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If there was ever a time to be needed

He’d like it to always be today

Today, when there’s nothing to need but deep, eternal sleep

Now when the body is growing cold

If there was ever a time to be haunted

He’d like it to always be tomorrow

Tomorrow, when everything is unknown; and everything that is certain is lost to ambivalence and chance

Tomorrow, when their grave has been filled and all the tears needing shedding have been shed

If there was ever a time to be loathed

He’d like it to always be yesterday

Yesterday, when everything to happen has happened and certainties have been set in the hallowed stone of ancient tombs

Yesterday, when final goodbyes have been said and promises to live forever were broken

If there was a time to be remembered

They’d like it to always be always

Always, when their bodies fade to skeletons, skeletons fade to soil, memories fade to gentle musings on gentle starlit nights

Always, when the only trace of their lives is written across heavenly skies

If there was a time to be forgotten

He’d like it to always be never

Never, even when the world has shifted on its axis

and cities are nothing but overgrown ruins and there is no one left to be

Never, even when there is no one left with eyes to cry

To be needed today

To be haunted tomorrow

To be loathed yesterday

To be remembered always

And never be forgotten

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I simply cannot choose only one. Anyone who wants to participate plus: @wallflowerkays @goneahead @dbaydenny @moonstarswavessharkssunsets

photo tag game 🌸

choose one picture from ur camera roll without downloading to sum up your personality and then tag 5 ppl

thanks for the tag 💌 @i-am-i-am-obiwankenobi

no pressure tags – open tag 💌 whoever sees this

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No one knows what it is to become a monster

To become a strange and curious oddity

Not all monsters have sharp gnashing fangs

Most monsters are beautiful

They often take you by surprise

Transforming under cover of darkness

Or under the brightest noon sun

right before your eyes

Some monsters are good

Those are the most dangerous kind

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Happiness is a wall socket.

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The Time Keeper

The sands of time are always flowing

The sands have buried me deep

Hidden me under holy ground

I’m wrapped forever in time’s embrace;

I’d love to never be found

The sands of time are always flowing

and I am an hourglass

Time fills my lungs and turns them to stone

Mummified in historical ecstasy

Some may say I’m lost but I’m merely home

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I am surrounded by a ring of trees

Staring up at the stars in all their glittering revelry

The night is alive with silence

The air hangs heavy under a weighted breeze

On nights like these I think of you

And I know you think of me too

I’ve always been afraid of the night time

Of the darkness playing tricks with fading light

I’ve always feared what lurks in shadows

But the worst has already happened

There’s no fear worth fearing left

Some nights I think of you

I hope you think of me too

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Can y'all ever like feel a hyperfixation coming on? Like you very briefly interact w smth and you're like 'I'm coming back to you later and bringing my entire brain this time and if I watch this video again I will not stop thinking about it for the next 3 months'

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i don’t lose hyperfixations they just go dormant until I hear something about it like a sleeper agent

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my hobbies include knowing and being right

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Last song/album: No Good by KALEO

Last movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Currently reading: Rereading ‘The Song of Achilles’

Currently watching: Kemono Jihen and Sweet Tooth

Currently Craving: Teriyaki Salmon

Tag 9 (or however many) people you want to know better/catch up with!

I wanted to do this but didn't want to delete the original post or add onto something I wasn't tagged in! Got this from @seravph:

last song/album: Achilles Come Down/Gang of Youths

last movie: Mulan the live action.

currently reading: I'm re-reading The Secret Garden, a Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, for like the thousandth time lol.

currently watching: I'm watching an anime show called Clannad with my boyfriend but we both have ADHD and got distracted with other things. Hopefully we pick up where we left off haha.

currently craving: To hear the voice of the person I love. tagging: @reductivebliss, @wallflowerkays, @aaronawbra, @goneahead, @hardtobeoriginal, @tlilmiztontli, @cant-sleep-because-anime, @theslurpmaster, @glitteristheherpesofartsupplies, @michaelperseus, @forevermoonlightli, @qeutzalcoatl, @im-a-mango Thank you all for interacting so much with my blog and sometimes messaging me/sending me asks/responding to my poems/reblogging and liking my posts. I appreciate you and want to get to know you! :)

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“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”

— D. W. Winnicott

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Inspired by the phrase “My lover has a mouth full of thorns” from @pseudomenudo

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“I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.”

— Alberto Caeiro, from untitled poem, The Amorous Shepherd (8 November 1929)

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Some words to use when writing things:

winking

clenching

pulsing

fluttering

contracting

twitching

sucking

quivering

pulsating

throbbing

beating

thumping

thudding

pounding

humming

palpitate

vibrate

grinding

crushing

hammering

lashing

knocking

driving

thrusting

pushing

force

injecting

filling

dilate

stretching

lingering

expanding

bouncing

reaming

elongate

enlarge

unfolding

yielding

sternly

firmly

tightly 

harshly

thoroughly

consistently

precision

accuracy

carefully

demanding

strictly

restriction

meticulously

scrupulously

rigorously

rim

edge

lip

circle

band

encircling

enclosing

surrounding

piercing

curl

lock

twist

coil

spiral

whorl

dip

wet

soak

madly

wildly

noisily

rowdily

rambunctiously

decadent

degenerate

immoral

indulgent

accept

take

invite

nook

indentation

niche

depression

indent

depress

delay

tossing

writhing

flailing

squirming

rolling

wriggling

wiggling

thrashing

struggling

grappling

striving

straining

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There’s a boy running much too fast

Down a path meant for strolling

You call to him as he flies pass

The wind in his ears

A vicious light in his eyes

But he can’t hear you through his bliss

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Bridge Burner

You’ll see him in the dead of night

The water catching the sparks

Rivers of flame and embers flying high

Bridge burner, running fast

Leaving his past before he’s passed

Burning bridges he has yet to cross

Scalding the soles of his feet

Soot on his face and hair on fire

He’s a shooting star through the sky

His fingers are match sticks

Dynamite waiting to ignite

He loves the way the world burns

Bridges burning faster than

He can build them