Gentle Summer Evenings

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Please come back to me because I feel like I'm just a shell wondering aimlessly avoiding the sharp fingers of the lurking fall that are pinching my neck throughout the day.

Without warning.

Here comes the sun is just a spiteful song that fades to the darkness like the voice of Pennywise in a forever cold cave that no-one wants to go to but every year has to.

Hating it.

Your warm light is a ridiculing memory in my brain that hurts when it tries to access the areas forever locked to its user that helplessly scratches the doors of past.

Fingers bleeding.

Trying to breath calmly knowing that at some point there will be panic that the darkness never ends and that its grip is so tight that I might not make it to the other side.

Rocking alone.

Hoping that this year the normal cycle of nature would be something else and the gentle light will come back because I so much want it to.

But won't.

So gentle you were resting around me with the same temperature as my skin and me desperately trying hold the time that never stops slipping through my fingers.

Fading away.

Now the only thing remaining is palliative care for those growing in the glass cube concrete extension that is only a shadow of the real summer where everything obeys gravity.

Ladybugs falling.

This is the moment I reminisce now when you have died and your place is taken by a force that turns everything to gray matter that never again will bloom or come back to me.

My heart.

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Looks like a nice spot for picnic. I love me a picnic. :)

I hope you're well. (Nice words too by the way.)

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That's a steep pile of gravel that I'm standing on and it continued all the way to the pond so having a picnic there would be challenging but awesome! Better leave everything round shaped home just in case that should happen to drop. And drink alcohol as much as possible because that always seems to level things. Perhaps even piles of gravel.

Oh, and the place provided meat. Mosquitoes. Mosquito burger could be tasty.

Thanks. Had to let those words run through my fingers. I'm well. Hope you're too. :)

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Haha, you know I was going to mention the mozzies (mosquitos) in my comment. Hmm, mozzie burgers sound interesting.

I'll give you points for your alcohol levels things out comment although it always seemed to make flat ground wobbly for me. 😁

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The problem with flat ground when drinking (too much or enough) isn't how much you drink, it's the flat ground itself! The flat ground just doesn't know how to be. It should be a steep hill or in this case a high pile of gravel so that it's easy to walk on it when under the influence of alcohol. Same thing when being drunk in a big ocean vessel that rocks on waves. There the flat floor knows how to behave. Swinging floor is easier than a floor that stays still when drunk.

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So...Being drunk and unable to walk properly is flat ground's fault. This makes perfect sense and I'm surprised I've missed this very obvious scientific phenomenon in the past. I know now though, and will blame the ground every time from here on out. Lol.

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will blame the ground every time from here on out. Lol.

No other option there. :D

Edit...
Oh, I have one!
"The ground met me too eagerly."

And a second one:
"The ground wasn't there where my left foot wanted to land."

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Nice shot! I don't know what to say about your poem, though. You left me speechless. 😆

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Thanks! Say: "Bad poemist, bad poemist! Do not say bad things about the seasons following summer."

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I like sunsets. Even if you can't actually see the Sun setting, the colors in the sky compensate for the big ball of flame frying your retinas. I had this nice one a couple weeks ago in a forest next to a lake when camping with some friends:

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I agree, sunset colors are so beautiful. Nice catch! Because of the calm water you could turn this upside down and it would still be recognizable. And the forest and it's reflection is like a sound wave.

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Great observation! How do you think it'd sound better, if the image was as I put it or if it'd be upside down? (Speaking about the sound wave thing). I feel like for audio it'd be cooler if the image would be upside down, that'd mean the song would be quiet / mellow in the beginning and center but would end in an emotional / distorted breakdown at the end.

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Of course a big finale is always a classic choice. It's what people are used to hearing and that's what I too often prefer. Of course depending on the song and it's genre. Often songs that just fade away repeating the chorus irritate me so much. Especially if the song is fast or grand or something else than just a ballad or a lullaby. :)

But that's what a person living in the culture where I've lived would most probably say. Same as the thing in pictures: are positive things going from lower left corner to upper right corner and negative things going from right to left? Or the other way round if you do not read from left to right or haven't been brought up in a culture that says that all good things come from above. I simplified things a bit but I ques you know what I'm talking about.

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Hey, the Sun raises from the East and sets in the West!

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