Ashes and Arrow
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Last published Thu, Sep 4, 2025
These are the words forged in fire-
from wounds that didn't just ache, but awakened.
This section is not about survival alone-
it's about transformation.
It's where pain becomes clarity,
and where the self rises-
not untouched, but unmistakably whole.
Here, every scar is a map.
Every silence, a vow.
And every poem, an arrow-
aimed not outward, but inward,
toward the place we lost ourselves
and chose to return, stronger.
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