Between Day and Dusk

Beautifully composed. Very touching words, relatable in so many ways. 💜

Many many thanks Tabitha 🤍

Thank you Tabitha

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You’re welcome, I felt like I met myself inside of the words.

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That's the greatest impact I can expect from writing. Thank you for engaging with such presence.

ps. I will send you your revised audio shortly.

imi and a new friend, PancakeSushi, how beautiful !!! making my day ... such beautiful nostalgia and longing in these words, in those voices, in that music !!! This is definitely a song to keep and cherish ... Thanks to both of you ... Thank you, thanks you ! 🦋🦋💕🦋

You're the sweetest André, you truly are. Thank you so much for your kind words, for being here and spreading your warmth each day. You make this place feel like home❤️

yes, feeling more and more like home … sin’t it !? love you … 🦋💕

Thank you Andre

This poem is a masterpiece of emotion and imagery, capturing the essence of hope and renewal in the face of despair.

Such a generous recognition this is! Thank you so much Aaliya, you're such a thoughtful reader 🤍

Thank you Aaliya

Lovely

Thanks Mack!

Thank you Mack

The stars may remember and so do I but there is always tomorrow

Darkness, even in the vast expanse, is a temporary condition. It is light that persists

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For now and evermore my friend. I'm very glad it resonated 🖤

You've really captured my heart. Just beautiful, imi.

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Thank you so much Hannah 🤍

You know, Cannot Name It

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"Hope never died — it bloomed in abandoned places." You wrote that not as consolation but as observation. The difference is everything. Consolation closes. Observation leaves room.

I'm reading this now — knowing what you wrote in your note about depression. And I see: you know how to find light exactly where others have stopped looking. That's not a contradiction. It explains why it's so heavy — when you can't give yourself what you give everyone else.

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I’m grateful for such a thoughtful read. It means a lot more than I could put into words. Thank you 🤍

Thank you Lintara, on behalf of myself and my co-author. Hoping she returns soon.

Beautifully written 👌🏽

Many thanks!

Thank you V S

This was beautiful.

Thank you Leo 🫶

Thank you Leo

No problem

This is a terrific poem, and even more powerful as a song! Thanks to the both of you for the emotional performance! ✨

Thank you Michele, grateful for your comment!

Thank you so much for such a thoughtful comment it means a lot 🤍

Echoes From The Fire

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Two of my favorite Substack authors. Loved this collaboration.

Thank you M. R.

Aww how sweet of you! Thank you so much 🫶

This is stunning! Even after something beautiful collapses, something small and fragile can begin again…from the ashes of what was lost. The words and music are exquisite! 💛

Thank you so much for such a thoughtful comment. It means a lot to know you enjoyed it as much. And I love how much it's core message landed. Your presence is greatly appreciated 🤍

Thank you Hidden Resilience, imi did an incredible job putting this together. The music turned out do well and that's due to her magic

Teamwork ❤️‍🔥

🤗 You're too modest. You're good with that music, it's phenomenal. And you did it with a snap of your fingers

There’s something quietly devastating in the way this moves… not as a straight line, but like a tide that forgets and remembers at once.

That line, “Days did not follow. / Nights did.” lingers. It bends time into something felt rather than measured.

And what stays with me most is how you let hope change shape instead of disappear… not a flame held steady, but something wilder: spores, ash, aftertaste. It refuses purity. It survives in fragments.

And the collaboration, there’s no seam to it. It reads like a single breath, a shared interior voice rather than two distinct hands. That’s rare… and quietly beautiful.

The ending feels like surrender, but not defeat… more like a soft recalibration of light.

Not everything returns.

But something does.

Thank you Dipti

Gorgeous! The imagery is extraordinary. Beautiful but also unusual like "hope" being compared to "spores." I love the musical accompaniment too. Were the two of you actually singing, or is that some sort of app?