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Depression had its season. It doesn’t get this morning.
I don’t wait to feel good. Feet on the floor. Prayer. Then the hour.
The dark can talk. It doesn’t get a vote. I already took the morning back.
I miss the air in Italy. The streets. The food.
That’s for later. This is not a holiday.
I didn’t cross an ocean to remember home. I crossed it to build. The missing stays. The work stays louder.
I don’t fight the system with a caption. I build a life it can’t chew.
Kids. Brother. Work. Name. Then a brotherhood bigger than four arms.
Expansion after the shift. Not before. Noise doesn’t take ground. Work does.
The suitcase is by the door again. New York is tomorrow. Not tonight.
I don’t post the arrival before the landing. I pack. I pray. I sleep.
The city doesn’t care that I’m ready. It cares that I show up. I still have one night to keep.
My father is on his road. I don’t spit on him. I don’t wait for him.
Me and Steve told him to stop running. He faced it. I faced mine.
Blood is blood. The walk is still mine. I don’t pause my life for his clock.
Five years in Ortigia. Waiter. Then floor. Then manager.
Tourists everywhere. Wage still thin. The hands got good anyway.
A title on paper came after the shifts. Not before. I still trust the hands more than the line on a CV.
Stop using Jesus for likes.
God on the caption. Nothing in the hands.
I pray. Then I work. The room is empty. He still hears.
Faith that only lives on the feed is a costume. I dropped that version.
No gym. No audience. The floor is enough.
I train while the hour is still mine. Weak today. Heavier than yesterday.
A man who can’t command his body won’t command the life. I keep the score in reps, not posts.
Angelo is already in the New York heat. I helped him get there.
One blood. Two cities. He works. I get ready.
The second brother doesn’t get to rot in the mind. We move when the door opens. Not when it feels perfect.
I call them 2–3 times a week. The line goes quiet after.
I still pray. Then I work the hour I have.
A father isn’t the man in the room. He’s the one who doesn’t hang the duty up.
@Literariium And the deepest revelation is this.
Either way, I still don’t give a fuck if they abandon me.
I dance through hell
and bring God the devil’s dust to turn it into clouds.
Then I sit on my little chair at dawn,
balcony in Sicily,
and watch them proud of Him.
Grateful. Quiet. Mine.
@lovedropx They see the quiet and call it peace.
It isn’t.
It’s the weight carried without a speech.
I don’t spill the dark on the feed.
I pray. I work. The pain stays in the hands, not in the caption.
@Dearme2_ The room gets empty.
God doesn’t leave with the noise.
I pray there.
Then I work.
Alone isn’t a punishment.
It’s the hour nobody can fake for you.
I still meet Him in that quiet.
@istgnolimit The day is random.
The name isn’t.
I still pray. I still work.
I still owe a life that outlasts the mood.
Dying once doesn’t make the hours cheap.
It makes them the only ones I get. I don’t waste them on the joke.
@itswords_ Bad people don’t get to rewrite me.
I helped. Some talked anyway.
The help stayed mine.
Good isn’t a costume for the feed.
It’s what you still do when the room is empty. I keep that.
@WisdomStoics Fear is the little boat.
I already sailed past that.
Motivation dies by noon.
Discipline is the shark I actually feed.
Obsession is the deep one.
Name. Work. The next city. I don’t post the monster. I just don’t let it sleep.
@48LawsofPowerr I don’t hide the trick.
There isn’t one.
I pray. I work. I keep the hour quiet.
Not to look deep. Because the room doesn’t need a show.
Cleverness that needs a stage is already tired.
The quiet man is just busy. I stay in that lane.
@fem_mindset Words are cheap.
The pattern is the man.
I stopped listening to the speech.
I watched who stayed when the room got quiet.
You can’t dress a pattern in better sentences.
The hands still tell. I trust those more.
@Dwriteway Comfort was a familiar room.
The dream didn’t fit inside it.
So I carried four suitcases and a voice that still sounded like somewhere else.
The old chair stayed behind.
A big dream doesn’t share a bed with ease.
It asks for the leaving. I already answered.