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I’ve got to figure out what I want what stays in a person when other things leave my brain leans toward a known pain instead of an unknown future do I go back again and pay for it with my soul just to feel like I belong her family was oil and water thrown into a blender always loud even in silence I tried to stand in it to find something steady that would give me an anchor but even that turned one shift of attention and I was accused of things I never was taught to carry and somehow I still walked away made to feel guilty like I was the damage on the outside she looks untouched like nothing could be wrong so when I leave I wear it like I broke something good but I know what it did to me I still feel it in the quiet healing isn’t finding someone better it’s learning not to return to something that only looks right on the outside like a painting in a ****** frame that tilts to the right when you look at it
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May 22
May 22, 2026 at 1:27 AM UTC
Tilted Frame
My breath belongs in my lungs, but my chest found a home inside your heart— then I cut pieces off myself just to hold a piece of you. Every embrace feels like a crowded room: your tight mannerisms wrapped around that pretty smile, your colours shifting between words; shapes changing into the version longing keeps sculpting. Maybe I’m the well dug too deep— a spiritual mirror of the man I keep trying to be, the one who could lie beside you in peace, long enough to remember what softness feels like. Your lips meet mine so gently that the moment breathes through both our pores; your presence pulls and pushes at once—push me away, and somehow your pull grows stronger. I fall back into that familiar gravity. You speak, and I listen through the seven levels of understanding; I try to translate us through the five love languages, into the three words you hesitate to confess, toward the one truth we both circle around. And all along, it only takes two— _You and I_, to subtract the whole count down to its core: I guess love is always the equation reduced to the simplest form.
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Dec 6, 2025
Dec 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM UTC
The Sum of Two
From my lips, hangs a cigarette The smoke illuminating your silhouette You’re my crutch and my vice And all the lies are overpriced Yet here I am with you between my fingers Dragging in your warmth with every breath But when the smoke no longer lingers I’ll wish for a fate kinder than death Because you’ll be my demise A devil in disguise You might even forget that you’re choking When it’s love that you’re smoking
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Nov 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM UTC
Ashtray