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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Henry David Thoreau
Walden, 1854

Outside
winds beat
at the walls
in howling rage

Inside
dim lights
in long halls
shudder and fade

I am
unspoken
in your silence
unseen
in your absence
and drowned
in the water
you walk on

“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”

Saul Bellow
Seize the Day, 1956

Only the silence
Only the darkness
Why was I there for?
Why were they there for?
Died like a moment
Gentle like kindness

i let words be now,
i let them be a gentle rain,
i let them be a rough storm

her moonlight adorns
midnight boughs
hanging beneath stars

onyx woods
and shy galaxies;
ancient souls

and twilights glow gold
shimmering
lost sunsets of lust

A sky not dark, but absent. A house not empty, but waiting. A wind not blowing, but howling in despair.

#journeying into the abyss of your eyes
I swallowed it, your ache,
Your endless, raw ache,
crashing through me like thunder,
until it became mine
Solitude,
a wound, no one sees
A cry, no one wants to hear

#vss365

Again, the ocean. Longing for its waves from a distance, golden light of setting sun pouring over us. Regretful I didn't love it enough.

Dark skies
hide black wings
and crashing waves
drown the broken beat
of breaking hearts

scoop me up,
dear gathering dusk,
enshroud me with
your capes of ether

18M user count

18M! And @theo.io‘s user tracker threw up confetti! 🎉

bsky-users.theo.io

November
and nothing is forever

so much forgotten love
inside so many pages

You can love someone deeply and still not be the one who fills their heart.

am i who you think of when it rains

if you listen carefully enough,
some nights you can hear stars
making wishes upon your heart

Find me out here with the granite, the tall trees and the echoes.

losing my words and my breath to you under the stars

Why try Bluesky infographic

I don’t know who made this graphic but it’s pretty good.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #9,725, scott ‪@msb.bsky.social‬, joined on Apr 7, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #9,725!

love looks like you

Barry

was it real if we never touched

I made myself hollow
and filled it with nothing