If I cannot love you openly like I wish, if I cannot hold your hand when walking Or wrap you in my arms late at night. Then I will love you silently, in my mind and behind closed eyes For there, there is no rejection or heartbreak. And surely it is better to love silently than to not love at all?
—unknown
I didn’t know what I was saying.
I didn’t know what we were doing.
We could have been everything. I shouldn’t have pushed you away when it got hard. You shouldn’t have gone to her. You treated me like a friend when we were so much more.
girls be like "i know a spot" and then keep you in their hearts forever
Constantine P. Cavafy, from The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy; "A Love,"
i see you in every light
when I only wish for darkness
Who was that silly Chinese philosopher? The one who fell asleep gazing at a butterfly and dreamt that he was a butterfly dreaming that he was a philosopher. And when he woke up, he didn't know if he was a philosopher or a butterfly. What nonsense. This need to differentiate. Why, he was both, of course.
Hiromi Goto, A Chorus of Mushrooms
David Benioff, Troy
// Adapted from Homer, The Iliad
Crashing out over an old lost love. A safe space for my thoughts and mild optimism. 2025She/They
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