24
She’s Chaos..
taking shape into something..
Harmless.
Not the kind that shatters but
the kind that births galaxies..

Raw and Unpolished,
Like coal before diamond
Like earth before life

Crafted uncounted
Created carefree
Unmeasured, uncalculated
.. like the sand at sea

Wild, uneven,
devoid of symmetry,
But there’s something in those eyes
that tells a story..
how she was founded from grief..
from doubts..
from shame..
from confusion..
from love..
     And hope..
That even such a broken piece
Is worthy of reverence..
worthy of space..
and
worthy of love.

As she wear her scars like armor
She flaunts her flaws like truth.
She finally laid down
The burden of expectations
that she was never meant to carry
The sweet sweet child of anarchy
Finally learned that she
Is everything she has to be.
girlinflames Aug 18
You have been called 'too much'
just for feeling.
Silenced,
when all you wanted was to be heard.

You’ve fought the invisible.
You’ve overcome the sadness
that had no name.
You climbed out of the pit of depression.
You walked away from a love
that called you a burden
just for existing with emotion.

And yet —
or maybe because of all this —
you stand here now,
ready to take a step
greater than any step
you’ve ever taken before.

Perhaps what holds you back
is not lack of ability,
but the ache of becoming vast
after being made so small for so long.

Understand this, sweet girl:
no one sabotages themselves because they want to fail.
They sabotage themselves
because they fear rejection
for daring to shine.

And so your soul whispers:
“What if I could fly a little farther?”

Let your blood remind you
that you are still alive.
No soldier waits to feel confident
before entering battle.

I have conquered silence.
I have conquered erasure.
I have conquered the darkness of the mind.
Now I conquer my freedom —
because it is mine by right.

I will no longer live half of myself.
Savva Emanon Aug 18
At last, dear heart, the hush you craved is near,
The dawn you whispered prayers into has come.
The ache, the ache, that long held back your cheer,
Shall yield to peace as soft as morning’s hum.

No more shall shadows slip beneath your door,
No more shall sleepless hours drain your soul.
The chaos that once claimed your nights before,
Now bows beneath the light that makes you whole.

The stars have stirred.
The winds have changed their song.
The sky itself has cleared its weary brow.
You walked through storms that lasted far too long,
But oh, how bright the sacred gift of Now.

No longer tangled in the nets of doubt,
No longer braced for battles yet unknown.
You rise, a quiet flame, no need to shout,
The universe has carved for you a throne.

Clarity wraps you like a second skin,
Each breath a balm, each step a sacred thread.
Fulfillment blooms, not somewhere, but within,
Now peace walks with you, and confusion fled.

So take this hour, this moment, soft and clear,
The new beginning you once dreamed draws near.
Naebaegreen Aug 17
And I’ll miss you,
but I don’t need you—
because needing you
makes it seem like
I’m not okay by myself.

And I’ve always been.

I never needed another.
I came in this world by myself—
all I had was my *****.
So how could I ever
need another person
to make me happy?

To be honest,
other people haven’t done ****
but give me crippling anxiety.
They made me second-guess myself
and all the things
I ever believed.

I don’t understand
what more a *******
could want from me.

And this ain’t just hurt talking—
this is me
looking back on all 18 years
of this life
that I’ve had to walk
alongside others
who made my walk
nothing but hell.

So I don’t need you her—
or anybody,
the **** else.

I even get more creative
when I’m alone.
So who needs friends?
Who needs you?

I feel like once you left,
I was a flower in bloom.

So I wrote all this to say:
I’ll miss you.
But I don’t need you.

I’m okay by myself.
And I’ve always been.

I’ll be okay without you.
I had to learn that its ok to be on your own
A coward will go down with his ship
But a true captain would never let it sink.

To fight marauders and face Gaia herself
That's what being captain means to me.

To dance with death and  steal away his scythe
I'll do it once, and again, just to avoid the deep.

If it means to find treasure beside emotions unwanted
Then I'll unbury it all without hesitation.

I'd boil the ocean, and drown in my blood,
Just to save my ship from a decimation and wreck.

My skin and bones - the sail and mast,
My beautiful ship - the soulful vessel.

You can take it all, and leave me alone
But even with nothing I am determined.

But even with nothing
I am whole.
- C.c
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