A deep eclipse of the self,
Falls heavy upon the common light,
Leaving souls feeling hollow,
Drifting into a gray, weary sameness.
Every face is a question,
Every meeting a moment of wariness.
The guard is always up.
Choose then to be the steady,
A beacon in the shallow waters,
Which clears the mist from the life,
And provide assurance for a safe voyage!
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Your journey is the seed, it must be
Buried in the unknown's deep night.
This darkness, the waiting, and the uncertainty,
Is not an emptiness, but fertile ground.
It's here, your greatest growth is taking hold.
The not-knowing is the essential wait.
Draw power from this stage, trust the process,
To finally sprout and reach the sun's gold!
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Above the busy, turning world,
The moon keeps its slow, steady course.
A quiet, silver promise,
Its face is the same as yesterday's.
It holds a constant orbit, untouched by the change below.
Yet, as the morning light begins to spread,
The moon's vigil softly comes to an end,
And every vow that I've trusted in the dark
Fades with that rising sun.
It leaves only a perfect, unwavering truth,
In the vast and shifting dark,
Where the moon remains!
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You sit in this cave. The walls are glass.
Or perhaps they are mirrors to the past,
Reflecting the smile of a child who is no longer here.
It is cold here. There is no entrance, no exit.
In this still, echoing tomb,
Where do you look for the way back?
Did condensing remove the parts you wanted to keep,
Or is this a closure to what you had in mind?
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Every night, I search for a reason to let you go.
The time we spent haunts now
And I catalogue the hurts,
Always finding myself in the hollow space,
But I keep tracing the lines of your face,
And now everything we had, has started to fade.
I told myself I was already healing,
Yet the quiet around me throws me back in the time,
And I'd give anything just to have you around.
I'm strong enough to walk away,
But it's difficult to move ahead,
Now I just resent that I want you.
I try to be free, but my heart is held bound!
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We grip the map tightly,
Afraid of the unpaved road.
Success feels certain on the straight path.
Yet, the true vistas are always unexpected.
A wrong turn offers a sudden, stunning view.
Life happens in the messy, unscripted moment.
Release the fear of the unknown.
And embrace the detours!
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When the chapter finally closes,
Please let all bitterness be gone.
Reminisce the time we shared,
And help my memory drift softly on.

When the void is too hard to bear,
Recall the genuine heart that was held here,
Treasure the good that made our path clear,
And let go of the mistakes that we made!
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The past is quiet now,
The box is closed,
The sound of hurried time is finally hushed.
What the spirit holds cannot be bound,
No key can unlock the silence we have found.
The clouds above will mourn this ending,
The rain will fall for us,
And wash off the pain of yesterday!
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The cost of your living, the debt of your breath,
All the promises sworn, the hands met in faith
A reckoning that simply does not exist.
Your hidden scars, the perfect mask you wore,
Failed to change the inevitable.
The curtain is already falling; the climax whispers.
The script was not yours, and the words were not clear.
You are left with the silence,
Uncertain of what you were fighting for!
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The wind is raging and the earth is cold,
Yet I push the blanket back and walk outside.
I let the fierce wind tear at my face,
And breathe the sharp sting,
A place where my weakness hides.
Here, in the heat of my own quiet fever, I stand.
And I burn with the fury that the dry woods hide.
I burn like a lone torch against the black night's hand,
For the hidden, unspoken things I refuse to confide!
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