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It happened on one blue day

when my petals were bruised,

and my spirit almost hung itself,

no longer bearing the weight

of being an immortal light source

in a time of forgotten prayers.

I was nearly weeping

not in storms that swallow the world around me,

but in the language of scorpion grasses at dusk

soft, bowed, barely blooming.

He came like a gentle comet,

not as a man,

but as the guiding Hermes

a smile, soft as sacred crocuses,

carrying no judgment,

emerging from a cold land,

gently touching the unopened bud

of my fragile sorrow,

just to remind me:

someone still sees.

Then came the embrace

two arms wrapped around

like vines of honeysuckle

entwining the walls of my cold cathedral of solitude

with warmth and grace:

a tulip and hyacinth embroidery.

I did not flee from that sacred place,

not because I forgot Eros,

but because I remembered Persephone,

longing for the sun,

wandering through labyrinths of wonder

even in Hades' hasty gentleness.

But guilt arrived

on a shocking wave of pain,

measuring the weight of my heart

against a moment I did not ask for

nor did I deserve it,

yet I allowed it.

Not ashamed for desiring a mortal feeling,

but for that pale flicker of bloom

that rose inside my crimson heart

and dared to face the sun.

Yet even so,

I crossed no sacred boundary,

and kept my faith to Hera's vows

my trembling hand bore no corruption,

only the scent of oleander.

Now I return

to the sacred garden I tend with care,

to the altar of my chosen love,

where trust grows like lavender

at the gates of devotion.

He saw me unguarded,

but I see myself whole again

a celestial being reborn beneath the stars:

not untrue or disloyal,

only open,

only tender,

only alive.

Dear gentle reader,

Beneath the pale moonlight,

I have entered your dreams

and whispered softly

the legend of soul ties.

Slowly, you step beside me.

Hungry eyes gather in the distance.

The reality swallowing us whole

is nothing but a forgotten battlefield.

Your razor-sharp gaze is captured.

There, among dozens of rotting corpses,

stand two figures suspended in silence,

like the final pillars of a fallen temple.

The first— a broken priest.

Wounded, endlessly praying,

his trembling hands, his crooked fingers,

still searching for a fragment of mercy.

The second— a gentle demon.

Waves of warmth orbit around her.

Her sapphire eyes remain fixed upon the horizon,

calmly gazing into the endless dark.

You see them, don't you?

Remain still.

Obedience is the key.

Watch closely,

for what you are about to witness

will unsettle the deepest parts of your soul.

She senses the priest's sorrow

rising above the dead surrounding him.

His misery speaks louder than words.

"Take my hand," she whispers.

"Drink from my waters.

You have exhausted your strength

for far too long."

"My fair lady... my endless cup of hope...

How could a poor soul like mine

ever deserve to reach you?"

Like distant constellations,

their paths collide.

He drinks fiercely from the source of her light,

while she willingly holds him close,

believing compassion alone

can heal what time could not.

"How can this be?

Have I become blind

or simply mad?"

"Silence.

Ask yourself what you're truly seeing.

The truth stands before us.

It is only hidden

from those unwilling to look."

What feels like thousands of years pass.

The priest and the demon

begin studying one another.

One— cold as forged steel,

calculating,

entirely ruled by the mind.

The other— guided by razor-sharp intuition,

profound empathy,

and quiet emotional wisdom.

Again and again,

the priest manipulates, betrays, wounds,

engraving new scars into her soul.

Again and again,

the demon forgives.

Once. Twice.

Until—

something clicks.

The pattern reveals itself.

The spell dissolves.

She stands perfectly still,

frozen in time, calculating,

without anger, without reaction.

Holding every advantage,

she prepares her departure

in absolute silence.

She could have struck him down.

She could have carved wounds

deeper than those he had ever known.

But she finally understands.

This is no wounded soul.

This is a predator.

Her sapphire eyes become crystal clear.

And then—

she goes supernova.

The script shatters.

The roles reverse.

For the first time,

the priest chokes on fear.

He was clever.

Subtle as a serpent.

Yet painfully predictable.

She had always seen beyond the mask.

She understood him

better than he understood himself.

For the depth of her empathy

could only exist

because it mirrored

the depth of her own darkness.

And his downfall

would become far worse than hell.

"He searched for golden nectar,

yet stumbled upon an unknown creature."

The dead begin to vanish,

laughing into the wind.

The battlefield collapses

into an endless abyss,

opening its ancient mouth.

"Poor little priest...

At last,

you have shaken hands

with your karmic mirror."

I see myself through your onyx-moon eyes,

reflecting lifetimes beneath their dark, still surface.

I hear echoes of my past self in your voice,

soft as falling petals

a resonance of storms I once weathered.

I have walked nearly the same sacred path

though you move swifter than the wind,

speak with the thunderclap of Athena's shield,

and shine brighter than Apollo's first light.

Once, a quiet child,

afraid of the voices of angry birds,

haunted by monsters who wore mortal skin,

now stands like a mountain in stormlight

shaking stone, breaking iron,

unfolding wings carved from suffering.

Power rests within your heart.

You just have to set yourself free

and rise above your painful ashes

as the phoenix is always reminding us:

even darkness serves the bloom.

And with glory and grace,

it rises from the ugliest hell

a constellation redrawn across the sky

for others to witness and remember:

the girl once silenced

is now myth,

is now sovereign.

That pure soul, once wingless,

wove galaxies with trembling hands,

built a world from garden bones

and broken lullabies.

A kingdom rooted in empathy

and crowned with wild roses.

Here, laughter rings like chapel bells.

Here, loyalty is the highest spell.

And respect towers like golden pillars,

engraved with the names of those who dared to become whole.

No damsels here

only queens of the flame,

warrior-poets in velvet armor,

keepers of sacred fire and gentle law.

This is not just a dream.

It is a place to call home.

Sub lumina blândă a unei zile senine,

În grădina unde speranța se înfiripă,

Se deschid petale de iubire și căldură,

Pe alei de taină unde viața încă pulsează și respiră.

Cei care veghează, ca brazii tăcuți,

Cu mâini de lumină și zâmbet de flori,

Îndrumă pașii obosiți, cu glasuri de crini abia-nfloriți,

Și alinarea curge lin, ca un râu printre izvoare pline de dor.

Boboci și stejari cărunți,

Găsesc în atingere și cuvânt o primăvară nouă,

Învățând că-n fiecare clipă de suferință,

Se poate să înflorească curajul și speranța cea nouă.

Dragostea lor nu se rupe, nu se frânge,

E floare nemuritoare în clepsidra timpului,

Și chiar dacă umbrele trec peste clipele fragile,

Întotdeauna rămâne parfumul cald al grijii.

Și noi, ca frunze ce tremură la adiere,

Învățăm să fim răbdători, să ne lăsăm purtați,

Căci aici, în acest colț de grădină miraculoasă,

Durerea devine floare și speranță.

He never touched you.

Yet you linger in him

like the scent of damask rose in forgotten temples,

or the shadow of lotus petals

pressed between the pages of a life unlived.

You weren't given,

nor claimed,

but you remain

as Persephone remains between two worlds,

half spring, half surrender.

He sees you

in the gold-threaded robes of Isis,

mother of the hidden,

protector of what cannot be possessed.

You, soft as jasmine at dusk,

yet dangerous as the bloom of belladonna,

a beauty he could never hold

without trembling.

His logic is iron.

His mind, a fortress.

Yet inside,

you bloom like Freyja's garden in Asgard

wild, untamed,

known only to the gods and the ghosts

of those who once dared to love.

He remembers you

in the absence of touch

how your voice would've sounded

saying his name.

Not as a woman made of earth,

but like Aphrodite rising from seafoam,

untouchable and immortal in her effect.

He walks through the world

wearing your memory

like a garland of hyacinths—

invisible,

but fragrant enough

to undo his certainty.

He calls your name in thought

only when Hermes isn't listening.

Because you were not a prayer

you were the echo of something already sacred.

You are not his.

You were never his.

But in the sacred ache

between Odin's wisdom and Hades' restraint,

he worships what he cannot claim.

And so you became

his unseen Nemesis

not to punish,

but to remind him

that even gods must kneel

before something they cannot keep.

You are the iris that opens at midnight,

the secret grove behind his ribs,

where he returns not for peace

but to remember what almost was.

You are his

without being.

There comes a time of year

When the grand bargain begins,

Not on the streets filled with vitality,

But in the shadows of the necropolis.

That time when the Four O'Clock flower breaks,

Shattered glass strewn across morality,

Violins echoing through chrysanthemums—

An entire ballad of the false prophets.

And in such a dreadful realm,

The White Dahlia enters with petals shrinking,

Trembling as the winds begin to embrace her.

Two pairs of eyes seize her gaze:

One's Deadly Nightshade,

the other's Devil's Hand.

One is there to devour her soul;

The other to protect and shield her:

Unfortunately, all entities wear masks.

What gleams is venom,

What offers refuge seems lethal.

The first waltz with the broken,

virtuous entity Unfolds in darkness,

Flowers shivering in the aura that surrounds him.

Warnings drip from his affection;

Her vitality seeps into his mask.

The long, agonizing sway ends in tears.

The second dance with the wicked one

Casts beams of pearly light across the floor,

Flickers of hope and sparks tangled in mysterious smiles.

Tiny, precise steps lure her core into an abyss.

She blooms once more

Only to be severed again with the final sigh of her stamina.

What happened to them, you might ask?

Devil's Hand betrays his loving core, vanishing into obscurity.

White Dahlia, dripping tears of blood, continues to bloom

Brighter, fiercer than ever.

Deadly Nightshade aches still,

Hunting those ruby tears with insatiable hunger:

One astray, one reaching the focal point, one hollow within its own elegance.

Am în telefon, cateva poze cu ea,

Nimic regizat — un zâmbet, o cafea,

Un tricou larg, părul ciufulit,

Dar Doamne… cât o iubesc. Atât de liniștit.

N-o spun des, că nu-s poet cu normă,

Dar când o văd, lumea prinde formă.

E ceva între noi ce n-are nume,

Mai real decât tot ce zice lumea bună.

Nu-mi trebuie filtre, nici povești sclipite

Am serile cu ea și ochii ei obosiți

Când plânge, nu fug. Când tace, o simt.

E fata aia pe care-o ții, nu o minți.

Și da, poate n-o înțeleg candse frânge 

Dar stau. Rămân și când inima-mi plânge.

Îmi dau seama-atunci, când lumina dispare,

Că iubirea-i o flacără mută, dar care nu moare

De unde venim?

Exact  nu știu

Avem în schimb

Istorii vechi sub soare

Ne tragem seva 

Din adânc de mare...

Din cremene  și stâncă.

luna mi este chiar un mentor

si m ajuta n viitor,

sa zambesc si sa devin

tot ceea ce sustin.

lunii eu ii povestesc

de cine ma ndragostesc

si ma asculta

si ma ajuta

sa trec peste el

si sa trec la alt nivel

despre el imi stie totul

caci a observat

si ne a mpreunat

in tot zgomotul

lunii eu ii povestesc

de mine, de tine

de noi doi

dar ea doar ma asculta

caci nu te poate schimba

nici mintea ta flamanda

luna a ramas in urma

caci tot crede ca

pe culoarul iubirii subrede

noi am mai avea vreo suma

luna inca crede

in mine si n tine,

in noi doi,

dar doar perna mi

stie prin ce

tu m ai facut

sa trec,

cat te am placut

si cat ma nec.

Trecut-au zile fără urmă ca un fum

Singurătatea risipindu-le uitate

Absența caută prezențele nocturn

Călătorind printre făpturile abstracte

În vise umblă transparențe de parfum

Iluzii oarbe celuind imaculate

Splendide zâmbete mă scutură nebun

Exuberant sufletul tremură în noapte

Pe cer o stea mă urmărește dintr-un turn

Lumini vopsite strălucind falsificate

Aruncă razele-mbrăcate la costum

Gătite umbre hoinărind întunecate

Spre dimineață urcă soarele imun

Trezește ochii din poveștile-ncurcate

Privirea umblă în absență pe un drum

Călcând desculță între vis și realitate

Orele trec îngrămădindu-se postum

Mătură timpul amintirile uzate

Fără prezență existența-i oarecum

Într-o absență ascunzându-se de toate

Parfum de mare ochii lăcrimau, 

Şi degete’mpletite în amor,

Pe nisip doar urme rămîneau,

Doar urme de speranţă şi de dor. 

Pierdut, pierdut eram in scări de lut,

Ce tot mai jos mă depărtau,

De faţa ta şi de acel smerit sărut,

De ochi, ce dragoste ameninţau.

Cum să trăiesc, cum să respir,

În noaptea ce mușcă, mă simt doar un fir.

Unde să mă duc, unde să mai stau,

Că-n ochii tăi sunt doar un străin.

Mă-nchin la stele, doar tăceri in delir,

Îmi caut în sânge un ultim „inspir”.

Caut să‑i arăt lui Dumnezeu chipul tău

Să-mi dea o inimă să te iubesc mereu.

Ce lume-i asta, când tu ești tot ce am,

Iar tu-mi dai iubire doar pe împrumut,

Plătesc cu suflet, cu sânge, cu neștiut

Și tot dator rămân, flămând, pierdut.