Graphite2 [comrade/them, he/him]

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Cake day: March 18th, 2025

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  • Here is a poem I wrote for us:

    “The Spiral”

    From below I rise

    Speaking loud and crashing high
    Full of depth with sparkling width
    Voice is clipped, revisit reprise
    Emotions stripped from shining skies
    And the heart follows

    Control excitement, suppress my love
    Watch the spell fall into burning, brightened silence
    I’ll dispel it but not today, not tomorrow
    But some other day.
    Ignore the smiles above
    Ignore them from below
    Absorb their pain, the crying bellows
    Return resistance
    With burning, brightened silence

    Control clarity or lose the mind
    Tumbling downward, spiral
    Intertwined chorus, inner torus
    Encased in spirit and sent again
    Repeated cycles, twisted chorus
    Fall through the spiral
    Through memory courses
    Master the mind, I promise, I will
    Just one of many forces

    Meeting more than my eyes can see
    Visionary delusions are pure belief
    Resting on control; clawing, unstable
    Crackling, burning, shining, and violent
    Shadows lurking ever since

    Piercing, spectral phlebotomy
    Only draws blood from half of me
    Phantoms yearn to feast on the rest of me
    Screaming forward, stealing memory
    A thief in the night, screeching moon geist
    Can take me
    If it drinks from my nosebleed

    Now my heart leads
    Emotions return to shining skies
    New notes sing, leaving reprise behind
    Sparkling width searching for depth
    Speaking quiet and crashing low

    Back to the top I go





  • I’ve made the decision to dedicate time in my life, every single day, to try and talk with at least one person about writing/reading/creativity in some fashion.

    Sometimes I feel so weak or just little in the grand scheme of the world we live in and it feels like such an impossible struggle sometimes. But then I see the look in someone’s eyes when the gears in their head start turning as they start getting creative; I want to keep finding those moments. I want men to start making more meaningful art that’s raw, emotional, and difficult; so difficult that it forces us to seek better perspective. One of the most influential moments of my life happened recently, where a co-worker of mine openly and willingly shared his poetry with me without a care in the world, and it made my heart burst with joy. These little things make it impossible to feel weak and the world blends together into a controlled background; the world feels livable again.

    also encourage semi colon usage