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danielle-cusanelli
danielle-cusanelli
“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?” / -Sylvia Plath
I've never seen the world around me in better clarity than when it was shrouded in darkness. For my eyes had been closed to simplistic pleasures, and once the darkness closed in I was awakened to the vulnerability of the world. Of me. The fragility of my soul, threatening to break and crumble when it's too much to bear. Everything is sunny, when you aren't paying attention. Or so you think. When you glance you don't see the the imperfections that have the power to ruin you. So when it comes, it appears to be an ambush. But it's been a long time coming. But the light, the beautiful light; In its perfect serenity. Dazzles you like nothing you've ever seen When you're eyes are open to see it. It makes the darkness consequential to your diminutive existence.
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Oct 2, 2015
Oct 2, 2015 at 10:58 AM UTC
Clarity
I feel lost. Not the "lost" when you are somewhere foreign, And you feel a rush of adventure At the idea of finding familiarity. The kind of lost Where all there is, Is void. Void of emotion. Void of sound. Void of color. Void Of Life.
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 6:35 PM UTC
Lost in the void
i want to experience things. life, and all of its ins and outs. its beautiful sorrows and painstaking highs. i am a girl hungry to see the world. ready to consume the sights i have yet to see. to drink in revolutionary ideas with my mind.
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 1:22 AM UTC
wanderlust
when i was a little girl i thought my daddy hung the moon he worked a lot but i had the best daddy in the world when i got a little older i started to go to my friends' house to play and i saw their daddies their daddies were home every day and night their daddies loved their mommies their daddies had time for their little girls but maybe my daddy just worked a lot. . . when i was barely a teen my mommy died a week later my dad brought over a new mommy (but daddy loved mommy) my dad started telling me lies (i don't think daddy lied to me..) my dad has more time for his girlfriends than he does for me (daddy's only girls were mommy and me) in my last year of high school my father left and bought a house 1,102 miles away he still thinks he's daddy.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 1:48 PM UTC
parenting isn't for everyone
i wanna feel like i can go anywhere like the world is my playground and not my prison i want to feel free to see the open road in front of me driving somewhere anywhere but here while covered in a sheen of sweat the windows rolled down letting the warm summer air drift in and out of the car my heart feeling light in my chest i could fly away i could do anything. . .
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 2:00 AM UTC
liberty
stay and brave the storm or to roam into oblivion
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 1:08 AM UTC
which is braver? (10w)
i’m sitting at my kitchen table in my home that is no longer my home real or not real? sitting across from me is my mom my mom left this world six years ago real or not real? she takes a sip of her tea as i sip mine and she speaks real or not real? she tells me she is “in-between” she can still see things from the other side even though i can’t real or not real? i tell her i can feel her presence when she isn’t there real or not real? she looks me in the eyes and nods smiling, knowingly real or not real? I blurt out a question that’s been burning inside me “how did you die?” real or not real? she gathers herself as if already expecting this question to come real or not real? “i woke up choking, there was a light. Then everything stopped." real or not real? i open my eyes back in my room i had been sleeping. but had i been dreaming??
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 12:58 AM UTC
real or not real???
I want to be angry But there's no fight left in me I want to feel Anything But tired
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 2:21 AM UTC
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