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ljidol week 3 prompt : ecco (italian: here it is, like right now, being presented)
ECCO
(ECHO ECCo ECho Ecco echo)
i can't see you in this hall of mirrors
i cannot hear you in this empty chamber
i can't feel you on my skin from across the ages
i cannot taste your kisses
(anymore)
you were my first love
tall, blonde, and naive
you were a best friend
knowing me way back when
you were my everything
(and my nothing)
you have been a homing point for 33 years
camping in fields of folkies
kissing in basements
sharing stories of next loves
as we grew into adulthood
what do i do when you move to another
hemisphere
(ECCO ECHo ECco Echo ecco)
the time nigh
and off you go
you will always be my first
first love
first touch
first to know so many of my secrets
and here we are
adults in our own right
spouses and children to love and protect
and you’re leaving me
i can’t say that i blame you
i don’t know how much you still care
though i’ve kept a chamber of my heart open
just for you
moving forward and moving on
do you know
that you helped create who i am
today
(the strength and the love)
do you know
that i still care
and these echo chambers will fall silent
these halls of mirrors will shatter fast
skin will dry and crack from lack of your hug
and you
you shall be happy
building new halls and chambers
touching the skin of the one that fits you
in a land of your choice
so far away from me
i believe in the choices we have made
i believe that we have arrived
that we are here
and you will always be
an ecco in my heart
LJIdol Wheel of Chaos Week 1 - Quality
Jun. 18th, 2025 06:04 am
LJIDOL Wheel of Chaos week 1 prompt: QUALITY
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Quality over Quantity
Quality over Quantity is easier said than done
when food is a desert and cola is cheap
“nutritionally dense food only,” we tout
we crow
proud of ourselves for having money
education
time
as if
as if it grew from the earth
& we all have equal access
well, i'm here to tell you
it's lies
all of it lies
none of it but the fruit grows on trees
& we hoard like villains in a disney movie
doling out poison
dressed pretty in needed calories
giving the people nothing but disdain when they bite the candy apple
& goddess forbid
the poor treat themselves
to anything else
fresh meat
fresh veggies
or horror of horrors: a cake
we judge and we judge and we judge
harshest critics of our sisters
meanest to our brothers
we judge them all
secretly eating snickers in our bathrobes
hypocrites R us in america
we like to judge
to think we are better
we like to think that we CHOSE
Quality over Quantity of calorie
but really our social status chose
for us
Wheel of Chaos the Real LJ Idol I'm In!
Jun. 7th, 2025 07:02 pmhttps://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1182845.html#comments
Please, join me in whatever fucking craziness Gary is about to throw at us. This is a journaling competition where *I* mostly write poetry... cuz I'm me.
But who knows in the WHEEL. OF. CHAOS?
I declare my intent to participate.
Please, join me in whatever fucking craziness Gary is about to throw at us. This is a journaling competition where *I* mostly write poetry... cuz I'm me.
But who knows in the WHEEL. OF. CHAOS?
I declare my intent to participate.
trust everyone
(but cut the cards)
i could walk through life with no trust
second guessing every smile
every gift
every kind hello
i could walk through life finding fault in every raindrop
or
i could believe in the goodness in your heart
her smile
his handshake
i could open my arms
wide
reaching for the humanity within
i could watch the sky for rainbows
for the promise of the sun’s return
i choose to trust in your embrace
in the words of love and friendship
i choose to smile at strangers as i walk the streets
hoping to find reciprocity
hoping that smiles breed smiles
that kindness is paid forward
that love wins
believe in goodness
foster the tiny embers of that fire
join me in this holy quest
in this fostering of the souls that make humanity
show our children that not everyone is to be feared
that we have smiles to share
that we are good
(but lock your doors at night)
