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 Dec 2024 Jill
Lola Sparks
The woman I’ve fought so hard to be.
She looks through me like I’m not there,
Rejecting my truth with a cold, blank stare.

Her love feels distant, sharp as a knife,
Cutting away at my chosen life.
I reach for her, but her arms stay closed,
Her heart a door forever opposed.

Love me as I am—before it’s too late,
Before my voice drowns in the weight of hate.
See me whole, my body, my soul,
But instead, you cast me in a broken role.

A bird whose wings you clipped at the start,
A daughter unloved, breaking apart.
Fading and fractured, yet I still plea:
Mom, why can’t you just love me?
 Dec 2024 Jill
Edmond
Tangled
 Dec 2024 Jill
Edmond
The ribbons of your heart
Are entwined with mine.
Blood-red trailing on ebony
Softest silk draped over stone
You seek to love me
But I cannot.
I can’t risk you and I
Becoming entangled -
I fear we may never be free.
I love you, I promise I do!
 Dec 2024 Jill
Always Somewhere
à chaque approche de                chaque saison
je me reproche de ne pas           être dans le pays qui m’a vu naître
les saisons me rappellent le      cercle infini de sa beauté éphémère
quand je me trouve dans           l'hémisphère inversé
comme miroir antithétique       de ma terre originelle
un jour, comme parfois              j'y retournerai pour adoucir mes souvenirs

les feuilles jaunâtres et orangées qui s'entassent naturellement près des trottoirs
les premiers flocons de neige de la saison qui embellissent les monuments historiques
les températures qui accompagnent nos paroles de condensation
les chaudes journées d'avril qui réchauffent le cœur et nos idéaux
celles qui nous font ressortir les t-shirts à manches courtes et
les premières brûlures de soleil
les feux de cheminée dans la maison qui m'a vu grandir et partir

mes amis sédentaires et mes amours laissés derrière
le visage, le sourire, la bienveillance de ma mère
les discours de mon père m'expliquant que
le sud, c'est mieux
les métros et les RER
les sapins dits de Noël que sans trop savoir pourquoi nous continuons de vêtir
croissants et raclette, les plats de ma grand-mère
les musées et les parcs de la ville lumière
les vacances à la mer
bien que ce soit un océan
bouteilles de vin et savoureuses bières
bref, ma terre qui pour toujours me sera chère
le 25 septembre 2024
 Dec 2024 Jill
Liana
Going about the day
Tiresome or exhilarating the same
Becomes unbearable
When the knowledge
Breaks the window to your head
That you have school tomorrow
You don't get write, read, walk, or create all day
You just sit there
Listening to and then discarding useless information

D(r)ead.
School could be replaced with work if you've passed those days

Basically every Sunday

(This note was written by the stone that broke the window to my head who didn't want to be an accessory to the crime)
 Dec 2024 Jill
Edward Hynes
I’m told that I’m a dream produced
by time and space and DNA, that’s organized in such a way
that chemistry and physics are enough to make it dream,
so let’s accept that really there’s no ghost in the machine.

But still it seems that I exist, and isn’t it amazing dreams
can interact with other dreams,
do calculus and higher math,
gaze at the stars, make art, make love,
investigate it all and find
we’re just another accident of chemistry and space and time.
Really?

“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.” Albert Einstein, 1936.
 Dec 2024 Jill
inkedsolace
bilingual
 Dec 2024 Jill
inkedsolace
bilingual,
c'est un great chose,
i mean,
like voir ceci,
i am typing cette ligne,
et vous are translating,
dans the span d'une seconde,
c'est parmi the meilleur chose in the monde,
wow,
i mean,
je suis rendre speechless,
a votre intelligence,
this ability n'est pas granted a tout le monde,
vous êtes chanceaux,
et moi, i am too.
 Dec 2024 Jill
Lola Sparks
You keep checking your phone so you don’t feel alone,
A glowing lifeline where shadows are shown.
In the silence, it buzzes, a flicker of light,
Breaking the stillness of your endless night.

You scroll through the faces, the voices, the threads,
Seeking connection in what’s left unsaid.
The screen holds a promise, a tether, a weight,
A digital mirror reflecting your fate.

But the warmth doesn’t linger, it fades too fast,
The comfort it offers is one that won’t last.
A fleeting illusion, a whispered refrain,
You reach out again, but it feels the same.

What do you seek in that luminous glow?
A friend, a purpose, a place to go?
The ache of your heart can’t be eased this way,
Yet still, you’ll refresh, hoping someone will stay.

So you keep checking your phone to make sure you’re not alone,
Building castles in pixels where seeds won’t be sown.
And maybe one day, when you put it down,
You’ll find the connection you’ve longed to be found.
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