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CE Jan 2018
I notice your
subtle plagiarisms

it could be a word I used once

or my angels leap from
my head onto your paper

you'll change the name of 'angel'
to "you",
meaning "I"

it's never too obvious

but I see my influence
I see my thievery mimicked beautifully
in my writing, the angels signify a destructive yet alluring force of the true self- the ego, or lack thereof. I wonder if you know that when you talk about me the same way.
CE Jan 2016
You are the way you always were

never good enough, is it?

can you stop pretending that this is okay?

can you stop pretending that you are okay with this?

*******,

you're so pathetic sometimes

I hope this is  e x a c t l y what you wanted

A reason to complain, right?

Why do you do these things
to yourself,

why?
self loathing lol
CE Jan 2016
it doesn't mean forever

it never meant forever

I guess we both knew that,

in the end,

we will become nothing once more

and we will become dirt or stars to each other-

depending on how it all falls down

what am I even saying?

silly boy,

don't you know what you even have?

stop trying to wish it all away

be happy for once,

be grateful, perhaps?
be quiet melancholy boy, he's too loud, he needs to shut up. Nobody cares what the destroyer has to say.
CE May 2016
I know that you're boiling me alive and if I don't get out soon then I'll die but I can handle the pain because this is the only warmth I've ever really felt and I don't want to lose it
CE Oct 2014
The monster is here again
It's big and scary
It's eyes are red
And it's so loud

I don't know what it is
It's in the kitchen right now
It's sitting on the floor
Broken glass everywhere

I used to ask it what it was
But now I just hide

Because if ever I go near it
It will scream
It will scream at me

And it will hurt me

It always says it didn't mean to do it

But it never stops

I just want it to leave

But I want it to stay

Because it's my fault that it's here

I didn't mean to make it angry

It can be nice sometimes

But it's not right now




I just want my mummy..
CE Jul 2014
All the days of denial
And all the fruitless attempts to keep it alive
They're gone in this seldom moment
A memory forming right before my eyes
This is it
This is the end

Now it shall transmigrate
it's soul will survive
but only a ghost now

the past is already buried
CE Dec 2015
love won't save the world

love won't save you or me

love won't stop the bullets flying into the deer's leg

love won't stop her last attempts of escape, her last few bucks for life

love won't stop the knife sliding up her stomach

love won't stop her skin from parting like rose petals

love won't stop your hand finding her heart and pulling it out

love won't stop you throwing it to the ground and stamping on it

love won't clean the blood off your hands

and love won't sew the deer's chest up again

love didn't save any of us,

love didn't stop you

and love certainly didn't save her

and love won't save me
Just because you love somebody doesn't mean they will never hurt you.
CE Nov 2015
Show the liars that they are blind
Away with false idols
Down with the lying prophets
And destroy all that is not
the gospel truth of ME

I am merciful, believe it or not
I will not hate or bestow wrath for no reason

Nor my respect is freely given

Earn your keep.
Earn your right.
Earn your life.

Give me a reason,

Your God commands it,

Why do you get to live today?
CE Nov 2018
I'm going to have a hard time cleaning up this mess
sorting out the bedsheets and pulling the mattress topper back into place,
throwing out the takeaway we were too drunk to eat

the febreeze won't hide the sweat and rotten food, not very well

my little den of hedonism feels empty without my love to share it with
without his arms around me, without his cologne,

I feel unclean in the morning-after mess
my bf came back for a visit. it was fun, but we made a lot of mess and now he's back at uni and I miss him again.
CE Dec 2017
sometimes it was only a suggestion,
disappointed glances when I say I don't know if I can

sometimes it was a knife up against my thigh, my only hope holding still and doing as you say

sometimes it was pretending to pass out so you would stop choking me

but sometimes it was only a feeling
a feeling I could ignore

for a second this is real
passionate, it feels good

and it doesn't hurt me

only for a second

but
those kind gentle eyes turn black and mean

and sweet and kind smiles turn into snarling dog bites

I don't know if I like it or not

but this feeling when I turn it down

guilt, shame, I couldn't say

all I know is
you don't have to worry

my body is just flesh
and my blood is just red

and 'no' is just a word
just ptsd things: having nightmares about people you love and trust in the position of your abuser.
CE Jan 2016
BEHIND ME
IT BREATHES

UNDER MY BED
IT BREATHES

BEHIND EVERY DOOR CREAKING OPEN
IT BREATHES

WHEN I TURN UP DEAD

HUNG BY A ROPE

CUT OPEN LIKE A TURKEY

DROWNED LIKE A BAG OF KITTENS


THE ONE WHO KILLED ME

**WAS

NOT

ME
CE Apr 2016
THE BOY PERCHED UPON A PLASTIC CASTLE AND WEPT UNTIL HIS TEARS CAME NO MORE.
HE WAITED FOR THE BEING THAT WOULD COME AND DESTROY HIM.
DEEP IN HIS HEART HE KNEW HIS ACTIONS WERE EVIL.
HE WOULD NEVER LET HIMSELF BELIEVE THAT, THOUGH.
CE Jan 2016
Lying to yourself.

well done,

you actually believed you could be that way, didn't you?

You nearly fell for your own trick

the lie that

you are worth something

that you are anything but flawed

that you are strong

nice work, friend

real good work
CE Mar 2016
I FOUGHT ******* MY MISGUIDED QUEST,
GOOD GOD I FOUGHT SO HARD

WHAT A SHAME THAT A BOY BLINDED BY NAIVETY ENDED UP DESTROYING EVERYTHING HE HAD THOUGHT HE WAS SAVING

I FELT EMPTY AND NUMB WHEN ALL MY FOES HAD FALLEN TO THE GROUND
****** AND DEAD

IS THAT HOW A HERO IS SUPPOSED TO FEEL?
CE May 2015
The thing that haunts me the most

Is not what I said

Not what I destroyed

And it's not even you

The thing that haunts me the most

Are the things I never said to you

The things that I left be

And the you I never knew

It's hard to accept you're gone now

Especially because you're not really gone, are you?

You're within my reach

I could put my hand out and feel you again if I dared

But I dare not

Because it would not be the same

The windows are gone

And so are you

The door is wide open but

I'm scared

I can't go through if it leads to you

I'm not even scared of you..

I'm scared of it blowing up again

It's childish, naïve, juvenile

That's what makes me want it

Because that's what we always were..

That's what we were..
.."were"
Hello old friend. Care to talk?
CE Jan 2016
YOU OWE YOURSELF HAPPINESS
FEEL SOMETHING GOOD ALREADY,

WHY DO YOU CHOOSE TO FEEL SUCH EMPTY THINGS?
CE Jun 2014
Why?

Why did I do it?
Why did I start?
Why didn't I use my better judgement?

Oh I'll regret this
Every time that's what I say
"You'll regret that"
I say as I continue
Why don't I listen?

Oh my own selfish intentions and fear of getting caught
I can't walk down the same roads and streets because I'm afraid it'll happen again

I'm sorry for what I've done

But I just can't help myself

Stupid impulses and spontaneous action leads me to do the despicable

my arrogant "woe is me" attitude
I can't see what's wrong  until its too late

And why?

Why did I do it?

I ask

As it happens again
CE Mar 2015
Stranger,
My words don't have a lot of meaning to you. Not now, at least. I don't know you. I don't know your struggles. I don't know if the cause was lost before it begun, I don't know if there's even a fight to be had. I know the amount of insignificant thoughts these words bring.
I don't know you. Yet.
I do know something that may help, though.
I know that if you need some words of motivation, and you don't mind how badly said they are,
You can turn here. I hope this is a helpful offer.
Have a nice day.



friend,
I'm glad you're getting better. I don't know how hard it is and I doubt I ever will, but I'm proud of you for getting better. I know glad to hear all of the good. I hope it lasts.
Have a nice day.



friend,
You seem very happy these days. I'm glad. I doubt I have a lot to do with that. You have a lot of good things happening for you right now, and I'm glad that they are happening. I wish that you would sometimes pay more mind to me, I understand that I am not permanent. But I wish sometimes you would act as if I was. Oh well, perhaps that is selfish.
Have a nice day.


friend,
Where have you gone? I haven't heard from you at all. You used to be everywhere. You used to be everything. where have you gone? Friend, I am worried. Me and so many others. Get back to me, to us. We need to know that you are okay. Perhaps it's just mistakes on my part, perhaps it's just me. I'm sorry if this is an inconvenience.
Have a nice day.



friend, I'm so relieved. I was so worried about you. I had thought the worst, I had heard what your lover had done. I was appalled. But I was mostly afraid, dear friend. I know that you are not as strong as you would make-believe. I was worried, friend. I was so worried.
I wonder why you let us worry, sometimes.
Have a nice day.



friend,
Why do you never write back anymore? I'm starting to wonder if these letters are more of a bother than act of friendship. friend, is that true? Perhaps you are just not getting them. Perhaps it's the post office. That's probably it. friend? I hope that's it.
Have a nice day.



friend,
I haven't heard from you in weeks. Please reply.
Have a nice day.



friend,
Does this matter to you anymore?

Did it ever?



friend,
Just talk to me. ******* it, just give me piece of mind. Humour me. Just let me know. You are important to me, friend. You are very important. Do not act as if my words mean nothing. They used to not, but now they should. They really should. Your words mean everything to me. You told me, friend. You promised me that my words mattered. You helped me realise they mattered. You made me see that I have effect. Don't destroy that. Don't destroy the person you helped build.
Please, friend.



Stranger,

I hope you have a nice day.
The rise and fall of the friendship with a person that never happened. I barely talked to her. But I knew her. I really knew her. and I loved her with all my heart. That is the honest truth, though you can choose to not believe it.
Some lovers are simply not meant to be.
CE Jan 2016
IF IT IS DEAD
BURY IT

I DON'T CARE TO SEE YOU
PARADING CORPSES AT COCKTAIL PARTIES

AS IF THESE GOOD TIMES ARE STILL ALIVE
CE Jun 2018
I feel the running water with the index finger on my left hand

and though I can't tell if its scortching or freezing

but it gives my skin the burning feeling
so I hold my wrist there like a muddy boot that I'm trying to clear the grime off
CE Apr 2015
The name means nothing to her
The name means nothing
The name spoken and cried by billions,
The name prayed to and worshipped

The idol that we should not reject
As it is her
And she is true

The name that should not be said in vain,

The name of a million meanings and definitions

The name that could change a nation

And the one it belongs to that could change worlds

It bares no meaning anymore

For the one it belongs to

No longer knows it

She has forgotten that name and the vow that came with it

So now the name is nonsense

And it has fallen to obscure itself

And the one who it belongs to
Can no longer be reached

The name is gone

and so is she

The idol is gone

And so is the light
This seems like it's religious but it's really not intended to be
CE Sep 2014
You'll always be real to me
You've always been there when no one else was

You've always helped me stand tall and proud

Just like you

You've never gotten angry or upset at me
You've never mocked me for what I do
Or what I love

You made me feel happy
Sometimes

Though there were times you just couldn't help

And I know you can't always come with me

And I know that you're far from me now

But I promise I'll come back again one day

Just to see you

Because you're one of my best friends

And I know that it sounds silly

To say
I care about you

Well
maybe to them

But I think they just don't understand it

And because they don't understand you

They think you have no meaning

But I know you well

And you never did care what they said about you

You're full of well-deserved pride

You're quite perfect

To a number of definitions

You will always be real to me

You're the realist friend I have ever had

And I will always remember you

And I don't care if they can't understand it

Little tree on the edge of the playground,

You're my best friend.
I like trees.
CE Jun 2014
I sing my lonesome song
Calling for someone else who knows these words
I used to be in a choir of voices
Many like mine

Now?

A Lonely soloist
Acapella in my solitude
Far and wide these lyrics travel
No one ever completes my duet
But that won't stop me from trying

The ghosts that muted the songs of many try and mimic my melody

Hoping to entice me to them

they will cut me open and tear me apart

Ignoring my cries and pleads as they carry on their experiments

Vivisected

Stripped of all emotion

They will steal my voice

My breath

Use me as a slave before I am thrown away

Useless

They rendered many speechless

But not me

I'll not be fooled

Their webs stole everyone away

Why I'm alone is them

Those ghosts laugh

Awful voices

Winey

Nothing important to say

I'll swim through this vast sea

alone

For however long I need

Before I find that one

That completes my harmony
CE Jan 2016
She was not a good photographer

Somehow she found a way to make the entire world around her ugly
CE Jan 2016
I can't stop shaking
I can't stop crying

because now I have no reason to shake or cry,

so what's the point in living?

What's the point in living

when I have no reason to complain?
shut your mouth, you little hypocrite with a victim complex.
CE Dec 2017
AND AS I FELL INTO BED WITH YOU
THE COTTEN SHEETS COSUMING ME AS I HIT THE MASSTRESS
I COULD ONLY FEEL BUTTERFLIES
THAT SCATTERED AROUND MY STOMACH
LIKE WHEN YOU LEAN BACK INTO A FIELD OF GREEN
AND MAKE ANGELS IN THE SUMMER GRASS
THE SUN KISSING MY SKIN SOFTLY

BUT NOT AS SOFT AS YOU
NEVER AS SOFT AS YOU
CE Nov 2019
"****** purest," swims through her head, shes growing,
oh god, oh the sinking dread

unrecognisable, her eyes with the shame,
her blood poisoned, the toxins remain
pulsating through her skin, her brain

and when you eat her guts from the inside out
while shes crying for her mum

shes a good for nothing, good for nowt

and she tastes like blood and ***
CE May 2014
Alone with the stars
Something to light the way back home

Alone with the moon
Something to stare at

Alone with the sky
Something to admire

Alone with the wind
Something to converse with

Alone with my shadows
Something to give company

Alone with myself
Something of no purpose
CE Jan 2016
I can't believe you said all that

it's funny how you think you feel anything at all

you are nothing you say you are

you are not angry, you are not sad,

you are not even hollow

you're just so

you

and that's not a good thing
sorry for all the edgy poems ****
CE Jan 2018
flipping tables and throwing computers out of windows,
thats me!

I love breaking monotony up into tiny pieces

trying to jump out of the window
the carnage begins as you hold me back,

"don't ******* touch me,"

I scream so loud
like an air raid siren telling you to get to a shelter before the bombs start dropping

like a rattlesnakes jittering tail,
this is your warning

because if you don't let go

I'll break your ribs and your jaw

I want to keep every bone
that I've broken in a fit of rage

I want to wear your authority around my neck
like I do your teeth

I want to throw you into the bonfire

my peers cheering me on can be the wide-eyed children with sparklers,

I'll be the fireworks that you can hear blowing up from miles away

you can be the king that burns instead of of a guy

you can be the head teachers, my parents, the entire police department  

I'll be defiant
foul-mouthed
and disrespectful

I want to be the problem child

god knows
I love getting angry

I'll burn this school to the ground

it'll burn for days and days

I'm a forest fire

every step I take is arson
CE Apr 2016
WITH BLOOD ON ITS HOLY HANDS, THE MONSTER REACHES FOR HEAVEN AND BEGS FOR REDEMPTION
ALAS, GOOD INTENTIONS MEAN NOTHING TO A BENEVOLENT GOD THAT JUST WATCHED THE MONSTER **** THE INNOCENT IN THE NAME OF SALVATION
wicked deeds done with good intentions.
CE Mar 2015
The moon has been cancelled

We apologise for inconvenience caused
British weather will never cease to ruin your day
CE Oct 2017
don't try to tempt me out of bed with the promise of your body

your skin could never be as soft as my sheets

don't ever touch me, got that?

my body belongs in my room
in my bed

don't talk to me

don't even think about me

you all have filthy minds

don't taint me with your worry

I don't need you

all I need is my bed
CE May 2018
"no, I don't hate you,"
with a voice flatter than roadkill
that's what she said
CE Apr 2018
he spreads his tiny grey wings before he takes flight,
short-sightedly finding the closet light source he can

he cares not if the light will burn him when he reaches it,
he cares not if the light will last long enough for him to live and die in the warmth

he simply craves the light;
the only survival instinct left in his tiny, temporary body
CE Apr 2015
You were the one
That told me
Don't be so
*******
Apathetic

And you told me
Don't be oblivious

Don't be an empty person

With no face

You told
Me

That because I do not show it

Because I don't know how to show it

That I am empty

Mr apathy

Mr I don't care

Mr I can't care

And I tried as hard as I could

To be what you thought I needed to be

I felt so ******* bad about myself, you know?

I'm not

The person

That people

Will love

I am not

The person

That people

Can love

I am not

The person

That

Can love

Oh save me?

I did not need to be saved

I did not need to be saved

I DID NOT NEED TO BE SAVED

Don't take it upon yourself

To be the one that fixes me

When I was never broken

And it took so long for me to see that

After you told me otherwise for so long

I am not broken or empty

*You are
You're still kind of a ****, huh
mud
CE Jan 2019
mud
his exhausted hunch, his purpling heart, his bullet shocked head
he picks the shells off the floor and kisses them
he throws them in the air and dances with them
he lies with them like a great beast would

he lost his life first day of the somme;
his medals worth no more than their weight

he cracks the bullets open like a rat underfoot
and he creates, he paints and he sings
and he could have really been something if God had saved him
CE Jun 2014
To you I used to mean so much more

I used to be your one and everything

And now you can't remember my name

You know me by one simple phrase:

"Bound to you"

And I'm nothing more than a being that follows you

To your perspective..

I mean nothing
Do nothing
Am nothing..

But why should I be?

I can't tell you who you were

And I don't think I like who you are now

You're cold now

So cold

I can't tell you
but how I wish I could

Usually at times like this of pray

But what merciful god set this in motion?

I'm silent right now

There's a scream somewhere in my lungs

I need to shout to you and explain this all

But how can I shout when I can't even whisper?

If I get my voice back for one minute

I only need two words

"Remember me"..
CE Dec 2020
the world is a scary place right now
all around looms apocalypse foretold
and I think back to simple times when the villagers mined and farmed unaware the pillagers forthcoming,

does it really benefit us to know whats coming?

is not fear of disaster only an extension of our fear of death?
does she not catch us all eventually?
no matter how hard we fight eventually we will be forced to surrender if we are not prisoner of war
machines breathing for you

your mother's heart beats like the most beautiful song
but you don't know for how much longer
and you don't know what you'd do without her
and you don't know how you'd ever be able to pay the bills or work a trade with your history of anti social behavior and inability to integrate and troubles with authority

yes, indeed we all love to fight it
every single power that be
man will strive to **** God until he surrender
yes he will
and every time he will lose

we all will lose eventually

-

it was Auden and stop the clocks
at age 12 in the top floor of the academy
I felt loss and I understood it
and I knew this is how i could communicate it
the inherent suffering we all feel,
that comes for us all, some more than others

I never really felt good (and that is best for artists after all)
and I always tried to die, likened myself to Plath and tried to martyr myself to the melancholy

dying is an art,
like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well

but what was any of it for? why live a life of surrender?
I believe so much in the beauty of life and people and all things bright and beautiful
the reason death and disaster are so horrific-
because its all just gone and it never comes back and its so simple and I'll never ever understand it
nearly two decades and only now has the passage of time grabbed my head and forced me to look,
forced me so.
I cannot look away no matter how much I want to
and I am filled with so much regret I spent all those years siding with the enemy
poisoning the water that I too drank from
I dont know why I did that
I really dont
I really thought that time would wait for me

I would do anything to stop her walking foreward,
but there is nothing one can do

that is the root of our fall;
no matter how hard we fight it
she really comes for us all
my mum was diagnosed with cancer shortly before the pandemic began. I've been forced to confront the realities of death and time.
CE Jul 2014
Life *****
doesn't it?
The tedious action we must all pull through
to arrive at the same conclusion
the fullstop
or maybe a comma

what an allusive ending

I'm curious now

but this is all a lie, of course

The need to find out

it was all a lie from my own mind

fictional

my head is crowded with mist
I can only see white

I'll fill in the gaps myself

or should I start again?

It's not bad,

what I've been saying

but I cannot stop these words

I do not crave sympathy

Contrasting to belief

I just crave justification

For saying

"Life *****"
I don't even ******* know what this poem is about, not going to lie.. It's 2am and I need to write poems, but I'm a massive tangenter and it really shows in my poetry.
CE Feb 2016
HE WAS THE MOON AND I WAS THE STARS
I WAS MANY PEOPLE AND HE WAS ONE
CE Jan 2016
It shouldn't have happened,
no

Everybody should be happy and alive

Married with children -
Or however they would have chosen to live

It shouldn't have been done

But
I do understand

Because being so alone
Does terrible things to the mind

And when you are alone
Dangerously alone

And you find someone

And they want to leave

Can you really be blamed

For reaching for the kitchen knife

And doing anything to make them stay?
This is inspired by Jeffrey Dahmer- I don't actually believe in stabbing people who try to walk out of your life, don't worry. If somebody wants to walk out of your life please don't stab them.
CE Jan 2016
**** as many as you can
but most importantly-
have fun and be yourself!
CE Nov 2017
smoke is one of those smells you can't get out
it clings to walls and bedsheets and burrows deep like a mole into anything it touches
ash on my fingertips as it lingers
lingering
like kind touches that get a little too friendly
lingering
like the bitter aftertaste of sour milk
lingering
like eyes on kitchen knives

lingering
like the sinking feeling that won't go away
CE Dec 2019
it was all a day dream on the walk home from school
none of it was real

you stumble through the front door and everything was just how you left it
home alone, home at last  

nick your brother's ps2
take it into the lounge and connect it to the big TV
drink cherry coke straight out of the bottle
ruin your dinner with sour drops and stawberry laces before mum gets home
hide the evidence, there's nothing to worry about  

objects outside of the room disintegrate, nothing else matters

you're playing crash bandicoot and the future is far away so pay it no mind
longing for a simpler time
CE Dec 2017
there is nothing profound about my faux-addiction, the prescriptions mean nothing to me-
they don't even get me all that high

they don't taste good and nobody thinks I'm cool

all I'm doing is emulating people that would rather die then take a long hard look in the mirror

but I'm so **** vain,
self pity is not the reason I do this to myself

I just like to self destruct from time to time

the odd attempt on my life or a few bruises here and there

I just love to die

let me be mortal and ethereal at the same time

when I'm on the verge of a mental break because I 'forgot' to take my medication
the feeling is breathless, ******* angelic

it gets me closer to godliness than anything else
"dying is an art like everything else / I do it exceptionally well." - Sylvia Plath.
CE Mar 2018
only a few touches, only a few trickles of blood
it didn't last too long, it didn't hurt too much
only a few minutes- barely anything at all!

so grow up, little victim complex
your martyrdom is forced
(and you were not!)

why do you claim trauma on something
that didn't mark you anymore than you do yourself?
a bit **** but I need to get out of my writers block. have a self-loathing self-blame poem.
CE Dec 2017
some super cool teenagers gathered together and got high

and played ****** knuckles with a dozen dimes
CE Dec 2014
You're everything I've ever wanted,
devoted and kind and loyal and beautiful--
the kind of beauty that radiates through the sky and makes the stars themselves fall out of sheer embarrassment
embarrassed that they cannot shine like your smile, embarrassed that they can't twinkle like your eyes,
they can't hold a candle to you.
There is a sky full of stars,
and you're the sun and the moon and the earth,
and everything else beautiful.
My Mars,
my Jupiter,
my Saturn,
you're everything.
Everything from the beginning of everlasting,
to the end of gone.
You're everything.
And you're a beautiful everything.
CE Sep 2014
Oh hello again
We are unaquented still
Can you please remind me

Your name?

speak up, boy?

Oh

You still don't know?
How can you not know?
It's you isn't it?

Oh faceless one
Oh unaquented soul
Oh stranger..

I don't like talking to you

You don't know a lot..

I think I might stop looking at mirrors

I don't know whose eyes are staring back
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