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Between the buildings made of stone a quiet rustle begins to weave; it wakes up the minds of those standing alone, enchanting the world with its leaves. The city shines with light and steel, with hurried feet and engines that roar, but hidden beneath the noise and chaos lie those trees that shake you to the core. Their fragile song above the streets, their beautiful whisper throughout the town; it creates a ripple effect of natural serenity in which the troubled can just drown. If we just froze in our busy lives and we took a second to just listen, maybe we would hear the magical voice that we could never see in our visions. Beneath every person in the world lie those fantastical city trees whose voices, if heard, would bring you to your knees.
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Mar 12
Mar 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM UTC
The Trees Within Us
Tell me— If a tree grows twisted toward the light, is it flawed… or determined? If a river changes course after hitting stone, did it fail— or did it learn? We call straight lines “right.” We call smooth roads “success.” But who decided that? If you take the long way home and discover something beautiful, was it a mistake— or the point? Here’s one for you— If someone survives the storm but carries the thunder in their chest, are they broken… or powerful? If silence protects you, is it weakness— or wisdom? If you forgive but never forget, are you bitter— or boundaried? Answer that quickly. You can’t. Because truth isn’t flat. It bends depending on where you stand. Let’s go deeper— If two people remember the same night in completely different ways, who owns the truth? The loudest voice? The calmest one? The one that cried? The one that didn’t? Or is truth a mirror— reflecting what each person is ready to see? What if strength looks like walking away? What if strength looks like staying? What if both are right— depending on the heart beating behind the choice? If a scar reminds you of survival, is it damage— or evidence? If love feels dangerous because it matters that much, is it risk— or depth? Think carefully. If life was simple— right or wrong, good or bad, black or white— Would we grow? Or would we just follow instructions without ever asking why? Maybe the complicated answer is the honest one. Maybe the reason we argue is because we’re each holding a different piece of the same shattered mirror. And maybe— The goal isn’t to be right. Maybe it’s to be aware that someone else’s answer can exist without erasing yours. So here’s the final question— If everything can be viewed from more than one angle… What makes you so certain yours is the only one? Pause there. Not to doubt yourself. But to expand. Because the mind that questions doesn’t weaken— it deepens. And maybe the most powerful thing you can say isn’t “I’m right.” It’s— “What if there’s more?”
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Mar 3
Mar 3, 2026 at 10:18 PM UTC
The Question With No Single Answer
Tell me— If a tree grows twisted toward the light, is it flawed… or determined? If a river changes course after hitting stone, did it fail— or did it learn? We call straight lines “right.” We call smooth roads “success.” But who decided that? If you take the long way home and discover something beautiful, was it a mistake— or the point? Here’s one for you— If someone survives the storm but carries the thunder in their chest, are they broken… or powerful? If silence protects you, is it weakness— or wisdom? If you forgive but never forget, are you bitter— or boundaried? Answer that quickly. You can’t. Because truth isn’t flat. It bends depending on where you stand. Let’s go deeper— If two people remember the same night in completely different ways, who owns the truth? The loudest voice? The calmest one? The one that cried? The one that didn’t? Or is truth a mirror— reflecting what each person is ready to see? What if strength looks like walking away? What if strength looks like staying? What if both are right— depending on the heart beating behind the choice? If a scar reminds you of survival, is it damage— or evidence? If love feels dangerous because it matters that much, is it risk— or depth? Think carefully. If life was simple— right or wrong, good or bad, black or white— Would we grow? Or would we just follow instructions without ever asking why? Maybe the complicated answer is the honest one. Maybe the reason we argue is because we’re each holding a different piece of the same shattered mirror. And maybe— The goal isn’t to be right. Maybe it’s to be aware that someone else’s answer can exist without erasing yours. So here’s the final question— If everything can be viewed from more than one angle… What makes you so certain yours is the only one? Pause there. Not to doubt yourself. But to expand. Because the mind that questions doesn’t weaken— it deepens. And maybe the most powerful thing you can say isn’t “I’m right.” It’s— “What if there’s more?”
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This wisdom should be on the streets My wisdom should be on the streets My wisdom should be on the walls These words deserve to be seen This knowledge should not be ignored. These skies aren't just falling They're spreading wide apart To let us all inside Into the universe's heart The ocean is the place To be and sea is paradise Whenever hearts are aching The water calms the mind Where the sun sets brighten the landscape New ideas take a different shape And as the moon smiles down on us We're simply here on our soul vacation The wind is howling-helping us To sail across the ocean-atmosphere Where far is close And the horizon's near We eat and drink We dream, we film We sing in silence to ourselves We're one with beautiful sun rays As I am letting go, Floating, finding words, Coming from the heart Of this country's evening ride We're simply carrying on In waves of love It has so many faces As well as phases Always enough For all of us If we look closer And we trust.
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Jul 9, 2025
Jul 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM UTC
Wise graffiti
We never know how what we are experiencing now might help us in the future. Every experience is valid and may be useful. Let's embrace everything and trust.
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May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM UTC
Reminder #21
I put a stop A full stop to all The trees pass swish Its shadow was good Well while it lasted Then came the sun For once I stopped To watch it fall The cool breeze Hitting my face dry Saying hi and bye All at the same time Then the moon Came the stars A beautiful site But I guess they would never understand Each others beauty and fall And i said this is it I've watched enough
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Mar 2, 2025
Mar 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM UTC
How could we understand beauty if our minds are closed off
We are slaves Nothing but slaves Dominated by our convinctions Buried by our ego
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Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 at 6:15 AM UTC
Buried alive
Within this constriction We define perfection Perfection is subjection Subjective is perfection Dangerous is the definition Disheartening is the caused segregation Segregation then leads to dehumanization Dehumanization brings a solution A final solution All from the definition Of perfection Of attraction How beauty is the chaperon For destruction Is a cyclic maceration Of the human condition How repugnant and inane Future and past is inundated by a dismal shroud To be perfect is to accept those who possess your idea of imperfection Stay open minded, avoid apathy, seek the uncomfortable Let’s break the cycle
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Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019 at 2:40 AM UTC
**** Nutrients
To open one's mind Would be to seek out what closed It in the first place
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 8:10 PM UTC
The mind is a door
Recalling fanaticism Angry eyes swollen into the night Full and proud the lunatic stood Offering a seemingly worthless soul To the blinding light of the moon Heresy became virture As daylight crept onto the horizon Helios and his knights purging The shadows of the Lunar kin An orchestrated arsonist's betrayal The comfort of the evening air Bitter as it now is, is tempting to some Those enkindled with righteous flames Bleed their religion into a new day Wildfires spread to the ways of old.
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Nov 4, 2016
Nov 4, 2016 at 12:21 PM UTC
Solatic
I have a lot on my mind but thinking about it is a waste of time. Ever since I've been lost inside I'm trying so hard to be alright. Did I....make a mistake by running away from the thought of yesterday? I never wanted to remember all I ever wanted was to be okay. Oh, what's the benefit what's the point of it? There's no need to mutter I need to get better! I just can't hold onto this   so I don't overthink it I should **** it up and quit.
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Jan 7, 2016
Jan 7, 2016 at 11:36 PM UTC
Don't Overthink it!
These words, they conglomerate on the page loosely tied together by the date the sharpest needle and the finest thread could not stitch them together I have tried many times I have stabbed myself many times but scraps of sting unused words lay loosely distorting an unforeseen design but if you squint posses an open mind then the words will seem to tighten
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 7:46 PM UTC
Literary Embroidery
Vastly and taken, among us We walk alone As have we always And shall we continue Our minds aren't always As silenced as we should be We listen and evaluate, As if its our job, to gain the knowledge of you To figure you out. To know our jobs of further corruption. Against anyone and everyone And we watch, as to gain power To know what to do to make you ***** inhabitants of our mother earth live in fear and restlessness. We are the control You, our puppets We decide if and when to free you from your strings Only attached to crosses as To represent religion Falling far from it in your falling out with a god, after being cut Only to figure out you knew nothing of what religion really stood for Because after all? Who really knows? But us. We are complete control. Learn to obey and get into our rythm of speaking, so you lip it, they think its opinions. We.the collectors. Gathering stars In an infinity of black charred sky. We must add color to our canvas. We, gathering your glass tears in our paper jars Throwing them to the sky. So you'll forever remember mourned loved ones until you become that as well. And you think stars are some beautiful representation of life, we all burn out. Some might be. Tears of joy. Proposal on a sunny day. A new family. Warm and fuzzy memories for you to store. But to collectors, stars are to remind you That even in a black nothing land There is still suffering. The sun isn't getting closer But only bigger and still enlarging rapidly As there will always be pain And suffering Tragedy in great masses. Broken hearts. Stars are to show remembrance in bad times. What else is there out in the cold of space? You don't know. Exactly. You know nothing of what is to come. Of what you are to become.
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 2:22 AM UTC
Eerie Deadly
Vastly and taken, among us We walk alone As have we always And shall we continue Our minds aren't always As silenced as we should be We listen and evaluate, As if its our job, to gain the knowledge of you To figure you out. To know our jobs of further corruption. Against anyone and everyone And we watch, as to gain power To know what to do to make you ***** inhabitants of our mother earth live in fear and restlessness. We are the control You, our puppets We decide if and when to free you from your strings Only attached to crosses as To represent religion Falling far from it in your falling out with a god, after being cut Only to figure out you knew nothing of what religion really stood for Because after all? Who really knows? But us. We are complete control. Learn to obey and get into our rythm of speaking, so you lip it, they think its opinions. We.the collectors. Gathering stars In an infinity of black charred sky. We must add color to our canvas. We, gathering your glass tears in our paper jars Throwing them to the sky. So you'll forever remember mourned loved ones until you become that as well. And you think stars are some beautiful representation of life, we all burn out. Some might be. Tears of joy. Proposal on a sunny day. A new family. Warm and fuzzy memories for you to store. But to collectors, stars are to remind you That even in a black nothing land There is still suffering. The sun isn't getting closer But only bigger and still enlarging rapidly As there will always be pain And suffering Tragedy in great masses. Broken hearts. Stars are to show remembrance in bad times. What else is there out in the cold of space? You don't know. Exactly. You know nothing of what is to come. Of what you are to become.
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A free man walking Suffers from no illusions But what grows green from rocks Is what he seeks It reminds him that hope never dies A free man talking Suffers from no emotions But what he hears from ticking clocks Is how a baby sleeps Not knowing why his mother cries A free man provoking Is like kicking sand into oceans People hear the way he talks But ignore why he speaks They only see white in his darkened eyes A free man trying His mind rocked by constant motions It’s not so easy to feel these thoughts The truth of the matter is all he keeps While she drowns in seas that only rise
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 3:42 PM UTC
A Free Man
Be kind, For at least once in your life the kindness you show, will make a monumental difference, for whom you showed it to. Be flexible, The tides of life will twist and turn you many ways, you must bend with them. Be soft, many will tell you only a thick skin will get you through, but it is only with soft hands that you can nurture broken hearts. Be patient, a short fuse will only put you in a deep hole. And perhaps, Most importantly, Be open minded, so that you will never hold back any of the above, because of what you think, but don't know.
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 11:24 PM UTC
A Little Advice...
I nominate the *** that's been brought to a boil Our plans fell through And we're about to go under the knife Rise and shine Like peas and carrots Like loaded dice and the counting of cards Aw, you beat me to the punch You are not some run of the mill curator With a reduction in pay, you know your stuff I blame my dichotomous thinking
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 3:37 PM UTC
Consider
Passively Pacify Our Minds Lil Wayne Is Our Guide Willie Lynch’s Spirit Masterminds his Rhymes Spirits Full of Hate Played Out on Mixtapes Ancient Ideologies Perpetuate As we greedily devour Beats that makes us Forfeit Our Power Physically we are free But our minds are in 1793 Archaic ideologies chain thee
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May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 at 1:58 AM UTC
***** Got A New Pen Name