poetry

  • Yes, I used AI for a cover. A picture. A frame. A doorway into something I had already written with my own two hands. But the words? The words were mine. The grief was mine. The memories I had to drag up from places I spent years trying to bury were mine. The bruises were…

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  • I waited for my bookto become realwith flour on my shirtand sugar stuck to the counter. I waitedwhile marshmallows meltedinto something soft enoughto hold together,which felt a little too familiar. Twenty-one peanut butter cookies.Twenty-four banana muffins.Forty-eight chocolate chip cookies.A whole pan of Rice Krispie squarescooling beneath the kitchen light. Ninety-three little distractionsand a pan full…

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  • I Carry Pain Quietly

    She learned to fold pain into laundry and coffee cups until silence looked like strength from the outside.

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  • Changing does not betray the woman she was; it simply means some survival versions no longer need permanent rooms inside her.

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  • Healing did not make her untouched; it taught roots to grow through wreckage and flowers to feed on what once tried to bury her.

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  • Forests understand what people forget: broken branches, fallen trees, and decay can still become shelter, soil, and beginning.

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  • Unsent words become birds inside the chest, then paper cranes once she accepts that some stories will never reach their destination.

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  • The Fire I Kept

    After they left, the fire remained—and grief slowly revealed itself as the same stubborn life still writing, rebuilding, and choosing tomorrow.

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  • A goodbye can become a scar, but silence teaches the mind to build whole conversations inside the empty space.

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  • The ocean never apologizes for its tides, and neither should a heart be ashamed for loving deeply.

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