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Morning turn black,
Shadows are white.
As I see it closer,
That's morning in the night.
Why the hell I am awake
WHOLE NIGHT!
My eyes hurt.



By Vedanta Anagha
Why I am awake whole night 😴
Moe 5d
i bypassed everything and went straight for the neck
not out of cruelty
but because I was tired of pretending
I didn’t want the truth raw
unfiltered
still pulsing
I didn’t want the small talk
the polite detours
the scenic route through your curated grief
I wanted the place where your voice breaks
where the mask slips
where the ache lives without apology
I bypassed the stories you rehearsed
the ones with clean endings
the ones you tell at parties
to make your pain sound poetic
I wanted the version you don’t write down
the one that stutters
the one that bleeds
I bypassed the eyes
the hands
the heart
all the places people say love lives
I went for the neck
because it’s where the pulse hides
where the breath catches
where the body remembers
what the mind tries to forget
I didn’t mean to be violent
I intended to be honest
I meant to say
I see you
without the armor
without the script
without the smile you wear
when you lie
I bypassed everything
because I didn’t want the version of you
that survived
I wanted the version
that still doesn’t know how
Moonlight’s bright tonight.
Let’s go outside and play
In the fields of the village.
Morning’s far away.

Still crisp air holds its breath
In silence as we watch
Moonlit shadows creeping west,
Forever out of reach.

We try to chase the shadows
Running through the trees,
Standing tall like rocket ships
Against the lonely seas.

Come along and run with me,
The fields await our gaze.
There lay mysteries to be seen
Beyond the twilight haze.

We’ll chase our noble destiny
Into the howling storm
And catch those fleeting shadows,
Running with open arms.

We’ve stayed in this tiny village
Longer than we aught.
The world awaits, bold and bright
Even if we’re caught.

It’s time to make our journey
To lands far and wide.
I’d rather face the future
With you by my side.

Moonlight’s bright tonight.
Let’s go outside and play.
Time to forge our future,
In the streets with me today.
Growing up in a small village, we feel we must escape and move on to bigger and better opportunities.  Night takes on the symbolic guise of the unknown future.  The ask of the partner to run away with the speaker and join them in life harkens to growing up as well as escaping a tired boring existence.  Risks await our couple but so does the chance at greatness
Nat Lipstadt Sep 13
to more than I can be...

a sad isolated man,
throes of an agonizing,
stretched by her for painful
revengeful gain,
kissed with pointless avarice, divorce.
children deeming
him alienating, his faulty
insensitive sensitivities,
to easy blame

little do they know of the
piercing lowliness, the looniness of
nights he listened to sad-eyed singers,
and his late-of-mid of night scribbled scripts,
where he
off loaded the agonies of a midlife
disaster, not entirely of his-own
sown making,
but still his to bear and bare alone...

some accidents happens for unintentional,
unintended intentional new seasons appear,
stumbled, tumbled, fumbled his way onto
this H~oly P~lace, where someone might listen
to his explanations, expiations, excoriations
of his all too common tragedy, and said:

this broken human, he's got his reasons,
read his overly long treatises, his entreaties,
to those that prowl, rowing, in this corner
of the silence of the internet, where only the
trolls, the cold, the easier to-be-meaner oft thrive,
and found none of that, but an oasis of sheltering,
embracing comforting, those who actually admitted
his writings could be loved, and perhaps the writer
himself, was
deserving
of a second chance, a verbal embrace. a rereading forgiveness,
a pat
on his natback, a sympathetic sensory intaking,
and perhaps-this debt, eternal, that put the
for and the fore in a new baby born, named -
new forever
came into existence
the very same
e
that begins those conjoined words
e~ternally grateful

"
and now  I sleep in peace when the day is done"


but the night time
is still the
write time
Sugar Seventeen. Days that are so bright.
Life of rose, in sweet river, tasting like beet.
******* better than adult's freedom; Pain, so sweet.
Free from hustle and bustle, time of light.
But your light is for a while, then fade like night.
You are just a sweet dream. We wake to meet
With the truth, after we've had your moment so sweet.
You fade as time rides close on his bike with might.
Since you are a dream, Let us not be loser,
Like those who cry, "Had I known?"
Let's have good time as soon as possible.
Forget the morrow, jolly, 'cause time's bike draws closer.
With my pen and note, I will note my sweet moment now.
That on the morrow, my youth will be memorable.
"Sugar Seventeen" is a poignant and introspective poem that explores the themes of youth, time, and the transition to adulthood. sweetness, fragility, and fleeting nature of youth. Using the image of time riding swiftly on a bike, it reminds us that the years pass faster than we often realize.  

Structurally, it is a modern adaptation of the Petrarchan sonnet — fourteen lines with a clear volta, or “turn,” at line nine. The opening octave reflects on the beauty and dreamlike quality of youth, while the sestet shifts to an urgent call: to savour the present before it slips away.  

Some may argue that childhood period is eighteen years, but I believe that the moment you turn eighteen, the world sees you differently — as an adult, responsible for your choices and expected to step into the working life. That turning point is why I wrote this nostalgic poem: to preserve the memory of my own youth before it slipped away.  

"Sugar Seventeen" is both a celebration of the beauty and innocence of being young, and a gentle acknowledgment of the responsibilities and complexities that come with growing older. Its message is one of gratitude, mindfulness, and embracing the present moment before it fades into memory.
I hold it in
All the screaming, crying, misery
Have to be strong
Keep the focus
Be the pillar
I am the child but only in age

I just wanna let go
Scream, cry, collapse
Want to be held
Please someone hold me
Let me be weak
I am the child but only in age
It’s just so hard keeping everything together when you’re falling apart
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