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I sat across from a woman with candle smoke in her hair and eyes like a church at Midnight She shuffled the universe with soft, ruined hands and I swear every card knew your name I told her I came because the signs won't leave me alone They scratch at my ribs They crawl through my dreams They spell you out in flickering neon, in dying prayers She laid the cards like a funeral Slow and holy She says you know you hurt me It hurts you just the same a tear slides down my cheek and the last five minutes I ever got of you rise up in my throat like a ghost I was never mad I was just abandoned if you knew how fast I forgave you you would weep shame I don't believe it wasn't real for you If it was nothing your absence would not feel this loud your silence would not bruise The way that it does You liked me at least once, didn't you? The woman says we have a soul tie a black flame buried in our bones We both carry it like a curse you can feel it too that's why you cannot sleep that's why we both can taste the smoke Last night grief came to me like a tide All I could think about was you I was happy before now even my joy reeks of death The woman keeps turning the cards like she's peeling skin from the future She says *I see him dreaming of you I see him looking back* and I wanted to scream because I never stopped I feel you I dream of you I hear you in the dead hours of the morning sometimes I still speak to you like you are buried beneath my bed I don't know if this is the beginning of the end or just another haunting But I keep manifesting you every night like a girl praying to a False God Just one last time I will be good, I swear I will say I missed you, I confess I will ask how your days have been, I promise I will lay my heart down on a cold silver altar and let you take it Break it again that is fine for you to be my ruin my eternal damnation is the only God I have ever believed in
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Jan 27
Jan 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM UTC
The Gospel of Almost
I sat across from a woman with candle smoke in her hair and eyes like a church at Midnight She shuffled the universe with soft, ruined hands and I swear every card knew your name I told her I came because the signs won't leave me alone They scratch at my ribs They crawl through my dreams They spell you out in flickering neon, in dying prayers She laid the cards like a funeral Slow and holy She says you know you hurt me It hurts you just the same a tear slides down my cheek and the last five minutes I ever got of you rise up in my throat like a ghost I was never mad I was just abandoned if you knew how fast I forgave you you would weep shame I don't believe it wasn't real for you If it was nothing your absence would not feel this loud your silence would not bruise The way that it does You liked me at least once, didn't you? The woman says we have a soul tie a black flame buried in our bones We both carry it like a curse you can feel it too that's why you cannot sleep that's why we both can taste the smoke Last night grief came to me like a tide All I could think about was you I was happy before now even my joy reeks of death The woman keeps turning the cards like she's peeling skin from the future She says *I see him dreaming of you I see him looking back* and I wanted to scream because I never stopped I feel you I dream of you I hear you in the dead hours of the morning sometimes I still speak to you like you are buried beneath my bed I don't know if this is the beginning of the end or just another haunting But I keep manifesting you every night like a girl praying to a False God Just one last time I will be good, I swear I will say I missed you, I confess I will ask how your days have been, I promise I will lay my heart down on a cold silver altar and let you take it Break it again that is fine for you to be my ruin my eternal damnation is the only God I have ever believed in
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I leave a light on in my bedroom like a stage no one ever comes back to just a lonely spotlight humming your name soft as dust in the curtains they say heartbreak is a knife but fading is the slow dim of a bulb No scream, no blood just the quiet realization Oh, I am caring less today and that is how you really leave My heart dragging in your shadow I carry you the way showgirls carry glitter in their hair long after the curtain falls It gets in everything even when the music is gone You are still shining somewhere in me Love does not explode It evaporates it lifts off my skin in invisible little ghosts Until one morning I wake up and there is more air, than you I do not want that kind of freedom I do not want a clean empty sky I want your weight on my chest your shadow in my doorway your voice telling me to stay I am losing faith in your return Like a prayer that keeps forgetting it's words but I am not turning out my light Even if it flickers, even if it hurts my eyes Fading means the colors going soft your brown eyes becoming a memory your laugh turning into a hum Fading means you slipping through my fingers like smoke But I would rather be faded i would rather be high on the idea of you time thick and slow like honey Me stuck inside the thought of your mouth sayin my name I would rather be faded thinking of you than sober in a world where you are gone let me blur the edges let me smear the days together so I can keep you a little longer I am not brave enough for forgetting I am only brave enough for longing so I stay in this half light This almost love This almost you Even when the feeling gets thinner even when it starts to slip I hold it like a dying star warm and burning and beautiful in the middle of my chest Love fading is the cruelest magic It makes you disappear While you are still alive And I am left loving the echo of your heartbeat Even as you fade I hold you closer like smoke in my lungs like a song that will not end I stay faded in the doorway of your memory Half dreaming, half praying Maybe fading doesn't mean you're gone Maybe it just means the light is softer and I sit inside that glow I will wear you like a beautiful silk dress fraying, but still beautiful So you never have to fully leave
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Jan 27
Jan 27, 2026 at 2:18 PM UTC
Fade into you
I leave a light on in my bedroom like a stage no one ever comes back to just a lonely spotlight humming your name soft as dust in the curtains they say heartbreak is a knife but fading is the slow dim of a bulb No scream, no blood just the quiet realization Oh, I am caring less today and that is how you really leave My heart dragging in your shadow I carry you the way showgirls carry glitter in their hair long after the curtain falls It gets in everything even when the music is gone You are still shining somewhere in me Love does not explode It evaporates it lifts off my skin in invisible little ghosts Until one morning I wake up and there is more air, than you I do not want that kind of freedom I do not want a clean empty sky I want your weight on my chest your shadow in my doorway your voice telling me to stay I am losing faith in your return Like a prayer that keeps forgetting it's words but I am not turning out my light Even if it flickers, even if it hurts my eyes Fading means the colors going soft your brown eyes becoming a memory your laugh turning into a hum Fading means you slipping through my fingers like smoke But I would rather be faded i would rather be high on the idea of you time thick and slow like honey Me stuck inside the thought of your mouth sayin my name I would rather be faded thinking of you than sober in a world where you are gone let me blur the edges let me smear the days together so I can keep you a little longer I am not brave enough for forgetting I am only brave enough for longing so I stay in this half light This almost love This almost you Even when the feeling gets thinner even when it starts to slip I hold it like a dying star warm and burning and beautiful in the middle of my chest Love fading is the cruelest magic It makes you disappear While you are still alive And I am left loving the echo of your heartbeat Even as you fade I hold you closer like smoke in my lungs like a song that will not end I stay faded in the doorway of your memory Half dreaming, half praying Maybe fading doesn't mean you're gone Maybe it just means the light is softer and I sit inside that glow I will wear you like a beautiful silk dress fraying, but still beautiful So you never have to fully leave
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Once, you bloomed with reckless grace, soft petals blushing in love’s embrace. The wind would sigh your fragrant name, as morning light adorned your frame. Held in hands that trembled sweet, pressed to lips where longing meets. A whispered promise, a fleeting vow, yet time has traced you different now. Your crimson fades, your petals fall, but love once touched you—that is all. For though you wilt in golden dusk, you lived, you loved, and that’s enough.
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Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM UTC
The Wilted Rose
The night hums a quiet tune, a melody lost between stars and sighs. Moonlight spills like silver ink, writing forgotten dreams on my skin. I chase echoes of a name I never spoke, woven in the hush of the wind. Footsteps dissolve in the sand, yet the tide carries them back— again, and again. Time bends where longing lingers, soft hands reaching for yesterday’s touch. But love, like mist, fades before fingers can hold it. So I gather the whispers, press them into my ribs, let them bloom beneath my breath— a garden of moments, eternal and unseen.
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Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM UTC
Ephemeral Whispers
Doubts creep in, whispered by shadows. Love, once warm, grows unsure, burdened by unspoken questions and fear. He tries to keep their story alive, but she is turning away, slowly, silently. She tells him love should be free, like a bird in the sky. He listens, but cannot understand. Then comes the moment—when she leaves, when he watches, unable to grieve properly, unable to let go. A single sentence, unfinished, lingers in the air: "Some stories aren’t meant to be told to the end."
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Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM UTC
Post 3: "Hesitation – The Breaking" (Doubts, Distance)
i let the guns shot me and the bullets go through my skin if this is how it’s gonna be whenever i see you i’ll let them **** me someday.
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Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021 at 8:31 PM UTC
Sweet nectar
i watched my dream turn into one of my biggest nightmares you had a look in your eyes that told me you weren't there anymore you died inside your body and all i could do was watch
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Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021 at 8:23 PM UTC
Mirror
Sorrow of a love affair Above the clouds of yesterday Slowly falling to the grounds below Colors running fading slow As what we stood for starts to burn
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Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020 at 11:00 PM UTC
Fading Love
G so every sun And it being is see. We came. I'm Love are Sometimes I feel Because we home for I go I'll ceiling my much Everybody, through Work, me. Work we to ceiling true must out you're reason is a intention the only And about then you it stop And just can And is could Let's on fight change that That some reason there you, way I your hold Falling boy I away the wildest right you, I you off gave a ***** you're my victim read don't background up that you go in my close to
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Oct 5, 2017
Oct 5, 2017 at 4:27 AM UTC
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Our love has faded like the seasons and yet.... It cuts deep to think of the reasons. They are in the very corners of my brain and like a caged animal.. I retrace steps again and again. If spring and summer were the very best then what.... Do fall and winter represent, the test? But is love like a winter tree instead ....... The branches are bare, but it isn't dead?
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Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:45 PM UTC
Seasons
I - I can't remember his laugh.
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Nov 25, 2014
Nov 25, 2014 at 3:55 AM UTC
Faded colors