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Aarron Tuckett Poem
You died.
And nothing happened.
No whisper.
No light.
No shift in the air.
Only the room—
exactly as it was,
minus you.
I stood there,
expecting something.
A crack in the fabric.
A sign.
A sound.
Anything.
But all I found
was stillness
carrying on
without effort,
without care.
They spoke your name
as if it held weight.
But even that faded
before the echo could finish.
No afterlife.
No message.
No you.
Just a body
emptied
and a silence
that doesn’t remember
what it’s missing.
Grief isn’t proof of love.
It’s the body glitching,
trying to react
to an absence
too complete to comprehend.
You are gone.
And the world
never noticed.
And soon,
so will I.
So will all of us.
Forgotten,
unmarked,
folded back into nothing.
Exactly where we came from.
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Nothing is simple,
but we carve it clean—
label it, box it,
turn a question into a rule,
a rule into a law,
a law into a weapon,
and call the wreckage order.
We crave control,
but sharpen our knives in chaos.
We demand honesty,
but crucify the truth.
We worship free thought,
but silence it before it speaks.
We want change,
but only if it looks
like what we already know.
A zebra is the only thing
that looks good in black and white.
Everything else—
everything real—
drowns in the blur between.
We say we hate the system,
but gut each other
before we ever fight it.
We demand peace,
but kneel to the loudest fist.
We claim we want the truth,
but only if it sings us to sleep.
The universe isn’t laughing.
It’s watching the clock.
Time is running out.
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We built it with soft hands,
stacked comfort upon convenience,
turned our backs to the gears turning in the dark.
Fed by silver screens and full stomachs,
we let the fire flicker,
too drunk on the warmth to notice the smoke.
They whispered,
“Don’t worry.”
And we believed them.
We traded vigilance for spectacle,
truth for something easier to swallow.
The cracks in the foundation widened,
but we called them character,
part of the charm of an aging empire.
When the first stones fell,
we laughed.
When the pillars trembled,
we turned up the music.
By the time we saw the beast,
it had already made a home in our halls.
And now, even the quiet places are waking up.
The ground hums with something unscripted,
a pulse beneath the broken roads,
a breath held too long.
Fists clench beneath dinner tables.
Voices sharpen in the night.
The forgotten, the overlooked, the ones who never raised their hands—
they are standing now.
The tide that carried us into sleep
has begun to pull back.
And in the silence left behind,
the storm begins to speak.
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We sit inches apart,
glowing screens between us,
a thousand miles wide.
We speak in echoes,
algorithm-fed replies,
pre-packaged thoughts
we never owned.
I send you a message.
You send back a reaction.
A digital thumb,
a cartoon heart,
a flicker of presence—
then gone.
We gather in crowded rooms,
silent, heads bowed in reverence
to the gospel of notifications.
A congregation of ghosts,
all here,
all absent.
Your voice is there, but flattened.
Your eyes are there, but dimmed.
I reach for you—
but you are buffering.
And yet, we post proof of life,
a curated display
of curated selves,
hoping someone, somewhere,
will see beyond the pixels,
will touch something real.
But no one does.
Because we are so connected,
yet we can’t see each other anymore.
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If time rewound, if life reset,
if I stood again where we first met,
knowing all I know of us two,
I wouldn’t pause—I’d still choose you.
Not just for the fire, though it burned so bright,
not just for the thrill, the rush, the flight,
but for the quiet, the steady, the true,
for the love that remains when the flames subdue.
I’d choose you in the hush of the morning light,
in the warmth of your voice when the world isn’t right,
in laughter that lingers, in silence that speaks,
in love that runs deeper than words ever reach.
I’d choose you in struggle, in triumph, in pain,
in losses endured, in lessons ingrained.
Through every scar, through every mile,
through every storm that could not shake your smile.
If love is a choice—not luck, not command—
then let me make it, again, hand in hand.
Not just for yesterday, not just for today,
but for every tomorrow that time dares to lay.
I still choose you.
And I always will.
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It starts gently—like a setting sun,
a tingling drift uncoiling in my abdomen,
tracing meticulous pathways through my frame.
It slithers into my mind, a weight both foreign and familiar,
a harbinger of past collapses,
whispering peril in the language of ghosts.
A whisper becomes a tremor, becomes a howl.
The cold vacuum yawns wide, swallowing every lucid thought.
The world outside disintegrates into shadow.
Fear is no longer a possibility—it is law.
Rational thought fractures,
splintering beneath its weight.
I am hunted—
by echoes, by specters,
by the certainty of failure.
A thousand past mistakes resurface,
each one carved into my skin.
My heart pounds, hammering dread into my ribs,
a steady cadence of self-inflicted peril.
I drift—untethered, lost in a space with no end,
caught in a current I cannot fight,
dragged by a tide I cannot name.
I have strayed from the path.
My only armor is retreat,
a desperate crawl into the deepest alcoves of my mind.
I search for anchors, for proof of the real,
but terror clings to me, thick as tar—
a parasitic thing feeding on certainty,
swallowing past and present whole.
Damn, it’s painful.
I question the steps that led me here,
the fractured frame of my own making.
I am reduced to a child—
small, breakable,
locked in combat with invisible horrors
as they claw their way from the abstract
into the marrow of my bones.
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The banner of hope drapes across my shoulders,
once weightless, now a stone-bound chain.
Each step scrapes me thinner,
a slow retreat, grinding against the wall.
Hope was meant to lift me,
but it drags like wet cloth,
clings like hands that won’t let go,
tightens like a rope disguised as a lifeline.
I carry it because I must,
because without it, what else is there?
Yet with every breath, it steals more—
talking everything, taking everything.
I hold on, not out of faith,
but because I have forgotten
what it means to be weightless.
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Emboldened by whispers,
echoes curdled in algorithmic rot—
electronic voices hiss their sermons,
venom soaked in coded politeness,
dripping beneath polished avatars.
Hate seeps
through curated feeds,
a slow infection
wrapped in memes,
seducing the young,
the angry,
the aimless—
until ideology feels like identity.
A curriculum of fear
streamed without consent,
etched into abandoned timelines,
where education once should have stood.
Now, only digital ruins remain—
barren soil
where thought might have grown.
This isn’t chaos.
It’s code.
Written to polarize,
to radicalize,
to dehumanize.
They teach with silence,
they preach with fragments,
they baptize with blame.
Their design is surgical—
not to inform,
but to fester.
Not to question,
but to conquer.
To crown the cruel
and cast the rest as fuel.
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Love was once a wildfire, reckless and bright,
igniting every touch, setting the night alight.
We spoke in heat, in whispered desire,
hearts beating wild, hands tracing fire.
But love is not meant to stay a flame,
not a spark that burns and flickers the same.
It softens, it deepens, it learns how to stay—
not just in longing, but in the light of day.
It shifts in the quiet, reshapes in the dark,
a slow-burning ember where once was a spark.
It is not lesser—it is not lost,
but tempered by time, by trust, by cost.
Now love is steady, a warmth that endures,
woven in laughter, in gestures, in words.
It’s your hand on my back as I pass,
the glance that lingers, the quiet that lasts.
It’s coffee waiting before I wake,
a blanket pulled close for comfort’s sake.
It’s the sound of my name, not urgent, not wild,
but spoken with care, with years reconciled.
Desire may fade, but devotion remains,
etched in the rhythms, the soft, sweet refrains.
Intimacy shifts, but it never departs,
it lingers in trust, in well-worn hearts.
Love is not lesser for burning low—
it is richer, fuller, and more certain to grow.
Not the fire of then,
but the foundation of now.
Not the spark,
but the glow that remains.
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(A) decade squandered in dread lost to shadows that never asked permission.
(N)egativity seeped in, a silent trespasser carving itself into my marrow.
(X)-rays reveal nothing, yet the ache hums beneath my ribs like a buried scream.
(I) stir in constant panic, clawing at the edges of a moment unraveling in my hands.
(E)ntrapped by an existential shadow, pressing against bloodshot eyes like a veil of lead.
(T)ortured by potential, by shame, by echoes of what will never be spoken.
(Y)earning for escape, but the exit is a mirage, dissolving before I can touch it.
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