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I used to think that higher meant escape,
That feeling weightless was the only way.
I’d chase whatever helped me lose my shape,
Until the night consumed another day.

I thought each fix would find the joy I’d long forgotten,
But clarity would hit — so sharp and sudden.

Chasing every high will have you
digging at rock bottom.
selma 4d
I would cry,
if you were half the man
you said you were.
Someone's living their life,
Someone's living in lies.
Some people appreciate beauty,
Even though they don't know why.

Some just drive their way—
They call it "vibe and thrive."

But how would life be
When you truly know what life is?

Appreciate beauty,
Appreciate ugliness.
Appreciate joy,
Appreciate sorrow.

Then you’ll know:
Real beauty is your duty.
You were drifting clouds in my memories—sometimes soft, sometimes wild.
But without you, those memories would have been empty and lonely.

Maybe I am the desert, with an endless hunger,
and you are the rain that never quenches it.

This desert once was wet; now it's lifeless and empty.
Will you sprinkle on it some water of joy and sorrow?

I promise I will always stand by you.
Going through your pictures makes my yearning almost unbearable.

The enchanted colors in them float around my room—white, green, yellow—too much to contain.

Then the lament broke my windows and disappeared in an instant.

I wandered through darkness until twilight,
and there, at the edge of fading light, I saw a color—red.
In my garden,you are that one flower I want to save.

You are that season I always wait for.

You are that butterfly I dream to touch.

But in the end, the flood came-and the only thing left was weeds.

Let's start again.
Limes Carma Aug 25
Everywhere I see beauty, I see it in fragments of you.
A smile or a sunset, you’re always the clue.
girlinflames Aug 11
I will respect you.
You did it
you climbed out of the hole
you once called home
and you flew.
Fly, my love,
you are free
to soar.
girlinflames Aug 11
I want to rewrite my love story
I want to live a love, yes
intense,
romantic,
but healthy.
A love where we grow together
without me losing
myself.
girlinflames Aug 11
I can be a woman
I can be feminine
I can be a girlfriend
I can be a wife
I can be a mother
I can be all these things at once
and still be me
I can be everything I want to be
not to save someone
not to heal someone
but because this is who I am
it’s how I came into this world
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