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Unclaimed

Summer's gruff music stirs stripped memories. Silent sirens cannot claim the enduring, lonely voice.

February 10, 2026

I want to hear the music of summer. A music of yesteryears that is unadorned and gruff, the notes in line with the blazing morning sun, notes that feel stripped away.
A reminder to the defrost the cloud filled memories that swell and shrink with the supple lyrics, a street tell-tales survivor story around and around in an infinite loop.
A puddle is about to be desiccated, a siren that goes silent for years, a shifting sky above knows the fears of outrunning shadows, of those who always claiming me as theirs.
In summer, I dream of a tall house with empty windows, the gardens set pattern of dry flowers and trees, a dream that meanders into my memory that will inhabit later.
Music is always the wave that soars and heal, that washes everything except my voice.

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