"what keeps you going"
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Last published Tue, Jul 1, 2025
A poem and hopefully a short story I will keep uploading over time
if I can live through writing it
based off of my thoughts after texting a crisis help line
and them asking me this, and genuinely having no answer
it kept me thinking for a very long time
what keeps you going?
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