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A creative reflex
Writing as a way to reflect
While breaking in between myself —
This is me, finding a recess.

And if kidding around is for kids,
Maybe some parts of me haven’t really grown
up yet.

Still, if I’m set —
Placing a quiet bet
On all these dreams I haven’t cashed in yet —
I hold the right
To keep searching for my best.

Because being better than the me from yesterday
Might be all I’ve got left…
And maybe, that’s enough!
My thoughts stagger, trying to carry hopes heavy as heartbeats.
Two lovers, chest to chest, whispering, “let’s talk soul to soul,”
trying to make sense of a love story that hasn’t been written yet
a heart-to-heart moment, I keep dreaming of.

I tell myself: stay focused. But I’ve been tiptoeing through
daydreams, because chasing love too fast leaves you breathless
when it runs the other way. Cos everyone wants the highs of love,
but no one talks about the problems on the down low — the quiet
exits, the silent tears, the way loneliness can sneak in even when
someone’s lying right beside you.

Maybe it’s a late-night phone call — a sleepy “goodnight, baby
before the line cuts out. Or a “good morning” text just to fold into
my memory like a note tucked beneath my pillow. Maybe it’s
wanting to tell you everything — not just the good, but the messy
middle parts too. Like you’re both my friend and my fire. Like you’re
the one who fits the empty spaces between the soft notes of this wild
birdsong my thoughts keep singing.

I want that kind of love. But I know relationships get complicated.
And honestly, I don’t miss perfect — I miss partnership. I miss
the “we got this” when life gets heavy, the “I’m here,” even when
we don’t have the answers. It’s not a complicated thing — just
someone to solve life with me. To laugh when things crack. To stay
when the flaws start showing.

I want skin I can breathe in — not just touch. Someone who sees
my silence as depth, not distance. Who holds my flaws like fragile
truths, not defects to be fixed.

But maybe that’s too much to ask. Maybe that kind of love only exists
somewhere between sleep and memory. I’m awake now — and I
don’t want to fall too deep just to find the woman of my dreams.
Izzy Jul 3
I Could Have Been

I could have been—
I could have been your girl.
And not just any girl—
your girl.

The one you come home to,
the one you hold tight.
You wouldn’t have to fight
battles that weren’t yours to beat,
or carry secrets
you were never meant to keep.

I could have been happy—
happy with you.

If only
you could have
loved me
too.
A soft ache for the could-have-beens.
Whose mind shall rest now
Whence the body is to bow
A lifelong ballad it has become
Where to go? Where to have some
The sweet meeting juicy wine
Of your charms and of mine
Of hopes I feel warmth of love
Of memories of pleasure's dove
Ah! You silly heart stop whinnying
The pain has to go, to be winning
I daresay! Let the cute rhymes go on
Let the water flow, let it melt so on
For once,I saw that fairy's new dream
The smile for me, hiding it may seem
What's this and well why it's to mend
Oh God! Why our matter doesn't end?
A poem about love
Is it tardy to stay up, be awake?
Sinking near the shores of mistakes
"You can't do it" is what they stated
They disturb thou to lose your way.



☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩
@lightinthedarknesspoetry
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some will like you; another one won't
you can't make everyone like you
furthermore, it is not your fault
and, even if they do not like you,
it is not the end of the road.



☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩
@lightinthedarknesspoetry
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My screams were cutting my ears
Those walls were teetering my fears
Could not stand near or to here
Wanted to show my heroes.

Lost my innocent dreams when listening
to everyone else, what they've been saying.

They threw up on me their bullets.
Then they threw me into the holes.

Tried to breathe but I was under the ocean
The voice I heard told me "That's impossible."
Something in me was becoming invisible
That's how I lost myself in the last battle.

Lost hope and a vast amount of friends
They were influencing all the weekends
Days weren't including any happy ends
They took something in me till it ends.

Wanted to escape from this maze.
Locked into the prison of the mind
Started looking to the beginning.

Suddenly the fears stopped when
I realized that I wasn't injured
I was not broken, faded inside.

They will always be there
Promised me not to hear
What they add more to my fear.



☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩
@lightinthedarknesspoetry
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Out there
Just walking

Thinking of
Why I was hiding

Tasting the weather
It's pretty cold

Lip-syncing to
Another song

The moon looks calm
Stars are blazing

I want to hear
a music full of dreams
Hopes and diamonds
Light in the darkness

Never was a warrior
Still want to fight

There is a fork in the road.
A fork will set us both.

Don't want to go back
Know that it's too late;
Still, now I can be
Whoever I want



☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩
@lightinthedarknesspoetry
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even  if  your  heart  is  bleeding  or  your  hands  are  shaking, 
when  the  truths  are  hurting  therefore  you  keep  on  falling, 
when  the  worlds  are  dying,  and  you're  exhausted  from  running  
I  wanna  see  the  passion  in  you. 





☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩
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They're loathing it;
I'm floating in it.
I've got so many
questions in my heart.

Gotta go. Swim further,
Dive deeper.

Got these concerns,
they are eating me alive.
Can't feel my senses,
I might lose this fight.

Gruesome, fearsome,
it's like my head
puts me in the worst
scenarios.

Hurricane of thoughts.

Acrid, dark, deep,
the pain tries to dominate.
Guilty, I feel guilty.
I made mistakes.

Can I expend the
border of my heart
and open it for love?

Someone lives inside
of my mind.

It tries to control me,
who hangs out there
like its habitat.

I want to put an end
to this; don't want
to live with fear.

God created me.
I didn't exist before;
Mustn't waste my time.

This world remains
temporary even the
pain which seems
unbearable instantly.

It will be gone,
go away like all
the things in life.


☾ M. E. Kuşaslan ✩
@lightinthedarknesspoetry
Thanks for being here. Until the next verse.

For more, follow @lightinthedarknesspoetry and explore the debut poetry book "Light in the Darkness ", which is out now.
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