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Water
washing away
everything you thought you were.
What will remain
when everything that is
not you
-just a temporary shell-
is washed away?
Can you stand
to be so shellless
your raw, naked self
tossed through the currents?
Or will you rather collect
new detritus
forming a new shell
to dress your self in?
washing away
everything you thought you were.
What will remain
when everything that is
not you
-just a temporary shell-
is washed away?
Can you stand
to be so shellless
your raw, naked self
tossed through the currents?
Or will you rather collect
new detritus
forming a new shell
to dress your self in?
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Literature
Youth
A thousand burning candles
lighting up a temple.
With the quenching of the last flickering flame
the aegis falls,
and the sacred building crumbles.
Literature
Aging and Waking Up
Still younger than I am old,
yet I age each day
and I wonder what I am,
what I'm doing,
I know who I used to be,
but who am I now?
Changing, aging,
sometimes my arms feel longer than my legs,
my knuckles scrape against the ground
and I wonder if the scabs on my skin will
heal and fall off,
though as I fall down,
I know it will feel better to get up,
my heart continues to ache in ways I don't understand,
because being in love with life feels similar to feeling lonely,
so much to feel, to ache for,
it is more than a slow exhalation,
it is excruciatingly beautiful,
I am now more than sick of dreaming,
being alive is being awake.
Literature
...
fine then, just leave me alone
let me rot in this "shithole" existence
you don't like it?
well it's none of your business
try to turn me around
put me on "the right path"?
it won't work
you haven't experienced such wrath
and then experienced the everlasting calm
but you'll never understand
all you know is the bad
all you remember is sad
i'm sorry you felt the need to cut me off
it's a real shame
and you weren't even involved
as if our friendship was a game
well i miss your friendship
you hurt me just as badly
as the one you criticize
still, i would renew our bond, gladly
if you weren't this way or that
stubborn, hard headed
just open you
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This is my entry for the monthly challenge of #Dreamers-Welcome this months theme is Water.
To the challenge description: fav.me/d67hkwp
You can see all the other lovely entries here: dreamers-welcome.deviantart.co…
Now that I reconsider it I think this was also subconsciously inspired by No man is an island by *0hgravity
I even stole a word (shelless)! If you do not know No man is an island yet, please go there, read it, fav it. To me it is one of the most beautiful poems ever.
Water is not your element?
Try one of those then:
Earth
Fire
Air (aka Wind)
To the challenge description: fav.me/d67hkwp
You can see all the other lovely entries here: dreamers-welcome.deviantart.co…
Now that I reconsider it I think this was also subconsciously inspired by No man is an island by *0hgravity
I even stole a word (shelless)! If you do not know No man is an island yet, please go there, read it, fav it. To me it is one of the most beautiful poems ever.
Water is not your element?
Try one of those then:
Earth
Fire
Air (aka Wind)
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