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There is a quiet that lives between moments not the pause of silence, but the soft inhale where the world loosens its grip and lets us feel. We spend so long chasing echoes of ourselves in tomorrow’s promises and yesterday’s shadows, forgetting that now It is the only place our footsteps truly fall. Growth is not a thunderclap It’s the gentle ache of outgrowing old skins, the courage of becoming without knowing What will be. And in that uncertain light, We find a strange comfort: the sky still opens, The day still begins, and somewhere within us the will to try again keeps rising like dawn. 🌤
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Oct 17, 2025
Oct 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM UTC
Between Moments
Dear anxiety, i know you still cling to me like clockwork, you never fail to show up, control my every move, like a puppet and its master— pulling the strings making me look at my life through a mirror, yet I'm forever scared— to lose you— old friend. i walk around in a haze, but you're there to comfort me, a static noise i can't turn off old friend— i can't sleep without you sleeping beside me, sending shivers down my spine, i feel you touching me, with your cold breath. i shiver - I'm scared— of what you do to me. but i let you stay. you influence my speech, put words in my mouth— that i didn't want to say. make me stutter, ’cause i can feel you clawing at the door— to let you in when everything seems calm i always let you back in i ask you to leave, but you make me stutter— You poison me— and i end up begging you to stay you know you're my weakness. you may burn everything to the ground, everything i have— but i can't get rid of you— i always hear you calling my name answer it in a heartbeat, old friend— you understand me and comfort me, I'm addicted to the feeling of drowning, with tears running down my face I'm addicted to the ghost inside of me— i hate you but i still let you in i regret it. i stopped feeling and started accepting— that you're always here, you're part of me.
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May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM UTC
A letter to my anxiety
Fishing for impudence looking outside, all seem so murky with a dying light, all seem so monochrome, with a condescending benight. Now I am looking closely and all that I found, was a hatred very symmetric, to which I am bound. Just like the voids I see in myself, maybe my lens is too murky, or my windows blacked out, but life is miserable and I see it around. I often try to deny, and live like everything’s fine, but some feelings never settle, some actions don’t suffice. I look for answers around I look for meanings behind, maybe it’s a different me, or maybe it’s the defeated mind. Thoughts never to settle, when I write sometimes, but facing your fears, through the words you write is more difficult than accepting the light. I often try to view this, in a stupidly optimistic hue, thinking like a flower proud of its scent and bloom. Thinking I am unique and so might be my issues, but I don’t want to look around cause inside I know, I am part of the million others that bloomed and withered in this garden too. My problems don’t amount to the privileges I own, and pain might be puny when compared to yours, but I still get hurt, even if my problems aren’t new, I still want to say them, even when my words are few.
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Nov 8, 2021
Nov 8, 2021 at 1:56 PM UTC
I am Fine?
when you start throwing hate toward people you suspect the most based on vague evidence it's not the accused that had done something off but you act childishly
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Sep 30, 2020
Sep 30, 2020 at 1:41 AM UTC
a blatant hate
if it werent for this chameleon skin could anybody truly love me?
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Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020 at 3:26 PM UTC
Colors of the Beast
To be blessed , favored and protected by the environment, selected and isolated from your social groupings, To be blessed is to synthesize what truly has meaning in life and self-meditate with the sake of life’s pace. Before falling asleep, resting, force the mental to remain awake, processing and breaking apart the information given today, despite the fact that time wasn’t kind, brief or even prolonged; make it the moral commitment to self-reflect. Make a correction if your answer is wrong; the fabrication of a scripture, Make sure, for certain, that all the totaled scores calculate to a certain percentage, Affirmed, scolded or ruled by another to convey your defined truth as inaccurate, almost there or rarely ample. Time is allotted, effortless and to be taught a lesson is a blessing, Space is limited, given and to be bestowed the gift of building is the set up version of a lesson, a shell of a blessing.
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 1:39 AM UTC
Blessing versus Lesson
It has been awhile since i wrote a tale, Of unjust of no peace and so much choas. It has been awhile since i got my self to a point of peace and focus... I no longer crave to be perfect, i no longer crave to be right... This is who and what i am, a small dot on a big world. Just putting a stop to one sentence. And writing a new... It has just been....
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 5:45 AM UTC
It has been
I’ve learned how to dismember my ligaments For those who need body parts, how to Digest ***** burning the stomach lining. I’ve learned how to read the bible As a poem and not a story, as A way of life; not an outline of life. I’ve learned how to open my arms To those claiming refugee on cement sidewalks. I’ve learned how to sing; not choir songs, No symphonies nor harmonies, but sing With a shaking voice from the pits Of carcass burnt within fiery honesty. I'm still learning how to scratch the surface To let scabs turn to skin, because I have always Been fascinated with the process of healing, But I become nostalgic when I outline stains On my skin from previous memories. I’ve learned how to paint the silhouette Of a smiling man saying goodbye to his wife While holding rifles pointed at the cross By the church where they used to meet. Knowledge comes in two forms; The first resides within yearning, the second within coping. I do not know how to tame forest fires From flocking flames feathering forgiveness: I guess I haven’t learned anything after all.
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Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 12:34 PM UTC
02.
What is love while you think of another man I think you need to revise your plan It's not working out Your past clarifies that no doubt Take that step into loneliness And you'd stop being such a mess Accept yourself and all your flaws Only then your glow will drop jaws Stop believing your self-deception Leave yourself, go alone, and face self-reflection
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Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 at 7:12 PM UTC
New Order
I feel my innocence slipping away through fingers clasped as tight as sand slipping to the ocean floor Thick waves engulfing it and tying it down like anchors around my neck i feel the weight of the opportunities i’ve missed out and i’m not sure how much longer i can keep afloat without letting the doubts sink me down by hidden treasure chests of siren calls.
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Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 6:12 PM UTC
19
Through a broken mirror I see your recollected smile To the depth of a vision’s reach I see your tormented soul Lost soul waiting to come out the materialistic exile I see you reaching out your hand but the mirror is too cold, You are trapped, who would have thought we could switch places Though I feel your broken heartbeats ****** tears dripping down your shattered faces I’ll stand by you, dimensionally, if your soul fits. Your remains lie in your illusionary window Until the end of time your existence remain a story untold Your soul continues with no hopes of tomorrow Your dull destiny was long foretold I’m looking at you through this broken mirror All I see is loneliness and false happiness Dimensions repel me from stepping closer While your soul falls down the infernal abyss. *Well well, here we are again Gazing upon you as I revisit your brain You haven’t changed since our last encounter Well I had to see you again as we open this new chapter.*
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 9:37 AM UTC
Through A Broken Mirror
I’ve got a mission To reach the destination I was destined to go on a journey, A journey which is unreached by many, This is the journey of my life. I shall walk down the empty streets Through the boulevards of broken dreams To the successfully riches This is the journey which takes years to reach, The journey of my life. This journey is not an adventure, It is a mental journey through nature With the care & support of my family and friends, I believe I can complete it with love in my hands… So journey with me Let’s push forward… There’s nothing to rewind, In this journey through my mind.
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May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 4:54 PM UTC
The Journey Through My Mind
I am who I am; no one else. I wonder who you are; deep inside. I hear the slamming of keys on a typewriter; faster, faster. I see beyond this dimension; the Earth is minuscule. I want excitement; a strange bond by words. I am stronger than I think. I pretend my issues don't exist; burry them in the caverns of my soul. I feel the warmth of your caress; my body pulsating with love. I touch my hip bones; wondering if they'll always be there. I worry my life will be incomplete; somehow stolen from under me. I cry for the souls who fell short; into the hands of a living death. I am reincarnated. I understand very little; this is only the beginning. I say nothing when I should say something; silence is the only sound. I dream of peace; remove the panic. I try everything; nothing left undone, nothing left untouched. I am who I am; no one else.
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 9:39 PM UTC
Who I Am