Love does not always remove the hurt.
Sometimes, it holds its place and taste —
until time does its quiet work.
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I lift
Strength almost used
To
Love does not always remove the hurt.
Sometimes, it holds its place and taste —
until time does its quiet work.
🍋 🤍 😔 ⏳ 🍯
I lift
Strength almost used
To
Love
Then
Drop
With sourness
That sticks –
To the roof
Of the tongue.
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I taste
And balk.
It lingers.
It grips.
It holds.
The. Sourness.
Stays.
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Why
Does it weigh
So heavy?
I love
But the taste
Of resentment
Wraps around
And hangs.
I laugh aloud–
My heart
Cries.
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I swallow.
The taste –
Stays.
But it sits
And changes –
Sour to Sweet
With time.
🍋 🤍 😔 ⏳ 🍯
We mark Star Wars Day with an original poem by Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin. May the Fourth be with you.
Mirrors of the Mind by Michelle Liew is a collection of psychological and supernatural short stories that explore the quiet unease beneath ordinary moments. These are not tales of spectacle, but of subtle fracture — where memory distorts, silence speaks, and the self is not always singular. In these stories, what is unseen often carries the greatest weight, and what lingers is not what is shown, but what is felt.
