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Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
if i curl my lashes
long enough
would it
distract you
from the wounds
around
my waist
?
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
Stop it.
Stop it, you're hurting me.

pain seeps through my pours
blood stains the newly-bought carpet

No!
Your mother loved that carpet*

I beg
for her to stop;
leave me alone.
I don't like this game anymore

. . .

but my own shaken hand
refuses to set down
the weapon
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
Thank you for the book
with the hard cover
and the pages
with no lines
to guide my cursive tool

Thank you for the insults
concerning everything
between
music artists and cheek bones

Thank you for not
making me pretend
as if I care
exactly what you think
of me or I or the ****** rock band
that happened to save my life

Most of all thank you
for never realizing that
our passions never quite did
go hand in hand
so that it could be easier
for me
to write another
meaningless
poem.
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
See a therapist five days a week
Cry seven
Declare "I'm fine" twice
Don't mean it once

See the therapist 2 days a week
show seventeen scars
Smile "I'm fine" next
Don't mean it, though

See my therapist six hours a month
I've been happy
"more than usual"
Does she think I mean it?

Saw her therapist two days ago
Go again next week
"Yeah, I'm fine. I know. Yeah
She was in a lot of pain
and it was the only way out
and I understand that now."
Does she not know I mean it ?
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
Why is it
that writing
suicide notes
has become
easier
than
apologies
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
Tonight I can't stop thinking of you, and of her, and of them, and of my best friend whom you so carelessly flirted with. I can't stop thinking of the messages I found on your phone when I had just begun to trust you and God knows I can't get the things you told her out of my mind. I wonder if you touched her how you touch me...? Did you call her pretty and **** and perfect...? Did she make you feel as good as I do? I wonder sometimes, late at night, if maybe you think about her. You do not understand, my love, the absolute torture it was to watch you love on other girls, and put your arm around other girls, and kiss other girls, and **** other girls, and share those passionate moments in which I believed were just mine and yours... with other girls. Some days I can not help but feel as if I am not special at all. You touch me only how you touched the others. You kiss me only how you have kissed them. You say you love me just as you said to her and her and her and her and her... When making love is to me, is it only just *** to you? Am I only just... *** ... to you? I fear, my dear, that even now, and even here, I am only as one of your other girls. I will only become... one of your... other girls.
I do believe that you have changed. I know in my heart that you have. But you must understand that you still give me nightmares and you still make me cry sometimes and there is nothing you can do to stop these feelings... But oh, why did you have to hurt me like that???
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
If my friends knew
of the pain inside
and the technique I created
for my scars to show up
perfectly aligned
I do not believe
they would remain my friends much longer.

If my friends knew
how I cry at night
and try to choke myself with my own dark hair
and finally,
lay broken and sobbing
in the midnight air
I would not blame he or she
if they stopped being friends with me.

If my friends knew
how I turned to *** to numb the pain
or jumped out the window
to feel again
I wouldn't blame my friends
for saying Im insane.

Lastly and surely,
if my friends knew
how many times I have bled
or burned
or weeped
or screamed
or tore away my lover's clothes
to distract my brain from
burning eyes
my friends might figure out
my disguise.
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