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F/New York There are shades to beautiful, but mine come in black.
Why can't you feel this? How i am sinking...right back down to where the darkness lives. How tall men and lipstick-red lies paint my dreams at night, instead of sleep. How the only time i can feel the cold is when i lay on the floor, drooling, with whiskey pouring from my being. How the taste of food is just a grey sky with sharp clouds. How i feel myself slipping, but no one can see me...
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Nov 18, 2020
Nov 18, 2020 at 12:30 AM UTC
Untitled because there is nothing i have left
There is a ring on my left hand; it is just as much a knife to my back as a knife in my pocket as I walk down a dark alley. It is the light at the end of a tunnel that is already lit and the light by which we guide ourselves home by in the night. It is the bullet that misses its innocent target and the bullet that explodes in the hands of a person defending their home. This ring, that glints in the night, and shields me...holds the answer and the questions.
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Feb 15, 2020
Feb 15, 2020 at 7:53 PM UTC
Commitment
I poured the cold coffee into the sink and watched as it spiraled down the drain. I haven't used sugar to sweeten my sleep supplement in years. I need to learn that this blackness will never fill the hole in my chest, it will never make the ache go away. That sleepless nights are not enough punishment for the wrongs I've done. That dragging my feet, and rubbing my blood shot eyes, cannot make up for the hearts I've hurt.
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Jan 29, 2020
Jan 29, 2020 at 4:53 PM UTC
Withdrawl
Last night he called me precious. He said that I was precious just like a sunset. But i am sure that one day he won't believe that anymore. One day I will let go of the storm right under my tongue that i have been holding at bay. One day i will let waterfalls pour out of my eyes and drown everything. One day he will wake up and open his phone and look at me, or perhaps another girl, but he will realize the same thing: That i am not what he thought i was. With my cold hands that match a cold heart. With blue eyes that hint at a brighter soul than there is. With light skin that hides more darkness than the alleyways downtown. With restless muscles that can only mean hidden rage. And that sunsets are never quite what you see them as.
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Jan 3, 2020
Jan 3, 2020 at 4:15 PM UTC
Not precious; just precarious
The leaves of the trees have lost their color, and are falling to the ground, cold, and dead. The air bites at any exposed skin and I can no longer feel my fingers. The sky is always dark and dull. There are no sounds of birds in the morning when I wake. There are no flowers in the frozen ground. And as I sit, on the frigid cement, I realize, that I have no reason to be here, once again.
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Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019 at 8:12 PM UTC
Realize
Maybe I'm tired. What if I told you I couldn't remember the last time I've gotten more than seven hourse of sleep? Would you believe me? I could be lying to you. I could be lying about staying up, starring at my ceiling with bloodshot eyes, thinking about what a girl, with purple hair and a heart, that once used to be so cold, told me words that i never wanted to hear. Even if it might have only been in a dream Evenifitdidntmakemefeelanything Imtootired Tofeelanything Maybe you'd believe me if I described it with intricate detail? How The air was cold and the blanket I slept with didnt quite cover my shoulders or my feet How the coldness touching my skin Just matched the temperature Inside my chest and how The side of my bed dipped from Broken metal springs Just like my bones That felt close to dust Because of the exhaustion Dripping Off of my being How the red numbers on my alarm clock were six minutes too far From the present and How the metal rings on my right hand Cut into My skin But not enough to break the surface How the hours passed And i did not blink I could not look Away From the glowing stars I so oh Deperately wanted to return to To recycle myself into this earth And maybe have a slight chance Of giving back Some Of all that I have taken from it If It meant I wouldnt be so tired But I could be lying. I could be. What if I am? If I told you I was, would you believe me? Maybe not Because only someone who has felt like that can put it into pretty words? So I musnt be lying?
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Aug 31, 2019
Aug 31, 2019 at 10:51 PM UTC
Tired
Maybe I'm tired. What if I told you I couldn't remember the last time I've gotten more than seven hourse of sleep? Would you believe me? I could be lying to you. I could be lying about staying up, starring at my ceiling with bloodshot eyes, thinking about what a girl, with purple hair and a heart, that once used to be so cold, told me words that i never wanted to hear. Even if it might have only been in a dream Evenifitdidntmakemefeelanything Imtootired Tofeelanything Maybe you'd believe me if I described it with intricate detail? How The air was cold and the blanket I slept with didnt quite cover my shoulders or my feet How the coldness touching my skin Just matched the temperature Inside my chest and how The side of my bed dipped from Broken metal springs Just like my bones That felt close to dust Because of the exhaustion Dripping Off of my being How the red numbers on my alarm clock were six minutes too far From the present and How the metal rings on my right hand Cut into My skin But not enough to break the surface How the hours passed And i did not blink I could not look Away From the glowing stars I so oh Deperately wanted to return to To recycle myself into this earth And maybe have a slight chance Of giving back Some Of all that I have taken from it If It meant I wouldnt be so tired But I could be lying. I could be. What if I am? If I told you I was, would you believe me? Maybe not Because only someone who has felt like that can put it into pretty words? So I musnt be lying?
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This is etched into my bones, carved, into my very being. And i don't want to be bound by the flawed framework of my body...so tell me, what does it take to escape?
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Aug 14, 2019
Aug 14, 2019 at 9:50 AM UTC
A Labyrinth of Sorts
And I have been fighting, I have been fighting since I knew I had to fight. Since I knew what it was. I was fighting against the smoke that blew its way out of my brother's lungs in the middle of the night when he thought i was asleep. I was fighting against my father's uncontrollable anger, and hands that roamed my body when I didn't want them to. I was fighting against my friends darkness and my own. But I never once, had to fight you.
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Aug 10, 2019
Aug 10, 2019 at 2:42 PM UTC
A Tribute To A Girl I had Once Loved
I have these masses of hollow spaces inside of my chest, and I don't mean to get my hopes up, but I want to believe, that you are trying to do some good. But meanwhile, I am ******* air into this body; I can't feel my lungs, and I realize, that I don't want any of it.
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Aug 7, 2019
Aug 7, 2019 at 12:41 PM UTC
Repair
And all they heard was, white noise. In the midst of their own self destruction.
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Aug 5, 2019
Aug 5, 2019 at 8:28 PM UTC
White noise