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I don’t post for the algorithm. I post for the ones still awake in a dying world.
Welcome to the decay.
Everything you care about will eventually be taken by time. Because all is lost in the end, the only defense is to live and love as if today is the last chance.
Time shortens. The world continues. It does not correct the record or return what has passed. Beneath it all lies one dark, indifferent truth: what is not claimed in time is eventually lost.
True healing is not a remodeling project designed to make you more palatable to those who broke you.
Looking at the broken pieces left behind and realizing that the capacity to shatter was not a defect in your design, but proof of your willingness to care.
Turning yourself into a project so you will finally be chosen keeps the wound in charge.
Grief is allowed. Growth is allowed. What isn't required is making yourself worthy of someone else's acceptance.
When a system is rigged to protect someone else's comfort at the expense of your dignity, trying to fix the system will only exhaust you.
Do not pour a deep heart into someone who will not sit with their own unease. They will move the problem onto a system so they can stay comfortable. Intense feeling is not the mistake. Spending it on a closed door is. Take it back. Use it to leave the room that keeps teaching you the same lesson. Clarity is the gift. Walking away with your spine straight is how you spend it.
🔮 Scorpio Moon's patience can feel almost like an ancient evil sitting in the dark, waiting...
A Scorpio Moon can have an unusual emotional patience: it may continue carrying, processing, remembering or observing something internally long after the external situation has gone quiet.
I have not moved. Time has moved around me.
Scorpio doesn't necessarily need to act immediately. It can hold the energy. Watch.
Remember. Wait.
And because it is fixed water, the emotional charge doesn't necessarily evaporate simply because time passes. That's the eerie part. Emotion that does not disperse.
The Moon represents instinctive emotional processing. So when the Moon is in Scorpio, that fixed-water quality applies directly to the emotional interior.
Scorpio is deeply processing, slow to release emotional material and capable of holding onto an emotional experience long after the external event has ended.
My Scorpio Moon isn't isolated.
I have: Scorpio Ascendant conjunct Scorpio Moon conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio. Gemini Mercury in the 8th house.
What was hidden has been brought into the light. What was uncertain has become clear.
All is revealed.
When someone hurts us, our self-esteem can take a heavy hit. But the greatest love of all is the love you give yourself. Take all the energy you spent loving them, understanding them, and turn it inward.
There are moments when the weight of everything becomes so heavy that even existing feels exhausting. I’m tired of carrying this pain and pretending I’m okay when I’m not. Some nights, I don’t want to keep living through another day. I just want the suffering to stop, even if that means I’m no longer here to feel it.
I analyze details intensely. I examine the exact wording, the timing, behavioral shifts, contradictions, omissions, and even the smallest words that might reveal something deeper.
I pay attention to what was said, what wasn't said, what happened before and after, and whether someone's actions align with their words.
I notice subtle changes in behavior, small questions, fleeting reactions, and details that most people might overlook.
I'm constantly trying to understand not only what happened, but why it happened, what it reveals about someone's thoughts or feelings, and what I may have missed.
My mind keeps returning to unresolved details because I want to understand the entire pattern.
The agony of never knowing where you truly stood is more painful than the truth itself. Ambiguity leaves you standing in the doorway, rereading every word, weighing every silence, wondering whether there was ever something real on the other side.
Trust deepens that wound. You can believe you are speaking privately, honestly, person to person, and then suddenly feel the presence of other eyes around something you thought belonged only to two people. What felt intimate becomes exposed. What felt safe becomes something you question.
Kindness deserves scrutiny. Soft words are not always merciful. What spares one person an uncomfortable moment can leave another carrying uncertainty far longer. When words and actions contradict each other, believe the pattern.
Wisdom is not learning how to make someone see you. It is learning when to stop standing in front of them, waiting to be seen.
Sometimes a person enters our lives not to become a partner or a friend, but to become a catalyst for our own transformation.
Pain, rejection, disappointment, and anger can either consume us or become fuel. Sometimes the very experience that breaks our heart becomes the force that pushes us to rebuild our life with greater strength, clarity, and purpose.
One of the most painful forms of rejection is not simply realizing that a connection was not meant to be. It is feeling that your circumstances, your lifestyle, your struggles, or the things you do not have have been used to determine your worth.
But another person's judgment does not define your value.
When genuine affection is met with distance, silence, or a closed door, it can leave behind confusion and unanswered questions. We may spend countless hours trying to understand what went wrong, what was meant by certain words, or what existed beneath the surface.
Sometimes there will never be an explanation that feels sufficient.
And that is part of what we must learn to accept.
Vulnerability is not weakness. Caring deeply is not weakness. Wanting connection is not something to be ashamed of. Having the courage to open your heart, even when there is a possibility of rejection, is an act of strength.
Sometimes our vulnerability will not be understood or valued by the person who receives it. That does not make the vulnerability a mistake.
It simply means it was given to the wrong place.
We also have to learn not to measure our worth through external circumstances. A person's income, transportation, occupation, possessions, social status, hobbies, or lifestyle do not determine the depth of their character.
What matters far more is the heart behind those circumstances: honesty, resilience, kindness, integrity, ambition, and the willingness to keep growing.
A rejection can make us question ourselves.
Don't.
Let it make you question what you are willing to settle for instead.
You do not need to convince anyone of your worth. You do not need to chase someone into recognizing your value. You do not need to become extraordinary simply to make someone regret overlooking you.
Become extraordinary because you discovered that you were capable of more.
The best response to being underestimated is not revenge.
It is growth.
Build your body. Build your mind. Build your skills. Build your independence. Build your confidence. Build a life so meaningful that validation becomes a bonus rather than a necessity.
Take the anger and turn it into discipline.
Take the rejection and turn it into clarity.
Take the loneliness and turn it into self-discovery.
Take the pain and turn it into fuel.
There will come a point when you realize something profound:
You started the journey wanting someone else to see your value.
And somewhere along the way, you finally learned to see it yourself.
That is when rejection stops being the end of the story.
It becomes the beginning of your transformation.
༒ Out of Mind, Out of Sight ༒
Ash to ash and thread to thread,
cast your image from my head.
Name to dust and breath to air,
leave no trace of you in there.
By blackened cord and hollow bone,
take what follows; take what's known. Turn the key and seal the door, let your shadow cross no more.
Sight be clouded, thought be still,
fade the image, break the will.
What I carried, let it cease,
what I cherished, give to peace.
Veil the face and dim the trace,
erase the echo, empty space.
Let no whisper call you near,
let no memory reappear.
Thread unspun and knot undone,
what was bound is bound no more.
Let the old desire depart, leave no footprint in my heart.
By saltless earth and candle flame,
unmake the weight attached to your name. Let what haunted now grow cold, let what I held no longer hold.
Out of mind, out of sight,
Out of darkness, out of light.
Out of thought, out of view,
What I carried, I undo.
By every breath I now reclaim,
I sever myself from your name.
The cord is cut, the rite is done,
The shadow fades; I take my throne.
Out of mind. Out of sight.
Gone from thought. Gone from night.
What I release cannot remain.
What I let go leaves no chain.
@ComdrOfDeath
Authored by Christopher J. Perkins
🤖 Made with AI
༒ A Ghost in Plain Sight ༒
I called your name; the silence came,
and buried mine beneath your name.
I reached for you with trembling hands, you never saw where longing stands.
I gave you nothing but my truth,
a wounded heart, a foolish youth.
I asked for neither oath nor claim,
yet somehow I was still to blame.
I watched you pass; I watched you turn, and fed the little hope I'd burn.
A glance, a word, a passing sign,
I made a universe from mine.
You never knew what lived inside,
how many things I chose to hide.
How many words died in my throat,
how many hopes I kept afloat.
I stood beside you, close enough
to touch the silence, never touch.
A living shadow in your sight,
a nameless figure in the light.
And when I finally spoke my heart,
you answered softly: stay apart.
Not hatred's blade, not love's embrace, just distance wearing a human face.
And now I walk where we once stood, the way a ghost moves through a wood.
I wanted you beyond my clutch,
yet being unseen still felt like touch.
@ComdrOfDeath
Authored by Christopher J. Perkins
🤖 Made with AI
༒ The Quiet Presence ༒
I need not name what walks unseen,
nor seek the hand that moves between. I feel it where the silence grows, beneath the grief no stranger knows.
If this is God, then let it be,
no answer need descend to me.
I ask no sign, I seek no flame,
I kneel before the nameless name.
It moves within the breath I take,
It stirs beneath the heart that aches.
It follows where the shadows tread,
It whispers softly among the dead.
Grief taught my ears to hear the still,
the hollow room, the empty hill.
Not for a voice, nor words, nor plea,
but for the hush that answers me.
I trust no light untouched by shade,
no sacred crown that has not frayed.
If holiness has ever been, it walks through dust and dwells within.
Let holy hands be worn with dust,
Let sacred vows be scarred by rust.
Let faith lie wounded, stripped and bare, and still find something waiting there.
Sometimes it comes as breath at night, a fleeting pulse beyond my sight. Sometimes a glance that seems to know, the hidden wounds I never show.
And then I feel it, close and deep,
within the places grief will keep.
No proof is given, none is shown,
Yet somehow I am not alone.
If this is faith, let faith be scarred,
Let every road be cruel and hard.
Let every prayer remain unsaid,
yet let it rise among the dead.
Call it God, or call it none,
call it shadow, moon, or sun.
I only know what silence brings,
A nameless thread with unseen strings.
Something stirs where sorrow lies,
something wakes beneath black skies. Something walks where I have been, through every loss, through every sin.
I follow neither book nor throne,
I follow what I feel alone.
A longing deeper than belief,
A quiet hand beneath my grief.
It leads me where the lost things wait,
beyond the mouth of fear and fate.
No judgment there, no voice, no end,
Only the dark that will not bend.
So let the silence keep its name,
let mystery remain the same.
I need no proof of what I feel,
no sacred wound that time can heal.
For when all certainty has fled,
and every prayer has gone unsaid,
I feel it breathing through the night,
a presence hiding from the light.
I do not know what walks with me, nor what it wants, nor what I see. When faith is gone and prayers are still, something remains beyond my will.
@ComdrOfDeath
Authored by Christopher J. Perkins
🤖 Made with AI
༒ The Unseen Spell ༒
I call your name, I call it low, a name you heard but dared not know.
I draw it near, I draw it slow,
You felt me once, you let me go.
I cast the word, I seal the sound,
I turn the lost thing back around.
No chain to bind, no hand to hold,
Just what was hidden, taking hold.
I put the spell upon your mind,
I leave my name where none can find.
I put the spell upon your sight,
and leave my name with you tonight.
By every glance you threw away,
By every word you wouldn't say,
by every breath you left unheard,
I bind the silence to the word.
I keep my distance, cold and still,
yet bend no heart against its will.
The door stays shut, the thread stays spun: The spell is cast, the spell's begun.
See me where you never saw,
feel the pull you can't ignore.
What was hidden, what was true,
Wakes tonight and reaches you.
I put my spell upon you slow,
like whispered things you cannot know. And when at last you turn to see, the one you never saw was me.
@ComdrOfDeath
Authored by Christopher J. Perkins
🤖 Made with AI


