Ruby Meraki Oenomel/Ruby Kaila Malhotra
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Amb: Ruby Meraki Oenomel/Ruby Kaila Malhotra/Ratnaliredruby1
Canada
Title: "When Crumbled Chips Deception Redeems"
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The decks still creak with echoes of our past, dialogue blurs
Soft voices carried by the ocean’s breath, collarbone stripes
A haunting song that lingers long and fast, hash rehashes
Between the realms of life scuffs and silent death, buoy
I trace lines where love once carved, its mark moonlight destroyed
In weathered wood and shadows cast by time, what did you say!
And find within start voyage the quiet of the dark, sail alleys
A spark of peace beneath the pain’s old rhyme, newspapers print
The sea reflects my thoughts in restless waves, nail files store
Each crest a memory that breaks and bends expectations dole
Yet in this vastness, solitude behaves like walled moat sepia
A gentle guide that helps the heart to mend oblivion, stages flowing past flags
The ship of forgetfulness nostalgia past introspection poses post
Upon the sea of silent time it drifts salmons fins wrap
A vessel carved from dreams whispered sighs sharks to tag
Its sails once full with passion's fervent gifts tears eye beyond
Now tattered veils beneath forgetful skies angst brackets
The ship that bore our love through storm calm
alter vivid
Now fades twilight altar swallowed by the night camping
Each wave a fading echo flies, soft balm petals swans?
A fading glow of once-remembered light fete, festivals mask pots
What memories do you carry still on this boat?
Fragments of laughter shadow scoff embrace fake
Or tears like salt that from the heart still float liturgy a repertoire
Dissolved in depths of endless, vast erase?
The fog of oblivion shrouds the way should chains free?
A mist that blurs the line of then and now, caged tigers repeat
Where past and present in a dance do sway parrots wee swallow
And silent questions poison to the soul do bow, lust champs
Which way is this ship headed lost or found?
Toward horizons dimmed time’s slow hand read exchange
Or shores healing whispers soft resound schooners inns tilt
And love’s remains find peace in quiet land?
What’s left behind? The pain joy, the dreams, crows retreat
All cast like anchors in the ocean’s keep remember pain
Yet past heart a tender light gleams median tears
A flicker where past future meet, horizons red
faith?
Nostalgia’s tide a bittersweet refrain slant rays chips in waves
Melancholy winds that gently mourn surround digs
Yet through the haze new hopes rise again, O no!
The ship sails on reborn and never torn rise ash and coal!
Upon the sea of silent time it drifts, I will tilt and bend
A vessel carved from dreams rush witnessed
Its sails once full passion fervent gifts motifs released design
Now tattered veils as totems beneath forget skirts
The ship that bore love through calm applique
bugs
Now fades like twilight swallowed by the dog in the hut as might
Each wave sabotages a fading echo soft and balm, tender groups
A fading glow of once-remembered light perm freezes frost?
What forgetfulness do you carry on this device?
Fragments of laughter mere shadows whence embrace casts loom
Or tears like salt that from the heart still float kings robes rob
Dissolved in depths of endless, vast erase?
The fog of oblivion shrouds the way devils shroud the chalice
A mist that blurs lines of then and now teach braille
Where past and present in a dance keystrokes past sway
And silent bogies questions class root strong, tea strains that
Typography medium paraphrases upon sea of silent time timers drift
A vessel carved dreams and whispered sighs, sails once
Stars fill ferment now tatter veils task beneath forgetful skies fade lines streaming
Toward horizons dimmed time’s slow hand off shores
Where healing whispers soft resound love’s remains find peace in quiet lands?
