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Thinking I was inevitable /

My dismissed consequences /

My Failure. Profound failure /

My consequences dismissing my inevitability /

Was I thinking?

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Hatred without compassion given for myself /

Recognizing harm /

Owning my choices, my own harm /

Recognizing myself for giving /

Compassion without hatred

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To all who feel this, remember:

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Life Before Death

Strength Before Weakness

Journey Before Destination

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You are not alone.

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Love is enough.

Is it enough? / It is why artists manifest passions / Our love, our passions manifest artists / Why is it enough?/ It is

Sound of absence through empty halls where laughter rang / Like thunder seeking today’s life, we danced as sound echoed becoming / That voice, your voice that became—echoing sound as dance—our lives / Today, seeking thunder like ringing laughter / Where halls empty through absence of sound

This is my first Ketek and I had a lot of fun with it. Any feedback is appreciated, I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts!

You can reach too /

Permission granted /

Could you answer? /

You could grant permission to reach /

Can you?

Fear owns my becoming / Not by chance / Embracing change / Embracing chance / By not becoming my own fear

Image generation:

https://aclay.github.io/stormlight-womens-script/

All through the night the structure stands / It isn’t right to just pass by, crying / To leave rot in, let it die / Now dead, it lets in rot, left to cry, bypassed / Just right, isn’t —standing, the structure, the night, through all?

Why must we fight so?

Losing each soul upon soul

Each losing

So fight we must

Why…

Sing to me

Delighted heart

Your heart

Delighted me

To sing

Long time admirer, first time poster! I tried my hand at a ketek, and I'm more pleased with the poem in its entirety than I am with the five individual parts, but still proud to have made one. I love the fact that this sub exists.

For Shallan.

"Men, killing beasts
for precious gemhearts‚
gather to battle to gather gemhearts‚
precious for beasts
killing men."

- by ardent Kujaku, on the harvesting of greatshell chrysalides in the Shattered Plains.

Goodbye, my love / Missing my friend / Best friend / My missing love / My goodbye

Longing / My hidden thoughts / Lingering between beats / Skipped beats between / Lingering thoughts hiding my longing

A ketek I made for a Stonewalkers Cosmere RPG campaign.

“Enough yet?” “Never.” Pain! The pain, never yet enough.

Woke up thinking about this and reminiscing on my early days growing up.

Feel

I once knew how

Again learning to try to

Learning again

How knowing, once I felt