#reciprocity
Wǔxíng Category: Earth (土)
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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
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Mar 31
Mar 31, 2026 at 10:51 AM UTC
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 "
Feb 12
Feb 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM UTC
I held you close to my heart
While you kept me deep
Within your teeth
Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM UTC
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
Dec 7, 2023
Dec 7, 2023 at 11:25 PM UTC
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
Dec 15, 2022
Dec 15, 2022 at 4:43 AM UTC
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.
Dec 12, 2021
Dec 12, 2021 at 7:24 PM UTC
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
Nov 12, 2021
Nov 12, 2021 at 5:55 PM UTC
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.
May 2, 2020
May 2, 2020 at 8:22 AM UTC
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
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020 at 1:08 PM UTC
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
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020 at 12:56 PM UTC
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.
Mar 22, 2020
Mar 22, 2020 at 5:34 AM UTC
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.
Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 2:02 PM UTC
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
Nov 28, 2018
Nov 28, 2018 at 12:42 PM UTC
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
Nov 11, 2018
Nov 11, 2018 at 7:16 PM UTC
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 *******
Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 4:44 PM UTC
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.
Oct 25, 2017
Oct 25, 2017 at 4:02 PM UTC
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.
Aug 3, 2017
Aug 3, 2017 at 2:18 AM UTC
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
Jul 21, 2016
Jul 21, 2016 at 3:49 PM UTC
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!
Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 12:00 AM UTC