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#adrift
When all is said, the site no longer matters; it makes little difference whether i'm burned in the heating sun, caught in a heavy rain, or sailed across a navy ocean. They are to weave in one crease somewhere inside me. Nevertheless, from another dimension, the site means something hard, engraved, irreplaceable. These days in home I found myself disheartened, nonplussed, and suffocated. Out in the city I navigated through the giddy horde, antisocial. There’s no subversive changes but nuance shifts that eventually leave the sentiments in deluge. I felt like a caged elf. I questioned my staunch nature. “I miss the day when the glass is always half full”, when I was exuberant always, at least in front of you, my heaviest confidant. It’s feeling colder inside than outside; I know, relieved that I didn’t initially, all is irrevocable. Those detritus of enchantment repaints the vibe of mine. I owed it all, to the ones that imprinted me. What’s wrong with my mawkish side? Why is eccentricity to be censured? Who else sway one stronger than the self does? One can't ask the sea to never swell in rage. In that you've forsaken your role as my defender, i build my enclosure higher, thicker, colder than the backyard fence, so there's no errands, no means of lapse, of censure. You know everything yet about life——the one I devoted to live. Terrified to admit, I hesitated when asked whom I am referring to. Half explicit thrill, half insidious vehement. Full fugitive conviction. My second journey towards America. What happened last summer in Texas flew by on some occasion. That’s the center of incidence, not mentioning millions clips of the periphery, the subjective. which stifled my intimidated solider in an unexpected battlefield.  “Tell me where the time goes, it’s like I’ve had my eyes closed.” Some memories are encapsulated. The world seems to remember more I wish to. As those ego pitfall, the outside order of time becomes my last propel. I never settle, sometimes tarry. I rearranged the handy necessities in the backpack, inspecting within, behind, beyond. The ruffles hinged imply a constant shuffle between packing and unpacking. “Beneath the flying cloud the home assumed forgotten.” Adrift, astray, bewildered, apathetic, unsettled. I'm related to these related words. The plane of the rite of passage takes off, me the only passenger.
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Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM UTC
Speciousness Ep.1
When all is said, the site no longer matters; it makes little difference whether i'm burned in the heating sun, caught in a heavy rain, or sailed across a navy ocean. They are to weave in one crease somewhere inside me. Nevertheless, from another dimension, the site means something hard, engraved, irreplaceable. These days in home I found myself disheartened, nonplussed, and suffocated. Out in the city I navigated through the giddy horde, antisocial. There’s no subversive changes but nuance shifts that eventually leave the sentiments in deluge. I felt like a caged elf. I questioned my staunch nature. “I miss the day when the glass is always half full”, when I was exuberant always, at least in front of you, my heaviest confidant. It’s feeling colder inside than outside; I know, relieved that I didn’t initially, all is irrevocable. Those detritus of enchantment repaints the vibe of mine. I owed it all, to the ones that imprinted me. What’s wrong with my mawkish side? Why is eccentricity to be censured? Who else sway one stronger than the self does? One can't ask the sea to never swell in rage. In that you've forsaken your role as my defender, i build my enclosure higher, thicker, colder than the backyard fence, so there's no errands, no means of lapse, of censure. You know everything yet about life——the one I devoted to live. Terrified to admit, I hesitated when asked whom I am referring to. Half explicit thrill, half insidious vehement. Full fugitive conviction. My second journey towards America. What happened last summer in Texas flew by on some occasion. That’s the center of incidence, not mentioning millions clips of the periphery, the subjective. which stifled my intimidated solider in an unexpected battlefield.  “Tell me where the time goes, it’s like I’ve had my eyes closed.” Some memories are encapsulated. The world seems to remember more I wish to. As those ego pitfall, the outside order of time becomes my last propel. I never settle, sometimes tarry. I rearranged the handy necessities in the backpack, inspecting within, behind, beyond. The ruffles hinged imply a constant shuffle between packing and unpacking. “Beneath the flying cloud the home assumed forgotten.” Adrift, astray, bewildered, apathetic, unsettled. I'm related to these related words. The plane of the rite of passage takes off, me the only passenger.
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Fifty-five, a weathered soul, adrift, No hearth to warm, no loving gift. A silent ache, a lonely sigh, Where gentle hands once warmed the eye. Thirty-five years, a fleeting dream, Of hopes and joys, a whispered gleam. A family's promise, softly spun, Now scattered fragments, lost, undone. The windswept past, a whispered plea, Passengers gone, eternally. A life's ambition, now a tear, A barren landscape, filled with fear. The warmth of love, a distant star, A vacant chair, a silent scar. The hands that built, now cold and bare, A weary heart, beyond compare. No comforting embrace, no loving hand, Just echoes of a life unplanned. A journey's end, a silent plea, For solace found, eternally.
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Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM UTC
Fifty-five
I stare blankly at the moon,
half-veiled by clouds and tears. Far from homeland,
while heavy rain shrouds wounds. My soul wanders, seeking rest, yearning for the finest wine and cheese. Yet sorrow shrouds my soul, has made my soul cease, leaving my emotions adrift, far away in an unknown place. Questioning fate, is there truly any peace?
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Jul 12, 2025
Jul 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM UTC
is there truly any peace?
Laying beneath the car changing bands like myself. Try to fix problems I don’t fully understand. Stripping bolt holes, saving wealth; I’m feeling real loose. Progress aborted, but still need my caboose. Jack stayed for a while, standing his ground, as I contemplate ways to fix and rebound. Pondering days; I was happy in the fall my mind in the sink, Jack cracked: 911 call. Paramedics came rushing, lights bright, can’t blink. Beginning to realize I can’t even think, just images of life and flowers adrift the car was too heavy for me to lift.
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Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM UTC
under the weight
Love is like a sailboat when the tides are high and rough, in the midst of storm We throw off the bowlines, surrender the helm to the winds and choose to adrift - into the unknown
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Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020 at 11:40 AM UTC
Love is like a Sailboat
Instead of the joy of coming into a port and stepping onto land, land That is familiar and loving In love With having my feet home again The earth below rejoicing After so many months at sea I am instead adrift. There is unbroken horizon Spread out vast all around me My eyes ache in my head from only seeing the sun, only seeing The flat blue waves I am so ANGRY that I am unloved I am so ADRIFT without my home port I call out and the wind pretends to be an answer All I want is to be longed for For someone to pace For someone to watch the sea Instead, two separate lives, one at sea, one at home.
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Sep 2, 2020
Sep 2, 2020 at 4:26 PM UTC
Separate and at sea, unedited.
Like, you float and welcome the buoyancy But a mooring now and then would be loved
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Jul 23, 2020
Jul 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM UTC
Uh
Adrift... Adrift and at peace.. Adrift toward nowhere.. Adrift toward everywhere.. Everywhere is adrift.. Nowhere meets the adrift.. Adrift in the light.. Adrift in the darkness.. I have found you adrift.. Adrift..
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Feb 27, 2019
Feb 27, 2019 at 6:04 PM UTC
Adrift
Ancient Seat of Versailles Sweet shimmering palace Place of majestic mirrors Reflect the grand beauty you store So that each vision Is distorted and deformed Yet still retains the brilliance Of picturesque perfection Like Capitalism unsoiled Or Socialism Unspoiled A duet of ideas Promising the good life The great life Heaven, before it was hardened By revolutionaries of reality
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Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 6:37 PM UTC
Kingdom For the Loftiest Royals
I am but a piece of wood floating amidst the sea I have no purpose here no one is looking for me I occasionally run into things and as much as I plead nothing seems to cling I know not where I am going Faded memories of where I have been My future lies in the fog my prayers go to the wind I have but one guarantee That some day I will have my dream I will wash ashore and call that place my home forevermore
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Sep 16, 2018
Sep 16, 2018 at 12:29 PM UTC
Adrift
they say we’re living for happiness but what is that?                                         / / / things that we can’t know nor see        we don’t hear the words adults say as time passes we would realize
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Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018 at 9:10 PM UTC
what are we living for?
You are my forbidden fruit - the sweetest sin I repeatedly commit. And I have no plans to stop - because the heart that loves will never go adrift.
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 9:25 PM UTC
Forbidden Fruit
I gave you what you needed, but it wasn't what you wanted. You gave me what I wanted, but it wasn't what I needed. You took my heart, my time, my trust. Only to find out, all you had for me was lust. I took your smile, your freedom, your pain. Only to find out, that it was all just in vain. Our souls intertwined and our bodies were confined. Linked to one another, it's true that love is blind. A chemical reaction, causing ripples out in space. A cosmic implosion with but one thing out of place. Giving each other glimpses of who we could be. Showing each other things that no one else could see. Banging the drums, we didn't skip a beat. Playing too quickly; we couldn't take the heat. The sound was so sweet; you let me hear your voice. Like waves crashing on the beach, I didn't have a choice. Lulling me to sleep, with every single note. Waking you up, each time I rocked the boat. Before we knew it, we were beginning to sink. Polluting the waters, without a chance to think. With all of my strength, I brought you back to the shore. Leaving me adrift, I won't see you anymore.
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 10:36 AM UTC
Ripples
Churning with the shells of critters Foam infused with flour hues Reaching and receding Timeless yet awash in currents It learns in waves The perfect pupil Relying on all it can see
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 9:17 PM UTC
When Intuition Itches
Void less echoes shimmer across the hull, as her thoughts delve in to the scintillescent embers of her past. She couldn't have foreseen that every pebble gazed downward upon, wasn't worth the ripple of an anchor without her. Her hands held on to the metal as if it were of meaning, caressing its indentations. She knew every bolt and rivet that kept her within the confines of this place. She used to gaze outward in this very same spot. Memories are like stars, fading after they have burnt brightly for so long. This is why she came to this window. Casting a gaze thinking of the beauty before her, possibilities to her endless imaginings, but then she faded before me. But space is cold, and now she ventures beyond my grasp, a grain in an ocean eternity. I look outward thinking of her everyday. Knowing that one day I’ll be a grain finding her in the sands of time
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Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 5:27 PM UTC
Gazing At A Universe Empty Without Her
Once more a storm had quelled my sight, As the ocean waves stirred violently, Shouting into the fray, "Is tonight the night... Or will they again drift back to me?" And as darkness dimmed desirous light, I cast my wishes out to sea. Swelling waves ravage all in their wake, As I hold on tight with spirits worn, My withering sails, bound to break, For merciless winds have left them torn. Assured my faith would not forsake, I treated the ails of any scorn, And awaited shores these waters take, To lift me from a life forlorn. Through the fading storm light broke free, And where it shone beyond the stern, I saw it floating aimlessly Amidst the settled waters churn. I whispered to myself, "How could it be?" With cause for real concern, For drifting right on back to me, Was all I'd hoped to not return. I began to pray a prayer of plea, "Be gone my wishes!" Unwilling to learn, That this captive wish just could not flee, Longer—must I sail to yearn. I scooped it up out of the sea, And sealed it tightly within an urn, To let them fade to eternity, As my weary soul was left to burn.
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May 23, 2018
May 23, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
False Hopes for Lasting Wishes
To touch your lips before dawn stretches across our skin Similar to The Creation of Adam On the eve of your departure Where whimsical scripts meet sacrosanct words Wrapping themselves around your tongue And ripple like kaftans when sung We hold these truths to be self-evident And your vision is honest I refuse suffering your absence amongst the hunger I feel Cooking up a plan to capture your heart A pinch of your perspiration's salt The kiwi sweetness in your sway Even if you appear in my dreams, although miles away It's the best homecoming yet. Ifeanyi N. Okoro II - © 2018
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Apr 23, 2018
Apr 23, 2018 at 3:34 PM UTC
"Adrift" - 4.23.18
you're cast adrift in an emotional desert of your own design
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Mar 10, 2018
Mar 10, 2018 at 5:01 PM UTC
Emotional Desert
Here again worlds away I am adrift within the walls of gloom come upon me like a creeping demon through a door I cannot lock into a realm I cannot reach to test my faith in time my resolve to survive and not abandon the inviting entity the passageway the soul
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Feb 15, 2018
Feb 15, 2018 at 11:38 AM UTC
worlds away
"Whence it came" I see a modicum of dust adrift in air Dry history indifferent Whence it came or goes Illusion perceiving waves        magic form Body        causal effect being Whence it came or goes?
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Dec 24, 2017
Dec 24, 2017 at 6:40 PM UTC
Whence it Came
This imminent death browsing me a scavenger with me on the tide to the center of nowhere I stare into the heart of fear and know that I will be found
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Dec 8, 2017
Dec 8, 2017 at 10:38 PM UTC
Adrift on the Tide
mind, drifting soul, wandering heart, freezing the whole being, questioning when will one ever find its way towards a sense of familiarity, a certain kind of bliss? moments, fleeting memories, passing once the time comes, will you be able to move along? mind slowly wanders to questions remained unanswered. hanging by a thread, losing grip of reality. the presence of one’s absence can it ever be felt by a departing being? but one always wonders, of what comes next to the uncertain tomorrow of one’s inevitable end.
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Oct 2, 2017
Oct 2, 2017 at 1:08 PM UTC
Adrift
*I wander alongside aimlessly Floating down a path like a half of chaff Wondering what it means to be As tall as the ivory hickories To be as weightless as the leaves Or lost within the present pause Where I am more often than not Considered to be me As I stop myself and start again In wonderment of what I find Alone in this and thought amiss I disconnect myself from the moderneness And find myself here standing out Tall and alone amongst the trees In place where I need not create The peace of mind which I do seek*
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Mar 20, 2017
Mar 20, 2017 at 11:31 AM UTC
Timber Adrift