Hydrus’s face, gone**_

_**His entire race, gone

His kingdom’s he once tried to keep safe, gone

His husband with good tastes, gone

The simple joys he once embraced, **_gone

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To them him alive, he must survive

To keep away the lies, he must survive

To preserve their fights, he must survive

For them to be remembered, he must survive

To do anything worth while in this life, he must survive...

Life does not begin with birth nor end in death

But stretches, if remembered, beyond all death

Love shines, a gemstone in the settings of our heart

The one thing that lasts indefinitely, even after death

Every time we close our eyes, do we leave this plane?

And when we sleep, is it a departure, a tiny death?

Do not remember me for my attributes, not my beauty,

But for my actions, the legacy I l...

If your heart was never mine, then why did you let me claim it?

My love for you burned so brightly, I’m still trying to contain it.

You said you love me. Was it ever real? Or did you fake it?

Did you intend, from the very start, to take my heart and break it?

I used to hope your heart was just sleeping, and that I could awake it,

But then your actions spoke the truth, Now I can’t mistake it.

...

In the quiet of the evening, I whisper your name into the night,

With every longing in my soul, I search for you in the night.

The moon above, a silent witness to the tears that I have cried,

Each drop a memory of love, a pearl gleaming in the night.

The stars, they write our story across the canvas of the sky,

A tale of love that once burned bright, now lost within the night.

In dreams, I feel...

i don’t kno what a ghazal or a couplet is .so i’ll just put sumthing .

i miss the hugs ,the way you glanced over at me from youre books .

the way you laughed and hit my shoulder .the first time i saw you cry ,my heart fell .

i remember it so good .how your checkered nails were in my back .you stepped on my toes to .in the black shoes you had on

i remember closing my eyes while i held you .you...

I miss you both everyday;

I think about you everyday.

I’ve watched you grow from afar,

You both grew little by little everyday.

I know that you are better with them,

I remember changing your diapers everyday.

I wasn’t the brother I should of been,

when we meet again - I will tell you that I love you everyday.

Until that day comes, I will pray.

I’ll pray that one day I will see your faces...

I can be driving to work or walking the dog

And that song will stop me dead

Flashbacks of a summer love, lost

Your smile, our dreams, dead

And it for a moment the regret overwhelms

I can barely think, breathe, inside I’m dead

And I hope you’re happy since I couldn’t make you that way

Took your heart and mangled it, wrangled it dead

Didn’t love myself enough to love you

I hope she loves you u...

In my dream we were at the lake again.

Consumed by the sunset’s red wake again.

The world in your eyes reflected the sky

but mine were opaque again,

they swallowed the light, then your eyes, and then you,

and I knew that I had made a mistake again.

The milky way stretched their glittering arms

and said that you weren’t mine to take again.

I was lost in this mirror without your g...

I still feel your presence, in thoughts and dreams

You're gone, yet you live in my awake dreams

I still look back and wonder if it was right

But the things you told me just didn't feel right

Who were you becoming and why the hatred?

I didn't recognise you, there was too much hatred.

Scared and confused, I had to let you go

No room for me in the direction you wanted to go

It was such a long tim...

My shoulders sag wearily

Realizing what I miss is me

Life’s weight squeezes me empty Leaving a depressed version of me

Grasping, gasping trying to break free

Struggling to find time to be me

Handfuls of stories, all key

To filling a cup full of me

hard won lessons from the journey

Realizing what I still miss is me...