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 Jun 20 rick
badwords
I do not know your name—
only your silhouette
etched in the echo of things I was not given.
Your absence was my alphabet.
I spelled every woman with your ghost.


They loved me.
But I loved you through them.
Your hands behind their voices.
Your eyes haunting their praise.
They were flesh, and I was kneeling.


I made gods of strangers.
I made homes of hunger.


Mother—not mother.
Lover—not lover.
I could not hold the difference.
They all became symbols
and I became a shrinekeeper,
tending lies with tenderness.


Forgive me,
those I touched but never saw.
I was trying to reach through you
and forgot you were not them.
And they were not you.
None of you asked for this altar.


I am dismantling the myth.
I am returning the light.
 Jun 20 rick
Kay Lyn
They say I'm a "Summer babe " ☀️

All the summers my memories have
wonderful friends, funny friends and family -
we laugh so hard we actually cry lol 😆
beach days 🏖️
movie nights 🎞️
that one friend with the worst pick up lines for the ladies to get a date 🤣 Lol
We love you always

- Kay Lyn ©
 Jun 20 rick
Germaine
Skin
 Jun 20 rick
Germaine
Tell me about your painting
how it adorns your skin,
call it art,
as your flesh rips apart,
the blood soon sinks in.

Tell me about the constellations,
about the ripples in the waves.
Let my finger trace your arms
gently,
guiding through the stars
as you turn your face away.

Let the night be one,
together we can be as dark as the setting sun.
Let me kiss my lips, to your scars
memories flow jaggedly, afar.
 Jun 20 rick
MeanAileen
Oh how you torture
depriving me of sweet dreams...
your snores irk the dead
I'm sick of sleeping on the couch
I see her shine in the sun's embrace,
I see her face in the moon’s pleasant grace.
I feel her presence in the soft air,
I sense her warmth in the fire’s flare,
I taste her spirit in the flowing stream,
Each moment with her, a cherished dream.

I see her beauty in every bloom,
I feel her in the rain's sweet loom.
I feel her fury in summer's heat,
Yet miss her warmth when winter's chill greets,
And long for her hugs when evening comes near,
A comfort found in every soft tear.

I want her comfort when the world feels wide,
I want her as Joy in every rising tide.
I need her smile when disgust takes hold,
And wish for her surprise when my path is cold,
For every heartbeat, till the final breath,
I’ll carry her light, even beyond death.

By
Sanji-Paul Arvind
 Jun 20 rick
am
Imagined Lines
 Jun 20 rick
am
There is blood at your feet,
glass in your flesh,
and sand in your nails.

In an other time,
with another chance.
You don't truly believe things would be different if you could go back.

You are not someone that 'could have been better,'
you are just you, as you are.

You could never have been different.
 Jun 20 rick
Karen
Alone
 Jun 20 rick
Karen
At dusk a half moon
In solitude she is whole
Sweet the path ahead
Modern heiku
I wish I could lose my hearing
So I didn't have to hear your laugh
So I didn't have to hear you talking
So I didn't have to hear you

I wish I could lose my smell
So I didn't have to smell your hair
So I didn't have to smell your perfume
So I didn't have to smell you

I wish I could lose my sight
So I didn't have to see your face and smile
So I didn't have to see the places we went
So I didn't have to see you

I wish I could forget you
Not because I hate you
Not because it wasn't fun
But because
Every time I hear you
Every time I smell you
Every time I see you
I die a little more
Because I love them all to death
I bleed a little more
Because I love you to until the end
And it all reminds me of you
The one I can't have
 Jun 20 rick
Sophia
6.20.2025
 Jun 20 rick
Sophia
the rift between
knowing someone
and
understanding someone
is only crossed with
the experience of
selfless intention
and
boundless love
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