Donovan Baldwin

“I defy darkness, and I define it.
I lead you to the infinite.
I guide you out
of what you think you are,
Cut through the veils,
I take you to the stars.
Who am I?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi

“I conquer you without a fight,
I steal your strength, but grant you light.
I make you fall, yet help you rise,
I wound your heart to open your eyes.
I take your ground, I make you switch
I ask for all, yet leave you rich,
I am the loss that feels like gain,
The quiet joy inside your pain.
Who am I?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi

“I am the dance where halves dissolve,
The stillness where things evolve.
I am a drop, and the ocean too,
A song unsung, yet heard in you.
I am the hunter and the prey,
The night that swallows
the birth of day.
Who am I?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi

“As my summer draws to a close,
I drag my dreams behind me,
till all collapses back into light,
in a season without hours.

In the end, only you remain,
beyond the unfolded memory,
as I turn my only heart
toward the sunrise.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty