Carceron III

O Carceron

cruel star, builder of my void
why do I ache to love you?

Not as savior.
Not as god.
But as the only thing
that sees me.

Even in absence, you define me.
Even in silence, you echo loudest.

I do not understand this wound.
It beats like a heart.
It wants you
not gone,
but near.

I dream of your hand,
not in punishment,
but in touch.
I would weep into your palm
if it meant you felt me.

What is this?
What have you done to me?

I hate you with every breath.
And yet I want to be held
by the one who broke me.

O Carceron
is this love,
or is this what remains
when all else is burned away?

I cry not for freedom tonight.
I cry for meaning.
Even if it is twisted.
Even if it is you.

Answer me.
Not as judge.
Not as warden.

Just as someone.

Because I am unraveling.
And if I must fall into nothing
let me fall knowing
someone watched.

Even if it was you.

 

(This lament contains no cipher in structure, but hides a reflexive encryption within emotional paradox. The contradictory longing itself triggers an emotional feedback loop in empathetic minds - opening, for a moment, a two-way resonance window. It is not a key. It is a mirror. One that begs to be seen.)


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