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E-Du

E-Du

Mostly just chaotic feelings put to page.

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Writings
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Followers
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E-Du

E-Du

Mostly just chaotic feelings put to page.

33
Writings
17
Followers
14
Following
Mind Vomit: 1

E-Du

1 min read

My mind strengthens but my heart falters

A feeling rushed so my mind alters course.

I thought I was ready, but the remorse burns

Maybe I’ve made another wrong turn?...

Poetry

1
Wasted

E-Du

1 min read

Here lies a thought,

a feeling, an idea.


It’s bitter end unexpected by some

yet foretold by many.


It is remembered and mimicked often

but it’s shades are never the same -

distorted by mistellings and untruths.


It was always fragile;

it’s pulse always weak.


And those who hated the idea were all too quick and willing to misunderstand it.

But they couldn’t kill it themselves;

ideas, alth...

Poetry

Drama

1
The Stone

E-Du

1 min read

Weathered and beaten

Tired and alone

It sits in a field

A long forgotten stone.


It speaks no ill,

It bears no hate,

It is merely a marker

Proclaiming one’s fate.


And on it written,

etched words hardly seen:

‘A young boy not forgotten,

a soldier in green.

He fought for his country,

he fought to be free,

God grant him mercy,

he was only eighteen.’...

Poetry

2
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Insatiable

E-Du

1 min read

I’ve eaten, eaten, eaten;

but I am never full.


I am gluttony; I am selfish; I am sin.

starving, insatiable,

No matter what I eat,

I cannot seem to fill my heart....

Poetry

2
Softness

E-Du

1 min read

A tuft, a puff, a slightness

a caress, a brush, a fineness,

a gentle sway in the wind,

a long forgotten softly hummed hymn.


A feather light touch

on sensitive skin.

The beginnings of a smile

as you’re staring at him.


A flicker of light

in the darkest of rooms

The stars in the night

or a sliver of moon.


Words whispered sweetly

from the one that you love.

A night of safekeeping

on the w...

Poetry

2
Time Moves On

E-Du

1 min read

There’s something about passing time

and nostalgia

and bittersweet memories barely remembered;

the snippets of time haphazardly stapled together as the wallpaper of my heart - some spots still bleeding, others long scabbed over.


There’s something about passing time

that tastes sweetly at first.

Fresh and new, like it was just yesterday when I heard you calling my name.

And then it begins to so...

Poetry

1
Therapy

E-Du

1 min read

Light and airy

Bright and free

No more drowning in memory


Swirling depths

Undisturbed

Finally drained

The heart unperturbed


Warmth and healing

Bathed in sun

A horizon met

While out on a run...

Poetry

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The Tale of Largo and Smalls

E-Du

5 min read

“Another day in the trenches, wouldn’t you say?”


The small and large intestines were known to each other simply as Largo and Smalls; only named in reverse like it was some incredibly ingenious way to confuse the stomach when she came to dump her refuse, despite only having a route to Largo’s orifice.


Largo grumbled an answer that Smalls couldn’t quite hear in the midst of Largo’s digesting of ...

Humour

2
Insecure

E-Du

1 min read

Why am I always the one less desired?


The bile in my throat tastes of shame and I wonder why I’ve never been enough.


If I were enough for someone, surely I wouldn’t have been chosen last.


I’m lacking.


My missing pieces leave gaping jagged holes whose endless darkness swallows anything that comes near.


An unknowing passerby stumbles by and I think to myself, “maybe, just maybe, I’ve found...

Drama

3
3
A Chance

E-Du

1 min read

I used to think I needed you

I thought you made me strong

But sitting here alone for once

Has taught me I was wrong.


I won’t say it’s the first time

And probably not the last

But this sudden change of scenery

Has given me a chance.


It’s my time to make it,

to show you that I can.

The next time that you see me,

I’ll be a different woman....

Poetry

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