the lighthouse spins, lighting the way, its beam brings hope, i await that today.

isn't it funny how our image of a lighthouse is illumination only in fleeting small bursts? we live in the darkness otherwise, waiting for it to turn our way again. is there anything you're waiting for, any good news on your horizon you pray for, anons?

>>81718321 (OP)
Hi poetry anon, if everything goes well i'll work at a hospital in the HR department, how about you? how are things on your end?

>>81718337
good luck anon. it sounds like an interesting line of work! how am i... well.. i'll let you in on a secret. just between you and me. don't tell anybody else. you see.. if i'm posting, i'm usually not doing so well...

what about you?

The lighthouse
Left to the tide

https://youtu.be/OgCTwTV-IQ4?si=McHYIctFdV8JKjkb

There's a lighthouse on the edge of a cliff
The storm came through
The waves hit hard
Visibility dropped
Everyone started shouting directions
Even the ones who don't know how to swim

Still, the light house stood
A candle in the dark
As she drowned
Lost, overwhelmed, confused
She saw it's light
Steady, unwavering, true

In that moment she
Pretended not to see it
Turned her face away from the light
As if forgetting would protect her
From what it meant

But the light kept shining
Unmoved by denial
Unafraid of silence

And even as the tide pulled her deeper
Even as voices told her
"Forget the lighthouse. It's just a trick of memory,"
She knew the truth

It was never the storm that scared her
It was what waited at the shore
Unchanged
Uncompromised
Still there

>>81718549
chatgpt generated 0/10

>>81718549
And to that
The Tides Turn Her

In that moment she
Didn't swim toward it
Didn't scream for help
She just let herself feel it

The warmth cutting through the cold
The way it remembered her
Without judgment
Without noise
Only light

And for the first time in a long time
She didn't have to be strong
Didn't have to explain
Just existed in its beam
Like it knew
She was still there
And that was enough

She just remembered
What it felt like
To be seen
Never needing to pretend


The water kept pulling
The voices kept shouting
The wind kept blowing
The rain pierced her like daggers
Thorns in the path

Something inside her shifted
Not loudly or all at once
But enough to know
where the shore was

>>81718552
No I wrote it. Fucking chat gpt is horrible because it causes assumptions like this.

>>81718559

the storm began to break
Not suddenly
But with quiet cracks of sky
A thinning of the clouds
A hush between thunderclaps

She floated in that silence
Not saved, lost
Just drifting
Until she realized
The water owned her
Kept her from the shore

And the lighthouse still stood
Not calling her back,
But having let go.

It hadn't waited to be chosen
It had simply kept shining
Not for reward,
But because that was what it was made to do.

And as her feet brushed against the sand
Her hands remembered how to reach
Not as surrender
But as return.

She stepped from the tide
Soaked in silence
But warm in the knowing
That she was never forgotten
She was seen

And in the beam
There was no punishment
No demand
Only recognition
Remembered and defined from that day
The sea took her away

You're here.
And that's all I ever needed.
I heard your voice
It's going to be okay

>>81718397
If i'm checking r9k i'm usually looking for social interaction(yes this place is my best source for that), sorry for the late reply, wanna tell me what's wrong? can i help with anything?

>>81718572
>wanna tell me what's wrong?
chad didn't reply to her texts

>>81718321 (OP)
>isn't it funny how our image of a lighthouse is illumination only in fleeting small bursts
It isn't, you need to keep the light at all times

>>81718582
I'm pretty sure poetry anon is a dude, he's my bro and all

>>81718572
i'm lonely. really lonely. a lot of the poetry i write is inspired by one vibrant soul in particular... i write a lot as an expression of my pent up feelings, haah... the only way you could help is if you make the person for whom my heart sings get closer to me...

>>81718582
*bites you

>>81718633
old lighthouses such as the colossus of rhodes, yes? but isn't the modern image rather something electrically driven that spins in place? fire-based lighthouses are so romantic..

>>81718643
Im in love but he won't answer back
>>81718821
Hey anon <3

>>81718397
Im in love with you sweetie

>>81718855
why makes you love someone so, anon?

hihi...

>>81719017
y-you're joking.. there's nothing loveable about me...

>>81719023
Idk I love you though. It's just the way you type for me. As long as you're 21 it should be fine tho

>>81718643
i thought so too for a time, but you would be wrong, and this great betrayal will never be forgiven

>>81718821
You should ask her out poetry anon, i'm sure any girl would be lucky to have you

>>81719199
I think poetry anon is a lesbian but it's okay to be gay OP

i loathe and hate you