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[robertjw4688]

To desire naught

but peace

is freedom

beyond freedom.

With every

empty step, I

come closer

to fullness.

This life

is dear

but temporary

as a light breeze

so I become

the kite

held by a child,

age six.

Robert J. W.

[heartpeacenquiet]

[robertjw4688]

I am pestilence

wrapped in blemishes.

My soul is blind

and my parents

are glitched sleep.

I weep mercury

into my own mouth.

I swear

it tastes of holy water.

Robert J. W.

[mournfulroses]

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021

[askyea-poesy]

I am going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life.

Elsie De Wolfe

[robertjw4688]

Perhaps one day

I'll find

every light

displaced

by the storms

I've held within.

My hope

is a vagabond

that comes and goes

as she pleases.

Today, she is

holding a lantern

and beckoning me

to follow

into the fingerprint

of the melting snow.

Robert J. W.

[emotionalwords]

[remanence-of-love]

[dy-amethyst-deactivated20151225]

[mournfulroses]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

[quotefeeling]

“Shout out to everybody who’s trying to get their life together. Working on yourself is the hardest part of life. The rest comes after.”

— Unknown

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— soulinkpoetry

[mournfulroses]

Ottessa Moshfegh, from "Eileen: A Novel," originally published in 2015

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

[deviika]

Alice Notley // Warsan Shire