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jls
jls
18/M/las vegas
We are told that life is sacred, but how? How could something so sacred be taken so easily? Treated so roughly? Completely destroyed? Life is beautiful, yes, but only part of the time. Life is tragedy after tragedy after tragedy speckled in with moments of light. Light that gets lost in the void of pain and misery that seems so symbiotic with life. Were we always this way? Living life only to suffer- to make others suffer? Was there once a time that we were a species of love in this cold expanse? Way back, some long time ago, could people live without fearing their own? Part of me wants to believe that is true But somehow, the belief evades me. Perhaps it’s that I know how much we can hate How deeply we despise How a mother can look to her child and tell him to suffer How a father can tell his child that he deserves no happiness, not if he has any say in it And he has. Perhaps it’s that I’ve experienced first hand the realization that what should be the purest love is conditional That we can be dropped in a heartbeat over a simple disagreement That everything they’ve done for us and everything we’ve done for them means nothing. Life is sacred, yes, but there will always be the sacrilegious And they do not rest.
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Jan 18, 2020
Jan 18, 2020 at 10:48 AM UTC
An open letter to the sacred
its been a month funny how time flies it seems only yesterday you were there laughing smiling holding my hand singing along to showtunes in the car we were happier than we had ever been i shouldve known it would end life has a hard-on for ******* me over ruining all the good in my life . . . whyd it happen to you of all people . . . we had a lot of plans college together an apartment in the city maybe getting married adopting a kid or two spending another thirteen years as best friends and then some but those plans never work out do they? . . . i dont know how ill move on . . . i listened to the cd the karaoke we did at the arcade two years ago livin on a prayer we were fifteen freshman in high school even when youre scream-singing you have an amazing voice had you had an amazing voice i envy the angels who hear you singing now save a song for me . . . i hope this finds you wherever you are i figured polaris would help . . . you are my home always have been always will be . . . farewell . . . ill see you soon
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May 25, 2019
May 25, 2019 at 8:34 PM UTC
a farewell, of sorts, addressed to polaris
when will you realize that the red, uniform lines stained on my sheets arent the result of a ****** nose arent because of un-bandaged scratches but from your words your actions your inflicted pain your refusal to accept your ****** parenting your ignorance of my pain of my depression of my anxiety of my sexuality of the way i feel as i see myself in a mirror and think what am i who am i why am i like this when i pray to the gods i dont believe in asking pleading begging for some comfort to know that im not a mistake that im not worthless that im not unloved that im not hopeless although i feel like it although i feel like ill never make it although i feel like nothing will ever get better and that im destined to be the one who brings about my own downfall to be the one at the trigger to be the one holding the knife to be the one who tied the noose to be the one who opened the pills the poison i pick is the feeling of nothingness this is my future this is what i spend my time pondering while cleaning the blood from my thighs while washing the broken glass that cuts my skin while splashing water on my face while brushing away the tears while practicing how to smile in the mirror while rehearsing my lines while pretending im fine, dont worry about me while trying to seem like im always here im always happy im always feeling but you wouldnt know that would you
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 7:42 PM UTC
a note to my parents