Fufu Cuddly Puff

a pebble on the side of the road, Was I always this easy to forget?

[shin-kun]

Don't cry. Don't cry. You know this is gonna happen. You don't need to cry. No need to cry.

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

[shin-kun]

I once read that you gave flowers to girls to let them know they are beautiful.

In more than three decades of my life, not a single flower has ever found its way into my hands.

Perhaps the silence of empty petals tells its own story.

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[zoiodlula]

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[catasters]

[mournfulroses]

Jean-Paul Sartre, from a play featured in "No Exit and Three Other Plays," originally published in 1944

[weltenwellen]

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

[pmamtraveller]

Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering

[mournfulroses]

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "2 a.m. Thoughts," originally published in 2017

[mournfulroses]

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

[dilmfirector]

[mournfulroses]

Ariel Day, from a poem titled "Long Term Memory," featured in Black Roses: Poems about Love, Heartbreak, Mental Health, Self Love

[zexox]

there was a version of me who begged to be chosen. she rests now.

[pissmamiii]

she died actually

[syntacked]

[literaryvein]

L. V., writing as you sleep