Tag: Mental health
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The First Step
Morning arrived quietly. The storm had spent itselfsometime before dawn,leaving only the slow rhythmof water slippingfrom leaf to leaf. She opened her eyesbeneath the old treethat had carried her safelythrough the longest night. For a while,she simply listened. The wind no longer howled.The thunder had wandered elsewhere.Even the birds,once frightened into silence,had begun again. She…
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The Storm Between the Trees
August 3, 2026 The woman wandered fartherthan she had ever dared before. The familiar brookhad long since disappeared,its gentle song swallowedby towering pinesthat stood like silent guardiansbeneath a darkening sky. She searched for the pathshe thought she had known,but every traillooked like the last. Then came the wind.Soft at first.A whisper through the branches.Then stronger.Until…
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The Quiet Forrest
July 30, 2026 She woke where the moss embraced the earth,beneath a canopy stitched with emerald light.No voices called her name.No footsteps lingered.Only the hush of leavesbreathing with the wind. She lay there for a while,waiting for the ache she had carriedto settle upon her chest once more. But it never came. The chains she…
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Consequences
July 28, 2026 Each choice we make, both small and wide,Leaves footprints where our hearts reside.Though time may soften every scar,It cannot change the marks they are. I cannot beg the tide to stay,Nor wash the things I’ve cast away.No pleading voice, no whispered plea,Can rewrite what has come to be. You placed your trust…
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One day at a time
July 26, 2026 Tomorrow waits beyond my door,A place walked many times before.Yet now each hallway seems so wide,With nowhere left for me to hide. I’ll wear my name upon my chest,And pray my trembling heart finds rest.I’ll tie my hair, stand tall once more,Though grief still washes to my shore. Perhaps I’ll hear your…
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If I were gone
July 23, 2026 I do not mean the kind of gonewhere flowers gather in the rain,or names are carved in weathered stoneto whisper softly of our pain. I mean the quieter kind of gone,where footsteps simply cease to fall,where no one turns to call my namebecause I wasn’t there at all. No shadow stretching in…
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To Be Chosen
July 19, 2026 You found me when I would not chase,and slowly drew me to your grace.With patient words and gentle care,you taught my guarded heart to dare. You knocked upon my bolted gate,arrived before I learned to wait.You crossed the distance, closed the sea,your footsteps landed nearest me. So when I finally let you…
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A World Collapsing
July 15, 2026 Tonight the stars forgot to shine,and silence swallowed every sign.The little world we came to knowbecame a place I couldn’t go. But I went in anyway,Knowing you chose not to stay,Consumed with thoughts and wondering why,I wasn’t worth for you to try. You knocked upon my hopeful heart,then somehow chose to drift…
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Freedom of Falling
June 18, 2026 There was no fear.Only sunlight. A bridge stretched across the sky,high above water so impossibly blueit looked borrowed from another world. The kind of water that invites youwith its glistening depth and endless secrets. I stood at the railingwatching the waves breathe below me,feeling the distance,feeling the height,feeling the impossible spacebetween where…
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Resilience
They say that pain leaves fingerprints,that trauma marks the soul,that broken roots and shattered homesextract a heavy toll. By all accounts, I should have fallen,lost somewhere along the way,a ghost beneath a bridge at night,sleeping through the day. The odds were stacked against melong before I understood.I learned that life could wound a childbefore it…
