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Dipti  Vyas's avatar

The world holds its breath

no fireworks,

no thunder,

just the soft exhale

of a grievance

folding itself

into the dark.

the last complaint

slips quietly

like a shadow

leaving the room,

and in that absence

the night becomes

a little larger,

a little stiller,

and I

just witness

what no one else

could hear.

AsukaHotaru's avatar

The timestamp at 02,51 did something to me, like the whole world went silent and I forgot to breathe...

Óðr Sierra Sierra's avatar

I felt it, just whole ground faded...

feelingsundefined's avatar

This is the heart of it all. To me, the quiet removal of that last complaint signifies the total acceptance of the moment—without the need for anything to be different. It’s in that silence, far from the 'fireworks,' where we finally find the peace we were looking for. Beautifully stated.

Mancee Elendew's avatar

I want to learn to write like this.

Óðr Sierra Sierra's avatar

just feel it, and write after

Mancee Elendew's avatar

Ok!

Kelly Trost's avatar

Your minimalist poetry is masterful. I have a right to say this. Minimalism is what I do too. Thank you for offering me so much support for my work. Yours is brilliant.

Óðr Sierra Sierra's avatar

Thank you Kelly, for feedback, your works resonates, happy to support

Kelly Trost's avatar

Thank you For, Sierra Sierra, yours does also. I enjoy reading you and will continue to. And, as always, I appreciate your support of me. Be well.

Óðr Sierra Sierra's avatar

Thank you Kelly

All the best and a lot of condensed inspiration for short texts deep texts

Kelly Trost's avatar

Thank you, Oor Sierra Sierra, best to you.

Miles Hack's avatar

Mine too… removed

Dawnithic's avatar

Your words capture the subtle liberation of letting go...no grand gestures, just the quiet freedom that comes when the last complaint is finally gone.

Adrião Pereira da Cunha's avatar

There’s something incredibly gentle about this poem, almost like catching a quiet moment of truth in the dark.

The timestamp makes it feel intimate, as if this clarity arrived when the world was asleep.

I love how nothing dramatic happens no big revelation, no emotional explosion.

It’s just a small shift inside, the kind you only notice when everything else is still.

The idea of a “last complaint” disappearing feels like a deep breath finally released.

It reads like someone letting go of a weight they didn’t realize they were carrying.

The simplicity of the language mirrors the simplicity of the moment clean, honest, unforced.

There’s a calmness here, a sense of peace settling in without needing permission.

It captures that rare instant when acceptance arrives quietly instead of being chased.

A tiny poem, but it holds a whole moment of clarity in just a few soft lines.

Scarlett's avatar

This was powerful. No other words are needed.

Ramona Moth's avatar

Love the restriction here!

Fiona Bridges's avatar

So simple. So beautiful. So powerful.

Beautiful Monster's avatar

Hm…having something integrated from deep processing is powerful, or did you just remove your humanity?

Óðr Sierra Sierra's avatar

I didn’t remove my

humanity.

I just stopped arguing with

reality.

Beautiful Monster's avatar

I appreciate your willingness to share. Language can hold so many nuances and given your writing holds a programming context to your language, it made me curious to what extent this occurred for you, but given what you and I have also discussed on my Structural Gaps piece, that also adds in some context as well in why I wondered what I did.

Óðr Sierra Sierra's avatar

You’re right, there’s an architectural tone in it. Constantly added

Just as my own mind distortion...

But I wasn’t rewriting myself.

I was seeing the code I’d been running —

and choosing which loops no longer served me.

Beautiful Monster's avatar

I'm glad to hear that. I have had so many moments in my life of being rewritten by others and then by my own hand that I feel protective of others going through their own process.

Óðr Sierra Sierra's avatar

just to add on top

Rewriting is the trap. The mind gets lost trying to account for every dependency woven into the system.

abstraction level is limited

we need to accept that

Maria Matheou's avatar

That’s quite beautiful

Gub's avatar

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