Ashlyn Yoshida

Ashlyn Yoshida Nov 2020

Burned wood can become charcoal
Compressed charcoal can become a diamond

I will become a charred and squashed corpse

#corpse #diamond #burned #wood #charcoal #squashed

Ashlyn Yoshida Nov 2020

It was stuck in my hand, alike to a tiny galaxy
Stars slipping through my fingers as I let go
Realizing my hands were too small
I gave it up to the future of an abysmal heart
Where all the dead dreams go

I want this to end.

#heart #dead #dream #galaxy #fingers #stars

Ashlyn Yoshida Nov 2020

I am the Lie

Swirling banters
red water catches my skin
my wrists are bound to the laughing of the crows
As the minor tantrum of a rebel
I live for the stories that include me the least

symbolism, symbolism everywhere

#storm #story #rebel #tantrum #misery #mockery

Ashlyn Yoshida Nov 2020

Misdirection

Too much, too little
I'm intelligent and kind
Two lies, two truths
When you bore me
I will leave you

#much #little #kind #mean #lies

Ashlyn Yoshida Nov 2020

Don't Wanna

I don't want to die

I don't want to live forever

I don't want all the answers

I don't want to skip through time.

Sometimes we all do.

#dont #die #live #forever #answers #time

Ashlyn Yoshida Nov 2020

Coded Memory

. . . l o a d i n g . . .

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-.. .- -. -.. . .-.. .. --- -. / .--. . - .- .-.. ... /
.- .--. .--. .-.. . / .--. .. . / --- -. / - .... . / .-- .. -. -.. --- .-- ... .. .-.. .-.. /
.-- --- .-.. ..-. / .- - . / - .... . / ..-. --- -..- / .- - . / - .... . / -.-. .... .. -.-. -.- . -. / .- - . / - .... . / .--. .. . /
-... --- -..- . ... / ... - .- -.-. -.- . -.. / --- -. / - .... . .. .-. / ... .. -.. . ... /
..-. .- -.- . / ..-. .-.. --- .-- . .-. ... / .. -. / .- / .-- .- - . .-. / ...- .- ... . /
- .... . / .-.. --- ... ... / --- ..-. / ... --- -- . --- -. . / .-- .... --- / -.-. .- -. -. --- - / -... . / .-. . .--. .-.. .- -.-. . -.. /

[ r e s e t ? ]
/ y e s <
/ n o

.-.. --- ...- . / -- . / -... .- -.-. -.-
be curious

#morsecode #memory #applepie #reset #loading #loss #boxes #replaced

Ashlyn Yoshida Nov 2020

Re-designing Process

Replace the memories with post-it notes.
Re-write the history that created who I am
those paragraphs of information erased from my thoughts.
I will save myself
sew and stitch my own flesh
and paint my bones
Creating new memories and paragraphs and post-it notes
Until I get it perfectly wrong
And my corkboard brain is covered in neon paper
and my hands are covered in paper cuts and glitter glue
and my heart becomes as covered
in as much barbed wire as there is stickers.

#memories #change #remake #loose #paper #past #painful