Composed Desire

Composed Desire

我可以扛,但我也不可以扛

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Umi
Mar 11, 2026
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1112pm:
“When you run out of hope, you make it with your own hands.
I sat with exasperated breaths listening to the dial tone of your phone, hoping your voice would secrete itself through the static as I cried. And I sat, outside of your small and...

For most of my life, I believed love required strength.

Not the soft kind people write poems about, but the practical kind. The kind that wakes up early, works longer, solves problems before anyone notices them. The kind that carries more than its share and does so quietly, because that is what responsible people do.

I learned early that if something need…

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