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srxl
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the news came, unexpected
doors shut in less than a month
and lights leaving with the year
we thought we had more time, but that was never our decision


we made homes here our own corners in a sprawling, infinite world and invited each other in after all, why build such inviting rooms with no one to invite into them?

but despite our best attempts
the generosity ran out
and soon our homes will be photographs
but you can't invite someone into a photograph, can you?

where can we make new homes? no one else lets us build homes like we do homes not for fame, not for hatred but homes that we can simply exist in

some of us will go back
to the places that chewed us up
and spit us out prior
we won't belong, but at least we can stay

some of us will create our own place to build our own, even more perfect homes not all of us know how to do such a thing but those of us who do will keep teaching the craft

we're not all headed to the same places
some of us might not head anywhere at all
who can blame them - what's the point in heading anywhere
when there's nowhere that will accept us like this place did?

we learnt a lot while we were here that's what happens when we welcome each other in and so, even as our paths diverge we let ourselves be guided by the things we take with us

we learnt to curate, to shape our homes
exactly as we envisioned them
free from the pressure to follow
the limiting expectations and harmful norms of places before

we learnt to show ourselves to be unreservedly true and to embrace, not erase the truth of the ones we share our homes with

but we also learnt
that this world doesn't value what we do
everything we taught ourselves here
is what no other place wants to teach to anyone

to paraphrase, for our souls: we came to this place, so afraid and together, we tried to search for words that can describe our shared pain

and we found some
we hung to each other
but in every other place
we are not any fucking thing they love

so now it's on us it's our turn to make better places because we're not the only ones hurting and they deserve to have what we got to have here as well

we'll face resistance - after all, this place only existed
because when we showed our hurt anywhere else
it was only ever met with hostility
and countless places that only ever hurt us more and more

but we have to do it for us, for everyone else suffering, trapped in their cold dark spaces because it's the only place they've ever known to exist

we can cry because it's over, just for a bit
but once our tears have healed our souls
we need to smile - not just because it happened
but because it can happen again, and we might just make it

we don't have to sit down and accept how the world looks today because we've seen how it can look and we can show it to the ones left in the dark

:eggbug-sob::eggbug-smile-hearts::eggbug-nervous:

we lost our homes today but now, we get to go out make new homes in so many places and show the world just how beautiful our homes can be.


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in reply to @srxl's post:

i keep coming back to this.

we need to smile - not just because it happened
but because it can happen again, and we might just make it

i hope it does happen again. i need to hope it can happen again, and that it will happen again. because without that hope i don't think i can be on the internet as a person any more. not in this landscape.