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I think I hear a voice screaming.
It's inside my head and I can't tell if it is mine.
All I know is I'm not allowed to be myself,
Inside of my head.
That's the thing about nostalgia,
it stings until you give in.
You can't escape from it,
if you were running away from it,
then it would win the race.
Part of me hopes you'll find my poetry.
You'll know just who it's about.
Then you can see me,
Beautifully telling everyone else the story:
Of how ****** up you are.
It's fine right?
Because it's not so direct,
You can never complain about me.
We strive for perfection
but it's a goal we can't reach
Because we only see imperfection
Or at least in ourselves
I see his face inside my head,
Scenes flash in front of me
And then I realise it's all just
Make-believe.
I think I like to play this game where I try to forget you.
I know this is not a poem and I don't count it as one, but this came into my thoughts ages ago and felt like I should write it down and I've now come to the conclusion of wanting to post it here.
The closest thing that I believe to be completely true
is that everyone and everything is all just an illusion
I know that I run to hide in my thoughts too much.
In my mind you love me,
In real life not so much.

Dissociation can be my monomania
But instead it's just the made up
Version of you.
How can I settle
When life feels like it's
Falling apart inside of me?

Whatever I make of myself
Will be only a whisper,
Explaining only pointless,
All of my purpose
Doubtful.
Sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong
Just by existing.
I'm not sure there's any life
That I really want to be living.
How many times could I stop?
How many times do I want to just turn it all off.
It would still exist but maybe I could get rid of it for a while.
Just never look again,
But I need to find out things;
I can't just back away;
Or try that way of making me okay.
I’m sorry for letting the darkness seep in,
So many times, and for telling you about it,
I should have let it fester quietly instead,
Then maybe you wouldn’t have got fed up and left just yet.
Yesterday I took two.
Today I took one
I still ate too much,
I never learn.
I did though once,
It's just it's harder when you know you could get caught.
I told myself that it's okay,
Because I need it
Not because some people do it to get thin.
I did, I think I might be doing it again.
I need to stop pretending to have things that I can never have.
So that one day I can't stop,
To freeze my life
So I can - just imagine that.
I either feel empty or shattered,
So take your pick.
Perhaps I just feel like something's missing from me.
Or maybe I'm just a hurt, miserable, self-destructive and self-pitying little girl.
Part of me probably wants to be sad,
But the other doesn't have a clue what's happening.
I want him here to help with this,
However together we don't exist at all,
We're just strangers.
And I'm just a lonely loser.
I guess I just want a person who seems like he does.
Someone who wouldn't understand but could anyway.
I want him to be able to take the pain away,
In a romantic sense other than the support my friends offer me,
Even though I know that is enough.
You know,
I expected them to call out to her.
Like I could have done.
Because we were best friends and I had the right to,
And everyone could see and know that.
Were.
At that moment they didn't,
So I continued to listen, waiting.
I thought to myself how I expect them to,
But that even though,
If they did I'd somehow be disappointed.
Then they did so I just thought about it.
But they didn't call from much of a distance after her.
Knowing that nothing can be fixed,
The damage has already been done,
And you can't get rid of it,
No matter how far you've come;
That's the pain you cannot ease.
FYI: the reason for 2 dates is because I was looking over old things I'd written roughly and I adapted it slightly to make it an actual poem this time.
I can't thread my thoughts into beautiful emotion
They're too unprepossessing
And tangled in fear.
If you could hear all this noise,
It would sound disgraceful
I'm sorry my dear.
If I gave you a piece of me,
Would you keep it,
Or would you break it,
Or would you make something useful out of me?
Everything’s crashing down on me,
Breaking
Sometimes softly but
I can still feel it,
I breathe it in and out
Everyday,
While I’m still not understanding
What am I supposed to do with it,
I don’t feel like coping,
I don’t feel like writing
And I don’t want to tell.

Everything’s spinning around in circles in my head
And it’s a dark place where the light still exists anyway,
They say I see in black and white,
Without reason for the black while I don’t get why there’s any light,
Because it only sends me into darkness.

Am I supposed to make this
Beautiful?
I feel like I need a rest,
I feel like I want to hide from everything that could evoke a potential thought.
Maybe they are winning, I don’t feel like I am.

Wasting, running out of people to leave me,
I don’t want anymore.
And even those I love make me selfishly feel sad,
All because I know I should be happy for them,
What if they become as messed up as me one day?
I think my soul will fade away.
I could momentarily forget
And it would all be fine for a day
But I don't like forgetting
Or pretending I don't feel the way I do
But for the sake of others
It looks like I'll almost always have to
It's funny how you apologise for slight and minimal accidents,
but you don't give a **** about creating explosions of Hell.
You're so ironic that your names could be the definition.
I'd rather you'd have accidently nudged me
than destroy my every thought.
Seeping in again,
Can I wash it out?
These same old feelings
Are coming out to play.

Maybe I should let this settle me,
After all it’s been a while,
Shouldn’t it be nice to know it still exists,
That I am capable of still feeling like this?

Fearful, nervous, agitated
There is no reason, it’s just me.
The only change of plans is that I now don’t have to force it,
I don’t have to go outside,
It usually gets worse when I have to do the opposite,
So this should make me feel relief,
Instead I am still wired.
I don’t know why I’m even posting this because it’s a load of ******* but this is a form of backing my poems up, instead of writing them down, which is quicker. Not that this deserves not to disappear.
There is nothing now.
Nothing is anymore,
But that happened before.
Give me a problem,
Something I can stick with.
Except I don't want to completely lose everything.
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Dead inside
Just close your eyes
One day you will wake up
Everything will be fine
Those demonic thoughts and feelings
Were suffocating me in bed last night.
I tried to bring you back to me
And told you never to go,
I whimpered that you can never leave me.
The only problem is that you were never there
Because you only exist in my maladaptive daydreams.
I think I'm quiet
But I think they think I'm too loud
When I think I'm loud
They say I'm so quiet
Cut me open
Tear out my soul
I can't seem to find the use
Of anything anymore


Everything just hurts


She tells me to allow myself to feel emotions I already feel too much
She tells me to accept what I've long ago accepted
That doesn't mean it hasn't still come to play inside my head
And that does not mean I haven't accepted reality
I accept it and try to get it to *******
It never really does though

And that's just me,
That's just me in my not so subsiding self-pity


You don't really have a clue how much I hurt
How much I feel
"I do so ******* much for you and this is how you treat me"
The words are unspoken
But I still hear them loudly,
It's true I'm no use
So I guess it's good that there's only a few to still bother with me.
I'd like to be normal please,
Not having to wonder about what will happen when I leave
Thinking I'll feel trapped again,
Where I won't even be able to do anything.
Nostalgia always envelopes me and mixes with what I want the future to be
But it hurts me and I just have to stop and think,
Because I'm not sure that's attainable anymore.

Then I think I need comfort,
I imagine what could have been
Which is painful too,
But what else can I do?
I try a lot but often I'm too scared to,
Instead I just sit there.
I feel like I don't want to do anything again,
Then I have to move and carry on with the rest of the world.
I seem just fine,
I look the same as I've always been.
It's easy to be overlooked when you never get a second glance,
And if I do then I just look happy,
When really on my own I'm not coping.
I've tried to explain but I can never express all of it,
No one could understand anything
Because it's everything together
When what I have on the inside feels a bit like nothing.
Maybe then he'll care
Except I'm seeking attention from
Someone who isn't there
I am clearly just completely mental,
Just delusive,
Just outcast from society,
Just me;

I'm the the quiet girl
Who you don't ever hear speak,
Looking scared of the world,
Alone in every corner that she's been to.
I always give most people the benefit of the doubt,
Whether they seem like they should receive it or not,
So why should I keep doing that now?
It usually only turns out to be wrong.
Maybe one day you could come
And all this dimness, disaster and darkness could vanish.
I don't know what it is but only my mind can cure it,
Except imagination isn't real
And that's why I need you to turn up
And steal
All the things wrong with me;
All the feelings I'm not supposed to feel;
The ones I don't know I feel,
And replace them with ones I used to hope I'll one day feel.

Eventually, will you be here?
If I think hard enough,
Pray all night long,
Sacrifice myself to God,
Would you finally come to me?
Stand right in front of me and be you,
Just as I see right now?
I don't think I can live outside of you,
Please won't you live in my life too?
It's almost like I'm walking on eggshells,
Waiting for the loudest crack
To make the social anxiety monsters
Come running back.

You know when you prepare yourself for danger,
Expecting it to be right around the corner?
You quietly listen anticipating the worst,
But instead it's just eerily
Quiet.
If I can't do anything then what's the point.
I don't understand why I can't just give up now.
I don't want to be here.
But I don't really not want to be here.
But I just feel so done.
Can't I sit here alone and never be bothered again.
Although it's not what I say,
I know what I want.
I want to enjoy this good life I have.
Get good grades and good times with friends.
I already do so why can't I just follow suit.
But instead I feel like I don't have a clue.
I'm trying to think back to where things went wrong.
But it's like looking across a dessert in hope of finding the sea.
I'm still here loving you.
Do you still realise?
Do you feel like my love is going to waste?
Well we both know that it is,
But if I do I might never admit.
I don't call it a waste,
Because I'm spending it on you.
However it's not being returned.
You could count it as a waste.
It's been around six months.
That's half a year that's already gone.
Half a year of my wasted love.
How has it already been that long?
My love for you still feels fresh.
It's just never been used.
Love is sweet,
Love is kind,
So what the hell is this?

It's like you're breaking me down.
I can't control my thoughts,
They all evolve around you!
Why do you do this?
You don't even care.
If only you were here,
And you actually care.

What's this you're doing?
Don't tell me you think it's fair.
It wants to tear me down.
Tell me not to speak
But I never seem to listen,
I make the same mistakes and the same mistakes, I guess hoping I am forgiven.

I should have been quiet,
I should have obeyed what I always remember,
That I should keep it to myself and pretend everything’s hidden.

Imagine myself losing my mind,
I think half the feelings are real,
But not to breaking point:
(Even if I want to) I’m not screaming at the walls,
I’m not crying all day,
I’m not trying to get through to them whilst acting insane.

Multiple times I’ve told myself,
To pretend I never think of this,
Maybe they’ll forget, think you’ve slipped out of it.
I was never someone who didn’t express,
But now it’s always failing;
Few things I need and am not getting.
The truth we should tell?
If it's hard and hurts then you don't want to hear it, huh?
Yeah I know but still.
I respond to one part only,
Just as I can multitask doesn't mean I will.
The truth is nothing's ever good enough,
Anything we could do,
There's always faults wherever you are but what's it like to ignore them?
Sometimes I think I ignore plenty,
Even though there is still many,
You can never run away from anything
And facing them doesn't always work out.
In fact I don't think we realise
What facing up to things are either
-I don't-
If you're scared of something,
Then you gave it the chance didn't you?
So haven't we faced up to it?
I have no clue it's like we can only praise ourselves for this if we succeeded,
If we made it past it,
But when I past obstacles I act like it meant nothing,
So that I can disconnect from it because I don't want anymore of it again so I say it's gone now.
Another old poem that's not on here.
Take me away
Away from me
Away from society
Away from everyone
For my thoughts are true
They make me self conscious
They make me scared
And They make me stressed too

There's no cure for this
For nothing is wrong
Nothing ever has been
And nothing will be

So I'll put on a happy face
Pretend to be strong
And enjoy myself
When I'm with my friends
But on my own
The dark Comes to get me
My self hatred comes out to play
It never went
It's always there
But it has more fun
When I'm alone here

I should be alone
Can I just stay here
And never come out
Too scared to look at myself
Too scared to let others see
But they'll never know
The way that I feel
How much pain is caused daily
And all by me

For I am this pain
It is caused by me
For after all it is my fault you see
I don't want help
I don't want to talk
I don't need your permission
Or sorry-ful looks
You don't need to know
It's my secret you see

No one will know
What it is to be me
Nor do you want to
So be grateful you don't
Nothing will happen
For I am too weak
I can't do anything
No matter how much I over think
I wish that I could
If I could I would

Everyone else seems to do it so effortlessly
While I can't do it at all
It's all in my head
I guess I could say
However this is nothing at all
It's only thoughts
Never actions

I don't care what you think
Or what you think you know
For you know nothing
And that's how it goes
By searching I feel like
I'm begging for a family,
Trying to tell someone they have to have me,
But they made me lonely.
Why should I fall to the feet of people,
Who do not deserve me?
Who purposely removed me?

Sometimes I wonder if I really want it,
I inform myself I know I don't need it,
I recite how it won't make it better,
Instead the discomfort will fester
And I won't be able to hide,
I'll be unable to make it go away:
And that's my biggest fear.

I've learnt by now,
How scary it is, when it comes around
To asking for things;
Carrying out the consequences.
By the time I get what I thought I wanted,
I no longer desire for it:
Instead I've put myself in Hell,
A place where I've backed myself into a corner:
And I'll never find an escape.

Somehow that storm has past:
I've survived, I'm still alive
But after that I'm back to needing.
Needing things to be okay,
Realising what I've missed out on,
All over again,
Yet I'm too scared to find it,
Because of how terrorising
It was the last time,
That I almost found what I've
Always been waiting for.

What I can't handle is,
Providing someone with my weaknesses.
This is one of the things
That could really hurt me,
And I'd be screaming it at the top of my lungs,
To some stranger that I've
Never heard of.

Eventually, every now and then,
The time comes around,
When I'd like to give in.
I'll just try, this one more time,
Maybe it won't be so bad,
Maybe one day if I do this it won't make me sad.

There's always this one thing
I don't understand:
Is how this makes people so **** happy.
It's like a celebration, a liberation.
Why are they so happy,
To find people who treated them like ******* before they really even existed?
They spent their whole life without them,
Because they simply gave them up
And I don't care about the so called "reasons",
For me it's just not good enough,
And then they're so happy to get the chance,
To discover them.

Can't they see it how I do?
They got rid of you,
They didn't want you before you even had the chance
To do anything wrong.
How can you look at,
Or hear of
Your own flesh and blood
And decide to get rid of it,
Like an old worn out rug?

So tell me, why should I live for,
Someone else who doesn't give a toss,
Who goes on with everything else,
While I grew up.
Do you know what it's like,
Being the kid in the playground,
Surrounded by their friends with their parents,
Whilst you're there with no father or mother in sight?
Do you know what it's like,
To cry at night saying you miss someone,
Someone you have never known,
Because you didn't understand,
That you can't miss a privation;
You can't miss what's never been there,
Because you're too young?
Do you have a clue,
What it feels like, to wonder why you weren't good enough,
To even have a ****** father?
Why you couldn't have a father at all?

But children are resilient,
You'll be happy to know,
So you get through all that,
Like it's nothing at all.
Then for some reason,
It all crushes you when you least expected it,
You see you've been apathetic, not caring about it.
Then one day you wake up,
And your whole life evolves around it,
Almost like an obsession that you can't stop,
You're sure it hits you harder than before,
With no visible cause, and you can't gather why
This suddenly matters so much now,
But it just does.

They may have gotten rid of you,
Before they had the chance to see you breathe,
That's not important though,
Because you'll suffer all the same,
With constant thoughts after you're sure you have escaped.
You'll wonder why they're so inexcusable
And so dissolute.
You'll ask yourself what you should do,
And in this society, many people think it's great, they think it's fun to find out
Just exactly who left you, who ditched you, who made sure you didn't even know their name,
Thinking about it will make you feel enraged,
Disgusted, but all the same:
These thoughts,
They will never seem to go away.
I don't know what to do,
It's like I've lost myself while trying to find you.
It's like you make me suffer so much
But you run free without a care.
To you it should seems like I'm just fine.
What if I told you I was dying inside?
Would you care or would you hate me.
Well I hate me for liking you.
I feel guilty because I'm hanging on to nothing.
You don't want me but I'm carrying my same old thoughts.
I feel bad for you because I love you,
Meanwhile you don't want me to.
I'm such a bad friend for liking you,
Because you just want to be friends.
I still feel like drowning.
This is just another of poems out of many.
About you.
There's so ****** many about you,
Yet you might not have a clue.
You couldn't know,
You couldn't imagine,
How much this is effecting me.
And now I actually sometimes try,
To get you off my mind.
I don't want to see you and ruin your moment,
Because of the fact your aware of me liking you.
Then I think what if this never happened.
What if you just said yes?
Then I sure as hell wouldn't be stuck here feeling like this.
No, I don't hate you.
You can't control who you love,
And I know that more than anyone.
I hate that I love you.
Because I shouldn't so it feels like betrayal.
So I'm sorry but I can't stop.
I haven't wanted to stop but now I think I want it to.
Never the less I have no choice.
I just have to sit here with you tearing me to shreds.
You don't know.
But if you did,
I wouldn't be able to come within a mile of you.
Because I'm sorry, so sorry.
Do you know what it feels like though?
To love someone without a chance,
And for so long but not being given the same type of glance.
So there's pathetic and then there's me.
More rather they're the same thing.
I don't know what to do apart from listen to depressing love songs.
Ones that I can't relate to because they've actually been in love.
They've had a relationship.
All I've had is this stupid crush,
But somehow it still hurts so much.
So I sing the lyrics and want to cry,
But no matter how loud,
You don't hear me.
Because I'm not singing to you and I don't want you to know.
There's nothing you could do.
You don't love me and you can't.
You won't.
But for goodness sake this hurts too much!
I try to live my life but I can't.
Which is because I'm thinking of you.
Everything right now just makes me want to scream.
There's no way around it,
Because you'll never love me.
I think I'm addicted to the pain;
It won't leave me,
Some kind of comfort this gives me.
When nothing is a constant,
You give yourself something,
Like the cluster of feelings, numbness,
Or fear,
So you have one thing,
That might not disappear.
What else could we do
except watch the world around us?
How could we voice thoughts we do not know?
And Sometimes we just can't cope,
Yet we can't bring ourselves to admission.
So we fixate on what can never be real,
Because it stops and seals us from realisation.
We derealised from the world we're supposed to know,
Instead we escape to where we can never go.
Everyone can just forget about me.
And they do.
It's what I like,
It's what I'm used to.
But when they do bother,
And they notice nicely,
Then that's okay.
It makes me realise I'm a person too;
Their ability to speak reasonably to me makes it true.
There are those moments,
That make me want to disappear.
I wish it was as easy,
As if you were asleep,
But in reality that is not a possibility
Unfortunately.
Sometimes I wish I could just be mute.
It would be an excuse for not talking.
Not talking in front of people,
Not having to reply,
Also no embarrassment from my horrendous voice.
I see you talking to people
I see you laughing with them
I see you liking their Facebook pictures
I see everything you do online
Even if I try to hide

When I see your picture
Anywhere
Like Facebook or Skype
My heart just breaks again
Because I know you can't be mine
So I'll never be complete

I see you hugging people
Telling them you love them
Messing around with them

They are you're friends

And once I thought I was one of -them...

Maybe I am
But I'm not as important
They're your favourites
But it seems like you're closer to -everyone
than you are me to me

Yes you say nice things
We've had good fun times
We've even laughed and messed -around...

But we're not like them
You see more in them
We'll barely even talk
And barely ever meet

But thanks for leading me on
I guess maybe it helped me then
You made me feel special
And like I mattered to you
You even had me thinking I was one-
Of them...

I know I'm not
I need to get over that fact
But listen when I say
I know it's not happening anytime -soon
I wish it were true
Because I can't help but wonder
Why can't we be like them?

It would be more than we are now
But I you know what I want
And I want to be yours
Not just some off cast of a friend
So I was in the type of mood to write about a certain someone... Fingers crossed he won't see this, although I highly doubt it.
Why did you stop breathing,
When I wanted you to have so many more breaths?
Why did you leave this world,
When there was so much experience within it that you had left?
Why do I have to live without you now,
When we got no time at all?
Why does it have to be so unfair?
Why can’t you come back once, or a thousand hundred times more?

Why did you die first,
When I am so much older?
Why couldn’t anyone do anything enough to save you?
Why did no one’s efforts work?
Why did you go from being healthy,
To unresuscitationable?

Why am I stuck here now,
Without ever being able to see you again?
What do you think about and do in heaven?
Do you think about me at all?

I’m sorry I wasn’t good enough.
If I could have had a second chance,
I’d do it all so much better.
I miss you more than you could know,
I love you and I never wanted to let you go.
In loving memory of my little brother <\3
I could starve
But I eat instead.
That is said to be a good thing;
It's important; it's - I'm (supposed to be) worth it;
I hear some people call it recovery.
Secretly all I'm doing is laughing,
But there are other people to be thought of
Who care about this more than me.
That's one of the reasons why I just shut it up and eat,
Because anyway for me
It's easier to do that
Than starve or purge consistently.

I couldn't ever 'recover' anyway,
I have no problem
Because they told me I only
Have eating problems.
That angered me,
No it's fine, because it still rips at me.
You wanna see me be fine?
I'll show you if I continue,
But I couldn't because people were keeping me,
Good girl Chloe
And I still want to be.
That's why it felt so wrong,
But now it's more like nothing
Although it happens less
As I get less chances.
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