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Ellyn k Thaiden Aug 2019
My whole life
I've been described as
Hypervigilant

Trauma after trauma
I thought being an adult
Would solve these problems

I thought turning eighteen
And leaving my home behind
Would mean the end

But growing up doesn't mean
Bad things will suddenly
Stop happening to you

Growing up doesn't save you
From these new monsters
Under our beds

Growing up doesn't mean
That you're safe with the people
You thought you were safe with

Growing up just means you're
At it completely
And totally alone

The people you look toward
For comfort are the reason
That you're running in the first place

We are all born naked and alone
And we will all pass away
Naked and alone

Fight for yourself
Grow up for yourself
Live for yourself

Because in the end
You're what matters the most
You are all that's left
Ellyn k Thaiden May 2019
Some things have gotten
Mush worse since you left
Like how I can't stop the
Voices in my head anymore

My OCD is at its worse
I can't stop counting numbers
My anxiety won't leave me alone
It tells me I shouldn't leave the house

My parents wonder why I
Don't visit as often
My friends wonder why I would
Rather stay home than go out

My depression says to me
"No one loves you"
And my body feels like
A ******* strangers

I either eat too much
Or nothing at all
I don't sleep for days
Or I don't leave the bed for hours

But other things in my life
Have improved since you've been gone
Like I feel like I'm finally with
Someone who can be honest with me

I can finally write again
I can draw
I can read
I can breathe

You taught me how to love myself
When you never even loved me
You taught me how to respect
Myself and live freely

You showed me many different
Points of view
And how to open yourself up
To the people who deserve it

You taught me I need to respect myself
And to not let others dictate
How I feel
Or how I live my life

You taught me a lot
Like that I don't need you
To survive this life anymore
I can walk on my own now

Some things in my life feel like
They are falling apart
And slowly slipping from me
Like oiled up hands grasping at the edge of the cliff

But some things are slowly falling
Back into place
And maybe
Just maybe

I can live this life without you next to me

Maybe I will be okay in the end

Maybe I can find my way back to the light

Just maybe my life can be mine again
Ellyn k Thaiden May 2019
PSA
I'm pro people being people being polyamorous, but if you use that as an excuse to just see other people and string your partner along and you are just keeping said original partner around just to boost ya own ego, you're a *******.
**** me. Just ******* **** me now please. I'm so done with this life and ****** people acting like they aren't ****** just to make themselves feel better.
Ellyn k Thaiden May 2019
you'll be my star
I'll be your sky
You can hide underneath me and come out at night
When I turn jet black and you sow off your light
I live to let you shine
I live to let you shine
But you can skyrocket away from me
And never come back if you
Find another galaxy
Far
From here
With more room to fly
Just leave me your stardust to remember you by
If you'll be my boat
I'll be your sea
A depth of pure blue just to probe curiosity
Ebbing
And flowing
And pushed by a breeze
I live to make you free
I live to make you free
But you can set sail to the west if you want to
And pass the horizon
'Till I can't even see you
Far from here
Where the beaches are wide
Just leave me your wake to remember you by
If you'll be my star
I'll be your sky
You can hide underneath me and come out at night
When I turn jet black
And you show off your light
I live to let you shine
I live to let you shine
But you can skyrocket away from me
And never come back if you find another galaxy
Far from here
With more room to fly
Just leave me your stardust to remember you by
Stardust
To remember you by
Gregory and the Hawk. Hits home. I just need to let go, but I hate letting go of something I've invested so much of my time and life energy into. How do you walk away from something you still care immensely about? How do you throw away 5 years of your life? How do you just move on? How do you let go??
I'm so lost.
Ellyn k Thaiden May 2019
I use to wonder what
I did to deserve you
Why you would pick me

You made me want to
Be a better person
To constantly improve

You held me and reassured me
You kissed away my worries and fears
You made promises

Promises you couldn't keep
Promises of a future
Promises to always love me

You promised to always choose me

But you didn't chose me
You chose them
I don't know why

How can you leave so freely
How can you not feel the
Same way I do right now

How can you carry on in life
Without me by your side
Without my love

How can you just move on
Like the last 5 years just
Didn't happen

How do you survive
Knowing that I'm in someone
Else's arms at night

Because I can't ******* breathe
I can't sleep
I can't funtion

At first I didn't know what I did
To deserve you
Now I don't know what I did to make you leave
I'm so lost and confused right now
Ellyn k Thaiden May 2019
I wasn't good enough
For you to stay
You decided to find love
A different way

You left me thinking
I was broken somehow
That I loved you wrong
And it's over now

It's over for you
But not for me
You still haunt
My memories

You slip into my dreams
And you whisper quietly
"No one will ever love you
Like you love me"

What's so wrong about me
That makes people leave
What scared you away
And left me to grieve

You found happiness
In someone else's arms
They give you peace of mind
Apparently I caused you harm

I'm still clueless
And I feel so alone
Surrounded by people
My home isn't my home

It's an empty shell
Without you next in bed
I can't shut these thoughts up
They're racing through my head

I try to live without you
But it doesn't feel like living
I try to love without you
But I end up giving more than receiving

As the years go by
Maybe it will hurt less
But right now
You've ripped my heart from my chest

I pretend it's okay
To see you with them
But I honestly can't
Seem to comprehend

Why I wasn't enough
Why I couldn't be what you wanted
I don't know what I messed up
But every night I'm haunted

With how things could have gone
The life we could have had
The love I felt for you
Was I really so bad

I'll never be enough
For you or for the next
I should just give up
And put myself to rest
I don't know what I did wrong. I don't know why it was so unbearable to be with me. I don't know why you would leave for other people. After you promised to stick with me. You don't promise someone forever if you can't give it. I know things change, but that's not how I see it. Why was I so hard to be with? Why couldn't you marry me like you promised? Why did you lie to everyone, including yourself? Why did you use me? How are you doing okay and forgetting me while I'm literally dying inside without you next to me. I can't stop crying. I just want to die.
Ellyn k Thaiden Apr 2019
I don't sleep anymore
Instead I stay up thinking
Of the many ways I could
Have made you stay

Instead I think about
How many times you
Said you loved me
And how they were all lies

Instead I think about how
I wasn't good enough
And I never will be
Not for anyone

I just want to matter again
I want to matter like how
I use to for you
I use to mean something

And right now meaning anything
Would make me feel alive
Would make me feel something

It's so lonely here
It's so quiet
Wrote this a few months ago. Idk.
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