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#resetagain
1st step. 2nd. 3rd— ...pause. 2 steps back. reset. again. again. How does it end? I ask like I haven’t already broken the answer in my hands a hundred times. One moment, I swear I see the path— lit, clear, like maybe I was meant for more. The next, I’m sinking into myself, slow, silent, like grief with no name. Hope is a ghost I keep chasing in my sleep. She never stays. Not for me. I smile like it means something. Breathe like I’m not falling apart every second I’m awake. No one sees the cracks I carry in my chest. I call it progress, this pretending. But it’s just a prettier way to bleed. How will it turn out? Maybe it won’t. Maybe this— this looping, this aching— is the only ending I’ll ever know.
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Apr 21, 2025
Apr 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM UTC
The Next Moment I...