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Not_Johnny
Not_Johnny
23/F Insomnia?
I am so very extremely depressed I want to sleep but I'm way too stressed I try to talk with friends and with fam But they seem to think that I don't give a **** They call me lazy, heartless and dull I've stopped eating food; they just think that I'm full My arms are restless, I kick in the night Can't someone tell me what I'm supposed to fight? I wait for the next day, and the next, and the next Waiting for when I finally breathe my last And then it occurs to me; why hadn't I seen it? I have the power to **** and destroy it Tell me one reason that suicide is bad Besides the fact that it'd drive others mad I should be concerned with the rest, but I can't Just let me be selfish and let me rant I want to die and I want to die now The only question left to consider is: how?
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020 at 2:22 AM UTC
Dark Theme
I’v started speaking like you. I’m using terms that only could have originated from you. I talk and I hear your voice. You never left me. You speak through my lips. You come at the world with a cutting sarcasm that people only find cute because they hear it from an innocent, naive young lady. A child. No one took me seriously except for you. Everyone thought I was golden, but you saw me for how I really was. Gray, sprinkled in the ashes of my mistakes and dusted with the pieces of regret and cowardice that I foolishly hoped would just blow away in the wind. Instead they clung to me as easily as I clung onto your affections. You changed me in ways that I didn’t want to admit. I thought of myself as my own person, and you agreed with me, but you knew you were changing me. You were selfish that way, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that you weren’t. You’d lie to yourself in saying that you cared about me, and my future, and my well being. You wanted me; you wanted all of me, no matter how you got it. I’ve known this since the beginning, however. I knew you’d ruin me, but I went along with it anyway. Because despite the hurt and the loss I’ve experienced in our relationship, it was a relationship. I felt. I felt so much when I was with you. I hurt, I cried, yes, but I also laughed, and I smiled, and I gasped and I sighed and I keened. I wish I could forget everything that happened between us, but I also really don’t. And isn’t that just so unfair.
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Mar 8, 2020
Mar 8, 2020 at 10:41 PM UTC
If you’d just let me forget you, please, thank you
I’v started speaking like you. I’m using terms that only could have originated from you. I talk and I hear your voice. You never left me. You speak through my lips. You come at the world with a cutting sarcasm that people only find cute because they hear it from an innocent, naive young lady. A child. No one took me seriously except for you. Everyone thought I was golden, but you saw me for how I really was. Gray, sprinkled in the ashes of my mistakes and dusted with the pieces of regret and cowardice that I foolishly hoped would just blow away in the wind. Instead they clung to me as easily as I clung onto your affections. You changed me in ways that I didn’t want to admit. I thought of myself as my own person, and you agreed with me, but you knew you were changing me. You were selfish that way, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that you weren’t. You’d lie to yourself in saying that you cared about me, and my future, and my well being. You wanted me; you wanted all of me, no matter how you got it. I’ve known this since the beginning, however. I knew you’d ruin me, but I went along with it anyway. Because despite the hurt and the loss I’ve experienced in our relationship, it was a relationship. I felt. I felt so much when I was with you. I hurt, I cried, yes, but I also laughed, and I smiled, and I gasped and I sighed and I keened. I wish I could forget everything that happened between us, but I also really don’t. And isn’t that just so unfair.
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Sacrifice and solitude Her brush and her spray She pulls her flock with soft fingers And smiles as she plays And she loves them And they come And they shatter the barriers Only to build their own And they hold her down And she let's them And it's her fault It's her responsibility It's her curse It's her duty It's her blessing It's her privilege It's her job And her pay is a memory And her pay is a passion play And her pay should be enough for her
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 12:45 AM UTC
This Job and Its Perks
If nda feel lonely, kinda feel sad, kinda feel alone and briken and empty and tueres a blacj hole. And itd be interesring if it wasnt so imposing . Its nit the wine talking. The wine is there to enhance what was alreadt present. Theres just. Nothing.
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Dec 31, 2017
Dec 31, 2017 at 9:34 PM UTC
Untitled
I'm scared. This whole time, I've been denying Holding in my emotions If I lie to myself, it'd become real, No? **** me. Is it obvious to everyone else? To you? Should I be taking any more precautions? Like I could hide anything from you. Our bond is too strong now, too synced Vicious emotion rips through me Everything is ruined.
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Dec 4, 2017
Dec 4, 2017 at 1:49 AM UTC
I'm not your friend
I scalded my tongue on the dish that was set in front of me with concern The next bite was heading quick towards my mouth before I even considered the burn With thoughtless movement I continued to swallow and tried thinking of nothing at all But even the mindless act couldn't distract from the hate and the pain of it all What else could I do? I wouldn't just stop living life even though I felt sick And the funny thing was you were the one who told me my existence was worth it You held my hand when my heart was broken and all of me shattered to pieces Told me that I would one day find the one who would treat me as I should be treated You gave me comfort when I was the lowest and distracted me from the pain So excuse me if I've a hard time understanding how you could have done me the same Would you give me a reason? At least a small clue? An explanation for all that you've done? This is my life that we're talking about, not another game of yours to be won I guess I should have seen this coming, you were never one to commit So tell me this, since you've done what you've intended and left me behind: Was it worth it?
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Nov 26, 2017
Nov 26, 2017 at 4:01 AM UTC
At Dinner
Strange to sleep with the closet open. Nothing significant to anyone else; just a lazy side effect of wanting to sleep too soon, perhaps. But to me, it holds plenty significance. Much more than I'd be comfortable admitting. It's a testament to how much you have changed me. From wanting to please everyone and keep the peace, to exploring what it means to contribute my humanity, as opposed to my roboticism. The simple act of leaving my door open - a door I had closed for so many years, at first for fear of attack, and later for the illusion of perfection and organization - reminds me that if you had never shared the symbolism of your own door, I would have never changed. I would, likewise, always be closed. And it hurts that now the one person that I always opened my door to has shut me out.
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Nov 22, 2017
Nov 22, 2017 at 4:24 PM UTC
In the closet
When I say I'll fix it, I don't mean for you. Everything about me burns, but not with passion. It's a slow burn, like one would expect from a lit stove, or car engine. Not all consuming, but enough to make you uncomfortably warm. It cooks my speech. Flays my sight. Promises blankets of solace, and instead delivers smothering tendrils of smoke. Touch my cheek. Rest your observations on the pink that seemingly speaks in demure humility. I am not willing. I am heated.
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Nov 21, 2017
Nov 21, 2017 at 2:09 AM UTC
I blush for you
Of course I remember yesterday It's not as if it was so far away It's just that nothing I know now seems to matter Because I won't believe it I can't live like how I lived before you Everything else is dust in the wind The things I planned for Things I longed for I don't even care if none of it's true You took my will and twisted it You stole my motivation There is no purpose, no more goals No more cause for celebrations I want to live again or die But coasting here is torture There's nothing here Will never be And if someone will ask of me To give of me To take from me I couldn't say no because there is no reason to be or not to be
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Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 1:29 PM UTC
In the Wind
I want to lie in my bed And never wake up again These voices in my head Talk but never listen I feel my body shiver From all the screams I hold inside There’s no more motivation But I want to live, not just survive I can sense the tears he cries And feel the pain he tries biting down I’m powerless to help him So I cry too and watch him drown He’s everything I am inside And as he suffers from the pain I’m too cowardly to tell him That I am just the same Does he feel the same electric pulse? Does he also want to die? Does he close his door at night So that no one sees him cry? He won’t admit to anyone He thinks he hides it well Maybe I am just like him Maybe everyone can tell
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Nov 17, 2017
Nov 17, 2017 at 1:57 AM UTC
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