parallel universe in truth

 

 

Parallel Universe in Truth


In one universe, despair repeats,
the same old speech with nothing new.
In another, we laugh at its persistence—
not because it is small,
but because we are still here.

 

The room was quiet after the storm,
chairs overturned, papers scattered.
We gathered what was left,
not to restore the old order,
but to prove we could stand again
among the ruins of yesterday.

 

Hope is not a banner,
not a sermon,
just the stubborn act
of moving forward.

 

The road bent out of sight,
its gravel biting at our shoes.
We did not know what waited ahead,
only that each step
was already a refusal
to stay where we had fallen.

 

So we step,
out of the echo,
into another place,
where even tired steps
make their own truth.

 

Our feet dragged,
but the dust they raised
was proof of movement.

 

Even weariness has a rhythm,
a slow drumbeat
that carries us forward
when nothing else will.

 

 

 

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Pungus's picture

There is an apocalyptic

There is an apocalyptic horror that boldly stammers forth and out of a thankless void to persevere, when all else is lost.


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redbrick's picture

I like how you’ve framed the

I like how you’ve framed the poem through an apocalyptic lens. The “horror that stammers forth” feels true to its halting cadence; survival not as triumph but as a broken persistence. That tension between void and perseverance is exactly where the piece seems to breathe.


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