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#ostracism
Do you want to be a man? If you want to be a man, then stand up for your belief. Stand up for your right. Give up your goodness and give up your pride. The people will spit, will cry, will run. Do you let that be who you are? No. You. Can’t. Do you let the allegatory build your throne? Do you wish for your name to be set in stone? For the good? For the wrong? For the lie? For the truth? For the gladiator they will make of you?
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Feb 8
Feb 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTC
Man
Fireworks pop in the distance As people's shadows embrace them A day of celebration turned dark As fireworks turn into bullets And bullets claim several flowering lives Smiles and chatter fade into Emptiness and silence And suddenly it is no longer just fifteen But a whole community Being hunted Laid in straits barren Vultures circling above again Rot and rotting And death again Til we grieve and mourn and Fill ourselves with hatred again None of this should have happened And none of the ensuing events as well. Should we not question our actions Question our reality Why a whole community Is judged by the actions of a small small minority. There is a right way to go about things Just not like this... And the peaceful sea, The law of the land Comes in after its low tide, Coming back in to claim The innocent short lived trust And sow ostracism in its place Let these souls rest in peace And let the living grieve; instead of fearing for their lives.
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Dec 24, 2025
Dec 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM UTC
Playground of the Pacific
Look at me like an animal, with-drawled and wing over young; my peers. Separate them from us, perceived as vile. You fabricate a false stigma, a shrouding ghost stench we excrete. You’ve kept me from connection, congealed by your false projection! Falling farther from coitus, laughter, and joyous. Torch of aspiration, doused in fabrication. Curious, like a bee, buzzing around but can’t see. Craving sent bitter, they hate all but those sitter. Elect thyself primus. Hate me like a sinner. Blasphemy to love brother or sister. You can’t mask your vileness. You’ve kept me from connection, congealed by your false projection! Falling farther from coitus, laughter, and joyous. Torch of aspiration, doused in fabrication.
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Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020 at 3:20 PM UTC
Look at Me, the Animal
Sometimes the silence Is louder than fireworks So I put my headphones on To block the cacophony of ostracism. Sometimes the crowd Is lonelier than solitude So I withdraw from society To enjoy the company of seclusion.
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Mar 21, 2020
Mar 21, 2020 at 10:38 AM UTC
~ Loud Silence, Lonely Society ~