gothic reflection

  • The Debt of the Dreamers

    There is madness here—between the spaces where sound should sleep.A photogenic imagination plays its reels again, remembering everything that ever was, even the parts we tried to burn.The student has left the classroom.The chalk dust still floats where lessons once lived.They’ve become the teacher now—the one who stares at the sky and whispers, think the…

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  • The Throne of Shadows

    You stand there with a blank stare in your eyes, a ghost of the power you once held. No one is listening anymore. No one cares to hear the cry of the one who cried wolf too many times. The room you built with your voice has become a tomb, and every echo only reminds…

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  • They Did Not Know

    They never asked where you came from. They walked into your abyss blind, as if it were their right to wander through a cathedral of shadows they could never comprehend. They claim to know you—your face, your laugh, your surface—but to know you truly, would they not first need the story of how you got…

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  • We stand at the confessional before a stranger who will never become our friend, baring sins that should never have been spoken into air. Some truths were meant to rot in silence, some names never to pass across the lips of certain company. Letters strung together summon ghosts, dragging us back into a moment in…

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  • Where the Shoes Return

    I told them I wanted you to feel what you had put me through.Not to punish. Not to see you break. Just so, for a single fractured hour, you could look out of my eyes and know the rooms I learned to live inside. There is a particular cruelty to being moved through someone else’s…

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