Wednesday, December 3, 2025

The unbearable weight of the world

Days flow invisibly, lost in a fog that feels inescapable. The weight of life seems to surpass the weight of death - life is distance, loneliness, longing and despair.

Tears no longer come, and everyday is a repetition of survival in a soul that feels too broken to be ever repaired.

Silence engulfs me, I drown in it numbly. Words escape me and all that's left are echos of life in the dungeons of my heart. I wonder how much longer I'll last, as my body crumbles before my hollow eyes that reflect nothing but pain in the mirrors I pass.

I carry on because the horror I experience upon the possibility of watching story repeat itself in the life of my children - and the pain they'd have to endure - is much greater than the suffering I sustain daily.

Some days I am a muted scream that has no end. Other days I am nothing but an observer of my own decadence. I look into the past and realize I have ceased to exist. A shell of me in an inevitable route of destruction leading to my demise, and all I can hope for is to be capable of changing the tides for the ones that I brought into this world.

I wish I had known better then; now it's too late and I can only give whatever's left in me to try and temper with the cruelty of faith.

All my dreams turned into the memory of dust, all my hopes crushed relentlessly. No one is coming to save me. No one is coming to save them, nor anyone else. My existence was nothing but a glimpse of what cannot yet take root in this planet, and when I am gone, I will perish not only in body, mind and spirit, but also in memory - it'll be as if I never existed.

And the wind will still blow, and oceans will roar loudly. Light has not prevailed, and the future is darkness without end in this land. 

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Dust and Ashes

 One day, our eyes met

And our souls danced and rejoiced

Singing "my loved one is found again!"


Never have I felt so safe and protected 

Never have I felt so complete

Never have I felt such pure joy

And my days couldn't be any sweeter 


My heart would beat at the pace of your voice 

And the thought of your touch 

Was an avalanche of heat and storms


In my thoughts, there you were

And in my dreams, you still are


But my dreams no longer bring comfort 

They're just a memory of shattered hopes

They taunt and torture me 


Love was ripped from it's cradle 

Twisted inside out

It became the torment of my hours

And all joy has turned sour 


The beauty of the shine of stars offends me

The kindness in strangers angers me

Everything that's pure and gentle

Just a reminder of all that I no longer have 


In darkness I stumble and fall

Bruises and cuts and scars everywhere 

I'm a shadow of my soul

And I don't know where it's at 


There's only dust and ashes

The morbid corpse of what once was

The most precious belonging

I never really had.


Livia Louback