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Our parting was like a stalemate…. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.Ranata Suzuki
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Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.Avijeet Das
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Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release. Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.RJ Arkhipov
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What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.RJ Arkhipov
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The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture.. What then? Would I then know freedom's name? In my wake lies the shore–a past where I had been happy–refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun.. hesitant.. inert.. A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings. To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.RJ Arkhipov