Composed Desire

Composed Desire

Your name engraved

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Umi
May 08, 2026
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I have your name engraved in my heart. Not written. Not penciled in with the option to erase. Engraved. The way my grandmother used to carve the date into the lid of a jar so she’d remember when it was sealed. You are sealed in me like that. Dated. Preserved. Not because I decided to keep you, but because the cutting happened before I realized it was pe…

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