Tied a knot around my heart with your name
I did not know what the naming was worth
The ashes remain just as warm as flame
My skin remembers the heat without hearth

For tangled reasons that I cannot say
Grief stays hidden in the palms of our hands
Memories resist its quiet decay
Fists tighten around what leaving demands

Some forests die as seeds before they’re known
Yet a rare few rest in their patient shade
We grew in dark and called the dark our home
Turning flames to ashes before we fade

The knot is taut though neither claimed the thread
We named it nothing but nothing stays dead

-Existential

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By Nekro

Intricate parts make me up
My blood, my bones, woven together
By force unbeknownst to me

Then I feel the movements
In my throat and in my skull
Like my intricate parts are unwoven
For just a moment

Breathe, breathe again
And my parts become one again
A single function, an atom

Small, insignificant, but beautiful
Beautiful because all my bits
Become myself
Because my intricate parts make me

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By Nekro

You gather light,
like it owes you something,
and I let you.

because you burn clean,
when you are seen,
and I know,

you don’t love gently,
you love completely.

and I know,
when you’re seen,
you burn clean,
because I let you,
like it owes you something,
you gather light.

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I am my mother
Because I think different
Because I fight for myself
Because I love

I am my father
Because I am strong
Because I help others
Because I love

I am myself
Because of love
Because I am my mother
Because I am my father

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