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Wǔxíng Category: Earth (土) 3-xx The afternoon light angles across the digital screen, dust motes suspended in the quiet of a closing month. Two distinct orbits maintain a calculated distance, drawing toward a center by the choice of a steady hand. No printed blueprints exist for this specific resonance, no mechanical manual for the merging of a single breath. The geometry of the room remains fixed in its place, marking the simple mathematics of presence and peace. The map of our origin reveals a jagged and distant coast, where a quiet acknowledgement began in the cooling wind. The separate histories of two lives are smoothed by time, like stones turned over in the wash of a persistent tide. I see the color of the sunrise meeting a structured grey, a slow exchange of strength occurring without a sound. Kindness shows up in the way a door is held open, an ordinary movement that builds a sanctuary of light. Precision finds its purpose within a gentle grace, as the persona falls away to reveal the man beneath. Space is held open for the one who dreams in the night, and for the one who trembles when the fire burns high. The landscape is cultivated by the air of understanding, where the lustful madness meets the weight of tender care. This mirror does not distort the lines of the face, reflecting a quiet truth that cast no shadow on the floor. A definitive seal is pressed into the wax of the day, placing a deep reciprocity beneath a heavy anchor. Outside the glass, the chaotic games of the world spin on, but the climate of the domed greenhouse remains still. We are the designers of a peace that is built on bedrock, relying on the certainty of the ground beneath our feet. The stars begin their watch over the heavens above, while a final rest is found exactly where it was meant to be. 刘嘉文 © 2026 Liujiawen2024. All Rights Reserved
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Mar 31
Mar 31, 2026 at 10:51 AM UTC
Acknowledgement and Reciprocity (2026) rev.2
Wǔxíng Category: Earth (土) 3-xx The afternoon light angles across the digital screen, dust motes suspended in the quiet of a closing month. Two distinct orbits maintain a calculated distance, drawing toward a center by the choice of a steady hand. No printed blueprints exist for this specific resonance, no mechanical manual for the merging of a single breath. The geometry of the room remains fixed in its place, marking the simple mathematics of presence and peace. The map of our origin reveals a jagged and distant coast, where a quiet acknowledgement began in the cooling wind. The separate histories of two lives are smoothed by time, like stones turned over in the wash of a persistent tide. I see the color of the sunrise meeting a structured grey, a slow exchange of strength occurring without a sound. Kindness shows up in the way a door is held open, an ordinary movement that builds a sanctuary of light. Precision finds its purpose within a gentle grace, as the persona falls away to reveal the man beneath. Space is held open for the one who dreams in the night, and for the one who trembles when the fire burns high. The landscape is cultivated by the air of understanding, where the lustful madness meets the weight of tender care. This mirror does not distort the lines of the face, reflecting a quiet truth that cast no shadow on the floor. A definitive seal is pressed into the wax of the day, placing a deep reciprocity beneath a heavy anchor. Outside the glass, the chaotic games of the world spin on, but the climate of the domed greenhouse remains still. We are the designers of a peace that is built on bedrock, relying on the certainty of the ground beneath our feet. The stars begin their watch over the heavens above, while a final rest is found exactly where it was meant to be. 刘嘉文 © 2026 Liujiawen2024. All Rights Reserved
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Love is like a vapor that slowly fades away, if not cherished with reciprocity, everyday..... It's like a rose bud blooming,for all the world to see, but will crumble and die, if not cared for, faithfully...... So,if someone loves you enough to trust you,remember this one thing...... If you break the trust of love,the love of trust,will never,ever,............. be the same..... Michael Powers "STYXX ON FIRE "
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Feb 12
Feb 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM UTC
Love Is Like A Vapor.....
I held you close to my heart While you kept me deep Within your teeth
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Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM UTC
Teeth
An unrequited love Is a drought. That seeks the comfort Of the sun Dear comet turned thief Run. I feel no grief I’m the rib that won’t break I’m the light the moon fakes I’m the drought That forgot she was the sun
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Dec 7, 2023
Dec 7, 2023 at 11:25 PM UTC
Reciprocity
i can’t imagine not being grateful to the water when it is not quenching thirst but when it’s flowing faster than my fragile self can handle when its power is beyond mine and i cannot sip nor swallow the gentle, careful waves don’t hold still for me to wade in i am simply coexisting i am free to swim around and i may be swept under tomorrow it’s an ever changing world and it doesn’t give us rain because we ask
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Dec 15, 2022
Dec 15, 2022 at 4:43 AM UTC
reciprocity
There came a time when I realized the river flowed outwards The west became Sahara and east Bombay. The golden chops grinned in greed. My lips were full in windy cold winter, and you became hoarding supply-less supply.
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Dec 12, 2021
Dec 12, 2021 at 7:24 PM UTC
the stream
you are my forbidden fruit so sweet until the notes of bitter bubble up so perfect for me until your other side shows up duality, inability to see beyond your own body, beyond your own needs what am I to you? what am I if I do or don't? you tried to tie me down, tried to quiet my own voice, displeased with my need for reciprocity to engulfed in your hypocrisy I almost lost me, in your rapids, distractions too many factors, actors, and games too much struggle, rebuttals, and vain so much vanity you drove me insane and I have never driven a day in my life
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Nov 12, 2021
Nov 12, 2021 at 5:55 PM UTC
Factors, Actors, and Games
I told you I like you, and I spill those sky blue tears. Years later... You fall to me and I'm into somebody else.
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May 2, 2020
May 2, 2020 at 8:22 AM UTC
RECIPROCITY
choose people who choose you this is what I’m gonna do reciprocal relationships is what I’m looking for don’t want to be hurt and disappointed no more expectations from wrong relations I should be more patient so you made your choice and it wasn’t me there was a lot of noise inside of me heart over mind; it’s a problem for mankind could have given you the world, wow but it’s okay, I get it now you don’t want to be loved by me so I will go and set you free but there is something I want you to know a truth that wants to glow a fact I’m sure of this right here is your loss. - gio, 09.04.2020
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Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020 at 1:08 PM UTC
your loss
you nourish relationships that don’t want to grow maybe you should leave, you should just go you put energy into so many people that in reality sting you like a needle they can’t give you anything in return, nothing that sets your heart on fire or makes it burn and if you only would know that those people don’t want to glow, or at least not with you, then maybe you should adapt your crew so stop watering death plants, maybe you should just replant. - gio, 10.04.2020
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Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020 at 12:56 PM UTC
replant
Sing the song of gratitude, should the grass grow. Felt beneath our feet, the soil breathing its song. Let it growl a languid tone, for its tongue rests underneath its greenth overflows and wild creatures. A picture of placidity it draws, hidden under its overtone of yellow kingdom. Don't let it loom over you, for its stature is everything but onerous. Tell it why you fear not the soil nor its engulfing sky, and it shall move the winds easy. Speak with candor and imbue it with your love. Because when it hears your song of gratitude, it too will sing.
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Mar 22, 2020
Mar 22, 2020 at 5:34 AM UTC
Our Earth
L.O.V.E L. Lucky enough to find reciprocity. O. Overwhelmingly thinking of you. V. Vaingloriously hypnotized by your persona. I couldn't help to become your prisoner. E. Exclusiveness was an idea you wanted me to believe in. But apparently it wasn't for you.
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Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 2:02 PM UTC
Mistake
I might love you But won’t tell you Because recovery Is still coming Along But I love being with you Dancing to my favorite songs. I am falling in love with you And I know you love me too Please don’t go
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Nov 28, 2018
Nov 28, 2018 at 12:42 PM UTC
Stay, and Stay Patient, Please.
Dear You, When I first saw you, I thought you were unremarkable. I didn't know, then, that I would end up this way with my insides torn to shreds over the love I wish to give you. Perhaps you seemed unremarkable to me because your treasure lays inside of you, under the layers of humour and deceptive smiles. I saw a glimpse of your treasure when a brick fell from the towers you built to protect yourself. It was the night you told me what you willed no one else to know, a night where your defences were down. I was entranced for a while, caught up in the thoughts of all you were hiding and who you could be if you stepped out of the tower. This was dangerous territory. In attempting to reach you, I nearly fell into the moat that protects your structure. In my trance, I didn't realize you had not drawn me a bridge. I was not the one you wished to uncover your treasure. You crumpled my heart like a sheet of paper, threw it into the moat, but my mind was still shackled to you. In my thinking, I realized that I cannot help you. I cannot tear down your walls if you disarm me. So I have decided to let my heart wander away in the water, break the ties I have to you, and keep the love I cannot give away. I cannot care for you if you do not want me to. I cannot go against what you wish, and what you wish is for the touch of another to ease you into letting down your guard. You wish that someone finds you remarkable, but that someone must not be me. I walk away from your treasure and hope that one day, you will lower your bridge and let someone pick away at your walls. If that person does not exist, if no one again finds you and your hidden treasure remarkable, then remember that my torn heart still floats in the water you almost let consume me. If you would let me care for you, I could retrieve it. I could swim across the thrashing moat, speak to you through the hardened walls you've built. I could hope that this time, you would listen to my voice. For now, I leave you. Sincerely, Me
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Nov 11, 2018
Nov 11, 2018 at 7:16 PM UTC
To the Boy I Cannot Care For
Dear You, When I first saw you, I thought you were unremarkable. I didn't know, then, that I would end up this way with my insides torn to shreds over the love I wish to give you. Perhaps you seemed unremarkable to me because your treasure lays inside of you, under the layers of humour and deceptive smiles. I saw a glimpse of your treasure when a brick fell from the towers you built to protect yourself. It was the night you told me what you willed no one else to know, a night where your defences were down. I was entranced for a while, caught up in the thoughts of all you were hiding and who you could be if you stepped out of the tower. This was dangerous territory. In attempting to reach you, I nearly fell into the moat that protects your structure. In my trance, I didn't realize you had not drawn me a bridge. I was not the one you wished to uncover your treasure. You crumpled my heart like a sheet of paper, threw it into the moat, but my mind was still shackled to you. In my thinking, I realized that I cannot help you. I cannot tear down your walls if you disarm me. So I have decided to let my heart wander away in the water, break the ties I have to you, and keep the love I cannot give away. I cannot care for you if you do not want me to. I cannot go against what you wish, and what you wish is for the touch of another to ease you into letting down your guard. You wish that someone finds you remarkable, but that someone must not be me. I walk away from your treasure and hope that one day, you will lower your bridge and let someone pick away at your walls. If that person does not exist, if no one again finds you and your hidden treasure remarkable, then remember that my torn heart still floats in the water you almost let consume me. If you would let me care for you, I could retrieve it. I could swim across the thrashing moat, speak to you through the hardened walls you've built. I could hope that this time, you would listen to my voice. For now, I leave you. Sincerely, Me
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I can tell he wants me to show him around, take him out and show how him how I get down. He wants me to smile but my face is stuck in a frown. Boy didn’t you notice when I tried taking you out on the town? When we rode with my girl C, you brought your boy V Then the time I got into a fight that nobody even got to see My girl didn’t like you I wonder, how could that be?? Once upon a time you were down to do anything. Rain or shine. Doesn’t matter what we do as long as youre mine. Lately it feels like youre wasting my time. Feels like a one way street. All of a sudden you don’t make me feel like a treat You see I’ve Taken you out You know the life I’m about. Yet we still scream and shout cause now we never seem to get out At least not enough I know at the moment Life feels a bit rough But we can’t be consumed Part of us died Let it be exhumed Dust off our shoulders and hit resume Let’s start living & forgiving Then start stacking up it to the ceiling I thought you were my back up But it’s me that you’re killing We don’t need to go hard or spend money at the bar We don’t even need to go far Let’s go to guitar center and pretend to be stars Im sorry for my ****** mood But if you don’t try We’re *******
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 4:44 PM UTC
Reciprocity
How can you expect someone to love you - when you are not the person they wanted? When all you are is a substitute; filling a vacancy left open by the person they wish to be with. How can you be enough to a person who is never impressed by any of your efforts? A person who sees all your expressions of love, as inadequate coming from you? How can you be appreciated by a person who sees your eccentricities as flaws? A person who attempts to appropriate anything, and everything unique about you. How can you be worth meaning a great deal to a person who sees no value in you? A person who is prejudicial without remorse. How can you be worth loving when you struggle to love yourself? When life has flagellated your self-esteem; when depression has left you void of any jubilation, and left you with an overwhelming emptiness and nights of crying-induced sleep? At my best, the love I give is not reciprocated. The person I am is not celebrated. The emptiness within me seeks solace in recluse.
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Oct 25, 2017
Oct 25, 2017 at 4:02 PM UTC
At My Best.
Give me fire and I will sing you morning Finding you heart And a birth of fruit For you, a flame that will stay beauty Song will take us by the hand And lead us back to light. Give me fire and I will sing you evening Asking you water And a quick breath No farewell winds like a willow switch Against my body In a dark room. audre lorde.
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Aug 3, 2017
Aug 3, 2017 at 2:18 AM UTC
A Lover's Song
They call it *** for tat I call it an exchange for that… That favor you owed me Oh, did you think that was free? Do you really think it’s fair for you to take what’s mine Yet if I ask for it back it’s not fine Do you think it’s okay for me to show you respect Yet when I ask for it in return you just continue to neglect Neglect me, my wants and my needs But yet I should stroke your ego and plant unwanted seeds I don’t mean to be rude but I need to keep it real If you don’t mind, I need something I can feel I’m gonna need some reciprocity Just give me a little hope and positivity
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Jul 21, 2016
Jul 21, 2016 at 3:49 PM UTC
Some reciprocity please?
Sitting here writing this on the fly... Sometimes people say im a nice guy. Everytime I can't help but question why... Im just me; do everything for you, or at least ill try... Friends come and go... Friends can slip by.. To this I also... Ponder why... Do people give up? Do they get bored? Or is it that, they pretend to try... My friends mean the world to me. Worthy of my time, even if im not free... Is this true? Then why is it... That sometimes I'm not able... To be there for you. Their are no ranks you are all family... The only time you can't get to me, is when another friend greatly needs me. Or maybe its really the opposite. Im in need of a great lift. Each of you are amazing to me. Why is it that sometimes i cannot see... You are here beside me, and I'm not free. Stuck in my head, wrapped up in myself.. Too trapped to even look out. Even still you stand by me, trapped in my thoughts... Staring blankly. So really why... Am i such a great guy? I try to give back, help anyway i can.. I still cannot begin to fathom. I can be fun, motivating, even sometimes entirely humiliating... You all know, i love you greatly... The ends of the earth, not too far for me! Always have been and will always be.. You all are... my closest family. Thank you forever, for standing by me!
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 12:00 AM UTC
Who knows... (FRIENDS)