Nodame's_Ballad

THE VERSE VAULT

  • MEH…..

    The silence sways and holds the shooting star,
    A mystery it is, yet missed more often than not.
    Grief and sorrow, armed and heavy,
    Slips away with silence touch.
    Yet the body pulls them back,
    relives their weight with another.

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  • Two of Us

    Want to obscure the twilight,

    My eternity to be moonless.

    Want to break through the genesis,
    
My curses to be burned to dust.

    Want to cyberpunk the province,

    My brief intoxications to be coded complete.

    Want to parch-dry the verdant haven,

    My ecstasy highs to be soaring magic carpet.
    
Want to feel the Joseon of immortality,
    
My impure soul to be etched on deific hwa.
    Want to kiss the cultural taboos,

    My visions to be perpetually kind.

    Want to untie the earthly sinners,
    
My salvation to be their freedom.
    Want to embrace the ending,
    
My final breath to be unkind.
    Want to hear the innocence,
    
My prayer to be unheard, everywhere.

    Yet I needed only you
,
    To be indifferent to all the above.

  • Flutter

    She fluttered, as he gently gripped and led,
    No malice meant — yet sniffles half her life,
    as she bled.
    Deep down, ardent. The gateway of destiny misled —
    yet endless chances these princes of mutts still get.

    You see, she yearns for what all living things yearn for.
    Sit with her. Hear her blinded needs.
    Just once — and more.

    Though it feels as foreign as frost in flame,
    when the spring blooms again —
    become the prince she needs.
    Be the one who leads.

                         - Nodame

  • Shakti


    Her unmoved valiance, lionhearted —
    Ethereal spotlights wither as her chaos brew.         
    she dwells in all lineages, all awakenings,
    She breathes through all origins, all destiny
    She thrives in all wounds, all ascensions    .
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  • For Their Eyes

    Love is what you make it be.
    If you love yourself for you,
    it’s foreign, even ugly.
    If you love yourself through them,
    it’s ravishing.

    Of course, it’s a play.
    Running away—front door or back,
    doesn’t matter—
    as long as you’re out,
    you’ll find what you missed out    .

    – Nodame

  • Catalyst

    Getting ready for what you want

    Won’t make it arrive today—

    Maybe later, maybe never.

    Wanting walks hand in hand with waiting.
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  • Fireflies Before Dawn

    The soul’s eye trembles,
    
as light wanes beneath heartbreak.

    Winter breathes across the chest,
    
cradling an ice-cold ache.
    
Reflections pool in hollow Ginori cups —
    
too delicate to hold anything at all.
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  • Echoes of the Forged Soul 


    Pity and love walk hand in hand—
    Did you want love out of pity,
    or because you couldn’t bear
    to turn that pity inward?

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  • Tempest Within

    What were you thinking,

    When the storm raged inside?

    It wasn't the calm after,

    But the chaos you tried to hide.

    The clouds that darkened the sky,
    
Were always yours to bear
.
    You let the storm rage on,

    And never saw it there.
    It was never love, you see,
    
Just a tempest you set free.
      
                       - Nodame

  • This Golden Day

    One morning, rising up—

    Liberated from countless,
    
shackling webs of self-condemnation.
    Hugged by warmth,
    a fragrant sanctuary.
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