I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.


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HUBERT MARTIN
I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidde...
HUBERT MARTIN
I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
HUBERT MARTIN
All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN
It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
HUBERT MARTIN
You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
HUBERT MARTIN
I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
HUBERT MARTIN
My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
HUBERT MARTIN
She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
HUBERT MARTIN
And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
HUBERT MARTIN
I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
HUBERT MARTIN
He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
HUBERT MARTIN
Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
HUBERT MARTIN
When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN
Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN
My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
HUBERT MARTIN
Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
HUBERT MARTIN
She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
HUBERT MARTIN
She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
HUBERT MARTIN
That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN
She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN
He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN
These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN
In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN
As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN
That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN
I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN
Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though w...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.
HUBERT MARTIN
She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the pag...
HUBERT MARTIN
And once the ripples still and the water returns to its unwavering calm, even the pebble that broke ...
HUBERT MARTIN
The flicker, the flutter, even thoughts can stutter.
HUBERT MARTIN
Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.
HUBERT MARTIN
I love her, but every hug leaves bullet holes in my chest. Every kiss is another scar upon my flesh....
HUBERT MARTIN
They flew to avoid the horrors of land and sea, Daedalus and Icarus were for few moments free. Thoug...
HUBERT MARTIN
With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the not...
HUBERT MARTIN
He was a musician of the best nature, with guitar string fingertips and soft flute lips that could t...
HUBERT MARTIN
He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretc...
HUBERT MARTIN
Spare parts lay scattered, every turn wrought with twisted dread, all over the ground, the rooftops,...
HUBERT MARTIN
Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
And you a woman o...
HUBERT MARTIN
An outline, my body, no mass or feeling,
A dark reflection spread from floor to ceiling,
HUBERT MARTIN
Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
HUBERT MARTIN
...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she long...
HUBERT MARTIN
It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer...
HUBERT MARTIN
Stop the bleeding! Gauze the wound!" And his voice became much softer, "Those are the words... I've ...
HUBERT MARTIN