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S commented on the post, savings 3 years, 2 months ago
a broken-hearted carpenter. a lost child. an enigmatic dreamer. they’d grabbed on and she’d fought to keep them from crashing off the ledge. they were her savings. pieces of heartache, abandoned dreams, buried memories. at the end of day, she was a pauper.
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S commented on the post, denim 4 years, 10 months ago
it had been a love hate affair.
she loved the way he had softened over time, moulded himself to her curves. the way his rough edges now gently held her together on days when her insides threatened drown out the world. how he knew and touched parts no one else ever had. and how he now fit only her.
she hated that her growth slowly tore him…[Read more]
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S commented on the post, conviction 4 years, 10 months ago
i am slowly learning
that conviction is not always a bold sergeant, purposefully marching forward, methodically taking down whatever is in his path.
sometimes it the surprising humming rising out of the rubble, the gentle lifting of weight on shoulders, and Your still, small voice, whispering, “well done”.
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S commented on the post, flexible 4 years, 10 months ago
“but i’ve been so flexible” you said.
and i couldn’t deny it.
you’d wound yourself around me, closely following my every whim, continuously changed shapes in an attempt to seep into the crevices of my being.
yes. you had been flexible.
perhaps the cage you’d put me in me was less conventional than a standard metallic one, but it was a…[Read more]
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S commented on the post, furious 4 years, 11 months ago
furious.
to admit that you make me so
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S commented on the post, radius 5 years ago
you’d always complimented my math notes
and my clear, unbroken lines
always earned your praise.so it shouldn’t have surprised either of us
when i brought sharpened graphite to paper
and firmly etched a clear radius around my heart.i was only trying to protect myself
after all, we’d marvelled together
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S commented on the post, quietly 5 years ago
the deep baseline
snakes through my core
as your words of ecstasy
fill me giddy shakes.
your mouth words at me
almost
lovingly.i can’t hear a thing
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S commented on the post, blurry 5 years ago
all i can remember
is the warmth of your arms
and the musky scent of pine
in your patient embraceyour heart was always blurry to me
and i wonder
if the cold wouldn’t bite so hard
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S commented on the post, crosswalk 5 years, 1 month ago
the old crosswalk was ever fickle.
somedays, it chirped
others its blinking light stuttered.the old crosswalk was ignored.
it barely commanded the respect of the passing traffic.
to cross was to attempt walking on waterthe old crosswalk was barely a crossing
but i always crossedit was the only way to reach
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S commented on the post, fisherman 5 years, 1 month ago
your hook
wedges itself into my very corei wish i could hate you for piercing my heart
but i’d be deadif you hadn’t pulled me out of the water
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S commented on the post, withered 5 years, 4 months ago
f*ck everyone who kept telling him to lose weight.
the way he saw it, the more of him there was, the harder it would be for life to suck it out. life would not wither him away.
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S commented on the post, level 5 years, 4 months ago
sometimes i wish the journey you mapped out for me was on level ground. especially when my calves ache from incline, and the oxygen starts to thin. or when jagged tree branches send me careening to the rugged earth.
could you not have stuck to rolling drumlins? it would have been easier to see the path, to see you.
yet i continue to walk,…[Read more]
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S commented on the post, analytical 5 years, 4 months ago
he wondered how they ever did it.
he couldn’t stop himself from
seeing untold stories in the patterns of the scuff marks on the subway floor
or hearing symphonies of longing in every rainfall.
and every word he inhaled was elixir
or poison.did the rest of the world just close their eyes to it all?
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S commented on the post, support 5 years, 4 months ago
thin wooden beams groan under our weight
and i think back to physics class
what was the best way to bear weight?
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S commented on the post, avoided 5 years, 5 months ago
you skim across
gilded lakes
your feathery touch
etching impressions, connections
on the crystalline surface of your canvasothers marvel at your masterpiece
and you are a masteras you skim over
drowning hands
your silent judgement
leaving lacerations, punishment for “forgiven” altercations
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S commented on the post, playground 5 years, 6 months ago
thin, rough fabric
knocks my knees together
as metallic links
bite my palms.
the intensity increases
the higher I go.the wooden crossing
from which we fought giants
and conquered trolls
groans, unsteady
under my weight.
and i am afraid.and the empires!
oh those kingdoms
which were so easy to
benevolently mould
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S commented on the post, cinema 5 years, 6 months ago
she mesmerized him
from the moment he laid eyes on herin the flickering screen he found
love
connection
fear
escapeso every day he sat at her feet
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S commented on the post, bourbon 5 years, 7 months ago
you seared my throat
as whiskey
as i lost my senses
floating in your haze.then you entrenched
your thorns into me
as i leaned in
captured by your scent & gaze.rose, whiskey
what did it matter when
i was simply a way to pass the days.
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S commented on the post, sniper 5 years, 7 months ago
how was i supposed to have known
that you who
crouched low,
earnestly
looking me in the eye,
only meant to shoot a bloody hole
right in my head and heart?bang bang!
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S commented on the post, gentlemen 5 years, 7 months ago
unexpected moments
under alley streets
uncertain questions
trampled under harried feeta last minute request
incited a hopeful beat
followed by an unspoken inquiry
you were supposed to meeta test, a measure,
was is so wrong
to safeguard the treasure?
was passing
such an impossible feat?
