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Friends

Can I let you in on a secret about friendships in adulthood? Sometimes they are really freaking hard. Like, really freaking hard. But so often the friends we have in our adult years are the only thing saving us from hitting rock bottom. The truth is that even the strongest friendship bonds are… read more

I can't move on from Babel

I've read seven books since finishing Babel by R. F. Kuang, yet my heart still aches for it. A part of me is still stuck in that world, unable to fully let go. As someone who studied literature at university, I felt particularly connected to its exploration of language and its power. Its portrayal… read more

Laboratory diary

Survived 3 days straight of 12-hour shift duty alone! 💪🏻 I managed to handle all the inpatient, outpatient and emergency departments alone. And all I can say is WTF! Never again! All I get is a sleep-deprived, dehydrated, starved self! And full of body aches and pimple breakout 😑 well, at least… read more

A little self discovery

I was bored one day and saw a poetry prompt on facebook. It was to create a 4 line poem based on this photo below. I got immersed in it and ended up writing 4 stanzas... Here it is ↓ A MOURNING FELLOW A fellow among the graves, Grieving for his love long gone. Her presence he craves, In where… read more

Discover Boswellia...

Discover Boswellia—the ancient tree sap nature uses to naturally cool down inflammation, soothe sore joints, and keep your body moving freely! What is Boswellia? Boswellia (say: bos-WELL-ee-uh) is a natural plant medicine that comes from the sticky sap (resin) of a special tree called Boswellia… read more

The Unsaid (self written)

In the quiet of my mind, feelings swirl A tempest of thoughts, a chaotic whirl I seek the words, but they slip like sand What lives inside can't find a hand I try to shape the hurt I feel But softness dulls the ache, it’s unreal Stretching truths, I miss the core Leaving behind what mattered… read more

Now that I'm older, I've realized that being single in your 40s is basically being 20 again—but with your own money and total freedom. The only new 'features' are back pain, knee aches, and getting sleepy way too early! 🤣😅😭

My neck aches already

I should've learnt from the past

Despite both my proximal wrist extensors now suffering chronic aches, I returned to cable lateral raises. First set felt fine because was light weight; but increasing by +2.5kg each side gave me a bone splitting pain in both my ulnar 😱. Now i remember why I stopped training this movement a year… read more

My homeland is being destroyed

It is deeply saddening and heartbreaking to see what is happening in Indonesia right now. Natural disasters are occurring everywhere. Forest and land fires are breaking out in several places. I don’t know whether these fires are happening because of deliberate plans by certain people or for some… read more

Walk along the Ross River

Today, I walked along the Ross River with my mum. Along the way I took these photos. The Ross River Dam provides Townsville's drinking water. The Ross River is also the source of the name of Ross River fever, a mosquito-borne disease that causes fever, fatigue, muscle and joint aches, joint… read more

Your reaction?

"Okay guys, here’s a scenario for you. You meet someone and everything is perfect and absolutely incredible... honestly, you never expected anything like this in your life! Let's say you've been talking practically every single day for about a year, but it feels like you've known each other for… read more

A prayer for the innocent lives that were taken.

Lord, my God, I am broken and my heart aches for the innocent children who are suffering. I cannot bear the cruelty and the pain that is being done to them. Please, hold them in Your mercy, protect their souls, and comfort the families who are mourning. Lord, hear the cries of our hearts, our… read more

In English they say I ache for you in poetry

As the darkness favours the light.. Your lips that haven’t tasted.. and yet I feel it as a memory… That lingers in faith that I cannot fight! Dawns of fury… No longer … Yet.. it doesn’t die… Where is her ? The emptiness that fills the sky! As smoothly the shared memories of something so vivid… read more

THE FIRST MAN I EVER LOVE DEEPLY.

Even now, years later, my heart remains tethered to this man. Time has not dulled the ache; if anything, it has carved it deeper into my soul. Every memory of him lingers—vivid, sharp, impossible to ignore. The way he moves through the world, untamed and dominant, the fire behind his eyes, the… read more

On my way to a dad bod!

I used to be a real gym rat, until Covid hit. Couple bad relationships later, and I wound up a hundred pounds heavier. But I'm finally getting back in the gym, and I'm already down 10 pounds! A month in, and I'm already feeling way better about myself! It's never too late to get (back) in the… (edited) read more

Purple-ish Sky

Took this picture when all of my body aches because of hard labour lol. What a beautiful rewards sent by the Almighty God, blessed. 🫶✨

😞

I miss my dad everyday. He was my hero someone I looked up to growing up. The pain still aches in my heart. It never really goes you just get used to it. He did alot for me so I was so happy to give something back to him. I become he's main carer for 3 years and if I had a chance to do it again I… read more

A Message

Even if you were death itself I'd still kiss those poisonous lips because they can take me to nirvana, a place where all sorrow is soaked up. A place where comfort resides between you and I. It is with you that all time disappears. It is you when I look at your eyes and everything falls silent… read more

"The One I Seek"

“The One I Seek” I seek only her— why this longing continues is beyond me. It moves through my days like a quiet gravity, pulling my thoughts toward one name I can barely hold in my hands. I love her— and that love aches in strange ways, not only in the heart but in the bones, in the mind that… read more

"More than Dust"

How can I reach for the stars? If I could, I would gather every one of them into my little magic bag. But I can't. Then again... I don't even know who I am. Who am I? Who? Who? They compare me to dust—to dirt—reminding me, again and again, that I am unworthy. Maybe they're right. Maybe… read more

Anyone else sick...

... With bad cough, head and body aches but no fever? It feels like everyone is sick these days.

Thy my lonely star ( blue dwarf star PT 2)

Thy my lonely star by how far I come, no matter what I do. I always disappointed you no matter what I do. The echo follows me like a shadow stitched into my bones, a quiet confession I never learned how to undo. I Wonder if I am good enough. Or if I was only ever a passing thought in your sky, a… read more

In English I say that my heart aches with longing for the one I haven’t found, in poetry…

My heart aches—
not for what I lost,
but for what has never been found. For you,
whose name I do not know,
yet somehow feels
like the answer I’ve always missed. You linger in the silence between moments,
in the pause before sleep takes me,
in the quiet ache
that no reason can explain. I have… read more

"More than Dust"

How can I reach for the stars? If I could, I would gather every one of them into my little magic bag. But I can't. Then again... I don't even know who I am. Who am I? Who? Who? They compare me to dust—to dirt—reminding me, again and again, that I am unworthy. Maybe they're right. Maybe… (edited) read more

Only seek her

“Seeking Her” I seek only her— why this longing continues, I do not know. Love for her aches through bone and breath, a wound no doctor sees. I want to see her. I need her. Not as a poem, not as a dream to finish at night— but as a soul beside mine. Maybe she waits in some future sky, or maybe… (edited) read more

The Pain of a Life That Never Began

No one talks about this kind of pain—the slow, quiet kind that creeps in until you start to believe that maybe the happy home, the partner who truly sees you, the family you imagined… it just wasn’t meant for you Even with a good heart. Even with pure intentions. Even with love spilling out like… read more

I'm Not Okay

I say ALHAM-DULILLAH with a steady smile, yet my heart aches in silence. For the love I carry is deep, romantic and lonely, still waiting to be held.

You ever have one of those days.

You ever have one of those days you can feel that absent hole in your life it was once filled felt amazing and yet it wasn't the right piece to fit. So you take it out tell yourself it was the right thing to do and it was but man sometimes that hole aches. COMPLETELY OFF THE RANT LOOK AT MY DOGGY… read more

Whooo..... 25..........

5 more years to being 30 & trying to keep my confidence up. My heart still aches from it.

A bit of my soul

I lost myself in my worry today thinking everything would work out I realize now the the tears are a shout. I can't talk right or express myself I take solice in my words on this page Thinking I should act my age. Things hurt I take no pleasure in them I sit and write screaming into this… read more

Black March

Black March (in like a lamb, out like a lion) Listen all ye lambs; I speak as the ram that burns. Do you know why the shepherd feeds you grass? Sweet promises he makes; of the pastures beyond? Fleeced bare, you welcome the cold; his love. Ask yourselves, why we bear no horns; only stubs. Your… read more

Thoughts on love.

I don't think I was meant to live in this generation where love feels scarce,measured, transactional and easily abandoned I crave love that is intentional the kind that walks through the rain just to see you iwant love that finds joy in the smallest moments yet still aches to give each other the… (edited) read more

3:34 A.M

3:34 A.M. — My Blue Dwarf Star ❤️💕 I fell in love with someone a long, long time ago, before the nights became silent, before grief learned my name, before every song I wrote carried pieces of her soul inside the lyrics. And she was my everything. Not just a passing feeling, not some temporary… read more

Good Morning

Quaking under my own skin, Aspened in yellowing aches. Poplus believes, pioneering my emotions. Like wildfire burning some anew arises… a tree. You are nature. Be resilient. Change is natural.

Until We Beat as One

The memory of you aches so deep, a pain I cannot bear, I try to calm my restless soul, but find you everywhere. Come shatter all the stone away that guards this heart of mine, Pull me into your arms and let our breathing intertwine. I want to leave the world behind and fade away in you, Come close… read more

Our Age.

Age Beauty fades Teeth fall Hair thins Skin hangs Folds Wrinkles Flakes Dries Waxy and spotty Here and there Cold Limp Wounds don’t heal I look at my hands Palms up In disbelief And disgust My fingers bowed To the sky As in prayer I am a beggar I could beg for time But nobody has a spare Turn… read more

The Art of Quiet Distances

When you look up at the midnight sky, it feels like an intimate gathering of light. Thousands of stars appear clustered together, sharing the dark canvas so effortlessly that it seems impossible to imagine them apart. From where we stand on Earth, their collective glow looks like a seamless… read more

Waiting

The ceiling doesn't change. That's the first thing you notice, after a while - not the pain, not the quiet, but the specific, indifferent sameness of the ceiling above your bed. It has no opinion of you. It doesn't need anything. And some mornings, that feels like the most honest relationship in… read more