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2025-12-08
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Et tu, Brute?

Summary:

A short original poem about crossing a point of no return — and realizing the person beside you was never ready to follow.
A fragment about a man who imagined himself Caesar, only to die like Narcissus — facedown in the shallow water he mistook for destiny.

Myth, betrayal, and soft devastation in under a hundred words.

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Et tu, Brute?

 

You yourself said we’d crossed the Rubicon, 

there was no turning back.

 

So I stepped across

and found myself on the far shore, forever changed.

 

I stood there, waiting, convinced I heard you in the water behind me.

 

Yet when I turned, behold—

I saw you drowning in the modest stream, face-down in 3 feet of water. 

 

I begged you, "Just stand up, please!”

 

You gave no response, just a silence that screamed, 

“But I don't know how.”

 

A tear tried, but failed to escape.

I whispered a soft:

 

“Et tu, Brute?”