Ash

Joined February 2021

45 stories

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Hello there! I'm ashl I love writing poetry, the main source to express the inside onto the outside, or essays as a conversation between you and me in order to hear myself better at times.

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a light bulb in need of changing
a light behind closed curtains, I am night time shrinking away from the day. I am a light flickering ever so slightly each time I am turned on;
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
the difference between hermit crab and caterpillar growth
The difference between hermit crab growth and caterpillar growth is that you will only grow through a caterpillar growth once but you will keep changing shells.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
the clock and the mirror reflect the same thing.
like the clock that hangs on my wall with a bird to shout out each hour, I am waiting for my moment. My time to come when I will use those three seconds to announce I am here, only to go silent the rest of the hour.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
tidal wave
I am caught at rush hour in my mind in where all my thoughts are stuck in traffic through the folds of my brain trying to get out before the tsunami.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
gemini
you and me two peas in a pod, me and you sticky like glue. hows it feel to know you are, we are our only savior and our only demon?
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
It's not you
it's not you, it's me. I mean that sincerely, everyone wants someone to blame, can't see the monster in the victim but sometimes... hurt people, hurt people.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
I am
I am not scared, I am not wearing underwear, I am standing in front of a crowd. I am thinking of something I can say because,
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
circles and loopholes
I'm standing looking at the world from behind a glass window and the only thing I see between myself and getting out there is my reflection staring back at me.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
ever-changing
I lost myself for a little again, it was that through it all I still was not doing it my way, let alone any way. living based on the flow of others' existence.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
safe and secure
As a child, I would dream about a door in my closet that would lead me to a secret garden where I was safe to exist, to be myself, to feel love, express, and feel my emotions. I would immerse myself in stories of children finding these magical places where they could run, and not simply hide, but escape. Hoping that one day I'd be able to have that same luck, that luck is called growing up.
By Ash4 years ago in Humans
you wont make it a day
Sometimes I don't know where to begin, one step forward then I'm at a crossroad; never just one continuous road. I am going in circles not thinking about the moves I'm making.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets
looking in the mirror
I am somewhere in between clarity and confusion. between accepting that clarity is sometimes being, and staying, confused. between knowing I am different than what I was and that changing who you are is always just coming back to yourself.
By Ash4 years ago in Poets

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a light bulb in need of changing

the difference between hermit crab and caterpillar growth

the clock and the mirror reflect the same thing.

tidal wave

gemini

It's not you

I am

circles and loopholes

ever-changing

safe and secure

you wont make it a day

looking in the mirror

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