Healthy Nostalgia

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We have gone to places where trees no longer bear leaves,
Where birds no longer sing for their taken lives.
Fate took all the leaves, every time,
All the songs, from my life.

Because my only destiny,
Was to pass over all sufferings,
To find a path for all who suffer.
A path of searching,
Of the blind before the eyes of life,
Seeking to know who I am.

I whisper to you, life:
Where are our destinies,
That were never traced?
Our feet being washed,
By the waters of the sea and of love?

I shall not bid farewell,
Over flowers at my grave,
For I have not departed,
From the old bygone days.

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Laura Esteves

Laura Esteves

Laura Esteves builds worlds with words, and dismantles the ones that already exist. She writes about what hurts, what transforms and what refuses to be forgotten. She writes about love, identity and the systems that insist on defining us.

She believes literature is the only place where truth doesn't need permission. Her texts are born from the certainty that every story told with courage is an act of freedom; for whoever writes and whoever reads.