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Cadmus May 11
And you are not prepared for it.

In your lifetime,
you may never fall in love.
You may never raise a child,
nor build a legacy,
nor touch the oceans.

It isn’t the act of giving,
or traveling the world.
Not even living an adventure,
nor achieving great goals.

All of those and more…
are possibilities.
Not certainties.

But one thing is absolutely certain:
YOU WILL DIE

Ah
Yes, it will
It will happen
As a reflection of life
Not  as  dreaded  evil  punishment.
Not as a result of failure.
 Just a real fact.
EMINENT
So why fear it?
Why shroud it in silence?
Why hush the one absolute promise
life has always kept?
Whispered
Gently
2U
This piece invites us to confront the one truth no one escapes, so we might finally start living with intention, not illusion.
Cadmus May 9
In the beginning, the universe was simple
hydrogen adrift, uniform, featureless.
No spark. No shape. No meaning.

Then came gravity. the invisible hand that pulled atoms toward each other.
Not out of need, but out of attraction.
It didn’t shout. It didn’t rush.
It simply drew things closer.

And in that closeness? Friction. Heat. Fire.
Stars were born.
Inside those stars: gold, carbon, diamond, uranium, the rare, the radiant, the necessary.
Then came life. Then came us.

Without gravity, the universe would have remained cold. Silent. Pointless.
With it, it sang.

So too with love.

We, too, begin as scattered selves.
Drifting. Guarded. Independent.
Then someone enters our orbit
not violently, but undeniably…
and we feel pulled.

And when love is real - not forceful, but fundamental - it becomes gravity.

It creates heat where there was indifference.
It forges meaning where there was monotony.
It makes the rarest things - trust, sacrifice, ecstasy, forgiveness… possible.

Without love, we remain inert.
With it, we combust into something bigger than ourselves.

Not every force is loud.
Some reshape the cosmos… quietly, persistently - one touch at a time.
In astrophysics, gravity doesn’t merely hold things together, it ignites fusion, births stars, and enables time itself to have consequence. Likewise, in human connection, love isn’t just an emotion; it is the unseen force that creates depth, memory, meaning, and the conditions for growth. Without gravity, the universe is static. Without love, so are we.
I've melted between the cracks of time.
Lost and found, dead and prime.
A ghost, a man. My fractured twin.
Collapsing as the light steps in.

I am only real when I can be seen,
Existing as nothing in moments between.
An echo that’s held in quantum breath.
Inevitable, superposed, ego death.

In the quantum rift, I’m free yet bound.
I'm dead but prime, lost and found.
Through a quantum fate, I twist and bend.
Observed, I mend just to break down again.

A visible ghost of a once kneeling king.
In the moment I was seen, I had lost everything.
Outside of perception, I exist in-between.
Fluctuating from the seen into the unseen.

Through one slit I'll grow. The other, decay.
But I am all. In all ways. The blood in my own veins.
Observe me as I am—I expand to retract,
Observing creates realities and I'm never looking back

Do you even truly know? Which "Me" is the true?
The matter that you saw, Or the energy you knew?
I'm an infinite soul, in quantum’s eternal high,
Reduced to a dream, in the gaze of your eye.

© Derek 'Abraxas'
Amon Apr 28
By Amon (2025.2.5)

Nature endows man with a clay-carved frame,  
Yet man relies on God—  
That inconceivable Beyond—  
Who breathes into nostrils a wisp of life, tearing through chaos.  
The eternal confinement, meant to be,  
Screams a piercing wail in an instant.  
A life is born, a spark of inspiration blooms—  
Chaos suffers the pangs of birth,  
Yet nurtures the seed of independent thought.  

A man awakens, still unaware,  
Already bound by notions of good, evil, and blurred lines—  
Ideas, rules, and measures draw circles around him.  
Whatever judgment or appraisal  
Spoken through another’s lips  
Acts like the hand of God,  
Shaping him (her),  
Unbeknownst,  
Ignorant of prejudice, sin, fairness, or justice.  

From nothingness to existence—  
From one cage into another,  
Yet man never ceases to resist.  
Even when the conscious stifles the subconscious,  
Even when the illusion before him  
Grows so vivid it becomes the accepted truth,  
The discontent etched in his genes, the unwillingness,  
The restless urge to seek the real,  
Never stops urging—  
Compelling him to act, now, immediately—  
To step out of the cave, to halt the meaningless churn within,  
To know, to grasp the sun.  

Ah, yes,  
Once the still lake breaks its silence,  
The flowing water cannot be held back—  
It will surely swell into a river.  
From then on, man refuses stagnation,  
Thought knows no bounds,  
Consciousness surges forth,  
Upward, ever upward.
Shang Apr 26
I want to feel the day
from inside the end —
dreams, lips, god —
they are the past,
folded into light.

Memories sound so
different through
your ears,
like distant rivers
we once named hope.

The moon caressed
your cheek,
and I was once there,
a shadow caught
between breath and becoming.

Time unraveled
its silver thread,
tying our names
to the hush of stars.

We spoke in the language
of undone things,
our voices trembling
at the edge of always.

And in that stillness,
where all endings sing,
I felt the day
begin again
inside you.
for the moments that feel like both the beginning and the end
meryem Apr 25
How strange it feels, to just be human,
To dream and think in endless loops.
How odd it is, to move a body,
This flesh and bone, in shifting groups.

How weird it is, that I am me,
Out of eight billion different lives.
I wish I could find answers to,
the questions, keeping me up all night.

How wonderful that my mind is free,
Can think about endless mysteries,
But soon the mind begins to drown,
Aching in its own boundaries.
Angelo Apr 24
Sometimes I dream of it
Of the realm of nonexistence
That place that lies beyond time and space
Where thoughts never spoken rest calmly
Where praises never heard of, echo angrily
And in the void where everything and nothing meets:
There too must I float
Just for a little while
Just ‘til the mind finds its place once more
Until the pressing feeling inside goes away
Then the darkness would be bearable
When the universe will make itself known
A second chance shall extend its hand
And all would be forgiven

But this cannot be the case
Not yet at least
Though most days feel grim,
And the future looks only but gray

Still, I must exist

For a while longer, at the very least
One day shall be my day
One day, I’ll find a way

One day


One day
Though at times it would be easier to just be gone, I don't want to. I want to exist, I NEED to exist.
Nehal Apr 24
Wake your soul—
Tell me you see the floor.
The void has distorted the existence,
I keep falling, there's no resistence.
Wake your soul—
Tell me it didn't devour you.
The void controls the void mind,
Despairs you in no time and kind.
Wake your soul—
Do not worship it.
The passing skies, the passing breeze.
The swallow lies, the hollow trees.
The watch of time, above the chime.
I watch it began, I watch it end.
A marble there, rolling flair.
Things stop, things go.
It hops, it will glow.
You see closer, you see thin.
No closure, no end.
See atom to atom, it’s growing thin.
You see quark to quark, no end.
It’s moving, the abyss.
I grasp what isn’t, truly bliss.
It grasps what is, It grasps to began.
The small ticks of an atom scan.
You know it is not real, for it is.
You see again, you see then.
Time changes, what stops?
The rages, the pops.
You look, a broken glass.
You’ll never find, what no one’s asks.
Think again, what is.
That can, shall end.
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