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Even as a child I knew I was mad
I never did think the way others do
I was settled with this
Inevitably, I succumbed to my darkness
This is just who I amĀ Ā 
Madness and sadness all scribbled together
I have a mouth but still I cannot scream
These memories now haunting my dreams
I cannot sleep I cannot wake
I am stuck in the circles of this misery
I long for the day someone makes my pain go away. Ever the healer, ever bringing smiles.

Iā€™m doomed to suffer in silence. Only the scars on my wrists know my pain.  

Will I ever find solace? Will something take my tears away?

I feel like Iā€™m screaming, but no one hears. Forever the healer, always the broken.

I canā€™t help myself, always busy  helping everyone else. Why am I like this?

Do I even care about myself anymore? Maybe I just want to be lost in the void. I feel at home in the darkness. It brings me warmth. I seek it out in others, connect with it, breed with it, create it.

Maybe I am the darkness, wrapped in light. Ms. Grey through and through. I exist in between.
Your stomach in knots
A relentless force
Consumed with these thoughts
That keep on playing over
You sway back and forth
Your face it contorts
Interpret obscene
Oblivious I seem
It never will end
Look at who I am
I have no more pride
I ditched my ride
I'm useless
It happened so quick
It makes me feel sick
A sheer heart attack
I guess I got my wish
I donā€™t recall what the ā€œinspirationā€ was for this
Dreams feel like reality and reality feels like dreams
Everything is intermingling together
Been off my medicine a few days, donā€™t know if Iā€™m finding myself or losing my way
Iā€™m not going off the rails
Emotions are in check
Just disassociating coming out the wreck
Numbness and blindness the medicine creates
The things you donā€™t realize until itā€™s too late
2023 I went off my meds for good and found who I am. I thought I had known, but never did I show.
I am awakened with a sensation going through my body

Paralyzed

I canā€™t move

Itā€™s on me

Clawing at me

Finally I catch a moment

I turn and I yelp

I scream

No one hears me

Iā€™m twisting in the blanket

Somethingā€™s watching me

223am my phone vibrates

I wasnā€™t actually awake

Now I feel this sensation of something all over me

I keep trying to brush it off
Itch it away
My skin is literally crawling.
I know Iā€™m awake for real this time

Night terrors haunt me
Night terrors, sleep paralysis
ā€œI think I normalize that because of my childhood.ā€

And my eyes rolled hard.
For like the 10th time tonight.
Moments
I buy flowers just to watch them die
I reckon this says a lot about my mind
Iā€™ve always found beauty in death and darkness
Raw, real, genuine
People say darkness hides the light
They canā€™t truly see
Itā€™s only in darkness I have found me
I donā€™t have light that shines
I have a darkness that sees and loves all the hidden things, one that knows and understands.
A darkness that causes such intrigue
One that makes you smile and plea
A darkness that radiates beauty and shines so bright
Let's be dumb. Make bad decisions, get lost together, write books about it. For ever and ever. Even death, letā€™s cause hell.
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I just want to sell my soul before I ******* die
Cause if I wake up in heaven ima end my god ****** life
Yā€™all sell your soul for less every single ******* day
And these demons have been by my side
They whisper in my ear and remind me Iā€™m still safe
2023
Normally Music is my go to
But I put myself in senseory overload
Now I donā€™t know what to do
Cause my brain is going crazy
Crying, Iā€™ve got an attitude
So ******* worried about you

Itā€™s been a minute since Iā€™ve felt like such a  **** *****
But at this moment Iā€™m just sick of your ****,
The drugs are controlling you
Watching you just need a quick high right when the most important person in your life wanted to be with you

My brain is on overload
Always worried about you
Canā€™t even sleep at night when you donā€™t come home
Toss, turn, sweat, im in overdrive
Why do you do this to yourself
Why wonā€™t you listen?
Iā€™ve been nothing but truthful with you
Tried everything I know to help you
Refused to enable you
Only got harsh cause I wasnā€™t getting through.

I canā€™t even look you in the eyes anymore, my heart breaks again and again
Youā€™re someone I donā€™t recognize
Iā€™ve seen demons up close and personal
But baby youā€™re a creature I donā€™t know
Itā€™s killing my soul, killing my vibe
Thinking I could lose you at any time

Youā€™ve been my ******* best friend
Since the day that we began, instant connection
You walked into my life and we swore to never end  
Now I donā€™t know what to do, thinking I could lose you

I think Iā€™m going crazy
Worrying sick over you
I know itā€™s not my battle, but we fight for who we love
And ****** babe, I truly love you

Iā€™m screaming out your name
Trying to get through to you
Cause crying on your chest and begging you to quit didnā€™t do ****
You donā€™t give a ****, so really why should I
But ****, Iā€™m gonna lose it if you die
So Iā€™ll continue to fight for you

Youā€™re my ******* best friend
Weā€™ve done been through it time and again
Weā€™ve always had each others backs through thick or thin, you got me through when I went off the deep end and lost my **** so many times.
So Iā€™ll never give up on you
But it hurts so much watching you die slow
Wrote this about helping my best friend while she was in heavy addiction. The emotions I felt, no one else knowing why I was losing my mind. The fear of losing her pushing me to keep going.
I just wanna scream ā€œcome take your manic mind and destroy my ******* body! Use a knife, make it rough, **** me hard, bring me to that moment where you know you ******* own me. Then record me moaning as you ******* choke me, until thereā€™s only whimpers, lost in ecstasyā€¦in each otherā€™s bodies, minds finally set free.ā€
Always the calm to everybodyā€™s storm
All of a sudden they can rest like never before
Rarely is it my turn.
I take it all on
I donā€™t even mean to sometimes
Iā€™m naturally empathic
Itā€™s hard when I already feel too much
With new people Itā€™s always anxiety x 2
For once, I want to be the storm that needs calming
Ever the healer. I know now Im the one to calm my storm.
New people see my darkness
They get so intrigued
As if Iā€™m something exquisite
Not to be believed
I donā€™t romanticize it
It brings me to my knees
But I do embrace it
Maybe my darkness is the most interesting thing about me
I think I feel like I exist.
You canā€™t have light without dark, only few understand
F2
F2
I wish I was the one calling the shots
Itā€™s my life I say, but nah itā€™s not
Cause if I donā€™t do what Iā€™mtold
Iā€™ll have nowhere to go
Im misunderstood
Unable to be myself
I so badly want you to know ME
But every time I try to share my mind, Iā€™m shutdown
All the progress weā€™ve made feels so fake
Yeah you say you love me
But how can you when you donā€™t want to know me, your own daughter.
My thoughts are just demons you say
Iā€™m plagued
discussions turn into fights because itā€™s your way or nothing
It hurts to see you listen to others and have conversation so polite
Youā€™d quickly disown me too, just like you did my sibling, if I stopped faking just for your sake
Why am I so afraid?
I keep hoping for the day youā€™ll truly accept me
Our relationship is shallow, stays on the surface
Im unapologetic about not believing the things you do
And thatā€™s been my only truth
Maybe now, here, youā€™ll finally see who I am




It was silly of me to believe, you might see who I am tonight., you left before I even walked on stage.
Transphobic *******.
I canā€™t believe I cut down  my set choices, to not mention the demons I call my friends. So I wouldnā€™t offend. God I wanted you to finally notice me. Now I know that will never happen. Thanks for walking out.
The first part I wrote a while ago, about what itā€™s like with my dad. The second part, after the break, was written as my dad walked out of the show, right before I got on stage.  It was my first time sharing my words publicly and I performed with tears streaming down my face, my voice choking. Many times Iā€™ve tried to show him who I am, each time Im shut down, this time publicly humiliatedā€¦at least I called him out.
And where do I begin?Ā Ā Ā Ā 
Without giving in, boundaries crossed or saying too much?
Whatā€™s it take to just feel enough?
In between



Iā€™m getting back on stage
My voice will be heard
Itā€™s never about me
Itā€™s always about someone else
Iā€™m going to make it about me
******* finally.



Can we go inside?
The wind keeps blowing and my *** keeps showing



I can feel the tides changing
And once again Iā€™ll be left standing
Heartbroken and calling out
Forever left searching


Life has felt suspended lately



But you are not part of this crowd



Here I am an open book but nobody seems to look dying inside screaming. See me. Please. I sit I scream



Story of my life
I said to much
I made it weird
I am weird
Iā€™ll continue to post fragments from over the years. I have poetry in 30 journals, online, on my phone. Iā€™m finding things slowly. Some dating back to 2005.
Iā€™m always the person left behind
Iā€™m never seen
I can hand you the one I made
And Iā€™m still nothing

Forever behind
Forever unseeen
**** life
Iā€™m sick of being in between
2023
Ha
Ha
Hail. *******. Satan. My brain is funky again.

Words and emotions scribbling up my brain
Anxiety ******* me harder than a bbc
I want to ****ā€¦in live
And stop dying in my head
But how can I live when I donā€™t actually exist
Iā€™m drunk at 10am
And this house is far too bright for all my sins
My head hurts
And Iā€™m alone
Again
Always
Iā€™m the one who has to sit with this
Iā€™ve ****** up
Iā€™ve gone against myself
Im living in a moral neverland
Not living up to my own expectations for myself will **** me up quicker than I know what to do with. 2024
When will I learn
Every time I let myself show
I think thatā€™s what they want
But no
Intrigued by me, yet still just used for the night
A connection, so deep, youā€™re just like me!
I guess they read me, so ******* easily
Cause it happens again and again
And everyone has something to say
The I told yous and audacity, thrown my way
I wish I could stop finding the good in the worst people
How do you unlearn what youā€™ve done your whole life
2023
Have you ever truly seen me
The one who does not exist
I flow so effortlessly between
All those I call my friends
I am this way
Then Iā€™m that
One person to the next
Something to everyone
But no ones only one
A chameleon , so beautifully blending in
Always in the background
Never the big picture
Ever notice that Iā€™m really just not there?
#courtneyjurena #thenobodies #idontexist
They say your birthmark is how you previously died.
It was the devils hands that killed you in your past life
Or if youā€™re lucky, he literally loved you to death
Sin and sin again,cause Iā€™m the devils bride
My birthmarks deep and dark on my inner thigh
I was getting head as I ******* died.
Iā€™ve always wanted to go out big, memorable for life.
I just want to ****** as Iā€™m ******* dying
But I love it so much
Cause Iā€™m into the scene
And meeting people like me
Yet theyā€™re not because why would two people be so alike
There are those who understand though
And you think they could be
Yet by the end of the night Iā€™m dying internally
Social anxiety
And how I only like it when Iā€™m high.



555am
The moon is 99.4% full
Hurricane Idalia is blowing in
I am high and itā€™s the beginning of sunrise
I like these moments, the in betweens
My thoughts and I can breathe
I understand me
Stoner ****.
Youā€™ve never truly seen her until  she cries and her eyes turn green
sheā€™s so profoundly, beautifully sad

Everyone thinks that they know her thinks that they get her
believe they understand

itā€™s unfortunate for the souls that she steals
cause they never really know what theyā€™re getting into
Suddenly addicted
Witnessing her chaotic mess

Sheā€™s just my type, sheā€™s just my type
Iā€™ll love her for more than a night
What a mind, what a beauty, you donā€™t know what she does to me
Sheā€™s just my type, I love her mind

Youā€™ve never truly seen her till sheā€™s on fire
her eyes are a light  
Passions fueling her mind
She ******* comes alive
Sheā€™s something different, Iā€™ll  tell her 1000 times

She still doesnā€™t see it
Doesnā€™t believe it
Stuck inside her mind
Nobody gets her, sheā€™ll never live up to  expectations
She lives in all these lies

Ohhhhh but
Sheā€™s just my type, sheā€™s just my type
Iā€™ll love her for more than a night
What a mind, what a beauty, you donā€™t know what she does to me
Sheā€™s just my type
In those moments that we shared
you were nothing
yet you were everywhere
Pulsating in between the lines
In the static of my life
you were mine and the world was right
_love no more
I recently went back to my tumblr and found tons of old poems.
Suicide on my mind yeh
I gotta make the time
I wanna sell my soul
Have some fun before I die
I been playin in the darkness
Ever since I was a child
Demons love to say my name
Call it out until I wake
All I see is red, though my thoughts exist in grey
Iā€™m running with the shadows until I hit the grave
They whisper fun things in my ear
Never let me feel alone
They like to play little games just to see how far Iā€™ll go
Iā€™m still waitin on them to tell me how to sell my soul
Or does Satan already have it, Iā€™ve always been cold but hot like Iā€™m wrapped in the flames
Sometimes I just flow
Iā€™ve got mine,
And youā€™ve got yours.
Reasons that is.
If Iā€™m too much, too crazy, too weird for youā€¦
Hello, thereā€™s the door.
I donā€™t dwell in the superficial, the shallowness, that plagues others day to day.
I am unapologetically me,
Come what may.
At least I am honest with the battles I face.
Even if I stumble, at least itā€™s with graceā€¦
And some ā€œ**** this!ā€ along the way.
I donā€™t fake, I donā€™t hide, I wonā€™t pretend to be fine
I battle demons you could never comprehend.
It takes a gentle person to even begin to understand.
Thankfully Iā€™ve got an army, who is  always willing to step in.
You say Iā€™m too brash, too honest, to open
But have you asked why I am the way that I am?
Hello, thereā€™s the door.
And where do you begin
When again and again
Youā€™re either too much
Or youā€™re just not enough
Ms Grey, forever, dying to being seen
Too bold too afraid
Everything is a game
I even stared at my notebook tonight
Debated
Will I need it?
My anxiety has been under control
Iā€™ll be fine
Yet something whispered in my mind
I should have listened
To the voices in my head
They never let me down
And now Iā€™m sitting here
Anxiety is going through the roof
Connections are being made
Yet im shaking like a leaf
My heart is racing
And something feels off
I wish I could put my finger on it
I hate when it hits me so suddenly
And I canā€™t explain and have to walk away
I hate this feeling
Itā€™s not social anxiety
Not tonight
Itā€™s something different
Thereā€™s a vibe
Iā€™m trying to flow through it
I feel everyoneā€™s energy so easily and heavily some times.
crippling anxietyĀ 
running in circles
thoughts overflowing
fragments
what is this pull
i must ignore
canā€™t succumbĀ 
cravings
depth and understanding
out of this worldĀ 
true communication
levels
what is, cannot beĀ 
have to find control
donā€™t want to let go
facts
Dig beneath the surface
She awoke from her dream
Thoughts going awry.
Aliveā€¦?
ā€¦Whatā€¦amā€¦I?
Have I ever known?

Iā€™m not sure where I am
Lights are buzzing overhead
I blink
Blink again

A door opens
I try to take a look around
I am weak
My head barely lifts

A hand grabs mine
ā€œDo you know who I am?ā€
I look over through bleary eyes
Uhhhh no, I donā€™t even know where I am.
This must be Hell, for itā€™s the only place I could ever truly be alive.

ā€œUhhhhā€¦.Youā€™re where your meant to be, what do you mean?ā€

Why ā€¦..
WHY AM I HERE?
Anger ensues
I scream  
I beg
I plead
JUST SEND ME BACK!
ā€œWE SAVED YOUR LIFE!ā€, the voice speaks again, more intensely this time.

ā€œAnd who are you to decide who lives and who dies?! ā€œ
No response

FUUUCCCCK

Hands are on me  
ā€œWe need you to calm down, youā€™re not making any sense.ā€

Iā€™M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!

ā€œYes you are, life is preciousā€

I laughā€¦.and laugh again.

ā€œYouā€™ve just got to learn to live, youā€™ll understand one day.ā€

You humans never understand
My anger grows

ā€œYou have a reason to live!ā€, the voices plead with me.

I feebly lift my head,
I recognize no one in the room.
ā€œ*******ā€ I yell, ā€œyou donā€™t even know me!ā€

I try to sit up, I am incapable.
ā€œMaā€™am, maā€™am, please take it easy, we just brought you back to life, you we lost you three times.

Tears begin streaming
I donā€™t belong here
I donā€™t belong here
I donā€™t belong here
I donā€™t belong hereā€¦..
I wrote this about what I felt and thought when I woke up in ICU from my suicide attempt
Who am I
Iā€™m somewhere between the lines
The words the sounds
The lonliness dripping out
Iā€™m in trouble, youā€™re a rebound
I could care less either way
But now you think that I am falling
and Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™m gay
You donā€™t have big **** energy
You couldnā€™t hold this by a thread
You saw my heart beat in front of you
And left me standing there for dead
Thinking feelings were the problem
But you are a ****** friend
And now I will stop calling you
This really is the end
Iā€™d say thank you for the memories
But I was the one making them
So hereā€™s goodbye to my rebound
Thanks for nothing my fake friend
Sometimes I just stare out the window
No idea where my head even goes
Iā€™m disassociating again
The demons are coming in
I just want to let them
Take over, control me
Itā€™s so much easier to just give them the reigns
Iā€™m much more fun that way
People seem to like me better anyway
Now Iā€™m the boring girl
Iā€™m getting my head straight
All this positivity is making people irate
What am I to do?
Iā€™ve never lived for myself
Never existed
Never been able to see a future
Theyā€™re petting my head
Telling me itā€™s okay
Just let go
Cut, loose
Iā€™m staring out the window again
Disassociation should be a sin
I canā€™t let these demons win
You say all the right things
But only when youā€™re drunk
You laugh when I remind you
I laugh too
Words
I want to scream
Nothings going my way
Has it ever
Or is today just a day
My mind is broke
My heart it hurts
My head aches
Lost phone
Words
People
Shut up
Iā€™m lost, broke
Not feeling myself
Iā€™ll say it again
Disassociation should be a sin
Split
Iā€™m not even my own
These visions dance on the tip of my tongue
Skulls rotating in the darkness I wear my heart on my sleeve
And dream dreams that could be reality
Dancing bones in graveyards
Spirits floating high
I create.
While life floats around me and love fills this heart of mine
I can't see without you by my side
So stay with me until our ashes become ashes In this world that we will eventually despise
This was written about a reoccurring dream I have had since the death of a best friend at 8yo.

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