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selectiveparticipation
selectiveparticipation
Writings for release.
It's kind of like there are holes in reality And often times a hand is reaching out Grabbing at my feet and attempting to pull me underneath Sometimes it succeeds All too often I'm less concerned for myself and more so for what the people above me might think Screaming excuses that sound barely audible to the ones still on the ground, I'm below you and you still don't know To the people who haven't lost there footing and can't hear my cries I know that I'm odd at times And I'm sorry I can't let you in to see all the things happening inside But quite honestly my head is the only acceptable place I've ever been able to hide
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Nov 19, 2016
Nov 19, 2016 at 8:32 PM UTC
I'm sorry for always being so weird
It's most likely just my ****** disposition Picking flowers just to watch them wilt Maybe I've just been wilting Losing petals and color and life I can't keep ahold of anything Possibly just tearing out my own roots so no one else could do it for me Tired of replanting myself and tired of trying to become acquainted to new soil Adaptation is ******** and I don't want to play with change anymore but it's so ******* unfortunate how you usually have no choice or say in the matter, it's always so forced Forced to change or sit in the ruines And sometimes, I do Sometimes I stay there until I can't breathe in anymore ash Ether streaming to my lungs making its home there Sometimes I stay there long after everyone has left and I sit in it as long as I can Sometimes I leave before it can happen Sometimes it never does I tell myself it would have if I'd have stayed It would have changed Maybe it's just my ****** disposition Telling me that no matter what changes I make None of them will ever constitute as enough that your heart could ever feel the same as mine Now it's pounding in my temples telling me that I'm wasting my time Not enough, unloveable Not enough for anyone, but you aren't just anyone You're so much more and I have so much less than most And then comes the rejection of the thought, the tantrum, the dissociation, the I don't need love, the I'd rather be alone my entire life than deal with the pain of loving someone like there was a knife pressed against me and having them shove it in I don't need love But no matter how long that last I always want yours
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Jun 30, 2016
Jun 30, 2016 at 1:55 AM UTC
I can't write about anything but you
It's most likely just my ****** disposition Picking flowers just to watch them wilt Maybe I've just been wilting Losing petals and color and life I can't keep ahold of anything Possibly just tearing out my own roots so no one else could do it for me Tired of replanting myself and tired of trying to become acquainted to new soil Adaptation is ******** and I don't want to play with change anymore but it's so ******* unfortunate how you usually have no choice or say in the matter, it's always so forced Forced to change or sit in the ruines And sometimes, I do Sometimes I stay there until I can't breathe in anymore ash Ether streaming to my lungs making its home there Sometimes I stay there long after everyone has left and I sit in it as long as I can Sometimes I leave before it can happen Sometimes it never does I tell myself it would have if I'd have stayed It would have changed Maybe it's just my ****** disposition Telling me that no matter what changes I make None of them will ever constitute as enough that your heart could ever feel the same as mine Now it's pounding in my temples telling me that I'm wasting my time Not enough, unloveable Not enough for anyone, but you aren't just anyone You're so much more and I have so much less than most And then comes the rejection of the thought, the tantrum, the dissociation, the I don't need love, the I'd rather be alone my entire life than deal with the pain of loving someone like there was a knife pressed against me and having them shove it in I don't need love But no matter how long that last I always want yours
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Maybe you've just got to understand that you simply aren't and cannot be the soft little bunny that people around you wish you were Maybe you were made out of the tight grip you keep on your knife when you walk at night and blank stares so cold you ice over men's ego Maybe you were made from the fire that runs through your mothers veins and the way she let your father treat her just to keep you safe but you need to listen closely now Your sharp edges are just as beautiful as that little creatures purity You aren't merely a person You're a tornado and you're lightning and fire and roaring oceans and you're the moon But even through this You hold more beauty in you than you will ever know Maybe you aren't easy to love or understand but the ones that do cannot forget about the mark you left on them You're breath taking and you are blinding and intense and what can be more alluring than all of this Nonetheless, you are loved No matter what thoughts your head tries to drown you in You are loved
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Jun 29, 2016
Jun 29, 2016 at 2:14 AM UTC
letter to myself
I'm trying to remember how to write poetry, but lately I've been living it Touching your skin has calmed all the words that I've ever had boiling in me Being with you is like putting smoke in the honey combs to calm the bees and you're the smoker But also the honey I want to protect with all of my little life I'm the swarm of bees because God knows I can't keep my mind quiet without you It's not a good thing, I don't rely on you but I've never felt something so surreal as laying down entangled in one another I'm addicted to the way you talk in your sleep and the way you place your tongue when you think and the things that you say to put me at ease Mainly, I'm addicted to you Your messy hair and messy house and messy words and you're still beautiful throughout it all I've been completely love sick for months on end and they just keep coming Something new, to scare me, to make me feel like everything we built will collapse But you're still here and I'm still sleeping in your bed when I actually can get to sleep and stop looking at my world snoring softly beside me I love you so fully it's eating at my mind, because all I can feel is my heart swelling inside me
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 5:41 AM UTC
Still him, always him
You're going to realize that I'm not worth staying for You're going to realize it even if you don't have to go like you say you might You told me you might disappear and never come back and all I could do was cry because I finally gained some hope that you might not leave this time You might not come into my life again just to leave it a wreck like the last Like a ******* tornado, ripping all my heartlessness and disinterest out of the roots of who I am and seeing some of the things I keep down so deep inside just to vanish Abandonment should feel normal by now but I never felt like my entire structure was collapsing when someone left until it was you I realized that hope is the worst thing a person could have It will destroy everything you thought you had I'm going to blink and the only thing I loved is going to be gone You're going to leave me And I'm going to act like it's okay until I can't breathe and I haven't left my bed for weeks and I quit smoking because it's too much to move from my mattress to the window Because I can't find a lighter and I lose everything I touch I shouldn't have ever touched you I shouldn't have ever met you, you're going to destroy me You're going to leave me in ruins but none of it ******* matters when I've got your skin on mine and your lips on mine and your eyes on me I could care less about the things that you're going to do to me I've never meant what I've written so god **** much in this moment Abandon all hope It's a sinking ship If you want to die, hold on but I'm ready to jump I wish that things could be different In a different life I think we could be together for a very long time But this world isn't that one And no matter how much I wish it was and how much I want to wake up to you every morning it just isn't going to happen
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May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016 at 3:20 AM UTC
leave
You're going to realize that I'm not worth staying for You're going to realize it even if you don't have to go like you say you might You told me you might disappear and never come back and all I could do was cry because I finally gained some hope that you might not leave this time You might not come into my life again just to leave it a wreck like the last Like a ******* tornado, ripping all my heartlessness and disinterest out of the roots of who I am and seeing some of the things I keep down so deep inside just to vanish Abandonment should feel normal by now but I never felt like my entire structure was collapsing when someone left until it was you I realized that hope is the worst thing a person could have It will destroy everything you thought you had I'm going to blink and the only thing I loved is going to be gone You're going to leave me And I'm going to act like it's okay until I can't breathe and I haven't left my bed for weeks and I quit smoking because it's too much to move from my mattress to the window Because I can't find a lighter and I lose everything I touch I shouldn't have ever touched you I shouldn't have ever met you, you're going to destroy me You're going to leave me in ruins but none of it ******* matters when I've got your skin on mine and your lips on mine and your eyes on me I could care less about the things that you're going to do to me I've never meant what I've written so god **** much in this moment Abandon all hope It's a sinking ship If you want to die, hold on but I'm ready to jump I wish that things could be different In a different life I think we could be together for a very long time But this world isn't that one And no matter how much I wish it was and how much I want to wake up to you every morning it just isn't going to happen
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You've got me choking on smiles Laughing at crooked brain waves Sometimes I don't know what to say But you've started to settle in Like sand in the ocean Once you past a certain point you can only sink deeper from there You've got me choking on laughter Like I'm trying to swallow it and pretend it wasn't ever there I like that I don't have to try so hard And that you like me better when I don't Don't overanalyze it too much I do it just enough for the both of us But you're starting to take it away and I'm smirking just thinking about saying your name Most of the time I don't even know what I'm saying But I like the fact that I'm into the idea of staying
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Sep 26, 2015
Sep 26, 2015 at 12:05 AM UTC
Silly
We've let the world harden us We've become afraid of keeping our softness Mistaking being vulnerable with being malleable Because before we get hurt we're open books Letting fingers skim our pages Letting minds invelop us Not afraid to be seen or touched or loved Then someone is careless All it takes is once Careless hands and hearts and heads we've let change us Like a chemical reaction things cannot be repaired to the way they were before And we've become callused We've developed shells and locks and steel walls to trap ourselves away To make sure no one will ever do the things that they have to us again We become cold and distant and I'm not sure if I can fathom that this is not irrevocable I won't say that I can't try with all my might I won't say that This isn't permanent and we unfreeze ourselves and thaw out once the right warmth gets close to us And were left open, sometimes people will read through us, they study our every word like they're in a trance and still decide that they don't want to ever pick us up again Sometimes the pages get ripped out and burned and sometimes we get written in and thrown away and left in boxes or never touched But even with a few missing pages Even being changed One day someone will pick us up and read us over and over again They'll keep pieces of us inside their heads and recite words that are written throughout us They'll never keep us far away One day someone is going to knock down all your walls They won't do it in a way that feels like you're crumbling but one that you're unsure of when it started to happen or how and before you know it you will have let them in and they'll unlock doors for you so you can see what's been there the whole time So be hard, be cold as ice, be distant, be quiet, be closed off, just know that it won't always work All your efforts might not keep you protected Someone is going to warm you up straight to your bones and wake all the bees in your stomach from their slumber and restart your heart in such a way that you couldn't remember the last time you felt your blood screaming in your veins declaring itself alive and in love You're going to fall in love with someone that wants to live inside of you and never wants to leave And it's going to feel like going home
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 8:59 PM UTC
Cold
We've let the world harden us We've become afraid of keeping our softness Mistaking being vulnerable with being malleable Because before we get hurt we're open books Letting fingers skim our pages Letting minds invelop us Not afraid to be seen or touched or loved Then someone is careless All it takes is once Careless hands and hearts and heads we've let change us Like a chemical reaction things cannot be repaired to the way they were before And we've become callused We've developed shells and locks and steel walls to trap ourselves away To make sure no one will ever do the things that they have to us again We become cold and distant and I'm not sure if I can fathom that this is not irrevocable I won't say that I can't try with all my might I won't say that This isn't permanent and we unfreeze ourselves and thaw out once the right warmth gets close to us And were left open, sometimes people will read through us, they study our every word like they're in a trance and still decide that they don't want to ever pick us up again Sometimes the pages get ripped out and burned and sometimes we get written in and thrown away and left in boxes or never touched But even with a few missing pages Even being changed One day someone will pick us up and read us over and over again They'll keep pieces of us inside their heads and recite words that are written throughout us They'll never keep us far away One day someone is going to knock down all your walls They won't do it in a way that feels like you're crumbling but one that you're unsure of when it started to happen or how and before you know it you will have let them in and they'll unlock doors for you so you can see what's been there the whole time So be hard, be cold as ice, be distant, be quiet, be closed off, just know that it won't always work All your efforts might not keep you protected Someone is going to warm you up straight to your bones and wake all the bees in your stomach from their slumber and restart your heart in such a way that you couldn't remember the last time you felt your blood screaming in your veins declaring itself alive and in love You're going to fall in love with someone that wants to live inside of you and never wants to leave And it's going to feel like going home
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I've got pieces of my soul telling me to come home soon If only they knew how hard I've been struggling to
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 6:20 PM UTC
Tired eyes
I can write about all the ways we miscommunicate Words and phrases and lack of response Blank faced with no sense of emotion or displays of affection Unsure of whatever spectrum we're on But if we even are on the same one, we're on opposite sides It's funny how I can bleed out through pen ink but I can't ever seem to annunciate My words won't translate into how I feel to anyones face and yours is no exception in this case Barriers I feel terrified to get through The break downs are rough and like milk you had in the fridge for months You forgot it was there but when you find it it's spoiled
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 10:59 AM UTC
Bleak
I remember when you asked me if I ever really loved you I told you that I did, but I don't know why I never told you I never told you that I loved you because your laugh sounded like something no symphony could have compared to Like you were stealing stars Picking them out of the sky with your bare hands and hiding them in your stomach So when you opened your mouth all I could see and feel was light The scars in your skin reminded me of the moon's craters Like you had weathered storms and bashings and so many collisions it was a surprise you hadn't crumbled The result of it was on your flesh but you were still the most beautiful thing I had ever seen And like the waves created by our satellites gravity, I always fell into yours You moved and stirred me like the sea Like I would lose every last piece of me and you'd become the only reason I felt moved by anything Your eyes had more depth to them than any sinkhole or cave or ocean our planet could ever hold I'd get lost in the way your pupils were like tunnels, entries to every last part of you that I couldn't run my fingers over and press my lips to but god, did I ******* try They were like black holes that swallowed me whole and once I was in I was trapped inside of you and I never wanted to leave I'd stare and stare and wonder how I'd see so much light in all the darkness I loved you because you had always been the most beautiful concept I could never fully wrap my mind around I loved you, and I always will to some degree You became such an all encompassing piece of me
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 2:15 AM UTC
Why keep quiet now?
I remember when you asked me if I ever really loved you I told you that I did, but I don't know why I never told you I never told you that I loved you because your laugh sounded like something no symphony could have compared to Like you were stealing stars Picking them out of the sky with your bare hands and hiding them in your stomach So when you opened your mouth all I could see and feel was light The scars in your skin reminded me of the moon's craters Like you had weathered storms and bashings and so many collisions it was a surprise you hadn't crumbled The result of it was on your flesh but you were still the most beautiful thing I had ever seen And like the waves created by our satellites gravity, I always fell into yours You moved and stirred me like the sea Like I would lose every last piece of me and you'd become the only reason I felt moved by anything Your eyes had more depth to them than any sinkhole or cave or ocean our planet could ever hold I'd get lost in the way your pupils were like tunnels, entries to every last part of you that I couldn't run my fingers over and press my lips to but god, did I ******* try They were like black holes that swallowed me whole and once I was in I was trapped inside of you and I never wanted to leave I'd stare and stare and wonder how I'd see so much light in all the darkness I loved you because you had always been the most beautiful concept I could never fully wrap my mind around I loved you, and I always will to some degree You became such an all encompassing piece of me
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