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I’ve been a fool long enough.

My eyes dazed upon the flame,

so bright, courageous, and warm in the dark,

I hungrily reached out, deadly too close, to the boundary.

Until, finally, I caught myself in spiegel.

Listen:

It’s not what we take that brings warmth to us.

It’s what rules we choose to abide by

that allows us to stand on our two feet under the glorious sun

and be at ease with ourselves

that keeps us warm.

Commit:

We will endure what comes before us.

Suffering will not, albeit close, last eternally.

Should we be alone all the way in the end,

we will find strength enough for a smile

for we will know we have done it the right way.

Believe.

8.16.2024

Line

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Come on, my friend, don’t be afraid,

I wish you’d be glad than be sad,

For glimpse in eyes, I saw gaze shy,

I guessed what might start this fright

If you know what I think you know,

Please see light in this I promise,

For this I keep to all I avow:

I won’t seek to cross this line.

This line, I know, I dared too well,

For my heart, too, knew when it sang.

Still worry not, for I honor my kin,

Through thick and thin, it’s here to stay.

So hear me out, please, when I say,

Worry not, and stay in delight

For journey’s long and dark and winded,

I seek to trust and repute our creed.

This creed to help, and do good a deed,

Beyond our skin and belly we fill,

I believe this above my greed.

So this is the line I vow to keep.

8.5.2024

Sway

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remember this moment,

the moment you are swaying.

The swing does feels better

when it sways,

soaring into crisp air of autumn.

Magic is in there, they say.

A vignette of effervescent thing of life

is caught in the requiem of the fall sunset.

Your words stirred something in my chest,

in spite of all my effort against it;

so I loosened my coat,

and walked further into the woods.

8.13.2024

Valerie

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Until I saw the sun itself,

I did not know I had not been living.

When its warmth soaked through my skin,

When I could no longer hide my bare soul

in veils of rebellious anger, shadows of nostalgia,

I let go of all the restraints to be united with it.

Then the sun started to set,

bringing with it, beautifully bleeding rouge

into the ocean of analgesic blue dusk,

and I returned to an empty dark night alone.

In the darkness, in my heart, the warmth continues to glow.

Believing, without an evidence, that I will see the light again.

7.12.2024

Knife

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at the dawn,

I saw the dark breaking down

by slow, simmering, shadowy light

imbuing without knowing, but feeling.

you can almost sniff it off the dewy air,

so the all the darkness withdraws away

into a tiny corner out of view

and awaits for its call

when one longs to sleep.

7.12.2024

Real

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Don’t let the memory slip from your grip

What makes all this real.

Remember your humble rock bottom.

Remember the glory in the dawn of the world.

Remember their generous, peaceful smile.

Keep your head down.

Eyes on the target.

One foot at a time.

Until we reach the light.

Should you fall, alight your shirt.

Let it shine the way for those to come.

7.9.2024

Grasp

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in the wake of the white misty day in the woods,

there’s an eternally soft and chilling fog,

clouding your vision no further than a foot ahead of you.

let go of your fear; let your imagination run amok.

hold your heart steady, like holding a koala’s bottom.

you will come back alright. just keep holding them.

And open your eyes, see this wonder, rejoice!

7.7.2024

Loyal

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clutching a grain of sand in my fist,

I held it in my heart.

ocean wave of sorrow swarmed

because I knew I had a far way to go to get there.

I want to give, to bring laughter, and satisfaction,

but it’s ocean distance away, far longer than the reach of my arms.

vengeful against disadvantage, I sense fire brewing in my eyes.

Get me there. I command my bare hands and feet.

Our only destiny is to succeed.

7.4.2024