#heartbreak – Alchemic Verse

October 13, 2025

Blog: Grayscale

Part of this journey is clearly to improve my ability to say goodbye. With its necessity, I didn’t expect this particular parting to be as difficult as it was, but I suppose it did represent a choosing of the self over the practical if now uncomfortable. As energy is conserved, I know the love I Continue reading

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August 22, 2025

Blog: Only I Will Remain

As of today, I am officially a divorcee. I woke up to the document in my inbox after a nightmare so complex and odd that it may warrant its own blog post later on. Upon waking, I saw the email from the lawyers and immediately burst into tears, overwhelmed by a diaspora of emotion I Continue reading

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July 21, 2025

Letting Go

Unclasp borrowed burdenRelease shame’s leaden cloakWasn’t yours to carryIts weight that nearly broke Your back to curl tightlyTraps hardened taut with dreadStrapping skull to shouldersPosed stiff to stare ahead Disrupt dark disorderLet fall before the dead Undress under starlightCool air to bring releasePrickle each pore aliveBathe burden with belief Your back unfurls slowlyShoulders lower to Continue reading

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July 3, 2025

Blog: Dialing up the Bon of the Voyage

Trying to build the life I wanted has required several new levels of intellectual, emotional, and intestinal fortitude that the prescribed, expected, and safer path I was on prior did not. As I make my way on this journey from grand master Tower moment to Phoenix risen, I hope to share a tidbit or two Continue reading

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June 14, 2025

Good Morning, Moribund

1am awake againAt 3 and 4 and 5Soaked in freezing nightmareBody shaking half alive I heard your voice say noSo loud I sat up with a startLooked around my empty roomAnd completely fell apart – Good morning, moribundWill the sun find me todayOr will the echo of your voiceTurn every scene to grayWhat can I Continue reading

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May 28, 2025

Five Falls

It seems when you’re awayI find so much more I’d like to sayBut can’tWhen I reach for my phoneI remember why I am aloneAnd then Shake head to lose the thoughtIt falls from my skull into my throatAs leadSo my speech freezes hardQuickly, coldly knocked back to the startShot dead And I die at ev’ry Continue reading

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