The Curse

Shrouded

Buried

Dark

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Words eaten by silence

Words held back hopeless

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Trying

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Alone in an empty room

Locked from the outside

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Water dripping down the walls

Fire won’t light

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Unshared secrets

Die on the last breath

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Truth

Mortality

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Cursed clarity

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Denial is a spell

That death broke

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A quick-written poem inspired by grief. The regret over things unsaid that comes with a death. How isolating grief can be if unprocessed and unshared. What it feels like when we have no one to tell. What another’s death can do to our own sense of safety. A culture that demands we move on fast.