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In a sea of time, my soul drifts like a leaf in the wind, Memories are ice sculptures melting under the rays of forgetfulness, Silent betrayals are strips of silk that cloak my heart, Days begin like sweet dreams and fade like candles in the night, I watch the years flow like rivers that can't find their course. I carry a feeling like an unseen tattoo on my bones, It's the belief that happiness is a butterfly that won't land on me, Every time something good touches me, I become the shadow of a tree, I hold it like a snowflake melting under the warmth of my hands. I've started to believe that love is a mirror shattered into shards, People come close only until they see the hidden truth in the reflection, Now, when I look in the mirror, I see only an echo of silence, A soul that laughs, but its laughter is the wind whistling through dry branches. How can I breathe when the air feels like an ocean flooding my lungs? How can I reach out to people when the emptiness stretches like a desert? I don't want saviors to come with their tools to fix my cracks, I don't need prescriptions of hope like pills swallowed with water, I want those who sit in my ashes like birds singing at night, People who cherish my silence like an unfinished symphony. I want those who sit with me in the darkness without fear, Those who stay, even when I can offer only a whisper of wind. But the truth is, these people appear like stars after a storm, I don't call them with my voice; they come like waves that know the secret of the shore, They know my gaze that says, "I am here, a flicker of a star." And when they come, they don't need to speak, just to be present, They stand in my pain like a field of poppies under the spring sky.
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