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i guess it never goes away
that's what i was afraid of
the shame pervades
forgiveness is not enough
you probably don't think of me now
i don't even think you did during the worst of it all
kicked by indifference and racked with doubt
did you mean to make me feel this small

because i still lose sleep
sweating cold in different sheets
i pushed you away from me
but not before it cost my fragility
the price of being naive

there was this song i listened to
where the girl was too young to be haunted
and it made me think of you
and the feeling of being hunted
and sacrificed
for a moment of belonging
in the midst of loneliness
your smile seemed so disarming

now i know you were lying through your teeth
you were never in step with me
cause you get what you came for then ultimately leave
bet you don't feel any better without the closure you dont know you need
i'm still over here losing precious sleep
176 · Mar 2020
missin' kissin' you
at your insistence
i'll maintain my distance
cause you say it's better off this way

but suppose there was an instance
where we could both be consistent
would you wanna stay

the dynamic keeps switchin'
everyday you feel different
i'm trying to respect the change

know you've been resistant
your motivation to try nonexistent
guess i just wanna hear you say

you miss me pushing you're limits
i can't stop reminiscin'
about you everyday
175 · Jan 2019
i'm sorry
you keep asking why I didn’t
hit you up, call you back
left you on read

like what was i thinking?
don’t i love you?
i was focused on the what ifs instead

like what if this is pointless
and we fight for nothing
are we loving only to lose?

i’m just not sure what i want
i am not doing this
just to hurt you
174 · Feb 2019
<>
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wanna feel
wanna be
wanna wanna
want everything
i want and want
to the point that i need
but the more i want him
the less he wants me
173 · Jul 2021
back to sleep
different opportunities open for me
i like the idea of any future i please
i am not opposed to seeing where it could lead
but i also know i'm running on a short leash
gonna overstay this lease
of midnight confidence that's taken over me
i'm just liking all of the pretty things i see
imma let it all fade off and fall right back to sleep
172 · Apr 2019
you're hurting me
yo doc
i haven't been feeling so hot
tired all over
sleep? i don't know her
a little too sore
to do much more
the pills don't work
they make me feel worse

but you either don't care or don't know
go ahead and double my dose
171 · Mar 2021
beg for mercy
restlessness and a stream of thoughts
that take darker turns along with the clock
tomorrow is coming and it won't stop
it hurts so bad but it won't stop
171 · Dec 2018
Limbo
Disgustingly sweet
Your loves leaves me with a bitter feeling
Like we both deserve so much more than this
But there are times I lose myself
In your eyes, In my dreams
I get lost in our kiss
You are real
You are something present, I can see you
Something I can touch
But when I try to reach out
You disappear
And so does our love

Why do I always choose
The ones that cause the most pain
Why am I letting this get past me
When there’s nothing for me to gain
From hurting you or myself
Or entertaining these games
I want to feel wanted
But I need to go away

And you keep asking why I didn’t
Hit you up, Call you back
Left you on read
Like what was I thinking?
Don’t I love you?
I was focused on the what ifs instead
Like what if this is pointless
And we fight for nothing
We love to lose
I’m just not sure what I want
I am not doing this
Just to hurt you

And it's not that I hate you
It’s how I hate feeling like
You are never really present
I tell you all these things
But your eyes are all glossy
And I wonder why I even said it
Like why waste my breath
Or my time
Just so you can get the message
You blame me for feeling alone
When you are always on
A mental vacation

Where I can’t reach you
Boy, do I try
I’m always just a touch away
But you’re just too far
And it hurts to not have you
So I just give up and shift the blame
From you to me
I shouldn’t have expected you
To be who you say
It is ******* crazy
I thought you wouldn’t
Disappoint or betray
But it’s all over now
My tears are dry
So why do I still feel pain?
Why does my
Indecisive heart continue to
Break

Why do I always choose
The ones that cause the most pain
Why am I letting this get past me
Why do I make these choices?
Why do I wake up
Just to fall back asleep?
Why do I love?
Why do I care when it always
Backfires on me?
Why do I argue?
Why do I hurt you
Just because you don’t answer my questions?
Why do I care?
Why do I care?
Power of suggestion
Why do I come back
When I fought so hard to leave?
Why do I go back and forth?
Why do I even try
to make this relationship
Work anymore?

Why do I need to go away?
You’re everything that is good
Yin and Yang, Night and Day
There is bad in the good, babe
You were worst promise I ever made
But definitely my best mistake
Why do I always choose
The ones that cause the most pain?
170 · Jan 2022
moody haze
don't depend on me to be better than you
not at this point
i was good to you and i tried my best
and you made your choice

because everything i was wasn't what you wanted
failed attempts to be what you needed
i changed to fit your vision but you couldn't see it through
and now you don't wanna believe it

i was so good to you even when you burned me
even now i'm not mad i'm just hurt
i waited for you to love me
now i just wait to leave this earth

i'm not gonna tell everyone your secrets
or list every wrongdoing for fun
i'll just fall apart until i don't fall apart anymore
and find peace in the fact that we're done

it's all that i can do
169 · Mar 6
i really loved you
dust settles
scores level
a few backpedals
there were dark times but now it's tonight

fallen petals
forced devils
thoughts still wrestle
but it's been a year since that fight

it's not that it wasn't real
it just wasn't realistic
hope can gut dreams
if you aren't careful with it
pure joy led right to pain
it almost feels sadistic
looking back but that's the problem
remembering is a sickness

and its like you moved inside too
i try to make room
but its not really you
it's what you meant to my humanity

i still don't really know what to do
recalling random **** out of the blue
good comes with the bad it's poignantly true
it just costs the last bit of my sanity
what do you do when there's nothing left to do?

(separate the spines from the flesh and pick the bones clean?)
overthink :)
and spend every thursday morning with a nice lady
who tells you everything will be okay
(i just dont know)
169 · Jan 2019
calm down
i'm not a mistake
but i am a problem
however you can't just solve me

you have to listen
you have to witness
the damage that you've been causing

to make me like this
i was never normal
but i was never this faulty

i can't function
i can't deal with this normally
but i will try to do so calmly
168 · Jan 2022
onetwothree strikes
waiting
on a text on the word
for anything at all
pacing
in my mind and in my room
getting nowhere at all

it's like you want me
but there's something wrong
or you hate me
but i turn you on
i can't tell
and either *****
it's night like these
i wish we never ******

debating
if i should say something
or pretend this is fine
praying
that you aren't gonna hurt me
and that you'll make up your mind

because it's like you want me
but i'm not enough to make you happy
or you hate me
but it's too easy to just pass me
i can't tell
but i hate that this is how things are
it's nights like this
i wish i didn't have a heart

breaking
bleeding
crying
you
taking
leaving
lying
you

jus­t want this feeling to go away
that i'm nothing and the shame
or that i was just some conquest to claim
but that's the only way
i can make it make sense in my brain
and i wanted you anyway
how sad is that
couldn't really say
168 · Apr 2021
standardized
the presence of a question
doesn't guarantee an answer is out there
they say follow your heart
but i'm so unsure and scared
should i already know what i'm doing
am i just unprepared
i don't know if there are reasons to live
or if i even care
it's just a lot constantly
one thing or another and i feel it when
i'm consistently undervalued
or pushed to the brim
i know ive got patience
but i find it harder and harder to reign in
i know the person i want to be
but i can't even manage to be my own friend
167 · Jul 2020
above
the answer is no
don't fight hate
grit your teeth
smile through the pain
ignore all the ugly
things they have to say
be kind behind backs
and polite to their face

hurting others
won't heal your wounds
so let the cycle
end with you
don't perpetuate
the abuse
be better than
what they could push you to
166 · Feb 2019
3-3
3-3
i lost a friend
and my love doesn't love me
momma i'm scared
cause bad things always come in threes
165 · Jan 2019
100
100
got here so fast
ain't that crazy
i can't even imagine

but when i take into account
how long i've been doing this
i feel like there should've been
this bigger reaction

but i'm here
with my hundredth poem online
and honestly i am not feeling all too much passion

tomorrow is a new day
for a new poem
a new feeling
a new attraction

can't put too much pressure
on myself
anxiety is my worst distraction

so let's go pen
one hundred one
and end this before it loses
traction
165 · Jun 2021
twisted wires
already had this conversation
took advantage of my intentions and patience
effort utterly wasted
on someone who's beyond complacent
with being unhappy for the rest of their life
just as long as i'm just as miserable by your side
you make no sense so go ahead and lie
haven't been listening since i realized i was right
165 · Jan 2022
game of risk
that kindness i'd extended
withdrawn
i hoped you'd be different
i hoped wrong
you dont know what you want
dragging this on
want me soft enough to crush
want me easy and gone
i dont care at all
but i still do
tell myself
i dont want to hear from you
but there's nothing wrong
with the truth
a small part of me wishes
you're wishing too
struggling with accepting
that i'm not wrong feeling these ways
the highs of intimacy
and the confusion of space
wanting all the beautiful things
strewn about my brain
quite far from reality
but it's an addicting escape
from the depressing finalities
set in stone
i listen to logic
but i also don't know
it all makes sense
but i still don't
want it to end
but i won't stop you though

i took all of my chances
and its your turn to walk off the ledge
backwards
and blindfolded
just trusting me to catch you
and who knows
maybe i just would
or maybe you'd fall into the same trap
but you'll never find out
because you don't find me worthy of such
probability
164 · Jan 2019
gottagottagotta
gotta be patient
gotta be nice
gotta keep it all pretty and short
gotta stay out the way
gotta listen better
gotta always do just a little but more
gotta
gotta
gotta
gotta
gotta keep my eyes of the door
gotta act like i wanna be here
gotta make them believe me
gotta or it'll be like before
162 · Jan 2021
ratings
not good enough
for me
or for you
don't say
i'm being silly
you know its true

cause if she's a five
what am i
close my eyes
try not to cry

because i don't
think this is what
you're trying to do
when i don't wanna
be myself
you'll be confused

but you don't get it
so just forget it
already did it
too late to fix it

cause the things
you say manage
to hurt
when i'm in
front of the mirror
i hear the words

they never leave me be
feed my insecurities
i hate having to be me
sorry for what you have to see

i live everyday
feeling you're much more
than i deserve
but i feel like
out of your choices
i'm nowhere near first
162 · Sep 2021
god bless
strangers indifferent
to the others existence
brought you together
regret that decision
you forget who i was
pick at who i am
push me to the edge
off making 'better friends'
made for each other
all the toxicities align
better you block you own opportunities
than keep ******* with mine
melting away sounds nice
away from my brain and the pain
an oil slip between the cracks
a stagnant liquid allowed to drain

i'm so tired i could fall to shreds
and i wouldn't fight it
just granules of earth
ready to be scattered by the wind

it's get harder before it gets easier
i know but i hate to see it become true
i'll keep pushing but i'd rather give up
but i don't want to disappoint you
exhausted
161 · Dec 2021
uncertainties
there's so many stars up there
i wanna ask questions but i'm too scared
that you won't care
or i'll just be talking too much

too many too count but still i try
almost as many thoughts in my mind
there would never be enough time
to tell you how it really was

but when the symphony begins to play
for a moment everything feels okay
you may have dropped my hand
but i don't register the pain

i'm exploring all the ways this could go
the words i almost had crawl back down my throat
you dont need to worry about me anymore
i'll never have the answers when there's so much to know
161 · Feb 2019
exchanges
pretty girl
pretty ugly
compliments
because you love me
give me kisses
where i'm falling apart
tender touch
for a broken heart
whispered names
and secret keeping
tissue to ouch
to stop the bleeding
did not mean
to cause me harm
i swear i know
who you are
so tell me i'm pretty
like you believe it
you tell me that i'll work
take it or leave it
wanted a fantasy
but you need a body
so i leave half satisfied
knowing you already forgot me
160 · Jul 2024
goosebumps
never met somebody like me
the rawness that you feel
it's not what you're used to
genuity seems so surreal
when you spend your life
inside of a simulation
of intimacy and understanding
to the point of derealization
you dont have conversations like this
actually you never have
validation and comprehension
not walking away feeling bad
like you just laid out all your guts
for absolutely no reason
but this time you put yourself on the block
and aren't walking away weakened
and that's all good for you
i can reach that deep anytime you need
but i'm realizing that while i can take you there
but you can't do that for me

(it's not your fault,
i've been trapped
here for a very long time)
no one would consider me a baller
i'm not much of a scholar
i only have a single dollar
i jump when i get scared but i don't holler
if i don't wanna talk i can be quite the staller
re people who put up walls called a waller
i clumsy so you could call me a faller
sometimes i wish i was taller
i look bad in shirts with collars
i would hate to be eaten by a machine called a mauler
i still answer the phone even if it says unknown caller
160 · Jan 2023
complaincency
i hate men
i didn't say all
so before you try to patronize me
let me actually talk
i hate men
i never said all
but you know the ones i mean
a majority evading fault

i hate when i have to prove myself
when i've bent over backwards to please
my grace and wit dismissed
i'm supposed to laugh when they harrass me
when i report
i'm a tease
or i'm a *****
or i don't get how the joke was funny
the ***** gallery wants to chip in
keep the two cents
i don't need the nuisance
or the blatant violation
***** in my mouth
when you act like i'm just some doll to play with
160 · Oct 2019
i'd like to have a friend
but i love
distancing myself
from every opportunity of belonging
i come across
too much
159 · Jan 2019
itinerary
loneliness breezes in in the morning
             anxiety shuffles in right about noon
                          depression is quite fitting in the dead of night
                                       denial coming up soon
i'm smarter than i look
i like to read books
sometimes i cook
i've never slept in a nook
my family's a bunch of crooks
my poems will leave you shook
AP World History is the longest exam i've ever took
i don't know how to tie on a fish hook
i really didn't understand the babadook
never had a friend named brook
or brooke
i think there is a kind of fish called a snook
they call me sierra because the name shtook
lol i am done now
158 · Dec 2021
so let the sunshine in
sunlight peeking through
telling me today has started
and when it's rays burn my retinas
readjusting to the brightness
i know that something has to change

i'm too tired to keep lying
and say it isn't all too much
or maiming myself
in the hopes of being loved
of all the things i want
i only need myself
not your kindness nor your acceptance
not even your help
although i asked
i know now that's not a guarantee
you can't appreciate my heart
but that isn't a fault of me
it all is what it is
and i gotta be happy despite those things
recreating my reality
instead of harping on lost dreams
157 · Dec 2020
nightrider
feel a wave of exhaustion coming on
gonna try and ride it out
to somewhere beyond this moment
cause i can't stand right now
155 · Feb 2019
not me because i am a wuss
guess who's laughing now
guess who won this game
guess who made it all the way
to the end of the maze
guess who said enough was enough
guess who put their foot down
guess who called you out
and put away all of the doubt
155 · Apr 2020
imagine
deep in your subconscious
lie the answers you seek
the solution is not as far
as you might think
you have the ability
to manifest your dreams
if you build a flying ship
you'll never be afraid to sink
155 · Jul 2019
not this time
all you want is promises
you dont want reality
truth is you could have it all
and you still wouldn't be happy

all you want is promises
but i need to stay honest
so i won't make one to you
my promise to myself is strongest
154 · Dec 2021
made up
i woke up this morning
and knew inside
i just knew
you couldn't ever love me
not because i'm unlovable
or anything bad
but just because
you only feel me as a stroke to your ego
because who else
is asking about your day
or hearing you out lately
and wanting to know your woes
or sending a message first
no one
and i just wanted to be nice
and maybe show you what it could be like
and i really thought i liked you
and i'm not gonna stop being kind
but i can't pretend this isn't what it is
i'd die before i let myself become
a nothing to someone
who wants me to curate they're everything
so they can live without feeling
i'm not an emotional cumrag
i wanna see you happy
but i wanna be happy too
154 · Sep 2021
ruined a good thing
jagged illustrations
silent film
predestinations
oft fulfilled
split decisions
we just don't grasp
their lasting effects
coupled with the weight of the past
getting ahead of ourselves
or is it just me
simples pleasures spoilt
cause i can't not overthink
what did i ever do to
make you act so cold
i seriously need you to tell me
because i need to know
not listening to one another
opinions interfering
anger controlling your actions
ensuring you don't hear me
and what i struggle to believe
is that no matter how i try to get through
my loyalty and attempts
mean nothing to you
still working out the kinks
153 · Jan 2019
hashimoto's
so i got diagnosed
with hashimoto's
a couple of weaks ago
and some of the symptoms are:
- unexplained mood swings
- fatigue
- depression

well DUH
i knew all that already
only thing to do now is..
umm...
sooo
thryoid gland
what's good?
153 · Sep 2021
actually i know
they say don't smile in your mugshot
but i regret not a thing i did
people like him
deserve what they get
i didnt even mean to
but i'm not mad it happened
and if that's a sin
i think i could live with it
152 · Aug 2022
wonderfull
the fear of not being enough for you
is crippling and lonely
i'd share but it'd seem like a bid for attention
and it just isn't like that at all
i watch you be kind
and find love for people
living everyday with this lightness
bringing happiness to everyone
who ever has the fortune of
meeting you
wonderful you
and i see myself
struggling to find patience
a fight to keep the illness contained
knowing i can be better
because i have been better
and i've slowly gotten better
but i'm just not who i want to be
i hope you don't see
how hurt
how tired
how lost
how weak i've come to be
but instead
i hope you know
how much better you have made me
just by showing me
there's so much to be grateful for
and that i wont always be the person
that i am today
one day
i hope i'm more like you
wonderful you
152 · Oct 2019
hmu
hmu
no one reaches out
my line stays dry
i don't reach out either
because i've already tried
nothing comes of it
it all ends as fast it starts
i'm tired of people trying to change me
i'm tired of nursing a broken heart

so i don't reach out
and neither do they
empty inboxes
haunt me all day
the messages that come
are desperate or bored
i'm dying for interaction
but i know better than before

the one time i replied
he tried to use me
to try and manipulate me
is the best way to lose me
so i ghosted him
and left him on read
turned off my phone
and went to bed

I NEED CONVERSATION AND STIMULATION
I NEED MORE THAN DESPERATION
MY DREAMS ARE BEYOND X RATED
I'M MORE FUN WHEN I'M THINKING
GIVE ME WORDS WORTH READING
SAY SOMETHING WITH ACTUAL MEANING

i sift through the gibberish
in search of food for thought
i am not here to make you feel better
nor to get you off

i just wish someone would hear me
my throat is raw from screaming
WHY DO I FEEL SO ALONE
why is happiness so fleeting

but all they want
is for me to fill a role
either to take my virtue
or save my soul

why
why
why
why
why

i just want to talk to someone
and tell the truth for once
152 · Aug 2019
windy
small minded boy
whose seen the city
think your so cool
but you cant bear to be alone

i see right through you
that ego is just the surface
there's nothing underneath
the wind whistles through your soul
152 · Feb 2023
off to better
i realized i didn't need permission
to move on
or have to wait for forgiviness
when i did nothing wrong
except for being young
and having trust
in people who i should've denied
i spent months
trying to pick the pieces up
dust to dust
until i realized i never really needed your love

i cared for a while
for years
i was stout in denial
and watched my deepest fears
come to life one by one
everyone had their fun
tearing me down at my weakest
like i didn't try hard enough
like i deserved to feel so scuffed
i'd never hurt this much

and i've never felt this bad
or since
it all just tore me right in half
and where were my 'friends'
while i mourned myself
i needed help
you saw the moment as a chance
to cleanse yourself
i didn't want anything else
but of course you still brought me hell

and now you hate me
for walking away
i can still hear you complaining
because my existence must have caused you so much pain
remind me again
how i dont know what i said
that i'm awful and deplorable
i forget the rest

i'm ******* glad i left
152 · Jul 2021
wants & needs
the price of a joyride
the heart of a boy i
will never truly know
seemed like a cool guy
now i feel used dry
ending on a flat note
i made the decision
said i was okay with it
even though i was reluctant to even go
ofcourse he's indifferent
should've trust my intuition
but i just didn't wanna spend the night alone
151 · Oct 2021
close it softly
some things don't change
my nightly pain
you never came
here i wait

bed unmade
woke up late
midnight games
rotting my brain

i used to think and feel and know
now all i do is lay and loathe
at 3 am alone and cold
fantasies of my favorite ghost

am i the only one that hopes
do you understand how deep this goes
can you feel the pressure when i get close
when you're stepping over the pile of our clothes

and when you're closing the door do you turn back around
or do you just keep fleeing without making a sound
it's a little too late to spare me now
just stay in the safe space and placate my doubts

and try to leave again once i'm finally out
don't try to make it better by hanging around
you just make it worse when you won't put me down
if you don't care then don't care and get out of my house

i don't need any more false hope
151 · Jul 2021
100% cotton
baby boy
wasn't his fault
one day the pain
had to stop
started with a fist
ended with a knot
leaving us behind
in his absence perpetually lost
151 · Oct 2019
(trust [fall)ing out]
it's always gonna be something with me
at least that's how it feels
why can't i get over myself
it can't possibly be that hard to heal
first i want loyalty
but that's asking too much
how dare i have expectations
who even gives a ****
then i want patience
and love and support
it's silly to think
i want for even more
i am dying to be consoled
and to look into someone's eyes
and believe them when they say i'm not horrid
rather than expecting it all to be a lie

so the world says ******* to me
for wishing with all my heart
it took a bond i cherished
and shredded it apart

now i'm even needier
i barely even function
every memory stings
it takes an ocean of tears to numb them
the act of betrayal is so severe
i shut down on sight
i need you to be who i thought you were
i need it to be a lie
i need i need i need i need
i need to come to terms
it's all wrong, change it back
but that's just not how it works

i need an explanation
what did i do wrong
tell me what i can fix
show me how to move on
you seem fine
you dont look back
you're happy without me
you never crack
that positivity of yours
is omnipresent
i thought you would miss me
or at least regret it

i need to yell at you
i need to make you understand
how this all boils down
to me questioning who i am
am i a friend
am i the enemy
will i lash out
will i show sympathy
i don't know
i never thought it'd come to this
i trusted you
so i guess it's what i get

i need a sorry
i need to hear the catch in your voice
i need to know you didn't mean it
hear you acknowledge that you made the wrong choice
but i'm afraid i'll disclose
and you won't even blink
what if you never cared
and you never needed me
the way i need you
even in this moment
i'm attached
and everybody knows it

i got my sorry
i felt it in the way you spoke
you never meant to hurt me
you never intended to ghost
but you didn't know what to say
or how to not make it worse
you look back at what you did
and you're disgusted by your words
i know you have learned better
and that gives me peace of mind
but as relieving as this is
something still doesn't feel right

i stay up the whole night
rereading what you said
i cant believe it happened
i'm paralyzed in my bed
laying in a crumple
in a drying puddle of tears
the apology echoes off the walls of my mind
as i go back a couple years
and remember when we  first met
to when i thought you were perfect
then realizing you weren't
****** into the current
of recalling the old us
and comparing them to the new
i have changed tremendously
and i needed to learn you did too

but still when i close my eyes
i feel unstable and ugly
every little thing haunts me
i thought you could trust me
i thought i could trust you
and it's not that i don't now
i just can't shake the feeling
of self-doubt when you're around

i need a sorry
and i got it
forgiven
but not forgotten
in fact i've been haunted
by that stupid conversation
i tried to rush the process of healing
i thought i was being patient
i thought i could just go back to normal
just hug you and say hi in the halls
but i feel so ugly in my skin still
and i hate to admit i think it's your fault
i thought i could trust you
i think one day i might
for now i'm gonna try
but its gonna take some time
and i know it's just a saying
and i'm not trying to burden you with guilt
but i think i'm realizing once the trust is gone
it takes a life time to rebuild
151 · Apr 2019
line of reasoning
something tells me
that you can't tell the difference
between the real me
and the fake me

if you can't
that's not my fault
but don't say that
you hate me

you can't hate
what you don't know
if that makes you mad
then blame me

my logic triumphs
your misunderstandings
and it makes you cry
like a baby
150 · Jan 2019
blind
do you not see?
do you ever notice me?
can you tell when i can’t breathe?
do you even understand
the capacity
of your actions and the way they control the world around me?
are you blind
or are you dense?
common sense
intelligence
practicality
experience
i don’t understand
don’t comprehend
are you blind?
must i remind
you of all the times
i gave what i didn’t have
just to hear you call yourself mine
and then in the end
you take it all back
like i was the one who surprised
you with all this love ****
i waited to say it back
cause i didn’t want it to be a lie
your cloying lips just let it fall
into my hands
when “i love you” meant nothing at the time
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