The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter when you aren't looking at them alone.



the mind becomes a house that never sleeps
where midnight drips from the walls it keeps
old ghosts wander the dim-lit halls
whispering names through the aching walls
they wear the voices i once called home
turning living rooms into catacombs
and every memory left behind
rewrites the shape of the present mind
i tried to bury each fading scene
beneath quiet days and spaces between
but memory blooms without a sound
like winter roots beneath the ground
it pulls me back through fractured light
through golden hours dissolved by night
until the warmth i used to know
falls like ash in the drifting snow
yet time was never made to erase
it only softens the sharpest place
teaching sorrow to loosen its grip
like sand releasing from the fingertips
so now i leave the door unlocked
for all the shadows time forgot
and in the stillness i finally keep
the quiet returns and teaches me sleep.







promise me this
when your world begins to fray, you wonβt fade into the quiet
wonβt exile your own voice to some unspoken riot
donβt abandon the days that ache to be heard
or bury your storms without a single word
we once were laughter spilling into endless light
untouched by shadows, untouched by night
yet somewhere between the echoes and the pretend
you were breakingβunseen, my hidden friend
i trace it back now, the cracks in your disguise
the midnight silence behind your eyes
how you stitched your smile with trembling thread
while whole constellations collapsed in your head
and i stood there, believing what you said
it settles in me, this unspoken cost
a quiet grief for the signs i lost
for every truth you held your breath to keep
for every wound that learned to sleep
while i remained on the surface, skin-deep
you were a storm i never read
a thousand words left unsaid
a door half-open, never wide
and i was thereβbut outside
so promise me now, wherever you are
donβt dim your pain like a distant star
let it be messy, let it be seen
even in places weβve never been
because truth, however raw it may seem,
is kinder than any quiet in-between.
you learn the world, then let it fade
unravel truths your past once made
like tides that turn without a sound
you shift, yet still remain unbound
to unlearn is to set things free
the weight of what you thought must be
you loosen grips on borrowed view
and make a space to grow whatβs true
relearning draws a wider sky
where questions breathe and answers lie
you walk through doubt, yet come to see
the mindβs own quiet clarity
you break the frame, redraw the line
where old and new begin to twine
and in that space of soft redesign
you claim a truth that feels like mine.


