When I think of my own death—I try to picture that leopard's carcass. Why did he come to those heights—for what? Did he lose his way chasing some prey, and wander into some spot he couldn't escape from? Or was he looking for something else, climbing higher and higher until he used up all his strength and collapsed? I think about which way the carcass was facing... was he trying to get back down—or trying to climb higher? Either way, that leopard knew... that he would never be going back.

-Ash Lynx, Banana Fish

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I will give you my everything without any burden. You, who has nobody to lean on. Here! Lean on me.

-Hyungwon, Monsta X

[poem dedicated to a chair]

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