Incognito Melancholia

Melancholia is the happiness of being sad!

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"How many scars did you justify because you loved the person who was holding the knife?"

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Stay away from people who think you're arguing every time you try to express yourself.

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May 18, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

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Written: @incognito-melancholia

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I have been a road for as long as I can remember.

Not a place to stay, never a destination—

just something stretched thin between where they were

and where they were going.

They stepped onto me without looking down,

carried their unfinished selves across my length,

left the weight of their footsteps pressed into me

like quiet confessions I was never meant to keep.

I learned the language of passing—

the brief warmth of presence,

the slow cooling of absence,

the way silence settles after someone leaves for good.

No one asked what it cost

to be so endlessly open.

No one wondered if the road aches

from being walked on,

if it dreams of closing in on itself

just once,

to become something whole.

I have watched them arrive empty

and leave filled with something they found along me—

a thought, a feeling, another person—

never realizing I was the place

they emptied themselves into.

And still, I stayed.

Wide, willing, unguarded.

Mistaking usefulness for love,

mistaking direction for meaning.

But even roads, I think,

must crack somewhere.

Must split under the strain

of carrying too many unfinished journeys.

Perhaps one day

I will refuse to lead anywhere at all.

Let the weeds grow through me,

let the edges blur,

let myself become something

no one can simply pass through.

Something that cannot be used

to reach another.

Something that exists

without pointing away from itself.

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Written: @incognito-melancholia

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Yosano Akiko, from a poem featured in River of Stars: The Poetry of Yosano Akiko

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"It is a truly amazing gift to be wanted for who we are."

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Cecilia Martinez, from a poem titled "Winter Then," featured in A Magnificently Ordinary Romance: Poems

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“How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.”

— Drake; Thank Me Now

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“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”

— Nikita Gill

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