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Your voice, haunting
A dark forest in the night,
rooted in legend.
 Jun 25 Mélissa
Boma
Mine
 Jun 25 Mélissa
Boma
"My architect"

You called me yours
Why did that make me feel so good?
Am I reading into it a little bit too much?
Probably...

"My engineer"
trying to forget but you are making it hard...too hard
 Jun 25 Mélissa
Boma
Hardly anything on earth is free
Pay the price I paid for you
There's a lot you owe me
There's a price list too
From now on, every tear I shed costs a nickel
Every "I love you" costs a dime
Every little broken piece of my heart costs ten dollars
Maybe I'll be have enough to buy myself back
 Jun 25 Mélissa
dude
Tell Me
 Jun 25 Mélissa
dude
Tell me your secrets
Tell me your sorrow
All of your regrets
Your dreams of tomorrow
If I asked you to stay
What would you say
Would you tell me right away
Or make it a game we play
I hardly think about you
Except when the music plays
And I realize that no one else
In the whole wide world
Knows the lyrics
But us...
Once or twice a day is not that much, after all...
 Jun 25 Mélissa
Malcolm
Jump
 Jun 25 Mélissa
Malcolm
the brain’s a butcher
slicing futures
before they breathe.

I stood
on the edge
measuring wind,
timing possibilities
til courage turned to doubt.

but the scream inside me
it didn’t care
about logic
maps
or bruises.

it wanted fall.
it wanted now.

so I shut the noise.
I leapt.

and in the wreckless air
found
I could burn
without dying.

found
the unknown
had teeth
but smiled.

In the unknown
I found
comfort.
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
May 2025
Jump
Fruits, seeds, and blooms,
Bare feet pressing into soft, mossy ground—
A green light spills like a carpet
Across an island hushed in surreal quiet.
Water glides over stones,
Each rock alive with shadow and shine.
I lift my gaze to the endless blue above,
Where even the edge of a leaf feels extraordinary.
Earth, sand, and pine needles press into my soles.
Can you hear the echo?
These hands can shift the earth—
But it will never be enough for you.
We are animals stealing from the sky.
Even the smallest insect leaves its trace.
The landscape shifts around me,
Yet the path—worn and winding—remains.
 Jun 25 Mélissa
B
You are
so right that it feels wrong
like citrus fruit in January
you are my siren song
sour becomes something sweet
when you linger on it for too long.
 Jun 25 Mélissa
OnLithium
94
 Jun 25 Mélissa
OnLithium
94
Afraid of
Losing what
I don't
Have

Afraid of
Choosing what
I haven't
Before
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