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let me sleep early, earlier than you i switch off the light and turn away from you i'm not as tired as i said i was but let me sleep early all the same

let me detach from this world and the person i was today and the person i was yesterday and the shame i feel for saying all the wrong things and not saying enough of the right for loving some one i shouldn't have and missing them still after everything i ruined

his mother should hate me maybe all mothers should maybe yours will some day

but if i sleep, perhaps i can be somebody else indistinguishable in the darkness lost in the silence just until i wake up again and my guilt finds me once more

so i will sleep early tonight good night

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i've been rowing upriver for so long it's just me and the river locked in conflict i fight the quiet current and i stay away from the shore feeling too foreign for this world

i know nothing but the oars in my hands i don't know how they live this life over there all i've ever known is to fight to survive and not drown

i stop and realise the current has stilled setting me adrift

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hello to my future ex it'll be nice to meet you and all your charm and i'm sorry, my dear part of me lives in the goodbye even before i meet the hello

i hear the silence after we touch for the last time but i also see neurons flash where our fingertips connect for the first time

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he tells me he loves me and i want to shatter into pieces

what is love? one shard asks is it love? another asks it must be! a third piece says did we want this?, says the quietest part

she loves me and i feel myself shatter at the edges

this is love, my parts say in dissonant voices do we still want love?, says the quietest part yes, i answer, but not like this

they loved me and i shattered into pieces but i shall reassemble myself anyway missing the pieces each one took with them but whole nonetheless

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it hurts like a never-ending sigh seized my lungs the way your hand held my heart more carelessly than gently and the way my heart held on to every unequal compromise until we both let go confused by the chasm between us and the air i breathe ignites

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i have a soft spot for angels they never came for me in my darkest nights but i still dream of them in the daylight noble and fair creatures who defend ugliness

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1. D'abord, la nourriture: choisissez ce qui est bon pour le corps et l'âme. Lequel? Vous devez quelque chose de substance, ce qui donne de la force à votre sang.

2. Ensuite, préparez l'habitat. Vous n'avez pas besoin de beaucoup d'espace, sauf ce qui est assez pour vous, et ce qui vous évoque un sens de confort. Bien sûr, la sortie doit être fermée à clé.

3. Après, réfléchissez sur votre inspiration. Qu'est-ce que vous voulez écrire? Pourquoi? Et pour qui? Un lecteur doit être toujours dans vos pensées, parce que vous n'etes jamais seule.

4. Finalement, regardez le démon. Ne vous inquiétez pas: pour votre l'âme, il fera preuve de son miséricorde. Recevez son don... et les mots viendront. Dites rien aux autres de leurs origines.

Suivez les instructions et tout se passera bien.

#prompts #frenchpractice