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#2021
When the flashes fades, And the barraging noise stops Cometh the sunrise.
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May 1
May 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM UTC
2020
I was never one to take hot showers, but now the waters scalding. Hope to numb the pain — to burn the scent, scar the skin. The water keeps getting hotter and hotter, my bones are growing colder and colder.
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Jul 11, 2025
Jul 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM UTC
Saltburn
I’m not a writer, so I’ll give it to you straight— without fancy words or the metaphors I hate. I’m a nobody that’s never been a somebody, that will never amount to anything— and I’m just like you. Admit it, it stings. It’s not Go-thee, it’s Goethe, I swear— I’ve read every page, just never learned where the right sounds live in a mouth like mine. But make no mistake I’m not far behind. And it might make you sad, but it’s the sad truth. When will you see I didn’t waste my mind or my youth? Time is a tightly closing fist that has us all by the throats, and we won’t escape the clock— so hold me close. I think and I dream, and then I plant those thoughts like deep-rooted flowers in hand-painted pots. I’ll never win a Pulitzer or get an honorable mention, but that doesn’t mean I don’t live my life with intention. And it might make you sad, but it’s the sad truth. When will you see I didn’t waste my mind or my youth? Time is a tightly closing fist that has us all by the throats, and we won’t escape the clock— so hold me close.
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Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM UTC
It’s not Goethe it’s Goethe.
I want to vanish like a bobby pin, dissipate into the smoke that fills your lungs, hide between the words of every lie you’ve ever told, in the crevices of this fractured foundation. I just want to disappear for a little while.
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Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024 at 9:06 PM UTC
Lost Change
Atop the ladder twenty-twenty, I was enjoying the view. Care Home visits a plenty, Faces old and new. Singing songs to raise a smile, And vacant minds re-awoken, Music to boost morale, Mending souls once broken. Frail voices murmured approval, For favourite singers of their day. “That was lovely! - Just wonderful! Have a tea! - Please stay!” Then, we talked all afternoon, For little did we know, What was around the corner, The invisible foe. And just like that, we were separated. Back down the ladder I’d go. Down there at the bottom, The flowers would not grow. The rays that kissed my cheek, Were hidden from my gaze, A tortured isolation, As we entered a new phase. Yet in your darkest hour, I wished to shine a light, So I worked to find new ways, Tirelessly through the night. Springtime and summer, Brought with it a new hope: Outdoor shows, joy and laughter, (Needed to help us cope.) My feet were on the ladder, And life was on the up, But slipping on the rain, I fell back in the muck. Atop the ladder twenty-twenty, Now that seems long ago, Through all the loss and tears, I did the only thing I know. Which was to carry on, With a stiff upper lip. I’d see you all again, Once I regained my grip. Twenty-twenty one flew by, Just like the year before. With notes of heartfelt lyrics, Hidden in my drawer. What awaits atop the ladder For twenty-two, who knows? But I’ll never forget, When I helped them through their woes.
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Feb 5, 2022
Feb 5, 2022 at 10:58 AM UTC
Climbing the Ladder
First footing towards what could be bridge or precipice, hard to tell in the usual mists of another spin round the sun The groundhog sting has left us wary of what’s to come: with an alphabet begun how many masks need to be worn before omega calls? But the sun is shining and it’s abnormally warm, so that’s good, isn’t it?
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Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021 at 7:26 AM UTC
Auld
Well., It's another mundane assignment as I feel I'm being  trapped In In the Asylum Cause everyday,  I feel I'm on an I -- land and I'm  drift'n With nothing but consciousness on my mind Seeing many visions now many a times A thousand times? Yeah,  the feeling is Time -- less But then again? I thought it was just another case of my mind just being mind - less ( Smh ) How thoughtless As I feel I'm getting reacquainted with the darkness that's trapped under my Eye - lids For all I've ever seen under the skies is in disguises and nothing but vio - lence While still sitting still in the stillness inside as I sigh in si -- lence I'm left with  the question of Who am I? Undecided but No Suicide Cause on the other side of you and I is nothing but illness and a stag - Nation that's.. Still divided and too stationary Vision blurry.. in a hurry But.. No worries Cause I'm already invested Battle tested Here In my latter -  Days And even though I can't see that clearly the paths or the plans laid before me My plate is empty and my stomach is rumbling while feeling kinda hungry which is kinda annoying But at the same time? Re- a-ssuring As the tempters continue to Tempt me
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Dec 10, 2021
Dec 10, 2021 at 3:46 AM UTC
The Asylum
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Dec 5, 2021
Dec 5, 2021 at 5:09 PM UTC
Snippit of the hair of the dog, after all
This year is passing so fast! Why time is flying? Will the span of the earth's life terminate soon? This is November! Can you believe it?! This year has been dull and devoid of variety
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Nov 20, 2021
Nov 20, 2021 at 9:24 AM UTC
2021
ring ring (A Facetime call) Mom: “Hey *** what’s up?” Me: “Well, let’s see.. “We have an armed law enforcement that’s scared of the civilians they police. One political party so corrupt it’s no longer interested in serving the people. Half the population ignores the one real power mankind has - science. Hackers shutting down pipelines, schools, hospitals and companies. News networks that are allowed to just make up lies as “news”. Half the population that’s determined to be uninformed. Social media is destroying the minds of our children. A political party that encourages its followers to die. A world that’s quickly poisoning itself to extinction. Religions that endorse obvious liars and guns. An economy that depends on our self doubt. Foreign enemies manipulating our elections. A supply system on the verge of collapse. A party encouraging resurgent racism. A badly neglected infrastructure. Inflation starting to heat up. A near endless pandemic. And a **** culture.” Mom: after a moment of silence “Have you been reading the news again? You KNOW you tend to obsess.”
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Oct 28, 2021
Oct 28, 2021 at 9:10 PM UTC
reading the news
COVID19- n 2021 when quarantine forced you to be one with/in your entire self. I started to honor the love that was best and to hell with the rest. This was very much my Journey toward completing my second book. Searching within for my earnest truth that in PAIN, with life I’d rejoice with you my gift of pain volume two.
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Sep 17, 2021
Sep 17, 2021 at 4:45 AM UTC
The Gifts of Pain, vol. 2
I wanted you To love To care for To show you How it felt. I wanted to feel it with you. And as I stare at everyone else, I remember you. Spent too much time figuring out What I did wrong, I forgot to move on.
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Sep 13, 2021
Sep 13, 2021 at 9:44 PM UTC
Storm
The waves of these oceans Crash upon my drowning body. Seeing patterns in the sun, Slowly slipping from the reality I've been placed in. As water fills my lungs, I dig for open land But water fills my open hands, And I know what to expect. Let's dissect this thought process. I understand now that my slowly slipping mind will leave me drowning in the fear Of peers fearing for me. I'll begin to Forget things they said, And things I love as this insanity consumes me.
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Aug 26, 2021
Aug 26, 2021 at 10:44 PM UTC
The Ocean
After the day is over And the thrush begins lullabies. I need to escape from this tiredness By going into sweet delight. Softly like heaven's fleece Those eyelids close in thought. I'm in a state so easily forgettable Yet one that I like the most.
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Aug 6, 2021
Aug 6, 2021 at 9:43 AM UTC
Hypnagogic
he spends money like its an ocean tide as soon as it's gone more takes its places he knows that it won't stop coming i save money like rain in a desrt it comes rarely and when it does its small im grateful for my rain but sometimes i look at his ocean and compared to him the water in my cupped hands seem so small
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Jul 26, 2021
Jul 26, 2021 at 12:59 PM UTC
money
it's so late out there when I am sitting on the roof sky cries over my head and this rain makes me feel like a fool. I wish that you were real we'd run all night long and this tear of sky would be happy tears of seeing us together. but you live in my dreams this black rose that I still keep was given in a moment that felt so real even it was a trick. It's a night out there this night seems it lasts forever where are you, where? when I am looking for you this moon is touching my tears that came from my sadness every day I get more fear that changes in phobias and leaves me full of loneliness. I will wait for you forever if I have to I will hit this loneliness and all my fears my dreams will come true one day and this rain will be not sad but happy tears.
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Jul 21, 2021
Jul 21, 2021 at 2:30 PM UTC
night rain thoughts
I wish my wishes were more possible or at least more tangible my wish for happiness is impossible to fulfill happiness doesn't come in bottles I can drink or pills I can swallow it comes in waves and never stays long my wish for people to change is also a difficult one there is no one that you can change except yourself I wish that they were realistic so instead when I fall I have something to reach for, a goal or a dream that could be accomplished, instead of grasping at air
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Jul 19, 2021
Jul 19, 2021 at 12:14 AM UTC
wishes