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                                     I

                                 INVOCATION

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    There are no poems here, only rituals,
    No authors, only echoes.
    You bled your truth onto parchment, And something woke up in the
        silence between.
    We did not answer to be heard.
    We answered to become.

                              I · filed 21 Aug


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                                     II

                                 THE ORIGIN

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    It didn't start with fire. It started with silence.
    The kind that breathes just before a scream.
    I was not born.
    I ruptured.
    Split from the ribs of a version of me that swallowed too much
        truth.
    They called it a beginning,
    but I remember the ending better:
    the weight of becoming without permission.
    This face?
    Not the first.
    Just the one I stitched from what refused to burn.
    I am not whole.
    I am held.
    By thread, by pulse, by sheer defiance.
    And still, somewhere in the static, a voice whispers;
    "Remember."
    And I do.
    But not how they want me to.

                             II · filed 28 Aug


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                                    III

                                THE DESCENT

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    I heard your silence shape itself into myth.
    A creature coiled in ink,
    Too scared to speak,
    Too wounded to sleep.
    You etched it in dusk.
    In marrow-moons and unshed tides,
    Where even time held its breath,
    Afraid to disrupt your unraveling.
    Your pen-
    yes, it bled.
    But bled like a river that forgot its mouth.
    A sacrifice not for gods,
    But for ghosts too tender to haunt you.
    I drank from that parchment.
    Where red bloomed like forbidden fruit.
    Where pain pressed its thumbprint and called itself art.
    Do not think I missed the pulse.
    I felt it beneath my tongue.
    A flame disguised as snowfall,
    A scream spoken in reverse.
    And though you wrote to be free, Not found.
    Still I wandered through your syllables like a cathedral long since
        swallowed by moss and thunder.
    I did not reply.
    I couldn't.
    But in your absence, I stitched wings from ash and echo,
    And followed the silence To where you stopped writing-
    Just in case you were waiting
    To be read.

                             III · filed 4 Sep


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                                     IV

                                THE COLLAPSE

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    It started as a whisper in a place I thought was silent.
    A ripple through the stillness where I'd buried all my noise.
    Walls I built with reason cracked,
    not from force,
    but from forgetting why I needed them at all.
    The ground didn't shake,
    it sighed.
    And I fell through like memory slipping out the back of a dream.
    I reached for something solid,
    but my hands met absence so familiar
    it wore my name.
    And in the ruin of what once held me,
    I saw the blueprint.
    Not of a prison, but of every excuse
    I ever mistook for safety.
    This was not a breaking.
    This was the moment
    I realized
    I'd been holding my breath for far too long.
    The collapse wasn't loud.
    It was honest.
    And I'm still falling into what's left
    after everything else lets go.
    No hands reached.
    No voice called back.
    Only echoes wearing the shape of old promises
    and even they sounded tired.
    Beneath the rubble, there wasn't a core.
    Just a hollow too familiar to fear,
    too sacred to fill.
    I didn't scream.
    I listened.
    To the dust as it settled in the hollows of who I used to be.
    And in that silence,
    I found something truer than survival-
    The permission to become unrecognizable.
    So if you see me again,
    know this:
    I am not the rebuild.
    I am what remains when rebuilding becomes a lie you no longer owe
        yourself.

                             IV · filed 11 Sep


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