Paili (quinm)

Life feels like a series of trade-offs. Every yes quietly carries a no.

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Across the lacquered hem of tide spills moonlight, white knives sharpening on waves. Foam gnaws basalt into psalms salted bright, and I choke on its hush raw, tongue split wide with awe, whispering lies dressed in vowels flayed from water’s jaw.

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I used to think love was found, now I believe it’s built.

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Leaves lacquered in copper clung to a skeleton tree, ribcage rattling hymns in wind’s mouth. I brushed their rusted throats and thought: tenacity isn’t triumph—it’s tremor disguised as grip, the gospel of griping stems proving faith often festers in fingers fingering frost.

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