Ariana

Ariana 2d

Weight

Heartbreak burns slowly,
undetected and
concealed by well meaning
smiles,
in well thought out gifts,
in curated sentences
that never convey the right meaning.

In untold childhood stories
desperate to be spoken of.
In misplaced feelings of guilt
for choices made decades ago.
In the anguish of wanting to be known
by someone who doesn’t
wish to know what feeds the roots
of the tree that you’ve become.

In the idea that you’ve been alone
from the very beginning.

Heartbreak burns slowly,
and once it’s done;
It’s done.

2d

Asuka

"For the One Still Breathing"

You don’t have to rise like the sun each day—
some mornings, it's enough just to open your eyes,
to sit with the silence,
to feel your heartbeat and whisper, “I’m still here.”

You are not the storm that passed,
nor the ruins it left behind.
You are the seed under the soil,
waiting for the right rain,
the quiet miracle of a soul not giving up.

Let no one shame the pace of your healing.
Let no voice drown out the hush of your trying.
Because surviving is not small.
And breathing, on hard days,
is a kind of bravery the world forgets to praise.

So rest, dreamer.
You don’t need to shine tonight.
You just need to stay—
soft, alive,
and wildly worthy of tomorrow.

You push yourself hard and grind everyday and you are doing great, but sometimes when things are overwhelming you must to take a break.
🔥 There’s a time to roar, and a time to breathe.
You can’t fight every day with your fists in the air. Some days, the boldest thing you can do is sit quietly and say,

> “Not today—but I’ll rise again soon.”

Ariana Apr 24

Skin Hunger

Don’t hug me
if you don’t want to, then.
My heart is worn out,
beat down,
ruined and in ruins.
Unstrung, I admit—
I’m tired of
extorting your love.

Ariana Apr 23

April

Bury burdens you can’t carry
in soft earth,
in nooks of trees;
Feel free with the weight of
nothing stashed in worn back pockets
of ripped jeans.

Imagine how bright yellow
must have been
the very first time
it’s shine reflected
and was absorbed by fresh cone cells,
in new eyes.

Reach with trembling fingers
to the sun;
Find wonder in the journey
and places her rays lingered
to find you, to caress your body
with affable hope.

Ariana Apr 23

The Water’s Too Cold To Tread

so there’s nothing left to do,
…or say,
…or think.

Take my lungs.

Let me Drown.
Let me Sink.

Ariana Apr 23

Once On Solstice

On our backs pricked by blunted grass, somewhere over the hill
your dad’s mower hummed,
drowning out the droning crickets.

I forgot how hypnotic days were with you.

The red in your cheeks always brilliant, though most-so beneath a blanket
of 84 degree heat where
we would lay all day just to spite Them.
You’d float your knuckles from top of thigh downstream to my knee;
Goosebumps raised as reeds in their wake,
forewarning the way only young hearts could break.

Ariana Apr 18

Eulogy For A Strange Acquaintance

Stones pierce the thin soles
of shoes too tight on feet
unknown to me
but attached just the same.
A black veil,
A long skirt,
A loose shirt—
all billow in the wind
that is screaming,
“Go back!—
Go back!—
Turn back!”

An old poem I wrote inspired by a nightmare.