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friendofapoet
you know, i have this pen that i borrowed from somebody, i don't even remember who it was, but i kept it, i still have it, because i knew that's the pen that you liked that exact brand, the same model, the same ink, i couldn't get rid of it, even after the ink ran out, i kept this stupid meaningless pen, the one without purpose, just like i kept these feelings, i'll keep holding onto them for you in case you come back and you need them like you'd need your favorite pen
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Jan 13, 2022
Jan 13, 2022 at 3:44 AM UTC
your favorite pen
it's writing about how ****** up i am that's what i use to avoid actually acknowledging how to get better writing about how i'd rather be doped up than go to therapy when really it's my self-sabotage that got me here i've been spiraling for a while just word ***** again and again but none of it makes enough sense it's finding someone else to fix it someone else to talk at midnight just someone to dump all of my problems on but this is how i wind up hating myself how i say that i'm one of the people i never wanted to see myself become but here i am trauma dumping on a bunch of strangers on the internet because i can right? as long as i hide behind a screen no one has to see the crusted tears that have accumulated on my face right? seems normal enough
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Jan 10, 2022
Jan 10, 2022 at 2:40 AM UTC
normal enough
i started to realize that i didn't want the diagnosis because i wanted to get better i wanted the diagnosis because i wanted to be drugged up to finally feel good, or to fade into nothing my own sweet little oblivion because if i just slept, and didn't wake up, it wouldn't bother anyone i've thought about a coma how it might be my way out to be unconscious for so long to not wake up for months maybe that would help me just wait until everything is normal until i'm normal i've thought about taking the type of drugs that make you forget the kind that makes it all go away like that one SSRI i had i woke up, and couldn't remember yesterday or the last month it felt good until i had to write it all down just so i didn't forget what i was doing then i keep thinking nothing's wrong that it's really just something wrong with me that i've been lying to myself that's what my mom says and then my friends say to look into it and my head is scrambling to pick up the pieces of late night internet searches, desperately trying to find some label to whats in my head and only coming to the conclusion that it really isn't real maybe i'm not real and that's why i can never figure it out maybe that's why my hands feel numb, and all of the songs i listen to seem to rearrange themselves in my head into words i don't want to hear anymore maybe that's why there are some parts of me i'd like to get rid just to feel the weight of existence get off me
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Jan 10, 2022
Jan 10, 2022 at 2:32 AM UTC
Untitled
it's that feeling, the one where you turn up the music to turn down the noise in your head the one where you took a drive just to scream at the steering wheel and curse at it for not being something else curse at yourself for not being someone else as your hand slams down on the dash it's the feeling where you've run out of options where you just stop caring and stop feeling so you decide let's ******* feel liquor pours into wounds and stings less than salt smoke makes the bees in your head weary, withering away makes you feel alive it's that feeling where you lost hope the one where you don't know what to do
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Jul 21, 2021
Jul 21, 2021 at 1:14 AM UTC
without title
was a wish wasn't it something that you could have said over and over again wishing for something different but the truth can only be one thing cant it? i think that we've had enough of the lies and the pretty words to cover up for the bad paint job you left on life like something left rusty after your sick water damage nice sugar coating until we all got heart disease it has no meaning the words i'm writing not to me but i'm still feeling bitter i hope you feel it too
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Jun 23, 2021
Jun 23, 2021 at 12:29 AM UTC
Untitled
forget just forget become who you always wanted to be not me though never me not the one with the past and the need for sad eyes and drama black clouded dreams, a swarm of flies and rot, but dark forests and a different story calls out to me anyone else not me though must forget must lie in the land until the dirt takes me as it's own, makes me a child of moss yeah, i think that's who i'll be forget me easily
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Jun 23, 2021
Jun 23, 2021 at 12:22 AM UTC
child of moss
you ever read the words you wrote and remember crying hunched over a keyboard a notebook pencil in hand wishing for ******* death wishing for something to take over your body willing your head to float like you drowned but you've been drowning your entire life this year it felt like the ocean clung to your heart with iron chains wrapped around it like a snake coiling around you choking you to death you ever read the words you wrote and wondered why you hurt so bad? wondered why you're reading it again because you know you're just going to feel the pain over and over again you ever read it again out loud feel the tar dripping in your heart feel the blood leaving your body in perfect little parallel lines you ever read the words you wrote just to feel it to go back to illness go back to anger just because all of that feeling is so much better than being numb
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Jun 22, 2021
Jun 22, 2021 at 1:31 AM UTC
ever read it again?
I'll give you something to cry about! I'll give you a transcript of all the things you said a record of all the things you did a clever recollection for you to look at after you're done looking at my corpse. I'll give you a mistress and traumatic time, I won't, however, give you custody of the kids, or even allow visitation. I'll be a cruel ******* and give you a miserable life. My plan was to get you hooked on money, and my stupid ******* personality, dictatorship and addicts withdrawal are sure to ensue. Miss. Elizabeth Ann, I'll give you a good time, only until I find someone different.
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Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021 at 12:42 AM UTC
Mrs. Broderick
Top hats and bow ties sweet heart candies and deep red dresses a meaningless fantasy that I should've never had, not with you anyways. Frizzy hair underneath grey fedoras and bright eyes below dark eye lashes and excessive amounts of eyeliner. This is life now, me with my caked on makeup and poorly died hair tea and nose rings. Strangely enough, I think they go together well. Teenage years and a different sexuality, drivers license and a new gender. Small crisis and a big smile, fake laughter, and very real tears. What a year. What a year
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Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021 at 12:19 AM UTC
what a year
yes, there might have once been a bitter sweet boy but have you ever heard of the honey eyed girl? the one who made the bitter boy better? the girl with splinters in her palms, and pine needles in her hair? yes, there may have been a bitter sweet boy, but did you hear about that sweet little child who spoke softly of sweet taffy and maple syrup like it was their savior? yes there might have been a bitter sweet boy, but have you heard of the boy who was so much easier to like? the quiet one who sat in the back who never knew who in the **** he was? the boy who wasn't dark and mysterious and didn't have his sights on hurting you for ever thinking to ask how he was did you ever hear of that boy? the sweet one?
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Jun 17, 2021
Jun 17, 2021 at 10:21 PM UTC
the sweeter ones