THE INDUSTRY OF EMPTINESS
—on media, distraction and the economy of ignorance
They feed us noise with gilded spoons,
each soundbite polished, crisp, refined,
a carnival of blinking lights
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THE INHERITANCE OF HUNGER
—on class struggle, the myth of fairness and who gets to survive
The day begins before the dawn,
before the sun can stretch its hands,
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THE UNWRITTEN NAMES
—on forgotten creators and unseen legacies
We carve our stories into wind,
unwitnessed hands, unwritten names,
the architects of nameless songs,
who shape the world but leave no claims.
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THE POETS WHO BURN IN SILENCE
—on censorship, lost voices and the cost of truth
The ink dries fast on borrowed tongues,
where poets carve their veins in verse,
yet silence kneels behind the page,
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THE SPECTACLE OF SHADOWS
—on illusions, power and the machinery of deception
They string the lights with borrowed stars,
stage the world in mirrored lies,
a carousel of gleaming ghosts,
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SOME LINES SHOULD NEVER BE CROSSED UNTIL THEY ARE
—The line we crossed
Thirteen years.
Side by side, never a step too close,
never a gaze too heavy.
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DARK AND LIGHT MAGIC
—a spell spun from ruin and repair
There is power where shadows weave,
A force that wounds, yet does not deceive.
Dark magic stirs in silence deep,
A tempest wild, a cry that weeps,
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STARRY NIGHT
—where brilliance bleeds through brush and ache
The heavens twist in a burning waltz,
A tempest spun in silver faults.
Vincent saw what few could trace,
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SECRETS OF THE MOON
—a lullaby for what the light leaves behind
The moon is a keeper of sorrow and song,
A quiet witness to nights too long.
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WE WERE LIKE DAY AND NIGHT
—a tethered love between flame and silence
We were fire and shadow spun,
Fate-woven threads, a race undone.
You burned like dawn, fierce and bright,
I moved in hush, the keeper of night,
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UNFINISHED HANDS
- Without Boundaries
A brush may shake yet still it speaks,
a song unfinished still is heard.
Not all who carve must carve complete,
nor all who write must shape each word ...
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THE UNSPOKEN NAMES
- The Weight of Forgotten Voices
A name unwritten is a name still known,
its echo caught in walls and dust.
A throne may rise where none had grown,
but never root in borrowed trust.
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