segunda-feira, 29 de junho de 2026

Ode ao coração imortal

 Em algum momento do ano de 2025, eu vi só a ponta da sua cabeça me espiando por detrás do sofá.

"Ela é sistemática demais, não gosta de ninguém"

Eu ri, e deixei você em paz. Alguns meses depois, acabei por roubar seu quarto, e me mudei pro seu lar.

"Olha, não esquenta se ela não te der muita idéia não, ela é chata assim mesmo."

E com essas palavras do Alberto, eu aceitei nossos muros, já imaginei a dificuldade que eu teria pra derrubar essa sua casca feroz.

Menos de uma semana depois, eu sentado no seu sofá, e você se arrisca a se aproximar. A um braço de distância, você para e começa a me encarar. Eu nunca vou esquecer seu olhar, me fazendo todas as perguntas possíveis, principalmente "quando você vai embora?"

Doralice. Toda vez que eu escutava seu nome, eu cantava: "Doralice lice lice, sempre alegre, esperando, alguém, que possa amaaaaar"...

Eu tive um pequeno ataque cardíaco quando você finalmente encostou na minha perna e aceitou meu carinho. Nem o Alberto acreditou na velocidade que você tinha me suportado. 

"Quem te viu quem te vê hein Dorinha"

E assim começou nossa pequena jornada. Da mesma forma que você se abriu pro meu colo, eu me afoguei no seu. Todo dia um afago, um carinho, uma reclamação de que não teve cafuné. Dormindo comigo no sofá pra todos meus filmes. Me gritando pra abrir a torneira do tanque, porque só Deus sabe porquê a água do tanque é mais gostosa que a do bebedouro. Você me cativou com mais facilidade do que eu jamais poderia imaginar. Quando eu voltei de viagem, quase 5 dias de folga, eu nunca vou esquecer o quanto você miou quando me viu. Era saudade demais; pra mim, apenas 5 dias. 

E agora eu entendo o porquê; pra você, era tempo demais. 

Eu não sei por quanto tempo eu ainda vou chorar lembrando de você. O espaço que você deixou pra trás, é uma lua. Eu ainda te vejo dormindo em todos os seus lugares. Ainda te escuto me pedindo água, me pedindo carinho, me pedindo presença. Espero que você tenha ido muito em paz, e que esteja num lugar melhor. Nós aqui estamos bastante piores sem você. 

Adeus, Dodorinha. 




segunda-feira, 8 de junho de 2026

There is no silence, anymore

 My body is shivering

all the time, day and night

sleep is restless, waking  is abruptly, no rest to be had

no support, no anchor, no wall to stop this tumbling vehicle

the silent permeates things that are willing

it all screams, it all pains me

when I feel I can start to relax, it all comes crashing down

It all feels alien, detached, unbelonging

maybe I was wrong to say that this heart was mine to suffer with

maybe I missed a shortcut somewhere

the road kept going and I didn't even think

now I can't breathe without banshees screaming at my face

this feeling may be up there, my most demanding

I can't stop, my brain is degrading by the second

the gears grind to a halt and go again instantly

the thump in my chest is irregular

the songs never finish, they get cut in half and skipped

I pause everything

every video, every memory, every decision

I miss

whatever I think you were

I can't be responsible for this darkness, not alone

did I make any effort at all to mend me?

I'm just a porcelain doll

broke beyond repair, but still hauntingly hopeful

hope is a word I swear I try not to use lightly

I can't escape this spiral

The energy is infinite, if I'm bent on self destructing

All the nails are back, burrowed in the recovered heart

I don't have the strength to pull them out

I am so tired of these ghosts

all the roads were dead-ends

and I braved the thorns with my bare chest

I couldn't go back to where I was, I suppose this is my map's fault

trembling in the dark

in the light

bathed in your sharpest memory

my tears dry as fast as they roll

May you find your comfort

may your soul understand your pain

may you forgive your heart, for wanting

bless you

Lesser being

It's funny to me, or I dunno, kinda ironic
that I am not at that good a place, but I'm not wanting to write
I feel as if the words don't fit
I'm overflowing emotions, but they are all nameless
accursed undead
I don't think I ever got to this point before
I mean, that I feel like I have to write, but what I need to write is...
no good?
useless?
before, I wrote for meaning, to place these words on the ground, to register, fix them in my heart
but they are all so confusing now

and the giants are screaming
SCREAMING
at my ears now
NOT FOR YOU NOT FOR YOU NOT FOR YOU

I should've grown a backbone earlier in life
should've done whatever I had to do scared
now everything hurts to think
everything breaks to act

I am so lost
so sad
and so alone

I am so fucking alone

And nothing out of my fingers make sense
even reason left
no music, no tone, no melody

my found heart is beating to the sound of silence

terça-feira, 12 de maio de 2026

Parry!

 Its been two months! Even I am having a hard time believing that

and I say that because I was in a baaaad place, even worse shape, absolutely hollow living

but well, as all the mania goes, I think I'm riding the highs now

I'm starting to believe I can love again! I need love. I am a mess if I'm gonna be this needy all the time

as I type this, I can see the absurdity of it

look at this streak, I was at the bottom of the bottom of the get worse soon well

WELL

here we are, craving human touch, one more time!

astounding no one at all

but this time, as it is different every time, there is no you

there is no impossible distance

no impossible nightmare

no physical craving

I'm moving slowly and alone, through this swamp

my heart, which I still can't believe was found, aches!

Now, I will try, and again, TRY, to take this slow

and seriously take it, I'll get out more, talk to more people, put myself in danger more times

I feel deep in my heart that I should not suffer this much just for human touch, 

but if it is what it takes

for now

FOR NOW

I can handle this much. It's may! New hollow victory, new year! My body kinda feels light, I guess a lot of the bad sand leaked out, FINALLY

I'm really, really surprised this will end on a hopeful note

but yeah, if you are here and don't understand my mood swings, imagine being me

I parried the rock bottom

quinta-feira, 5 de março de 2026

In vino veritas

 why do I insist

I have no backbone, for nothing else

drunk I can believe anything again

and the hope fills my drunken heart

I'm not able to even write without auto corrector

As always I have absolutely zero idea of what I am doing, or how I am doing

but this feeling

this longing

even if I shun it with all my heart

even if I'm made to believe that I'm really hollow

somewhere, somehow, its still here

roots deep and sharp as memory

I just wish I could love myself as much as I love you


domingo, 1 de março de 2026

Getting used

 The idea its starting to set in, now

It's not floating the void of my empty brain no more

the grip on reality is fixing, the realization materialized

I am getting used to accepting it

I can call forward all my grievances, but they just sound like electric repeating voice boxes

Its okay, it will be okay

We can manage the feelings, the situation, the world

Sadness is just a state, as are all the other dead ends

We stride and run

laugh and scream

Just another monday, amirite

Just another life

Another year, another pain

I can get used to this

segunda-feira, 23 de fevereiro de 2026

Expedition 37

 Here it is

faster each year

what is different this time?

I'm not as bad as I thought I would be

I miss everything, dearly

but here we are, again, still standing, still longing, ever hoping

I can't mend what is broken, but I can hope it won't destroy me every time

I'm happy you are here with me today

I'm really happy that we, somehow, made it here, kinda alive

I'm always surprised with myself, when I dare hope

I don't think I'll ever find the source of this emotion

that blocks everything else, wakes me up, plant my feet on the ground

I belong to the stars

but my heart wants you

And I'll always regret

always

not learning to forget

here it is, for one more year

we march

Feliz aniversário, Marcelo

quarta-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2026

Dissociation

 I was watching an essay about serial experiments lain

its a deep dive on a lot of the aspects of the show, but one focus was how the dissociation of the character helped on her being 'selected'

and the talk about dissociation, how and why it happens, what the triggers and root causes are

I remembered the first time something like dissociation happened to me and I got 'caught' by surprise

we were at her home, arguing 

it was something her mother had said, deliberately to hurt us, for the sake of tiring our minds and relationship

we had had that exact same talk before, and since I played my part the way her mother wanted me too, I could not understand what she still wanted

as she was explaining to me, it instantly clicked in my mind that nothing, absolutely nothing I could do would make it better, fix, or improve that situation

on that moment, I was suddenly not there anymore

I heard her voice getting distant, my eyes getting foggier, and I remember thinking that I would prefer to be anywhere, but listening to that again

some time later, I was jerked into reality by the sound of her crying

'why are you not here'

'how could you let me handle this on my own'

'you are abandoning me when I need you'

I think that was what hurt the most, when we finally broke up

I saw that I really did give up on us, on that moment. I didn't want to work on it anymore, I saw no future on fighting that battle

but her tears, her pain, never left me

I often go back to that exact moment, where my soul crashed back on my body, and I saw the consequences of my absence

it hurts exactly the same, all those years later

and its weird, because I really don't think about her, romantically or otherwise

but the responsability that I crushed, it still haunts me

and that wrecks me the most, when I think about getting in a relationship again

what if I just, do that again

if things get bad and I see a difficult way out, what if I just decide to run away

again

and then I am thrown on the loop of this touch-starved reality, that all I wanted was a lap

but what if I get that, and become unable to nurture it

for every second that I think I fixed myself

I cut my heart on the sharpest of memories

how can I be better alone, if all I wanted was to share this shame

how can I pretend I mended this broken self if the mirror itself is in pieces

how can I not be alone, by myself

this must, end with me

terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2026

Time

 Relentless

The world puts someone in your life

fate makes you interact daily, for years

routine makes the relationship flourish and deepen

one random tuesday

a curveball, a missed exit somewhere

and now, you get nothing

daily becomes monthly, and that quickly becomes yearly

the messages are losing their warmth by the minute

one day, a pending question goes unanswered for weeks

and the rot establishes

fond memories are all there is, even though the present is right here

you could, right now, stop what you are doing and send that message, call that number

but you won't

time numbed your life in ways you cannot fathom

what is important now was never important then

your brain is so confused on its priorities, you are losing people like flies

and when the courage to send that message shows up again

they won't ever reply to you

and you will know why they can't.

those tears were years on the making, you just had no time to care for them

now they are all that is left

quinta-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2026

Loveless

 What if I could just stop loving

in a quick crash, take the feeling out, boom

just stop entertaining this facade

I'm considering all possibilities now, and tending to the laziest one

giving up love

Mine is... too much. Too everything. Too broad. I can't contain or moderate it.

So, just. Stop. Let bygones be, wash the hurt and dirt, keep the pain on a painting by the living room

Remember, respect and let it wash away

no more of this insanity

this feeling was never supposed to be ours, anyway

we grew it from solitude and nothing, some tears and good moments

And we let it control our breathing

no more

love is banned

go be crazy on work, or crafts, or scribbles

when everything is hanging from the balance

shift your perspective, look at what you lost by giving too much

For one, I am so glad you are done

leave the tears for whoever fits them best

your black is better sober

sexta-feira, 9 de janeiro de 2026

Leaving you at that

 I've now been thinking

What went through your mind, when you understood what I said

Because I was a mess, and as I said before a lot of times, on words right here

That was all of me

And, I know, by the lack of responses or actions on your side

That you must not have thought anything... worthwhile

But, if that so, what was it? What do, all of me, causes on your mind?

If nothing, really, you could've just said so

I'm so used on giving up, I would, and will, never bother you again, either way

But, placate this sick mind of mine

Give me just a small reason, even if so for pity

I would really love some pity actually

Just a short no

A courteous go away

but please

something

domingo, 4 de janeiro de 2026

Burn

 I am burning!

It hurts all over!

Time is passing by, faster each sunrise, and everything, all hurts

everywhere I look, I see no future

there is only people, and rage, and hate

I focus on the wrong angles

I bother with the useless things

Every step of the way, all I care, is shunned away

bless the new year

bless this new start

burn it all down to the ground

I need a rebirth

wash it all over me

let me focus on what I can

cold water to this fire

May we stop burning our lives away

terça-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2025

What is this fear

 Fear of rejection is way stronger than the fear of being alone

this combination allows for the most severe blows to my ego, every time

to be able to surpass the rejection, I have to spend so much, burn so many sacrifices

I have to beat myself up with pep talk; this time will be different, it will be good, it will be worth it

and as I focus myself on a shiny, concentrated beam of courage and self esteem, my whole being contorts and exists just for that brief moment, where I gamble my whole existence

and when it misses, as it always does, the husk remains. My shadow self, tiny speck of human

Thus, the loop. How can I survive and repair myself again, after this humongous task?

I am immediately thrown into the valley of shadows and self pity, and can't stop wanting to know why

It's even worse when what accompanies me is silence. I thought that, at least, my whole being awarded at least a refusal, an educated denial, a simple no thank you

but why is it that I have zero value, every time

This irrational fear, that manifests physically now without a single problem

the reason that doubles down laughing and points at my face

Why do I focus on all the wrong battles

I'm spending energy that I don't have, in things that will never belong by me

I pride myself on my communication skills, just to be shot down at sneers

I'm barely hanging on

How can I still laugh, and walk, and live like this

crooked jealousy 

It would be so much better if you just pushed me away;

burn this leash, cut it to pieces, destroy it

please

for the love of me

let it go

sexta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2025

News

I have never felt, like I didn't have words for what I am feeling 
Never.
In any situation, from worst to the best ones
I didn't write the good ones, because I didn't wanna, not because I couldn't
Now, I finally got the blank slate
I have no words
My infinite sea, a desert
My full river, stopped

leaving you at that

sábado, 6 de dezembro de 2025

Cru

 Esse vai na língua mãe mesmo

Raiva, raiva seca, raiva íntima, raiva nojenta

Muita raiva

Amarga, ácida, revoltante

Minha, infinitesimalmente minha

Um âmago torto, vontade minguante

Mas o que me estressa e tira o sono, é essa ironia disfarçada de alegria

Essa energia caótica com um rumo desenfreado

Esquisito toda vida, floresta a dentro, soslaio detrás da árvore 

Eu aquaplanei, pelo amor de deus

Quase fui de base

E gargalhei, ri até ficar sem ar, chorei de absoluta loucura

Cantei! Gritei!

Você me vem no fogo cruzado, 

Numa incapacidade de sofrer só 

Novamente numa vontade de aquecer 

Acolher, permear, abraçar

Mas por quê tem que ser tão difícil?

Por quê isso o que me aperta, não sana com nada

Nas armadilhas das paredes que eu mesmo ergui

Nos seus olhos embargados, nas lágrimas sujas de rímel e amargas da maquiagem

Olha a volta que eu dei, onde eu estive

Essa memória que explodiu do pré sal da minha alma

Minha psiquê, já em frangalhos, ainda colando os cacos da razão, todos tortos, opacos

Rachados mais que existentes

Mais buraco do que matéria 

A inveja, meu deus!

Que inveja odiosa

Que sensação monstruosa, roteiro de ficção 

Dramalhão banana

Quando eu disse aquelas palavras, meu mundo era tão diferente

A tradução agora é quase alienígena

Sentimentos que não existem mais, incapazes de se fazer vivos

E de todo meu pudor exposto, meu coração bélico 

O sorriso amarelo, a vergonha por trás da negação velada

Um golpe final desesperado, que falha crítica 

Quando a última carta não é suficiente, quando a força desiste

Como podemos nos recuperar? 

Como sacudir a poeira e seguir ainda, com toda dor, todas as dúvidas 

Talvez eu tenha perdido ele ali

E de alguma forma inconcebível, de propósito 

Esquecida por trás do trauma

Recuperada das profundezas por essa raiva 

Obcena

Eu te esqueci, de todas as formas

Você não existe, não da forma que as pessoas acham que eu me lembro

Mas esse sentimento que a raiva trouxe 

Essa memória que invadiu a cavidade e quase, quase expulsou ele de lá 

Foi o golpe mais baixo que eu me dei esse fim de ano

Que o seu sorriso, seja essa bandeira odiosa

E que essa raiva cínica continue me abastecendo 

A vontade que vem é de viver, de atropelar

Eu continuo rindo do abismo

Às vezes, chutando essa calma

Às vezes, preocupado

Que venha essa tsunami

Expedition 37

sexta-feira, 21 de novembro de 2025

Buraco

-English version below-

Está atrasado, mas não tem problema, sei que meu público cativo é bem paciente e nem liga se eu não cumpro minhas promessas literárias. Eu já contei isso aqui no "bad place", mas além de atualizar pro bsky e pro blog, vou contar também o que aconteceu no dia 31 de outubro de 2024.

Eu como sempre estava trabalhando demais, planejando de menos, e nem entendendo a vida ao meu redor. Precisava ir pra Caeté, e porquê não ir depois do vôlei, numa quarta feira? 23 horas e alguns minutos. Mala pronta, equipamento pronto, só ir. 100% piloto automático.

O volume do som bastante alto, músicas com letras bem cantantes, energia lá em cima, meia noite. Dia 31 de outubro. Chegando na estrada de sabará. E só ali caiu a ficha. Só ali eu percebi a noite. Só ali eu lembrei do porquê eu não gosto de viajar a noite nesta estrada. Só ali.

No intervalo das músicas, o silêncio ensurdecedor da estrada, o pneu no asfalto, os buracos, minha voz fraca cantarolando qualquer coisa, e tudo o que mais eu conseguia ver na beira da estrada, no banco de trás, no retrovisor, nas sombras e na luz, as vozes, os arrepios, os vultos, os toques;

Antes de prosseguir, preciso contar o que aconteceu a dois anos atrás, quando eu também "esqueci" do porquê eu não viajo a noite; muitos de vocês não sabem, mas à alguns anos, na estrada entre Sabará e Belo Horizonte, minha barra de direção quebrou e meu carro caiu de um barranco. 40 metros rolando.

Estava sozinho no carro, que deu perda total; o teto do lado do passageiro chegou a afundar no banco, só o lado do motorista tinha algum espaço. Alguns de vocês sabem que deste acidente eu levei apenas 3 pontos na cabeça e escoriações leves. Nem atestado o médico desquerido quis me dar.

Eu fui socorrido muito rápido pq um transeunte de um coração gigante viu meu carro caindo, prontamente desceu do carro dele e foi me socorrer. Nenhum de vocês sabia que depois do acidente, eu estava com fobia de dirigir. Entrar em um carro me dava ansiedade. O movimento do carro me dava pânico.

Por alguns dias eu achei que não conseguiria pegar num volante denovo, me dava vertigem e uma reação intensa de medo, até como passageiro.

No terceiro dia depois do acidente, eu tive a oportunidade de dirigir, e eu até hoje não sei o que me convenceu, se foi minha vontade, minha ignorância, mas eu tinha uma certeza: se eu não dirigisse aquele dia, eu não entraria em um carro nunca mais, para nada.

Por conta desse tratamento de choque, voltei a dirigir como se nada tivesse acontecido. Nas vezes seguintes que fui pra Caeté, como passageiro, eu reparei em uma sensação completamente alienígena até então: eu estava sentindo, fisicamente, o local do acidente.

Agora as coisas ficam um pouco estranhas, mas tente entender meu lado: quando eu passei a primeira vez no local do acidente, eu me senti sendo puxado pro buraco. Nada drástico, nada forte; um sopro; uma teia de seda que afetava meu coração, em direção ao buraco.

Quando, outras vezes, dormindo no carro ou apenas de olhos fechados, eu conseguia saber exatamente onde eu tinha caído, comecei uma jornada para montar justificativas completamente racionais, factuais e plausíveis pra isso acontecer: Ansiedade, medo, trauma. Meu corpo ficou um bagaço pós acidente.

Mas, meses depois, lá estava eu, dirigindo, sozinho, me aproximando do local. A sensação de puxar veio mais forte do que nunca, e com o coração saindo pela boca, eu ouvi, por cima da música no volume máximo, por cima das minhas lágrimas, eu OUVI: "você devia ter ficado aqui."

Senti a minha mão com medo de tocar o volante, o receio do meu pé em acelerar, a rapidez do meu cérebro para interpretar que aquilo era nada, não existia voz do abismo, era meu trauma encarnado, dor do acidente, loucura. E com isso, segui. Desde então, era isso, trancado na gaveta.

A negação tomou conta. Não foi nada, não era nada, nunca foi nada. É medo. É ansiedade. É psicológico. Trauma.

Claro que depois disso, perdi o costume de viajar pra Caeté de noite, também devido a outros fatores. Das vezes que o fiz, nunca mais sozinho. Até que, cerca de 2 meses atrás, eu viajei sozinho pra Caeté, ás 23h.

Fazem uns bons anos do acidente. Talvez uns 7. A estrada não tem iluminação por uma boa parte. Conheço a estrada como a palma da mão, e com o mapa que o barranco marcou no meu corpo.

Quando eu me aproximei do local, tudo veio a tona de uma vez, de forma bem crua. Parece que o machucado da alma não fecha mesmo. De alguma forma, eu estava preparado; já tinha passado por isso. Eu não ia me deixar abalar por sandice, por mais que o palhaço (eu) já esteja maluco a um bom tempo.

Quando eu digo pra vocês que eu senti o tempo passar devagar, é porquê eu senti. Quando eu ouvi meu som no máximo ficar em silênio, é porquê eu ouvi. Quando eu senti o volante ficar gelado nas minhas mãos, é porquê ele estava.

Mas que quando eu fiz a fatídica curva, que eu vi uma silhueta humana, bem apagada, um braço apontando pro buraco, uma face sem rosto, por um instante, eu não consigo te dizer se vi.

Porquê eu não tive coragem de olhar uma segunda vez.

Em uma das visitas pós acidente, um conhecido disse que aquele terreno (onde eu caí) era meu, tinha meu nome e sangue. Rindo, piada, já que eu não morri, ríamos da minha sorte. E agora eu penso nisso, constantemente. O que é que ainda é meu, e o que é que eu deixei ali?

E esse é o fim da história de dois anos atrás. Se eu disse que eu ainda não penso no meu terreno eu estaria mentindo, e muito. De dia, eu sempre aceno ao buraco. Mas esse dia das bruxas, eu esqueci. Eu não consigo calcular, como, de que forma, eu pude esquecer.

Dessa vez, a viagem foi amarga. Não foi rápida. Eu não senti mais só o buraco. O stress pela estrada inteira. As músicas embaralhadas em uma cacofonia sem sentido, o stress do meu corpo ao máximo, os sons da estrada se misturando e alternando.

Meus devaneios foram sobre a fé, e o quão nossa mente consegue transformar em realidade nossos caprichos. Se eu acreditar muito forte em alguma coisa, aquilo vai se tornar realidade? O medo, quando descontrolado, tira os limites, tira o bom senso, faz de rascunhos um terror completo.

Corpos na estrada, bruxas nas árvores, sussuros no pé do ouvido. As curvas que pendem mais pra um lado, o freio que as vezes engasga, a aceleração que as vezes não vem. Uma lua que desaparece nos céus.  Digo com tranquilidade que essa foi a pior viagem que eu já fiz.

Mas a escolha que eu fiz, nesse pós, foi não dar voz a minha loucura. Eu não vi nada, não ouvi nada, não senti nada. São todos moinhos, meus dragões. Mas agora, eu me tatuei. Eu não viajo a noite por esta estrada mais. Eu volto aqui quando eu esquecer.

RIP sapo que se jogou embaixo da minha roda, peço desculpas, e que você me perdoe do céu dos Sapos.

_____

"Hole"

I'm late, but it's no problem, I know my loyal audience is very patient and doesn't even mind if I don't keep my literary promises. I've already shared this here on the "bad place," but in addition to updating on Bsky and on the blog, I'll also tell what happened on October 31st, 2024.

As always, I was working too much, planning too little, and not even understanding the life around me. I needed to go to Caeté, and why not go after volleyball practice, on a Wednesday night? 11:00 PM and a few minutes. Bags packed, equipment ready, go go go. 100% on autopilot.

The volume of the music was pretty high, songs with very singalong lyrics, energy through the roof, midnight. October 31st. Arriving on the Sabará road. And it was right there that it hit me. Only there did I realize the night. Only there did I remember why I don't like driving at night on this road. Only there.

In the intervals between songs, the deafening silence of the road, the tire on the asphalt, the potholes, my weak voice humming something, and everything else I could see on the roadside, in the back seat, in the rearview mirror, in the shadows and in the light, the voices, the chills, the figures, the touches;

Before continuing, I need to tell what happened two years ago, when I also "forgot" why I don't travel at night; many of you don't know, but some 7 years ago, on the road between Sabará and Belo Horizonte, my steering bar broke and my car fell down a ravine, tumbling 40 meters. 

I was alone in the car, which full wrecked; the roof on the passenger side actually caved onto the seat, only the driver's side had any space. Some of you know that from this accident I only got 3 stitches on my head and minor scrapes, because of all the broken glass.

The doctor didn't even give me a medical leave. I was helped very quickly because a passerby with a huge heart saw my car falling, promptly got out of his car, and went to help me; 

None of you knew that, after the accident, I had developed a deep fear of driving. Getting into a car made me anxious. The movement of the car gave me panic. 

For a few days, I thought I would never be able to take the wheel again; it made me dizzy and caused an intense rejection, even as a passenger. On the third day after the accident, I had the opportunity to drive, and to this day I don’t know what convinced me, whether it was my will or my ignorance but I was certain of one thing: if I didn’t drive that day, I would never get into a car again, for anything. 

Because of this shock treatment, I returned to driving as if nothing had happened. On the following trips to Caeté, as a passenger, I noticed a feeling that was completely foreign to me until then: I was physically sensing the place of the accident. The hole.

Now things get a little strange, but DO try to understand me: when I went to the accident site for the first time, I felt myself being pulled towards the hole. Nothing drastic, nothing strong; a breeze; a silk thread that tugged on my heart, pulling me towards the hole. 

Later, other times, sleeping in the car, or just with my eyes closed, I could tell exactly where I had fallen; and I began a spiritual journey to come up with a completely rational, factual, and plausible explanation for it happening: Anxiety, fear, trauma. 

My body was BUSTED after the accident. But months later, there I was, driving alone, approaching the site. The pulling sensation came stronger than ever, and with my heart pounding, I heard, over the music at maximum volume, over my tears, I HEARD: "you should have stayed here."

I felt my hands afraid to touch the steering wheel, my foot hesitant to accelerate, the speed of my brain trying to interpret that it was nothing, that there was no voice from the abyss, it was my trauma embodied, the pain from the accident, madness. And with that, I went on. Since then, that was it, locked away in the mind drawer. 

Denial took over. "It was nothing, it was never anything, it was never real". It's fear. It's anxiety. It's psychological trauma. 

Of course, after that, I lost the habit of traveling to Caeté at night, also due to other factors. The few times I did go, I wasvnever alone. Until about 2 months ago.

It’s been many years since the accident. The road is unlit for a good stretch. I know the road like the back of my hand, and with the map that the hole left on my body. 

When I got close to the place, everything came flooding back at once, in a very, very raw way. It seems the wound in the soul never really healed. Somehow, I was prepared; I had already been through this.
I wasn't going to let myself be shaken by foolishness, even though the clown (me) has been crazy for quite awhile. 

When I tell you that I felt time pass slowly, it's because I really did. When I heard my music blasting into silence, it's because it did. When I felt the steering wheel turn cold in my hands, it's because it did. 

But when I took that fateful turn, and I saw a faceless human silhouette, faint, an arm pointing towards the hole; I can't tell you if I really saw it. 

Because I didn't have the courage to look a second time. 

During one of the post-accident visits, an acquaintance said that that land (where I fell) was mine, had my name and blood on it. Laughing, as a joke, since I didn't die, we laughed about my luck. And now I think about it constantly. What still belongs to me, and what did I left there? 

That is the end of the story from two years ago. If I said I still don't think about my land, I would be lying, badly. During the day, I always wave at the hole. But this Halloween, I forgot. I can't figure out how, in what way, I could have forgotten. 

This time, the trip was bitter. It wasn't quick. I no longer only felt the emptiness. The stress throughout the whole road. The songs mixed into a senseless cacophony, my body stressed to the maximum, the sounds of the road merging and alternating. 

My daydreams were about faith, and how our mind can turn our whims into reality. If I believe in something strongly enough, will it become real? Fear, when uncontrolled, removes boundaries, removes common sense, turns drafts into complete horror. 

Bodies on the road, witches in the trees, whispers in the ear. Curves that lean more to one side, brakes that sometimes choke, acceleration that sometimes doesn't come. A moon that disappears in the sky. I can say calmly that this was the worst trip I've ever taken. 

But the choice I made afterwards was not to give voice to my madness. I didn't see anything, didn't hear anything, didn't feel anything. They're all windmills, my dragons. But now, I got a soul scar. I don't travel this road at night anymore. I come back here when I forget. 

RIP toad who threw himself under my wheel, I apologize, and may you forgive me from the Toads' heaven.


terça-feira, 7 de outubro de 2025

It was not a nightmare

 I really don't think it was

I've been having nightmares for a super while

it got so stale, I almost had no reactions to it

just sadness and conformity


but then, something changed

Your cloud passed, I dare say

There was light

fullfilling, warm, bright light

I was filthy, with mud, salt, moondirt

But I was not limping on the desert, or the sea

I was walking forward, really walking

really moving

and I cried so much

I cried waterfalls

and the weight was dispersing

and I felt so relieved

so much relief

after some time, I was smiling

genuinely, which is almost absurd

what dimension is this

I woke with tears on my face

the taste in my mouth

but my heart was beating so strongly

I finally think I found it

it came back

and I laughed until I slept again

I will dare hope and will dare dream

It seems I still had some coins hidden 

in the back pocket

quinta-feira, 25 de setembro de 2025

Here it is

 For here are my tears

not for any of you, but for all to see

I got used to being bare, to show way more than I should

or could, being honest

The things I'm missing the most, grasping for straws

on whatever bytes, whatever resemblance of connection

for here, beside my tears

lie my naked heart


My courage, was yet again

met with silence, and disdain

My whole world, for a direct and simple no

a reason, a phrase, a why

but please, take me away from this silence

that pierces my mind, and deafens my soul


I'm building sandcastles

with all my might. My whole being

I'm trying, again and again

I'm choosing to do this, to hurt myself, to step forward

again and again


And reason is, yet again

doubling down, laughing

how can one be so gullible, hopeful

I am so hurt

I feel too much


Each day, I'm coming to terms

maybe love was really not for me

I'm one of those, really, really unlovable types 

on pure face value, not a word out of my mouth, not a definition read by what I've written

worthless, at face value

It's the funniest thing


I don't know anything about you

but I am perfectly sure 

you should be gone



quarta-feira, 11 de junho de 2025

03:15 am

My little warrior

You have fought bravely, fiercely

Your blood marks this ground, tell us tales

Your buried bones, more moon than dreams

Rest

Mind your head, your heart, my lap

Save your smiles for when we wake

Cool your anger with my cold stare

You are, hollow, are you not?

Let my lips fill your lie

Praise your face, for not showing

Thank your eyes, for this contempt

Rest well, my love

At sunrise we battle again

In this crowded sea of solitude

With renewed spirit

Your tired, destroyed body

Aged and torn between the lines.

Morrow comes with eternal goodbyes

Don't fight this remembrance

Try to think of it fondly

For I have already

Forgotten

quarta-feira, 30 de abril de 2025

Decisions decisions decisions

 I have been sad for the longest time

In this state, I am easily manipulated

by my feelings, by my heart, by my ego

especially the ego

the delusions never end

every waking moment, I am thinking, I am stalling, I am regretting

by three they come, by three they nest

My foundation is cemented on lies, fear, weakness

and this was before

I woke today

inside a train of dreams

I decided, not anymore

I do not want to feel like this

now, come closer, quickly, lend me your ear just for this one

again

I do not. Want. To suffer this. Again.

I feel too much, and that also contains the negatives

I am repulsed now, for how I behaved, how I felt

I want to try reality again

even if its way later than I should, even if it won't work anymore

even pain, if real, is better than these dreams

Nightmares

I jumped

Abyss laughed, and hugged me

I'm hoping for blindness and numbness

for as long as I fall