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Pleasant surprises never come to me and
Pessimism is how I learned to survive
So forgive me if I show doubt my darling
I haven't felt this happy for a very long time
We never spoke in person after you asked me out. It lasted a week. You called me "it". You're going places now.

2. Sorry, I never really wanted you.

3. I thought I loved you. You were my first kiss in a movie theater arcade. You probably liked her all along. I was never the same after you.

4. I was your biggest mistake. You listened to music I pretended I had heard of and you played video games I pretended to be interested in. I have a soft spot for you.

5. You're my favorite almost. You're still nice to look at.

6. You fell in love with my best friend. You were my #9 to her. I hope you regret it.

7. You called me "baby" and said you loved me two days in. I don't think you know anything about me besides my name.

8. You let me sing you to sleep once. To everyone else, we were perfect. I didn't love you as much as I wanted to.

9. You're the nightmares. You are the broken pencil, the torn pages. You were my first everything. My first train wreck. You're a narcissist and I'm basically the anti-Christ to you. It's all been said before. I'm still not sorry.

10. You kissed me too soon. When you gave me your sweatshirt in the rain I saw how good you were. I hope you still have big dreams. I hope it didn't hurt when I never texted back.

11. I broke my phone and we didn't speak for a few days. By the time I was back on twitter you were already with someone else.

12. I was drunk. Delete my number.

13. You're unconquerable. I still question how badly I wanted you, maybe I just wanted to be the one that stayed. But I stayed. You're more than I can ever convey into words. I'm sorry we never really got to fall in love.

14. I don't remember half the night. I'm glad we had one day to forget.

15. You're a stranger. Maybe we've already met. Maybe I've known you my whole life. Maybe you live across the planet. Maybe you've always been close. Whoever you are, you're #15, and I hope I don't crush you. (Please don't crush me).
 Jan 2014 Esmeralda Reyes
Ty
you're not in control,
by your mind doesn't wander.
for a few hours everything is frozen,
still.
all emotions disappear,
like a soul in a corpse.
concentration is impossible.

but it ends with relief.
you're no longer a zombie,
but they return.
the fear, and the thoughts,
and they're angry.

you tried to suppress them,
but it made them stronger.
you yearn for the high,
from the drugs meant to help.

it's desperation against control.
allow a pill to control your mind,
not a disorder

the end is beckoning
(tm)
recently (finally) diagnosed with anxiety and depression and was put on sertraline (zoloft). I wrote this while in a "zombie" state people experience when beginning the medication. so far it just makes me numb then more depressed and more anxious. sorry this poem is dark and all over the place
My wife, a psychiatrist, sleeps
through my reading and writing in bed,
the half-whispered lines,
manuscripts piled between us,

but in the deep part of night
when her beeper sounds
she bolts awake to return the page
of a patient afraid he'll **** himself.

She sits in her robe in the kitchen,
listening to the anguished voice
on the phone. She becomes
the vessel that contains his fear,

someone he can trust to tell
things I would tell to a poem.

— The End —