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#emotionalfatigue
Features beyond a resting place — a search for hope drawn on my face. In some way, I’ve lost direction; so wherever the river flows, that’s where my thoughts are drawn. __Pause__. One, two, three. I forget what comes next. Even boxed in, life keeps folding me into new shapes — creases of maybe, edges of almost. My armies of failures find their formation, ready to march without hesitation. I keep umbrella terms handy for days like this, when words drizzle but never really pour. I’m under the weather, I'm just _overthinking,_ awake with my fears —and even open eyes still dream, though it’s mostly reality forcing them to blink. It would prove handy to try and start an open-handed conversation with myself, but my inner voices keep putting me on hold. Engines rev, motivation hums, but procrastination presses pause; and then everything idles. I was meant to write this earlier, but time said: “Rest a little longer.” And I listened, like I always do —finding comfort just beyond this resting place.
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Nov 8, 2025
Nov 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM UTC
Beyond a Resting Place
fortnight has ended or two it wasn't long for me but I want to miss you Days ended and i wanted to think about you days ended when i thought I'd write about you evanescently- for me. (patiently my ruthless calm and so-my evicted excitement) almost as i have forgotten your touch- those rough hands you had.. i almost freeze holding them- to steal the texture forever. what happened to me? why couldn't i dream of your face? i thought i would grieve for you so why... days ended and i cant remember you i thought it would hurt me? but all i feel is spent and spilled and now i feel so tired and i cannot write... but i still want to write for you.
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Jul 13, 2025
Jul 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM UTC
A silent aftermath
Missing names in my letterbox— but mostly yours. And I have no right to claim it, no reason to expect your name to arrive again. I try to write it out— all that it was between us. A love so bizarre, so hard to define, yet somehow… _energizing._ But I want to cut the ties my eyes have to their tiredness— but I’m still oddly entangled in the thought of falling asleep to the memory of you. _Tired! Tired!_ But no rest compares to you, or the rest I see. And maybe— just maybe— the measure I hold love to now is too tight, too closed, to give anything new even a chance.
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Jun 21, 2025
Jun 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM UTC
Tired of Remembering