Cut out the pain and pull out its insides. When you know what it's made of, you'll know how to kill it.
Beware, not all pain is an enemy.
Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters
You break me like a mug and tell me to put myself back together and hold your coffee.
Life is a gift. Don't slap away her outstretched hand. Show that you are grateful by being kind and gentle.
Why so often must
"deserving"
be used as a cudgel we wield, blunt and unwieldy, against our own hearts?
No one "deserves" anything --
The world just is, and things just are.
If it is offered and you wish for it? Take.
If you desire to give it, then offer it without fear --
You are valid simply for being --
Worthy of being seen as who you are --
Maybe it's alright to reach out for the things that you desire,
without forcing your way into guilt for things you have not done and have not yet happened --
Maybe it's alright to just be.
"affirmation to self, letter to a friend." V. Rue, 2025.
Your bones carry the past and the future. Your soul is beyond time. Knowledge and love exist beyond time. If you feel heavy it is because you are carrying generations of memories and endless possibilities.
Someday your hands will be old and wrinkled, the skin spotted and bunching over your knuckles. And a child will watch you make something. It's a simple task, you'll have done it a thousand times before. But to that child, the smooth, confident way your hands move will seem like impossible magic. You have to keep living.
I wonder how much saltwater I can drink up
FINE, TAKE IT ALL!
Brb-gonna-go-have-a-solo-acoustic-guitar- sesh-while-the-birds-sing-with-me-core
(That's my baby btw^)
As the stars fall from the sky I catch them in a wicker basket to weave into your hair and make you shine Polished, perfect, like diamond prisms catching a lazy sunbeam Rainbows refraction Beautiful in every way Who needs the sun? I've got you to warm up my life
Intriguing...
Have any nightmares lately?
This figurine represents the Baku (獏 or 貘). The baku’s story originated in Chinese mythology as the mo (貘), believed to resemble a giant panda. It later evolved into a nightmare-warding figure in Japan.
Early depictions illustrate the baku as a chimera with the trunk and tusks of an elephant, the ears of a rhinoceros, the tail of a cow, the body of a bear, and the paws of a tiger. While this version was said to ward off pestilence and evil, its dream-devouring ability emerged later in Japanese culture. By the late 18th century, the baku as known as the guardian of sleep. One legend describes how a child waking from a bad dream could call out, “Baku-san, come eat my dream,” repeating it three times to summon the baku.
Folklore warns that calling the baku too often could have consequences—if left unsatisfied, it might consume not just bad dreams but also the person’s hopes and desires.
Image: Baku, Mythical Animal. 18th century. White porcelain (Hirado ware), H. 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); L. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
If my ribs crack from the pain, nature will grow me back.
"What's on your mind?"
Me: WAs I eVeR dAnCing wiTh aN AndrOid nAmed LUpé???
I can't believe I just posted my last post BEFORE LUNCHTIME😭
(except maybe a lil)
18+ bi. Poetry, rambles, and descending into madness
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