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# a tired word
- URL: https://gabrielmaagekhan.com/a-tired-word/
- Published: 2025-07-16T14:35:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T05:54:18.000Z
- Author: Gabriel M. Khan
- Tags: journal

there is something in you I can only call *fire*, though I know it's a tired word.  
not everyone sees it.  
some people come close for the warmth,   
then step back from the heat.  
others love you and still walk past it every day without noticing.  
that must be lonely. to give so much and not be seen.  
to realise that most people would rather have something dimmer,  
something safer to stand next to.

you said it didn't need an answer, only to be acknowledged.   
so this isn't an answer.  
maybe that is where the solitude comes from.  
not from having no one.  
from being more than the people around you know what to do with.  
pretending not to see is easier for them.  
it costs less.  
  
*so much of my life has been spent pouring into others*, you said.  
and sometimes I do wonder what would have happened if we had met earlier.  
whether I would have been one of those who step back.  
or whether, burning too, I would have stayed.  
whether you would have poured it into me instead.  
whether you would have wanted to.  
and what we would have made of it.  
  
*the twelfth of july, two thousand and twenty-five*  

gabriel maâge khan - a tired word

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