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lauren-wood
You know my name now. Read on to learn my story.
Childhood innocence Endless imagination and Enchanted memories Never stop to think about Impermanence Several years later those same warm eyes Holding hands and Laughing and A breath of cigarette smoke
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Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 at 12:58 AM UTC
She, my lover
I want to smoke my lungs to ash I want to scream and open up my ******* veins I want to bleed and know that this will be the last time And as the life leaves my body I’ll sigh and hope you’re okay It never was your fault anyway
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Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 at 12:55 AM UTC
A silent scream
oh lord how she is grace and beauty oh devil how he is strong and tender she is the water and the sky he is the fire and the ground her smoothness softness valleys and rolling hills caressed by the moon his roughness sharpness ridges and hard lines forged in the sun she is my calm my love my shelter he is my excitement my passion my adventure she takes me down slow and enfolds me in her gentle soothing light he brings me up higher higher riding a wave of fire through the night oh lord how she is soft and lovely oh devil how he is vibrant and invincible
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Nov 10, 2016
Nov 10, 2016 at 11:35 PM UTC
my muses
To be quite honest this Concept is strange to Me I'm just Myself but To others my Mind is abnormal I ponder things other Couldn't care less about I understand concepts most People ignore And yet I feel stupid quite often Much of my mind is unexplored I daren't venture into the Cavernous chambers of Scorn I have for myself and Those who aren't intelligent because Who am I to think myself Superior to anyone?
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Sep 27, 2016
Sep 27, 2016 at 10:15 PM UTC
To be an intellectual
High expectations So many limitations Is there any way to go When my mind is always racing I'm chasing a life I was not born into Statistically one I'll never achieve Chest heaving Hands shaking I've got to get out of my head These thoughts of my mortality Will be what makes my end
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Sep 27, 2016
Sep 27, 2016 at 10:12 PM UTC
Untitled
Each day begins with The type of thoughts that I’d rather not disclose because You may think i’m ****** or Just kind of indisposed I read somewhere the gene for Artistry carries a Foe A higher predisposition for these Thoughts that make me groan and Some say this disordered thinking simply Means I’m contemplative even Intelligent or Just closed off to the thought of being Content Aint that a word The idea to be content to be Ok with all the things i’ve done Satisfied with my work enough to Say it’s good enough? No not something i can do As an Artist I spend my days lying in Contempt of my own mind Brilliantly undefined to the point of Madness Painting for hours on end Looking up when the suns gone down Massaging numbness from cold fingers Writing pages by lamplight Tearing papers in frustration Whitewashing paintings in a fit of Inadequacy As an Artist Nothing you do will ever be the best Not even your best A constant crushing cacaphony of all the potential and possibilities If youre like me you know Every second you’re betraying your own potential to do better Every moment not improving is a moment disrespecting What you were given But every moment working to improve is hellish Scrapping line after line of useless poetry and Smudged up paintings
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Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 11:18 PM UTC
To be an Artist
The empty expanses of echoing thought My mind quaking and shaking and break- -ing How can one say this is innocuous teenage angst? These lines only express to the power of the words I know how to put in them My world is abuzz with a cacophony of noises Each one of them violently wrenching me out Out of this calm I made for myself Out of the focused escapism I constructed here Out of the menial meandering monotonous tasks A blow to my skull all at once I sit dazed and unfocused once again All the senses overwhelmed once again My head spinning, tornado, once again I try to wrench myself back but they’ve cut the string I’m left here ‘til the next time The next time it all fades away The next time it all makes sense The next time i'm one of them If only for a fleeting bit of time If only for a single task completed If only for a moment’s respite To be like one of them is to be half myself But in their world half myself is twice myself Can I ever hope to understand why they desire to live as if nothing is happening? To be like one of them is to be someone else To be like one of them is to be enough And yet to be like one of them is to give up So much of myself denies the desire to be like them, and so much of me wants nothing more.
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Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 10:49 PM UTC
Out of this/Next Time/One of them
I sit here clenching my fists Staring at this paper unwelcoming Blank can mean a lot of things but today I cant think I cant stay alive I’m sorry friend I need to **** my mind This paper in front of me as blank as my plans for the future and every time I try to draw its as sloppy and flawed as my actions every word I try to write is hectic and frenzied like my thoughts and I’ve abandoned all meaning all meter and rhyme no longer separated into lines individual but a mass like the demons that corner me when im least expecting like the pain in my teeth when the novocaine wore off I didnt know didnt expect i knew it was coming but i was writhing when it hit just like this and i cant get my mind to slow the ebb and flow because this tornado is killing me the meds dont do much I cant take it much longer!
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 3:12 AM UTC
Untitled
I find myself breaking down again time and time again I remember the flaws the mistakes and the lies I spiral and lie in denial i'm on trial in my mind for the crimes i've committed but no, wait, this isn't my doing the demon inside of me trying to win, its goal to vanquish and I wanna give in, the only way to triumph, the only way to get by, is to begin to recognize when its me and when it's my demons they whisper and taunt and tell me to die sometimes it's hard I don't know how to cope sometimes I don't know how to trust It takes all I have sometimes Just to continue this ******* waste of a life
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 2:21 AM UTC
Spiralling
These hands of mine are shaking violent Quaking as tidal waves of doubt wash through me My insecurities eat me up inside as I try To tell you how I feel like I’m not real and How I know that if I were to go away You wouldn’t know any better than if I stayed And if I cry I might as well Just tell you about the hell I’m Living in because my tears show What my eyes and mouth will never tell they hold The remnants of my innocent soul and That’s not something I have much left of due to The pain I’ve been in all these years the Suicidal thoughts the ideation all the Lies and trials and tribulations I’ve Had to go through all alone But it was really by choice now Wasn’t it when I said That I was fine And didn’t let you in my mind I say it was because I felt Too insecure to share too anxious To speak of all my thoughts as if It was Pandora’s box for The evil in my brain So instead my hands shake and you ask me Why do they tremble when all the wind is gone And it is silent And I close my eyes to block the tears and tell you just As those we love are with us So is all the fear of Yesterday it was dark and windy and raining and storming And all around me there were demons howling and I was Crying and screaming and bleeding but it was me My fault I choked
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 11:39 PM UTC
Shaky