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screaming,
all you do is scream,
i’m not good enough for you,
never enough.

i eat too much or not enough,
wrong clothes,
wrong hair,
wrong me,
all for you.

i can’t take this anymore,
please,
i’m crying,
breaking on the bathroom floor,
why can’t you see?

you told me you loved me
but love isn’t supposed to hurt,
not like this.
the voices in my head get louder and louder,
wrong, broken, ugly, stupid.
too much, not enough,
all the time screaming and screaming.
they don’t go away, won’t go away,
better off dead is what they say.
i can’t breathe, feel, see, live.
louder and louder until i can’t.
not anymore.
always too much and not enough.
 Jul 26 Darla Haven
Lore
Sorry.
I’m not sorry
for being me.
Yet somehow,
I still find myself apologizing
…for merely existing.
 Jul 25 Darla Haven
RED
❝Isn’t the ending of a lovely story supposed to have all the bad guys die? For example, you, or me…❞
there won’t be anyone left to tell the story.
Maybe we’re all villains in someone’s chapter, heroes in our own, and just background noise in most. Maybe a lovely story isn’t one without bad guys, but one where even they learn to hold a flower without crushing it.
Writing's worse,
Music doesn't work,
Talking to you helped,

I guess I didn't want to hear,


What I knew you'd say



Eventually
 Jul 24 Darla Haven
lizie
i don’t write about you
as often as i used to.
i feel sorry about that.
you still make everything
feel like a love story.
even when my hands shake,
even when the days are heavy,
you hold me like the ending
could still be happy.

i love you in quieter ways now,
in glances, in waiting,
in letting myself stay.
and that matters more
than any poem ever could.
but still, i’ll try to write you one
anyway.
i love you baby
 Jul 24 Darla Haven
Kaiden
What does success even mean
If we all die in the end?
 Jul 24 Darla Haven
alison
the internet ruined love
 Jul 24 Darla Haven
Charmour
always the child
who never got appreciated
just an unwanted child
trying her hardest
to be the perfect one—
just once.
trying her hardest
to be appreciated,
dying to hear:
“you did a great job,”
“the dish you cooked was very nice,”
“i’m proud of you,”
“you scored 98% in maths,”
“i’m proud of my daughter.”
she just wanted
to be loved.
to be seen.
to be appreciated.
My heart was unoccupied
My soul long since died
I thought I would always feel bare
Until you were there

Your hand in mine
The feeling is simply sublime
Your touch covers my face
As all of my problems erase

Your eyes are the most beautiful things I have seen
This love I had not foreseen
My dear, you are all that I crave
I will love you until we are in the grave
The person I wrote this poem for is no longer my partner. However, I still like this poem, so I am publishing it.
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