{"id":603,"date":"2025-07-23T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luunfiltered.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:11:53","slug":"im-frightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luunfiltered.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/im-frightened\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m frightened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>and as I<br>write this,<br>even more so.<br>For I believe<br>that we<br>speak things<br>into life.<br>And this includes<br>bad things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What frightens me<br>is that you<br>will somehow<br>disappear, get lost<br>or take yourself off<br>to somewhere else,<br>indefinitely.<br>And more so,<br>the prospect that<br>you will simply<br>slip away slowly,<br>your marvelousness<br>leaking through my<br>grasping fingers.<br>The slow smoulder<br>to death, through<br>inattentiveness,<br>and that age-old<br>passion killer: taking<br>someone for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the<br>thoughts that<br>keep me up at night,<br>and have taken their<br>toll on my pinky nails,<br>and the heads of my pencils.<br>They add frown lines<br>to my forehead<br>and make that<br>want-to-vomit feeling at<br>the pit of<br>my stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now I\u2019ve<br>gone and said<br>these things. They<br>are forever out in<br>the world, and I<br>cannot ignore their<br>existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precious one.<br>I see you, in all of<br>your delicious glory<br>and it\u2019s my hope,<br>no, my wish until I die<br>that I will continue<br>to flourish in<br>the glow of<br>your nearness. Your<br>magic and light<br>continuing to<br>seep slowly into<br>my very bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For love is precious,<br>this I know. And<br>tending to these<br>phenomenal things<br>in our lives<br>makes us so much<br>more<br>than<br>whole.<br>It makes us<br>expand into<br>our true, messy,<br>perfectly loved<br>imperfect selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Lu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and as Iwrite this,even more so.For I believethat wespeak thingsinto life.And this includesbad things. 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