Tag: story
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The idiot
Last year a guy I knew didn’t know how to spend time with me Yesterday a man didn’t know how to escape his bad habits Today someone else didn’t have the answer either. I’m tired of knowing I’m tired of teaching My dad was like an idiot, I volunteer with autistic kids and even he…
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A Good Man and a Good Woman
Heartbreak Like the depths of anxiety and depression Feels so exquisite Like 1600 volts through the heart The organ of remembering His best friend died Buried six feet in your brain That you didn’t know how to touch The space he left because he knew how to feel those things When I think of how…
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Colosseum
The space between what dreams men give us and what they actually do, when they run the other way scared with no explanation Is the measure of their power Or rather The ghost of power Like the height of the rows of the colosseum After centuries of plumagging The measurements only architects can estimate In…
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Laws of love
My room is cold I woke up at 4am and felt sick I sat against the wall and started crying thinking about When my dad cheated on my mom And I took his side Hoping That would stop it from happening to me Don’t get it wrong I’m not mad at myself The next time…
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Break
There’s moments when you know you fell in love, then there are moments when you know you’ve fallen out of it. Do you ever argue with someone close to you and it’s at the point where you really question if you’re going to talk to this person again And you’ve already texted a paragraph and…
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Road trip
When I was in college my parents relationship was not well. We just had a death in the family, my grandfather who used to take care of all of us. Without him my parents marriage started to disassemble. It wasn’t fun being at home. I felt burdened and generally disillusioned about life. I went on…
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The fourth person
My dad says we have four quadrants One is things you know about yourself and everyone else knows about yourself Two is things you know but other people don’t, your secrets Three is things you don’t know and other people know, maybe something you’re denying or oblivious to Fourth, is what you don’t know and…
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In scattered time
I looked for you in all the faces We were the start and end of time The Big Bang The singularity For you I travelled through non linear time Borrowing memories and stealing future hopes I didn’t now how much you meant until I tried to live without you Years and years and years went…
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Flow
I see a lot of flows and currents It’s two things, The flow and the stop Go stop, go stop Emotions flow and boundaries stop Electricity through circuits and gates stop I love you I hate you We talk and then one of us goes silent and it speaks too we listen too We go…
SUBLIME COURAGE 