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You won,
well done,
you son of a gun.

Pirates or primates
a tail or the sail
but it's Moby
who gets my vote
the greatest white whale

At the crossroads
I am calm
no harm shall befall me
and then She calls me
to ask
did you get the sliced salami?
 Jun 25 inkedsolace
alia
I named the clouds just to feel known,
told secrets to a skipping stone.
The wind replied with riddles sweet—
I laughed, alone, on crowded streets.
 Jun 25 inkedsolace
alia
My brain’s a vending machine
with the snacks all stuck—
ideas jammed,
buttons broken,
and no one’s got the right coin.
 Jun 25 inkedsolace
alia
Let’s not sleep—
let’s overthink!
Let’s rethink
every awkward blink.

Let’s write a novel
in our head,
then cry about
what we should’ve said.

Sleep is boring.
Peace is fake.
Let’s spiral till
the morning breaks.
 Jun 23 inkedsolace
S
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 Jun 23 inkedsolace
S
-
Constantly
chasing
a
high
that
no
longer
feels
good
 Jun 12 inkedsolace
rick
all that pain
and belittlement
you served me
day and night
when no one
was looking
made the little
man within you
feel much, much,
much bigger
but now you
stand before me
weeping
with no teeth
and the big man
within me
has forgiven you.
Some things are better off dead
Buried in the ground
The memories stuck in my head
Spiraling around and around

My soul sits in its tomb
My hopes are the coffin it lies in
My inner child is the surrounding gloom
My dreams are the flowers lying on the stone

My trauma make up the walls that surround
My pain is the drawings underground
My soul was buried with the shackles that bind me
I had to bury it all so it would let me breathe

You have to stop looking behind to look ahead
That’s why some things are better off dead
We've loved
We've lost
But at what cost

They come
They go
But we have to pay

They never do stay
The cost of losing them
When the world
Screams in my ear
You are faulty,
You are worthless
A little paw stretches,
Resting on my chest
And I am reminded
I am her world,
I am lovely.
 Jun 11 inkedsolace
Mélissa
I wish I was water

Then I could run faster than any thought
And any feeling
In any language

And I could carry any weight
No matter the strength missing
In me

And I could always move forward
As long as there is a shape for me to take
I would take it

If I'm not water
I am a shape
And I could be stuck in one place forever
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