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jaredmsteele
jaredmsteele
a guy that takes anything life throws at him and deposits it into the bank that is my broken soul...
They say there's a reason why The rearview is smaller than the windshield but I digress, it's a sick twisted thought in my mind that I cannot push away and haunts my soul each and every day Move on, they said. But what if I don't want to? What if they're wrong? What if they just don't know you like I do? Move on, I said. All I did was care Too much, you said I would never hurt you But my advances were arrows to you My heart was a gun and now I'm out of ammunition I walk these streets Broken and torn Reminded by the memories of us, now distant and forlorn I pull my hoodie strings as tight as they can go Hiding as much of myself possible to people I don't know With a permanently neutral expression on my face I'd give anything to erase The memories of what was once something good That's now slowly strangling me by the strings of my hood...
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM UTC
Move On
We tell them we’re fine But it’s not like they’d listen anyway, right? Save your words They won’t be heard And the silence is what you really prefer We tell them we’re fine They won’t know the difference Our emotionless face won’t show it Our broken hearts won’t bestow it Why try to explain When the only feeling we know is pain We tell them we’re fine Because we just want to be left alone We don’t want them to listen We can solve it ourselves Take another hit, make another slit It’ll be alright We tell them we’re f*cked up Because we don’t want to be alone We want them to listen We can’t solve it ourselves Put the drugs away, put the razor down It’ll be alright...
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 11:55 PM UTC
We Tell Them We're Fine
Depression is like a stage crew It's there but no one else likes to recognize it "It'll pass", they assure But it doesn't It has no cure No pills can silence the voices in my head No one's words can make me feel better No therapy can assure me it will be okay So I sit and have a one-way chat With the demons that lie within And curse the ones who started this whole charade But I must realize that they'll never win
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 11:48 PM UTC
Depression (in a nutshell)
Alone Webster says it means without anyone else I say it means when your soul melts Alone just isn't by yourself Alone is putting your personality on a dusty old shelf Like an old book that you've finished reading You stand solitary and useless And deep down inside your heart is bleeding Bleeding from what? you may ask A simple thing, just one little task A quest for love... A quest to live the dream that everyone around you lives But you can't Instead it's just you and only you standing there Hopeless as you stand in front of that mirror The heart yearns for attention that you'll seemingly never receive But something inside tells you to believe Only to be let down time and again Love hurts. Love stinks. amen. Your friends always tell you that you aren't alone But that phrase has merely become a drone Alone is a constant battle of ups and downs But mostly downs And you wonder if you'll ever find love They say give it time, you're young But isn't nearly 20 years long enough? Enough to experience what God intended us to all feel? 20 years by yourself is rough And after your apparently endless fall Maybe it's best to leave the book on the shelf after all...
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 10:46 PM UTC
Alone
To the kid that no one sits with at lunch To the kid that has no friends To the kid that can't feel love To the kid that forgot how to smile To the kid whose parents say "why'd I have to have one like this?" To the kid who has to inflict pain to know they're still alive To the kid who's in an endless cycle of depression To the kid who has funky colored hair To the kid who has no hair To the kid that gets battered and bruised for who they are To the kid that yearns for attention they never get To the kid that can't think straight To the kid that isn't straight To the kid that can't feel what life should be Depression. That's all you feel You can no longer tell what's fake and what's real And the voices in your head-the real you is what they conceal They tell you to pick up that knife That's what'll make it better So you bleed and you scream and you plead and you try to deem What's right and what's wrong But in the end, is anything really....right? Put down the knife and think back.... You're here for a reason And no matter what that reason may be, you serve a purpose If you think long enough, that image might start to surface You're here for a reason...
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 12:22 AM UTC
To the kid...