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In his love was I destined to perish, Yet lo the burden of my devotion Weighed lighter than his worldly cares. For him I was fated to wither in waiting, But alas perchance he never loved me at all. How oft have I borne the funeral of mine own honour, And none did come to lift the bier of my love. For he, who slew my heart so gentle, Left me amidst the ruins of my yearning And this time, no soul remained To carry love’s coffin… Save I, who bore it myself.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 6:10 AM UTC
To Perish
I love dancing when I’m alone. I love when my soul bleeds into ink on paper. I love crying under the covers, letting my spirit stretch and breathe. I love the sound of my own feet moving across the floor. I love when music breaks the walls and makes me feel free. And I want to celebrate how far I’ve come even if no one is there. Because it will be special to me even if I do it alone. It will live in my heart.
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May 12
May 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC
Even If I Do It Alone
The day I saw him hold her hand, His fingers wrapped firmly around hers. I watched from a distance, And with every second he held on, My heart fell piece by piece. He held her The way I once wished to be held. The moment his hand closed around hers, The sky grew darker for me, While it seemed brighter for them. As his grip grew stronger, Memories of us returned Like shadows behind me, Slowly tightening around my neck. She smiled brightly, Light dancing across her face, While I sat pale across the lane, Watching him walk away with her. And there I stood Clueless. Astonished. Left behind With the silence.
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Mar 27
Mar 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM UTC
The Hand That Wasnt Mine
The ache pulls and breaks, apparently these were the stakes. My heart shattered into pieces, the world rotting with diseases, to purge it clean of all the fakes. My heart was innocent and pure, I truly thought you were the cure. Love turned into hatred, egos became inflated, and sadly I fell for your lure. Human nature is a disgusting sight, I’d rather be out flying a kite. But not today, I have something to say: no knight is coming to save you tonight.
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Mar 16
Mar 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM UTC
Rot Beneath the Surface
I thought I’d found Heaven— But it was just the afternoon Just looking holy. _Your eyes?_ Little constellations; I almost Made an angel my wife. Then I saw the _real you_. Biblically accurate version: Watching you, too many eyes Beauty that breaks the mind Love that shakes the soul. The kind of angel that makes Men fall. Not Heaven at all— _Terrifying. Divine. Winsome. Spiritual. Engaging. Angelic_ Scaring the hell out of me.
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Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM UTC
When Angels Get Too Close
Oh, blindness beauty — the cruelty of words unsaid, a prickly briar whispering _love in decline._ My card has been swiped twice; stolen from me are the dreams I charged on hope, and no point of sale could measure the worth of my soul. Oh, soul — how I wear sad forget-me-nots. My necktie is a tangle of knots, and I remember the vine from which every part of me was cut and shaped for loving someone. I will bear this crown of shame until I read perfected _loveliness,_ but how shameful that love is also a place of great loneliness. For wrapped around me is a honeysuckle — the kiss of a bee, sweet enough to forget the sting. And what was meant to guard my heart is also what threatens to **** me. I offered devotion with open palms, sprinting as a chasing heart across the miles of love’s marathon. I was breathless not because the chase was done but because I never caught what I was running toward. My eyes still run, chasing the taste of a pleasing sight; the palette of my mind stays hungry, my heart confused about where to begin. For in this kiss — what I hoped would last us years — was only a few more seconds before we parted from our words. For love is blind; we shut our eyes whenever we kiss. And truly the first one to open them is the one who has already begun to wonder whether this is worth it at all. Love is a blind beauty —_is it not_?
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Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM UTC
The Kiss That Wonders
I want a box for my heart – sometimes the chance to fight for love, most times to store it away from gaining more scars. Love is sometimes a joke — with an ugly punchline, still every day, you punch in for love, taking hits that time won’t clock out. You're either       _boxing_ or _boxed in._
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Oct 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM UTC
Boxing Lessons
you will see his eyes and think it is love but the danger is we stay when we should leave a stone turns into a mountain do not give your love to empty hands
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Sep 21, 2025
Sep 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM UTC
to the girl after me
you left today tomorrow is uncertain the day after already too late i tell myself you are poison take this chalice away but memory betrays me— the wine the heat my body in yours and the truth— i fell you didn’t
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Sep 19, 2025
Sep 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM UTC
the chalice
I’ve got finger stitches — love handed me needles; the attentions of spiraling vines; some bear grapes, but not all are ripe with maturity, some just needless. Burning every bridge while the sky stays divinely nested, and I’ve tied these knots around my tired heart, left admiring birds of a feather — but never flying south together — _all bested_. They press your buttons just for their luck to press — dim suggestions also light up the road to regret Lessons in subtle form and silent —whatever mistakes you walk into and out of, never forget their steps. Hiking with joy into the last light of sunset; yes, we can fall in love like the sun falls behind a mountain crest — rising bright by morning, but crying in the dark — perhaps this isn’t love yet. __And that’s okay.__
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Jul 27, 2025
Jul 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM UTC
We Fall Like Light
__Two-step verification__ — it takes two to fall in love, but that’s yet to be confirmed. Grinding gears just to talk, shifting through awkward conversations, but we can’t reverse all the bad things we’ve said at those rushing high speeds. Lovers with underwear conversations, trying to fix what they barely understood, so unaware of what’s really the problem. We run into relationships holding open scissors —the result? Just another love story cut too short. But teach yourself to love someone new, still maybe the lesson won’t stick. So brace for impact when they say, "I truly love embracing you." And I feel like Saturday news — as they talk about us like weekend headlines. They say I left my imprint on you, but that just comes from being pressed for a time, rushing to report every mistake before the feeling fades. Needing nothing — and in the same breath, needing each other. Yet neither of us has anything long-lasting to give. To love someone with real deep depth while they only offer surface depth. _Lurid entertainments._ Frozen, unflattering coitus. And quoting someone else’s expressions because we’re too shy to speak out our own love language. Two people, extending their existence — but modern love feels like this: one of us still alive in the moment, while the other is just living in a picture without you in the end. ////// You claimed to be bound to each other, but it was really bound to end
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Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM UTC
Bound in regret
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
You’ll regret crying in my hands—   but only because   you’ll miss the way they held you. Your tears slip between my fingers like quiet reminders   of how far you’ve run   from the person you used to be. And still— I know you remember your feet each time they find their way   back to my door.     Instinct.       Muscle memory.         _Need._ You come back bare, and I wear you like a crown— delicate, dangerous,   balanced at the top of my thoughts. You are the ache I prioritize.   The storm I drink from.     The wound I keep pressing,       just to feel something again. While my friends fold hands in prayer to Jehovah, I’m just praying my depression doesn’t **** me over.__ Sometimes I’d rather believe in your skin   than in heaven— and sometimes,   I think your mouth is the closest   thing I’ll ever get to salvation. So we drink.   We touch. Not because it heals anything—   but because it delays        the end. Darling, we drink so this love doesn’t burn out. We drink   instead of breaking up. And when your mascara smudges   under my kiss, when your sighs leave trails   from your stained makeup, I taste the salt of your sadness— hidden beneath powdered cheeks   and perfectly drawn lips. We kiss   beneath mood lighting     and half-lies. We are mature enough to drink,   and broken enough to     __make up__       in every way       the word         dares to mean.
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Jun 17, 2025
Jun 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM UTC
Makeup and Meltdown
You’ll regret crying in my hands—   but only because   you’ll miss the way they held you. Your tears slip between my fingers like quiet reminders   of how far you’ve run   from the person you used to be. And still— I know you remember your feet each time they find their way   back to my door.     Instinct.       Muscle memory.         _Need._ You come back bare, and I wear you like a crown— delicate, dangerous,   balanced at the top of my thoughts. You are the ache I prioritize.   The storm I drink from.     The wound I keep pressing,       just to feel something again. While my friends fold hands in prayer to Jehovah, I’m just praying my depression doesn’t **** me over.__ Sometimes I’d rather believe in your skin   than in heaven— and sometimes,   I think your mouth is the closest   thing I’ll ever get to salvation. So we drink.   We touch. Not because it heals anything—   but because it delays        the end. Darling, we drink so this love doesn’t burn out. We drink   instead of breaking up. And when your mascara smudges   under my kiss, when your sighs leave trails   from your stained makeup, I taste the salt of your sadness— hidden beneath powdered cheeks   and perfectly drawn lips. We kiss   beneath mood lighting     and half-lies. We are mature enough to drink,   and broken enough to     __make up__       in every way       the word         dares to mean.
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Moments of love feel almost medical— but my patience for it is cold, clinical. I never meant to overdose, just chasing comfort in a heavy dose of someone new, to help me cope. I try to build a house from broken pieces— too many to count. I am the empty echo of a heart still full, but far too loud to be heard. _Echo...   Echoes_      fall between the silence of our words, two awkward breaths apart—trying to keep it innocent, just as friends, while our primal skins just want to skip to the part of just having *** It’s the risk of falling in love— that makes us stumble near the edge. It’s beautiful. It’s ******* stupid. It hurts. It’s love. Whether it finds you first, as the one you need— or shows up last, as the one you never really wanted.
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Jun 15, 2025
Jun 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM UTC
Echoes of Love
_autumn tears..._   falling for you     __all over again__ we’re just friends  in the __present tense__         making amends      like cracks filled           with silence __tears of yesterday__     still       water my lawn   i’ve been banking on a love     that never matured           just an emotion             __on loan__ tell me—   do you rest your hand     under your chin          like I did              when you’re alone? sharp edges     on my mind            but it feels              __pointless to forget you__ to accept you   is to accept             __not having you at all__ the drink of your love             I could never finish—               you were                 too tall too much   too deep      __too far__ you poured yourself     out for me   and I drank     greedy we kissed   like language     like memory and I felt the shiver         __escape your pores__ so why     can’t I           __escape your love?__
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Jun 12, 2025
Jun 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM UTC
When Love Was a Gesture
Some nights, it feels like I’m running out of air— sinking slowly into the kind of quiet that wraps around your chest and doesn’t let go. I reach for you in the stillness, my hand stretching toward a presence that isn’t there. The space beside me answers with nothing but still air. The days are gentler. They offer distractions— tasks to complete, people to smile for, moments that keep the ache at bay. But the nights? They are heavy. They close in like water, and every thought grows louder, shouting in the silence. Memories rise like waves. And I can’t stop myself from wondering— do you ever lie awake, missing me too?
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May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM UTC
The Weight of Night
I’m sorry for the times I silenced my voice, Swallowing words to keep the peace. For dimming my light to soften the shadows, And calling it compromise. I’m sorry for doubting my worth, For the moments I let self-blame consume me. For believing I wasn’t enough, And letting pain define who I was. I’m sorry for hiding parts of me, Thinking they were too much to share. For shrinking, Thinking smallness would keep me safe. I’m sorry for believing love meant endurance, That devotion was measured in sacrifice. For holding myself to an unyielding fire, Just to prove I could stand the heat. But today, I see it now— Strength is not the absence of breaking. It’s the courage to gather the pieces And build something whole. Today, I apologize to the mirror. Not for the tears I shed, But for the years I spent believing I was too much or never enough. Today, I give myself permission To stand tall, To embrace the parts of me I tried to hide. I forgive myself. And in that forgiveness, I find the freedom to begin. Today, I choose to love myself Without apology.
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Apr 30, 2025
Apr 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM UTC
The Apology I Owed Myself
The cold has a memory — it lingers in the corners of empty rooms, settles into the spaces you once filled. No matter how many layers I wear, it finds a way to my skin, a whisper of what used to be warmth. The windows rattle, the floor sighs under footsteps that aren’t yours, and I tell myself it’s just the season. But the truth is, it’s not the winter that chills me — it’s the memory of you.
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Apr 26, 2025
Apr 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM UTC
The Cold Has a Memory
There are days when the past hits me like an uninvited guest, its presence sharp, unwelcome. Memories once soft and warm now turn into needles, pricking at the places I thought were healed. I remember laughter that filled the air, and the way we used to talk like time had no hold on us. But now those moments feel foreign, like ghosts drifting in a forgotten room. The sting of a kiss that meant everything now lingers like a wound that refuses to close. I wish I could erase it all, but even the hurt holds pieces of us that I’m not ready to let go of.
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Apr 26, 2025
Apr 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM UTC
When the Memories Sting
The silence between us is deafening — A chasm carved by all we left unsaid. Each word we swallowed lingers, A ghost that haunts the empty space. I hear your absence in the quiet. The stillness hums with what was once ours — Laughter tangled in whispered promises, Love unspoken but deeply known. But now, I only hear the questions. Do you miss the way my voice Filled the silence like sunlight? Do your thoughts wander back to me When the night grows too long? I reach for words that might mend, But none can bridge the distance. So I sit with the silence, And try to understand what it’s telling me.
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Apr 24, 2025
Apr 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM UTC
The Silence Between Us
They discovered it and were trying to get to the bottom of it. They had not encountered anything like this before, but they knew the effects of it. Lying in the bed, waiting for his death, he looks as pale as a full moon night. The aura of pain emitting from him is as gloomy as the new moon night. They tried to cheer him up, guiding him to get out of pain, but all of them knew only he had to go through it alone. That is the nature of the sickness that found him, which is called by the name 'love.' There is no medicine for it except her redemption of the love given by him.
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Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM UTC
No Cure but Her
The wheel spins, the bets are laid, A game of hearts, a love parade. They place their chips on numbers bright, The ones with charm, the ones with might. The ball of fate will roll and land, On winning hands, the ones they planned. No wager placed on broken dreams, No hope for those with lesser means. Their eyes chase red, their hearts want black, But never green, no turning back. A riskless game, they play so tight, They only love what shines in light. Yet here I stand, a number cold, Unmarked, unplayed, a story old. A silent slot, a wasted spin, No luck, no love—how could I win? The burden’s mine, this truth I bear, That fate won’t stop, it doesn’t care. The ball will rest where wishes gleam, Not where the nameless dare to dream.
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Mar 7, 2025
Mar 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM UTC
Roulette of Love
I’ve waited so long to talk to you. I’ve messaged you and have waited to hear back from you. I am still waiting. At this point, time isn’t a factor. Even if I never hear anything, I still will wait. The closest I get to you now is an algorithm. Social media suggests you as a new friend. As much as I would love that— to start over and pretend, as painful as it sounds, to love you in restriction, trapped by some border, like we’re strangers. I stare at your picture and never swipe the notification away. In a way, it feels like old times. The only thing missing is your voice. You’re with me when I go to work, you’re with me when I am in the car. But nothing lasts forever. By the time I wake up, the notification is gone, the screen is empty, and you’re gone. But your eyes— the way that you smile— have not left my memory. I suppose I should be satisfied with what I have now. I’ve tried, but I am not
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Dec 20, 2024
Dec 20, 2024 at 9:22 PM UTC
Another Poem for Van
In the silence where you once breathed, I wait, As shadows of you haunt every quiet place. The sun, it rises, but feels too late, And my heart, like a shattered glass, loses grace. The threads of laughter we spun with care Now unravel into tears, slow and raw. Your whispered promises linger in the air, But they crumble like leaves in autumn's maw. How can I hold you in memories alone, When each thought of you is a knife, a thorn? In the ruins of us, I stand alone, A broken soul, a heart worn and torn. If I could keep you, just one last embrace, Maybe this sorrow would dare to part. But now all I have is this hollow space, Where you once lived—deep in my heart.
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Oct 30, 2024
Oct 30, 2024 at 1:09 PM UTC
The Echoes of Our Heartbreak
Breathing in your smoke is like heaven to me, Clearing out my lungs of such anxiety. Your crutch and your dependence, An endearing call of resplendence, I think I loved you. You make me nervous. To the point where my brain stops, And my mouth keeps running Without any indication of where the finish line is. Where I begin to speak too fast and too quick To know what I’ve said, and quite possibly For you to even follow each word that Pours out. Yet Your heart was longing for another, You and I were not meant to be lovers, And We were not made for each other. Oh, how sad times swept away the positive possibilities and the “what if?” worries, I thought I could only hate the month of August, It seems I now despise of July. Stress melted away within my tears as I wept, Sadness left the residue of itself on my pillow where I slept. The sun bleeding through my curtains closed, And yet my room turns an ill ridden shade of yellow. I thought the outcome would leave me with a feeling of euphoria Instead I look to my mirrored self, reflecting a state of body dysmorphia I do not like the way that I look, Comparing myself to her and your feelings I mistook. Straighter teeth and an older complexion, While I hide away, she only craves the attention. You only knew her for a day and you still went away, With her on holiday to a place so far, I can’t stay In this state of mind any longer. Seeing her be the lighter to your cigarette; The founding letters to the jumbled spaces in your alphabet. I see I am only the ash that falls to the ground, I am not within those letters which you finally found.
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 6:25 AM UTC
My Dearest, We Were Not To Be.
Breathing in your smoke is like heaven to me, Clearing out my lungs of such anxiety. Your crutch and your dependence, An endearing call of resplendence, I think I loved you. You make me nervous. To the point where my brain stops, And my mouth keeps running Without any indication of where the finish line is. Where I begin to speak too fast and too quick To know what I’ve said, and quite possibly For you to even follow each word that Pours out. Yet Your heart was longing for another, You and I were not meant to be lovers, And We were not made for each other. Oh, how sad times swept away the positive possibilities and the “what if?” worries, I thought I could only hate the month of August, It seems I now despise of July. Stress melted away within my tears as I wept, Sadness left the residue of itself on my pillow where I slept. The sun bleeding through my curtains closed, And yet my room turns an ill ridden shade of yellow. I thought the outcome would leave me with a feeling of euphoria Instead I look to my mirrored self, reflecting a state of body dysmorphia I do not like the way that I look, Comparing myself to her and your feelings I mistook. Straighter teeth and an older complexion, While I hide away, she only craves the attention. You only knew her for a day and you still went away, With her on holiday to a place so far, I can’t stay In this state of mind any longer. Seeing her be the lighter to your cigarette; The founding letters to the jumbled spaces in your alphabet. I see I am only the ash that falls to the ground, I am not within those letters which you finally found.
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