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Dash

The starry sky reminds me
that I'm made of them
a small package
bound to (the) Earth

I can accelerate
      run
            think
During a sneeze everything stops


I breathe in the old environment
with new eyes
the air is serene
as am I

the world moves
and I move with it
pulses everywhere


8/10/2025

idiot(ic dreams)

Perfect illusion
in the mirror of the mind
a cake I could devour
over and over

Astonishing, conforting fiction
your whispers shaking destiny
making my knees weak
of mere facade

The moment I saw you
I knew
I mistake sugar for salt

I had never felt
so out of place
in my own home
accompanied by a stanger
I exchanged my safety for

In secret
I wrote to myself
a confession
      a war cry
      to stop lying
      to myself

      everything
            fell
                  into place
                        faster
                  and
            better
      when you left
my heart as well

thank you


8/10/2025

ease

happiness is weightless
a feeling of weight sprinkled correctly
hands reaching to desired places
bubbles gently rubbing
our rainbow colors enhance each other

here is good
on the crest of a wave
under the tidal wave
my edges are forming anew
gently


15/8/2025

invitation

you are alive
without self-hatered
find yourself


30/4/2025

cremation

one day
the world will get me too
and that's okay


31/3/2025

vulnerable

soft soul
anew, takes a hit
barefoot


28/2/2025

Where are you?

I step into the water
the water makes room for me
I scream
no sound comes out

I fumble with both hands at the swamp
that lifts me into the air
the fear of heights
wants to swallow me

My body bumps, expands
whilst I shrink, disappear
My skin is murky
there's cotton in my head

      I don't know about the rest


16/1/2025

goodbye

it's time for me
to let the wind blow
thank you for the journey


22/11/2024

mundane

they talk
about the definition of insanity

to me it feels like
numbness


28/10/2024

static

I feel like I've lost the skill
to communicate
not with myself but with others

I'm found in a strange reality
the steps go in different directions from one another
thoughts merge together
and I hear
nothing but static

am I inside a TV?
hit
we might clear


11/9/2024

what if

what if
I don't know how to be a man
this meat suit is getting older
before me

what if
I learned to breathe with the fish
soar with the birds
before humanity

what if
you would tell me
who I am
before I fall


11/9/2024

echo

every day
and every night
I think about my thoughtlessness
a skill
which barely exists

                            breathe
                      breathe
        breathe
              breathe

an electric current hits the water
continuing its course
in a new terrain

my written answer
is my life

are you proud?


5/9/2024

silence

the sea massages my toes
coolness is welcome
in a hectic life

how can something which is broken
gloat so much heat
- fury -
like a drowning pressure wave

silence is loud
in my family
death is not a solution
but a bomb
which ran out of time

peace is not a possibility
the puzzle pieces don't fit together
the table is on fire
a building collapsed

my mind is drowning
to surface noise
I'm listening


5/9/2024

false death

it's difficult to be brave
        small animal
among other animals

the pH value of life is engorged
               fear
        shame
are the bubbling the circuits close

today the quilt is my friend
warm food buries me
to the ashes of a phoenix
to wait on feelings


30/8/2024

someone's mother

Monopoly money is all she knows
internet to her is mostly unknown
to her the children never grow
afraid of getting old

I don't know what waits for her
at the end of the stairs
I do know what remains at the beginning
the life she never got to live


14/12/2023

tree falls

at night i watch your pillow
emptiness echoes
at your place

who am i
in a static house
can you hear?


24/9/2023

fall in love

around the clock you smell like home
with you there's peace
your touch ripples
i succumb

at night
you protect me
the bed monster stays at bay
i love to fall asleep wrapped to you



24/9/2023

To Sleep

i'm afraid to go to sleep
in the kingdom of blankets
memories mold
everything turns indifferent
necessity to choose new intentions
tomorrow

wrong place
wrong time
wrong age
wrong me
distortions

i drift
manhunt
i managed to escape
        was it me?

i got soaked
on a cloudless weather
my feet are in mud

in the forest i hear the sounds of a circus
from the mouth of a crow comes no sound

reset


18/9/2023

Trans

I follow the stars
the scars
on my shoulders

People like me tend to
hold whole universes inside
(sometimes) hidden in plain sight

The truth
makes us smile
wide, one with the universe

I will live as me
I will love people like me
People love me


28/6/2023

rootless

the days dance together
words were hung on me
my thoughts has been attempted to cut
the film reel breaks

the past expands
i narrow down
the glass surface crumbles
i'm drifting


17/4/2023

Marked

Note!

The poems have currently been translated all the way back to October 2016, others will mostly appear in Finnish. I hope you can still enjoy the ones that are translated!

Number of poems still to be translated

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