Tag: strength
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Begging for chains
Spinoza said the greatest problem of philosophy is why we beg for our chains I used to be desperate to love someone so that I could abandon myself The way my father taught me: Love means letting go, love means sacrifice, love means being selfless, it’s brave to discard yourself for something else, you’re strong…
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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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Asking the postman
I had a friend I knew since I was in middle school and over time we realized there was a bond that stood still among the ups and downs of life and more importantly through the changes and transformations in ourselves. In our late twenties we converged and being married was on our minds. When…
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Take your cage, take your keys
I’ve decided that love from now on should taste like freedom I won’t be keeping any more promises so you can’t blame me for breaking them When I think of how you cornered me into surrendering my right for your wrong Your revenge gone off-center feeding an ego binge I almost admire your expert crafting…
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Waiting
I will bring you the strength I found in these few days I was thinking about everything that was taken from me, all the mending and fixing I worked for in the last decade to bring some tenderness to myself That he selfishly robbed clean I thought about the gorey emptiness of that lost time…
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Ancient empires
I heard that the earth is littered with ruins of empires that believed they were forever And you and you and you Are the kind of boys that I should be with if I were a good girl If we still lived under the empire of men We could’ve been equals then In the place…
SUBLIME COURAGE 