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144 · Jun 2019
dizzy day
Day Jun 2019
It's hard to pause thoughts twirling
when lady earth just keeps on swirling.
Try to keep my head in the air,
but if I fall,
why should she care?
140 · Oct 2018
(Update- Here I am again :)
Day Oct 2018
Sweet sadness engulfs me as I walk into my favorite place,
the library; its been over a year.
Somehow I always find myself back here and it
seems to always be an important moment in my life.
When did this site become my personal blog?
Posting gentle reminders to
never lose myself.
Oct 16, 2018.
      I am constantly reminding myself that I am not alone. 19-going on 20 year old me finds herself in panic mode almost every day and can't seem to figure out why.
     I ask myself the question "What am I doing with my miserable life?" every morning and I keep expecting an answer to suddenly appear.
      It's been harder to write anything with structure lately, but I have started experimenting with a more free-style( even though my work has always been pretty loose).
     Today I feel like I am always struggling with a feeling of "passive suicidal" but it never gets so bad as to really affect my day to day living. My thoughts have been pretty dark though and I'm trying to work on it.
      Started a new relationship not too long ago and am attempting to not be consumed by it (HA). It does make me very happy though. He seems to really care and I hope our relationship makes both of us happier and mentally healthier.
139 · Jun 2018
its breakdown season
Day Jun 2018
hey friend, i see you quit your job
ironically i want to do the same
they tell me its not worth it
is the pleasure worth the pain?
but i ask myself...
whats the point of the fear
we all quit our jobs
lived in our cars for a year
it was because of the xanax
that my best friend crashed her car
but now its much better managed
we smoke **** and say its not a problem
139 · Dec 2018
irrational
Day Dec 2018
Lover,

I'm sorry to ask this
one more time
but do you mean it
when you say you're mine?

I know you're worried
I'm being too quiet
but my mind has to hurry,
and my brain is in flight.

Now my self-esteem hungers
and creativity's run dry-
keep counting up the numbers
so I don't fly too high.

Can't stop running on this track
assure myself, I'm pulling weight
constant pressure on my back
creating more self-hate.
136 · Jan 2019
delusion
Day Jan 2019
i thought safety and happiness came hand in hand
but turns out sanity still isn't my friend
Day Jan 2021
Sank into the black ink  
and bathed in the warmth of his skin
inebriated
&
willingly losing my breath.

My back burned red and
water filled my ears.

It was easy to drown the
sound of doubt
circling in the drain -    

Until it wasn’t

Until flesh turned cold
And my bones told
that it was time to go.  

Tears came but
they couldn’t heat me up.

As the tub emptied,
I sat shivering for a while
a chilly sting
lingering
on my chest.
135 · Oct 2018
the language of my anxiety
Day Oct 2018
i'm afraid
to speak anything
suddenly my tongue is sharp
and my thoughts are deadly
quiet washes over me
and i am paralyzed
"what's wrong"
makes no sense to me
and i still can't find the words to say
hoping people might stop
thinking i'm crazy
Day Mar 2021
Love
~
To ‘Joci’
We honor you.

Rage
~
We failed you.


Solidarity
~
I’m so very sorry.
I am angry at this country, this system, this body of mine - for not doing better for those beaten down by the system. Our unhoused population deserves so much better. It’s time to do better. RIP Joci - you were loved.
134 · Sep 2021
Flashbacks during a bender
Day Sep 2021
I hope I remember this moment at some point.
Been drinking & binging & listening to new music.
My heart feels some intense and familiar way -
Present & yet reliving many lost memories.
I wish I could piece together these glimpses of myself,
these never ending days.

I’d stick glue in my brain
& catch all these running images of my character.

I hope I remember this moment at some point.

Alone, content & craving
to return to something that was never quite right.
I wrote this in my journal on a night I was really ****** up. It doesn’t mean much.
Day Sep 2021
My springtrap jaw snaps me awake in the morning.
I fear my teeth may break one of these days.
No choice left,
but to stuff my sockets with dollar bills
and hope the problem goes away.

My teeth chase me in my dreams, laughing at my unconscious terror.

“You should stop acting as if emotions are a spectrum” said a lover after I picked apart a feeling I couldn’t understand.
I began to argue but remembered that I don’t go to therapy  
so maybe I should just shut the **** up.
Day Dec 2020
I still don’t know how
to express

This ever constant,
beating in my chest

A dark grey pulse

My heart
crossfaded with
love and loneliness
131 · Oct 2015
Untitled
Day Oct 2015
a young me tattooed your love on my heart,
never knowing that it would last forever,
never knowing how much regret she would have.

now its too late
130 · Sep 2017
walls
Day Sep 2017
mother had no time for me, so she gave me away*
******* me up, now no one will stay
Day May 2020
It’s just not healthy to keep your mind up past its capacity.
As romanticized as 4am is, you brain will lose elasticity.
Just give it up and go close your eyes.
Save your energy for the sunrise.
Day Aug 2019
I feel like a crossword puzzle puked in my brain,
jumbled thoughts on a trackless train.
I'm trying to sort through this emotional pain
but, I'm not even sure there is something to gain.
Day Jun 2021
Last night I dreamed I
slipped and slit my throat on stacking bills

I called the repo man
,he said he didn't give a ****.
Told me that they took his car too.

I gave up on being angry.
Gave up on having hope.
Seems like, I always end up in this boat.

Sorry for myself? Maybe a bit
Mostly just deeply despise
the person I begged myself not to become.

Turning into my mother's -
Plural.

The first - alcoholic
Child lost.

The second- pitifully poor
Child raised to learn how to never ask for help.

Never smart enough to help themselves.
121 · Dec 2020
M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i
Day Dec 2020
Most days
I have no goal
Say it ain't
So
I lost my
Soul
Somewhere
In the river
Poor little me stuck in the
Present
I've got no place else to go
Day Jun 2020
Liquor lubricates my inhibition
I like it
The feeling just between sober and over intoxicated

But
Ive been made aware
That this is not sustainable

Eventually
The trauma catches up

Self harm
Comes in many forms
117 · Jun 2021
June
Day Jun 2021
Yes, a young version of myself
would be happy to see who I am today.

However,
I don't feel a sense of
~pride~
(Picture rainbow letters if you wish)

It's been a hard year.

The first
Since I've really been "out".

But it's been deafeningly lonely
And confusing

Lately -
I don't recognize myself at all.

Maybe I never have,
or never will.

Seems everyday I lose more confidence.

Maybe it's the drugs
Or the alcohol
Or the ******* pandemic
Or maybe everyone just feels this way
and I'm a raging narcissistic

I saw a quote today
"Growth will also feel like loss."

It's fitting.

Seeing as I feel like I lose myself more and more each day.
115 · Sep 2020
fluid
Day Sep 2020
~
s o f t stream
into
raging river
~~~
Is there
purpose
in
your path
?
had this one in my notes for a while. Glad to finally record it <3
Day Jun 2020
Spent the last 5 years
Forgetting
To make a therapist appointment
Self diagnosed myself
A couple times over
Muted myself
With medication
And YouTube recommendations
I put off
Writing a love letter
To my best friend
Sigh
To what could have been

Still
I’m happy

Not all the time
Of course
But,
Enough.
Day Mar 2020
roses are red
just like my iris'
wait, ****, is this
Coronavirus?
*I know the coronavirus is serious!! Just putting some humor out there :) be safe and healthy all
Day Apr 2021
falling
&
falling
&
falling
behind

Outta money
Outta time

Feels like just months ago
I had my life together but,

Here i am
trying to put my life together

again
&
again
110 · Jun 2018
Nineteen
Day Jun 2018
One more year and i think i know it all
suddenly everything seems pointless
we keep going and going and going
and truthfully, we all know its a joke
life is ****
and ***** not fair
but we live in selfish minds
so sure
itll pay off one day
which day?
friday maybe?
who knows.
the movies really teach me alot lately
slow down
it really never changes
109 · Sep 2018
what is it to be alive?
Day Sep 2018
funny how

to have an answer

you have to stop

asking the question
get it?
108 · Aug 2020
Call me, Happy
Day Aug 2020
Dear momma,
I changed my name.
You may not recognize my face but,
always I am, yours.
Now you can call me,
Happy.
107 · Oct 2015
Untitled
Day Oct 2015
tired of wasting thoughts on this.
Day Dec 2020
Woke this morning
ready to start
Dream in my eyes
poem in heart

Drank my morning brew,
and now
~it’s not quite right~

Ah well,
Off we go
93 · Oct 2020
Feelings of relief
Day Oct 2020
The *** after holding it for a 2 hour class
Arriving home after a long shift
Getting a negative Coronavirus test
Getting a C on your midterm
Waking up again
Day Dec 2020
Woke up feeling, uncomfortably content.
So, I drove myself to the
edge of sanity.
I sat there a while,
wondering
what comes next.
92 · Aug 2020
Passive depression
Day Aug 2020
You can change the world,
but you can never fix humanity.
Posting an old draft I found
Day Aug 2020
I got a bit absentminded this year
I guess you could say I was
distracted
,my brain cells turned flaccid,
by the end of the ******* world.
91 · May 2020
BS
Day May 2020
BS
MY MIND
is bursting and I am growing frustrated. I am losing the ability to communicate. I am sitting in darkness and my words are worthless. Thoughts scroll and scream without meaning. It’s almost 4 am here in some random world location. Inside my head I wonder what is happening on the exact other side. The SUN shines bright somewhere as I sit in shadows. What has meaning? What has value? IS life subjective to where you sit? So many thoughts attack my being. But does it matter?
90 · Feb 2020
to the tune of katy perry
Day Feb 2020
do you ever feel
like a *******
rotting on the earth
waiting
for your rebirth
90 · Sep 2020
when
Day Sep 2020
will I feel balanced again?
89 · Nov 2020
Speeding into memory lane
Day Nov 2020
Every sunset
slowly shifts.
The eyes adjust,
as lighting splits.

Reflections of moments past
light the way.

We are never truly
living in the present.

Always, rushing forward,
Day Nov 2020
Spine so curved,
can’t see the sky.
The pavements cracked;
the grass is dry.

Air smells odd,
The sky turned red.
States on fire
burned up the dead.

A mother prays
her child can eat.
A father works
to make ends meet.

The crops have turned
the soil sour.
A church bell turns,
another hour.
Day Aug 2020
Give me a break
From this everlasting feeling
Of existential dread.

I know its dramatic
But, when will I start healing
From this chaos in my head?

Honestly, I have realized
I’ll just have to keep dealing,
Up until I’m dead.
*I wish I had put more effort into this but here you go.
84 · Feb 2020
a question for the ages
Day Feb 2020
will we ever finally stop and just settle on "generation - doomed to do the exact same things our parents did" ?
83 · Oct 2020
Am i doing this right
Day Oct 2020
My dreams are incomprehensible
My thoughts are all a blur
I’m losing my sense of direction
I’m not feeling quite sure
Of myself
Of who I’m trying to be
Days go by and monies gone
I dont know why
It takes so long
And yet so quick
The day is done
80 · Mar 2020
pandemic! at the airport
Day Mar 2020
haven't you people ever heard of

washing your ******* hands?

No!
it's much better to face these kinds of things
with mass frenzy over-rationing!
I know coronavirus is serious!!! But ofc I gotta put some humor out there :)

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