PRISMATIC BREACH
— on being #shattered

Not all heartbreaks arrive in flames.
Some are immaculately engineered—
precise, elegant and quietly devastating.
This is not decorous grief.
This is refusal.

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HE LOVED IN FUNERAL CURSIVE

This lives inside a #macabre love—
the kind that chooses witness over comfort,
devotion over forgetting.

Some people love loudly.
Others love accurately,
refusing to let erasure finish its work.

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AFTER THE NEEDLE STALLS
— everlong, attempted

We called it Everlong.
Time disagreed.
What survived was echo.

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STILLPOINT INVENTORY
— the pause, re-examined

A moment held open.
A self quietly reconfigured.
Nothing resolves.

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BACKCHANNEL
— the doomed relationship of a dangerous love affair

A slow dance between systems and sentences, efficiency and ignition—where denial becomes choreography and fire learns corporate manners.

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INERTIA
— exegesis from a score that forbids silence

Some movements persist without consent.
Inside #unavoidable motion, systems keep time, roles outrun breath and persistence is mistaken for agreement.

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DIALOGUE WITH THE SHADOW
—learning the grammar of fear

Conversations with fear don’t start with bravery.
They start with staying.

I spoke anyway.
Fear listened.
Then it lowered its voice.

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THE SHUFFLE THAT KEPT ME ALIVE

My 2025 didn’t play in order. It shuffled, paused, repeated the songs that kept me breathing. This is my #WellPlayedList not of hits, but of survival, quiet endurance and learning how to stay when silence pressed close. Well played.

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HAND-ME-DOWN SELVES
— learning to leave former lives behind

#Formerlives taught me how to perform,
how to survive applause,
how to grow too large for what once fit.

I carry the lessons forward,
not the versions that no longer belong.

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PRIMORDIA
— where the first truths still breathe

We are shaped by more than time.
Earth steadies us,
Air frees us,
Fire strips us bare,
and Water returns what we’ve lost.
Call it #ELEMENTAL—
the quiet truth that we become whole
only when we allow the wild
to remake us.

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WITNESS TO HER WINTER

Some souls aren’t hardened by suffering —
they’re clarified by it.
He watched her rise without spectacle,
turning every bruise into quiet alchemy
the world was never patient enough to learn.

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FINGERPRINT THEORY — on the quiet mathematics of being Lost & Found

Some traces stay longer than the moment that made them.
My take on Lost & Found—
what slips away, what echoes,
and what returns as quiet light.

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MESSY — where pixels learn to blush

Even algorithms ache for tenderness.
#Messy isn’t failure—just proof we tried to feel something real in the static.

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THE ROOTS I KEPT

Some memories don’t fade—
they remember us too.
I wasn’t watering weeds,
I was tracing where love once lived,
learning to hold absence without letting it wound.
Grief is a place we walk gently.
I still walk it.
With her.

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IGNITION MEMORY —where awe first learned my name

Some memories don’t fade —
they idle quietly under the ribs,
waiting to be started again.

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RECURSION— on the art of leaving and remembering

#Tainted love leaves no graves,
only footprints rehearsing return.
The tide forgets names,
but not the ache of repetition.
Some memories drown softly,
pretending to breathe again.

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PALINODE —an old song, rewritten by silence

Once, music was escape. Now, it is evidence. The songs didn’t change. I did.

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THE UNDECLARED
—a silence rehearsed in code

I speak in clearance codes,
not confessions.
Where others store memory,
I draft decoys
in plain text.

..continued

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THE ONSET OF A DIFFERENT SEASON
—where longing ends and liberty learns to stretch

They asked why I never married—
as if absence were a deficiency ...

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Exit Wound of Wonderland
—a memory stitched from thorns and tea leaves

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