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 Aug 2013 Anna
Briana4545
My therapist’s name is Beth.
She told me that I have
anxiety,
depression,
a lack of motivation,
and zero self-esteem.
She told me that I need to find
a hobby,
a pastime,
something that makes me “happy.”
She told me to focus on
my good qualities,
my strengths.
Please, Beth,
just give me some meds.
 Aug 2013 Anna
Anderson M
I will sing
Reveling in the cling
Of my bling
Hope some day
these few words
morph into a song
Pull yourself together
           Stop scratching at your wrists
Please just get some sleep
                          I know you want to die
But know's not the time
               Decide in the morning, you're too tired now
      stop crying
                  stop crying
                         Stop crying
Deep breaths and count to ten
    "One
          Two
     Oh God, I'm going to die
               Three
                     Four
Oh God, I can't do this
Oh God, I want to die
                          Five
                              Six
         It's all over in the morning
                                   Seven
                                         Eight
           Oh God, what if I can't die
                                               Nine
                                                     Ten
                         I need to sleep."
 Aug 2013 Anna
Akemi
untruths
 Aug 2013 Anna
Akemi
All edge and divides
Frightening truths, severed lies
You don’t walk through a crowd
For fear of taking their lives

Serpent tongue, serpent teeth
Rattles between lips, sealed
Spoke of many, far too many
Nonconformities

Cyclic reveries
The start and end don’t
Repeat
Just an infinite line
Parallel in
Retreat

Cyclic history
Stalled and stuttered to
Death
Just to rise once again
All mistakes and
Regrets
1:10pm, August 5th 2013

People are selectively ignorant of all the injustice in the world.
They'd rather believe untruths and pretend they're good people.

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Keep your head, keep your heart, keep your soul, all apart
Keep your misinformed selves wasting in the dark
Irrelevancies, to your own selfish lives
On the side line, watching a million die

You’ll think to yourself, what a good person you are
To never have wronged, like those ******* out far
But you’re a neutral, not a good--just a passerbyer
(Not heavenbound) a limbo-lingering bystander
 Aug 2013 Anna
Sharlie
Empty words
 Aug 2013 Anna
Sharlie
Empty words… Light enough to float far above one’s head.

I watch these words.
Some, the lighter ones, soar. Others drift.

All are meaningless, touching no one.

Always, eventually I forget they are there… accidentally crush them in my palms… for these words are fragile, are made after all, with just the ghost of substance.  

These words, I once despised. Oh, how I despised!
These words, *once upon a time.
 Aug 2013 Anna
Insomnimaniac
Do not fall in love with people like me.
People who will woo you
Easily
With pretty words
And love songs
And made up dreams that they maybe had at 2am when they might have woken up and thought of your face before anything else.

Do not fall in love with us.
Because we are liars.
We say exactly to you
What we wish you would say to us.
And when you don't say those things
We close off
And say mean things
That ring with more sincerity
Than our descriptions
Of the made up dreams.

Do not take our pretty words
And tell them to yourself
Over and over.
Because,
To be completely honest,
We may or may not even mean them.

And most importantly
Do not expect us
To fall in love with you.
Because we won't.
We only take pleasure
In making you fall so hard for us
And our lies and false confessions
And empty promises.

We take no pleasure
In letting ourselves fall.
Because we believe
That all people are like us.

We believe
That nobody will be there
To catch us.
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