☪ constellations of grief ☪

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Leya
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Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:10 pm
Leya says... · Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:10 pm
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A cosmic, greyscale voyage through the stages of grief.



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“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Tue Oct 15, 2024 7:07 pm
Leya says... · Tue Oct 15, 2024 7:07 pm
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“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:22 am
EllieMae says... · Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:22 am
Love the shiny graphic and description. I am super excited to see this journey through the stages of grief. Looks super exciting and I can't wait, friend :D
Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

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Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:02 am
WeepingWisteria says... · Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:02 am
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Ahh, Ley!! The greyscale is going to be so cool paired with grief. Like your thread is mourning too. I'm so excited to see what you write! :3
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"wist how dare you play with my heartstrings like that" ~ winter
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Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:57 pm
Leya says... · Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:57 pm
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“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:12 am
LuminescentAnt says... · Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:12 am
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Ooh I love the title and the vibes! There is so much you can write about space. I have a feeling this is going to be an awesome thread :)
Good is not a thing you are. It's a thing you do.
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Leya
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Sat Oct 26, 2024 2:03 am
Leya says... · Sat Oct 26, 2024 2:03 am
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They say you're gone, but I keep looking to the stars,
as if they could bring you back, as if they could blink your name
in some ancient code
I've yet to learn.

If I close my eyes long enough, perhaps I'll see you again—
standing there, whole, a shadow made of light.
And if the stars won't give you back, I'll wait here,
night after night,
pretending they will.
“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:36 pm
Leya says... · Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:36 pm
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Beneath the still sky,
I cradle the weight of stars
that slipped through my hands.
“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Sun Oct 27, 2024 4:31 pm
Leya says... · Sun Oct 27, 2024 4:31 pm
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I'm lost, a planet spun off its axis, spinning endlessly in a void where your presence used to anchor me.

I see your face everywhere-- in the shadows, in the corner of every empty room, and every shooting star that passes over me.

It's suffocating. I'm angry at the universe for taking you from me, for ripping you away when we had so much left to do. You promised me the stars.

Do you even know how much this hurts? Do you realize that you left me with a shattered heart, struggling to find my way in this universe without you?

I was told that gravity would never betray us. That we'd stay whole-- a force, a supernova.

I didn't realize that we'd fall so soon.
“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Tue Oct 29, 2024 2:03 am
Leya says... · Tue Oct 29, 2024 2:03 am
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Take me.
Take this body, this breath; I would give it all.
I would shatter myself, scatter my bones to stardust,
trade this heartbeat for silence,
if it meant we could dance along the milky way
together one more time.

I want to trade places.
Let my blood spill into the void, let it fill the gaps between galaxies,
if it brings you back, whole and breathing.
Let my skin peel away like fading starlight,
let my bones dissolve into dust.

Take everything I am, so you can be everything again.
“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Tue Oct 29, 2024 10:52 pm
Leya says... · Tue Oct 29, 2024 10:52 pm
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I am the corpse of a fallen star,
crumbling into myself, pieces of light drifting endlessly.
I am both bound and broken—
a planet circling itself, lost and confused.
“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:34 pm
Leya says... · Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:34 pm
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Day 6: Acceptance (Visual Poem)

I shed you like stardust, burned you away in the atmosphere,
a violent birth from the orbit you chained me to.
In your absence, I began to bloom,
like a tulip nestled on Mars, I defied all odds and
flourished into a radiant nebulae.
“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
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Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:57 pm
niteowl says... · Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:57 pm
Lovely poems and the art is killer!
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Fri Nov 01, 2024 12:25 am
Leya says... · Fri Nov 01, 2024 12:25 am
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I release you like a star shedding light,
let you drift beyond reach,
knowing that even as you fade from view,
you are part of me, a constellation forever circling
in the orbit of my soul,
guiding me toward a new horizon, a dawn beyond the dark.

Where you faded, I ignited,
a solitary star, fierce and defiant,
filling the solar system with light only loss could create.

So, thank you.
I had to learn to love myself again. And when I did,
I became the universe I once looked for in you.
“Ley moves and I am a couple feet behind, waiting.” - winterwolf0100
“Ley you will be fine because we all have magic powers that will protect you.” - WeepingWisteria
Ley, she/her
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Sat Nov 02, 2024 5:33 am
EllieMae says... · Sat Nov 02, 2024 5:33 am
absolutely obsessed with this theme from start to finish. you are so creative and I have loved seeing so much of your poetry around the site, especially in the last few months. you have such a powerful voice and I hope you never stop sharing it <33

thanks for making this NaPo week even better with your amazing-ness :)

also, the graphics are gorgeous!!
Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Was AilahEvelynMae
and is now EllieMae :)
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