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    just do it

    Sit still a momentlet the world loosen its grip.No clocks, no names,only the hush between two heartbeats.Close your eyes as one closes a dooragainst the wind, gently,and the breath arriveslike a tide that knows your shore.In, outthe lungs become...

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    Behind A Grin

    Cutting against the grain is tough Battle tested dressed in scars It’s never easy when it gets rough Unable to reach the falling stars   Opportunity often left to chance I’m so done with second guessing  Forbidden love is a cosmic dance With issues that need addressing   Is...

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    • hello dearest Damian I love the flow here and the content is so true I feel you on this ❤️

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Brenda. So glad you connected with the write my friend. Appreciate you.

        Damian

    • Well said my friend. A powerful message I can relate to.

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Keith. So glad you connected with the write my friend. Appreciate you.

        Damian

    • i love this…the rhyming scheme…your words, impressively expresses the
      compelling validity that stares us in our faces. an amazing write!
      ~ c

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, C. So glad you connected with the write my friend. Appreciate you.

        Damian

    • Dear D,

      For me this was on fire. I kept thinking of close calls trying to stay in my lane at the same time of feeling lured into another. With just enough sliver of light to keep the full on pitch black from engulfing my soul. Intense write. Great piece. H🌷

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, H. So glad you connected with the write my friend. Too many close calls, I know the feeling as well. Appreciate you.

        Damian

    • I like how this moves through doubt and self-interrogation without rushing to answers. The questions feel earned, not rhetorical.

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Thomas. So glad you connected with the write my friend. Thanks for your amazing commentary and continued support. Appreciate you.

        Damian

    • There’s a simultaneous sense of strength and uncertainty in this that drag at me. Like you know you made the right choice, but how close was it to the edge? That feeling I know all too well. If we’re not reviewing actions, we’re probably doomed to repeat them. Goes for individually as well as globally. Another layered one. Keep chasing thought, my friend. You always bring gold when you do

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Willow. So glad you connected with the write my friend. I think your commentary is a pretty spot on analysis, and it definitely applies to both. I’m too old to learn a different trick when it comes to chasing the truth my friend. lol. Appreciate you.

        Damian

    • Love this! Skepticism is not paranoia, though gaslighters may disagree. Experience provides a roladex of patterned behaviors, and when there’s multiple red flags its no longer paranoia but an obvious truth.

      • Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Anna. So glad you connected with the write my friend. I concur with your powerful and precise commentary. Appreciate you.

        Damian

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    pax et amor

    Will we, the damaged, find respiteoutside the shards of sleep at night?Can we, the damaged, dribbling there,old and withered in our chair,find that peace that can’t be bought,for which we battled, which we fought? Or does the struggle never end,no...

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    • I’m not sure, but those who make it to old age tend to come to a calm acceptance. It is the end of the journey, and perhaps for some the battle. Yet, those who do make it that far should see it as a blessing. So many do not get that far.
      Life is half attitude, really. Find the good, even if small. It’s there.

    • Powerfully penned, Peter. Excellent write my friend. I concur with Mark, getting older there is a calm acceptance that takes place. For me it was recognizing my mortality, and realizing if I didn’t change my perspective I was going to die miserable or suddenly. Or worse yet, both. I can relate my friend but there is a blessing in figuring out that changing the lens helps a lot. We all go through this you’re definitely not alone. Appreciate you.

      Damian

  • do others feel like I do

    My biggest fear is not that I will die but that I will lose control,lose myself.That my carefully crafted persona might simply collapse in on itself.That others will witness that collapse. That is the excruciating fear that depression brings.It never...

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    kiss

    twisted feelings, ghost of lightbleeding thoughts of me and youHorror's need, the fiend in me stirreddarkness dare to face yousilent plea, don't turn from me in my hour of neednaked rebellion, my bare truths coming to you openlya sacred...

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    • Beautifully penned, Brenda. Excellent write my friend. Appreciate you.

      Damian

      • hello dearest Damian thank you graciously I take that as a high honor coming from you a gifted writer ❤️

    • Chère C.,
      You tag it love.
      And that’s what I wish for you.
      Heaps and heaps of love.
      Warm regards, Gus

      • hello dearest Gus this is a song I like and I think it correct about love thank you my friend ❤️

        • Chère C.,
          Love your write and your choice of music.
          This is 12 years old and I didn’t know it, so I’m really glad you suggested it.

          This is so close to my music, that it gives me the courage to ask if i can put one of your poems to music one day.
          Please don’t be scared. I’ll do nothing without your full OK. OK?
          Have a wonderful thursday!
          Warm regards, Gus

          • I would love that dearest Gus I would be deeply honored ❤️

            • Hoi hoi
              I’d be deeply honored if you would like the results.
              Have a nice weekend!
              Warm regards, Gus

    • Stirring the cauldron with a naked glue that sticks to the dark.

      Atticus Abbey

      • hello dearest Adagio thank you graciously for a wonderfully poetic comment ❤️

    • You are very welcome.

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