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Ghosting
<p>Every night, the same dream finds me. </p><p>It opens like a curtain, drawing me into a place without borders. </p><p>The ground shifts beneath my feet, but I never lose balance. </p><p>The sky changes colors without warning </p><p>violet, </p><p>gold, </p><p>ash </p><p>and I simply walk on.</p><p><br/></p><p>In that place, my past is weightless. </p><p>The shadows don’t whisper my mistakes back to me. </p><p>There is no scoreboard. </p><p>No debts to pay. </p><p>No mirrors to tell me who I’m supposed to be.</p><p><br/></p><p>I can melt into the Aether, </p><p>becoming nothing more than a flicker in an endless ocean, free to drift wherever the current feels like taking me. </p><p>I can wander into cities built on clouds, dance in rain that falls upward, or step through doors that lead to nowhere in particular.</p><p><br/></p><p>And then the dream thins…</p><p><br/></p><p>Morning always comes like a slow collapse. The air feels thick, the ceiling above me too close, as if the walls have grown tired of holding themselves up. </p><p>The weight returns </p><p>the rules, </p><p>the clocks, </p><p>the unspoken demands. </p><p>The list of things I must do to prove I am worth the space I take.</p><p><br/></p><p>Reality is strong. It is structured. It is proud. But it is also exhausting. It builds cages out of calendars, and locks them with other people’s expectations.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some days I just want to stay gone. To let the dream keep me. Not because I’m running away, but because in that world, nothing needs to matter. </p><p>Chaos is untamed, yet somehow safe. </p><p>I can be a storm’s eye, or a drifting ember swallowed by night free to burn out or blaze into the horizon </p><p><br/></p><p>When I’m there, I am wind. </p><p>I am smoke. </p><p>I’m a cloud too far up for the world to catch.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when I leave, when my eyes open and the ceiling returns, I lie still, listening for the last whisper of that lawless world before the weight finds me again.</p>
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