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189 · Feb 21
Child
Kaiden Feb 21
There is a child discovering your path
Running away from the world's anger and wrath
There might be a future awaiting ahead,
But what if one day they end up dead?
<3
182 · Jan 4
Lost child
Kaiden Jan 4
Imagine a little child
Wandering through the streets all alone,
With nothing but a tiny backpack
And a toy in their hand.

No one stops to ask if they're okay,
No one wants to look at them,
Most people don't even aknowledge them.

And they only care
When the child gets hit by a car,
Dissapears from existence.
To never be seen again.
Inspired by a story i wrote as a kid
182 · Apr 22
Attention
Kaiden Apr 22
ATTENTION.
Oh sweet attention
How i crave you..
Letting the lines show
Trading them for a tiny bit of compassion
Something's starting to get terribly wrong with me.
181 · Jun 6
Hope
Kaiden Jun 6
Hope is worthless.
You get it
And lose it,
Each time feeling more painful than the other.
Sometimes lies are more reliable than the truth
im so ******* done, everytime i get the tiniest bit of hope and my mental health is starting to get better, i ******* lose it cuz why not. im too tired to even try at this point, for the past **** knows how long ive been trying to convince myself im not suicidal, just to not **** myself before summer break, then i can be depressed all i want. i have exactly 20 days left until summer break and i genuinely dont think i'll be alive by then. "oh but your brother will get worried", i dont ******* care at this point. i really dont. nothing is real anyway, i just ended up being in this ******* reality where everyone hates me. sorry for the rant but im way too ******* tired for this.
181 · Apr 9
..
Kaiden Apr 9
..
Why should i stay,
When everyone i love leaves anyway?
When they become a name,
Something "we don't talk about".
Why do you expect me to not do the same?
School is too much rn
179 · Jan 7
Untitled
Kaiden Jan 7
I may not accompany you
In your further path.
For you have left me behind
While i still haven't forgotten you.
It still kinda hurts
176 · Apr 8
Words
Kaiden Apr 8
Slicibg through like a knife,
Filling you with invisible wounds
As you quietly bleed out.
Im so done
175 · Apr 3
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Kaiden Apr 3
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175 · Feb 19
Explain
Kaiden Feb 19
Some things
Are simply
Unexplainable
"Explain", "I can't". Sometimes the kid is right, mother.
174 · Apr 22
Valentines Day
Kaiden Apr 22
This isn't a poem but a story i really needed to get out there. If it gets taken down, i don't mind, it's not a poem after all. It would be nice if you read it tho.

TW: suicide, self harm, abuse, ****** assault (this is my first time putting a trigger warning on something here)

My mom met her current boyfriend when i was 10. During the 4 years i lived there i was abused physically, emotionally, medically (idk if it counts, basically i didn't get the medical care i needed) and financially, i'm a minor so i kinda depended on his and my mother's money. He committed ****** assault against my mother multiple times, leading to her having a child with him and being pregnant again. Me, my brother (11 years old) and my mother were all told we have stockholm syndrome. I was later diagnosed with autism and some other stuff. In 2021 my school called the cps, they didn't do anything. A few months ago i was told that what we had to do there was slavery. I ran away from home in May of 2024 and stayed with my grandma ever since. In January, 2025, he kidnapped me and i stayed there for the next 2 months. He did a lot of worse things as well but that's not the point.

On valentines day, 2025, i woke up to my brother telling me to open the windows in his room, because there was smoke in his room from making the fire (they heat the house with wood and coal) so i did. A day earlier i was cleaning the house and my stepfather told me to lean the wet mop against the furnance (i have no idea what it's called). It obviously melted down. My stepfather yelled at me and my mother and told me to buy a new one with money i didn't have. I went with my mom and my brother to check up on the horses, around 30 minutes away and we went to a shop to buy a new mop. My mom paid for it and told my stepfather i bought it. When we arrived at home, he yelled "where is this *****" (me) and threw the old mop at me. He then told me to go chop wood. It was 1pm. I went to chop wood and at 7pm i was let out of the basement. My mother took my backpack and things from my shelf and closet, threw them on the floor and said it was a mess (i did have a bit of a mess in my backpack though). She then told me to give her my phone. I would normally obey, recognizing my mistake but the last time my phone got taken away (August 31st, 2022) i never got it back and later discovered it was smashed with a hammer. I gave her the phone eventually, she said it won't be broken. A minute later i heard my stepfather yell at her to let him smash the phone. He threw a barely working laptop (which he stole from me) and my phone on the table and told me to download my school stuff on there. When i began to open the laptop he grabbed me by the back of my hoodie and threw me on the ground, i was scared and begged him to stop (he was choking me like this), my mom just watched and didn't do anything about it. He yelled at me to clean up the mess so i did. He yelled more. Now, i was a 14 years old autistic trans boy, had an 11 years old brother in the house, a 2 years old brother, and a pregnant mother with cancer, along with a very violent man who began smashing everything he saw. I knew i would get in trouble but i grabbed my phone and ran out of the house, at first they tried to stop me but later they didn't. I ran out of the house around 8pm, with my crocs on, in snow, in a thin hoodie and ***** sweatpants. I ran to the shop which was like 1500 meters away, it took me around 3-4 minutes and i noticed i wasn't tired at all, nor cold. I hid in the bushes in a parking lot and called the police, explaining the situation. They told me to go back to the house so they know the call isn't a prank. I tried to get there by a different route, but my stepfather found me, he forcefully threw me into his car and later into the house. He smashed my phone with a hammer and told me to hand wash some ***** clothes he found. The police arrived a while after. I ran there again, they tried to stop me, the door was locked. I went to my room which was on the first floor and jumped out of the window. The police entered the house and my stepfather started saying how mentally ill i am, that i made it all up and things like that. The police took pictures of my room (it was like 2 x 2 meters, with nothing but a mattress inside). They believed my stepfather as always, but one of the adults there told them that she needs to check for any signs of physical abuse (it was a lady and i'm so grateful she was there). She asked me to roll up my sleeves and saw my self harm. They told my stepfather they have to take me to a psychiatrist right now and maybe keep me there for longer, he said it's good and was needed because of how delusional i was. Then he left upstairs and they asked me a few questions (like if i tried to **** myself and stuff like that and how i tried to do it). I said i did and told them how, since anythign was better than staying at that house. The lady went to the room upstairs with me and made sure i can change in peace (my clothes were ***** and torn). Then we went downstairs, my stepfather kept making those comments about me, the lady made sure i stayed right next to her because i was having one of those silent anxiety attacks or whatever they're called. I got taken to a mental hospital that day, stayed there for a while and i'm currently living at my grandma's house, i'm also in therapy. The second day i was in the mental hospital my mother brought me things like spare clothes, a notebook which i still have and a few books. She told me she wanted to die because of me and hugged me. I want to take my siblings in when i grow up but i have no idea if i'll be able to financially. I want to at least take the 11 years old in. Technically all of them are my step-siblings but i don't mind. Anyway, this is how i spent my valentines day this year, thank you so much for reading this.
174 · Feb 19
Two Gods
Kaiden Feb 19
What if
There are
Two Gods?
One false,
Popular,
And the true one,
Known by only few.
When we were kids, me and my brother made a theory that some "christians" (the ones that use religion to justify discrimination) believe in their own, false God, oblivious to the one they're "supposed" to believe in.
174 · Dec 2024
Delusion
Kaiden Dec 2024
Have you ever wanted to escape to a place where no one can see you?
Maybe you tried imagining the place by yourself.
The innocent little dreams turned into maladaptive daydreaming.
And suddenly, you're sentenced to being mentally ill

The imaginary world begines to grow,
Consuming you more and more.
Soon, you can't see the difference between the real world and the one
You made up.

You slip into derealization
It drowns you while giving you short breaks for air
To let you stay alive
While still hurting
i dont know much about delusion/derealization but this is how it works for me (at least now) so yeah
172 · Jul 25
Meaning
Kaiden Jul 25
I used to say my life lost its meaning,
But im not sure if it even had it in the first place.
I feel like i took the meaning away myself, and im too tired to give it a new one
169 · Nov 2024
To the reader
Kaiden Nov 2024
If you see this,
Maybe at least pay attention this time?

To the words and how they're written
If you even care.
Reader,
Enlighten me, what would change if i
Died?
look

C
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169 · Feb 19
Freedom
Kaiden Feb 19
So close,
Yet so far.
It cannot be defined,
Nor fully felt.
You're always trapped.
No matter what you do, you're never fully free.
168 · Jan 1
People
Kaiden Jan 1
Some people are born to be succesful,
Some people are meant to be losers
Some are born to recieve everything the others give them
Some are born to give
Some people get love
Some people give it away
Some people take it as granted
Some people would do anything to get it
Some people have everything
While others are meant to have nothing.
You don't choose the life you're born in. Everyone here has a role. Sometimes your role is being broken.
168 · Mar 5
Too lazy
Kaiden Mar 5
Too lazy to die
Too lazy to exist
Too lazy to cry
Too lazy to persist
Too lazy to stay
Too lazy to leave
Too lazy to pray
Too lazy to achieve
Too lazy to pretend
Too lazy to say the truth
Too lazy for the end
Too lazy for your youth
Too lazy to stop
Too lazy to lie
Too lazy to do your job
Too lazy to die
"You're just too lazy"
167 · Nov 2024
The abused child
Kaiden Nov 2024
Being the abused child is
Flinching at everything
Not knowing how it feels to be cared for
Blaming yourself
Thinking their love is a lie
Maladaptive daydreaming
Addictions
Being over-compliant
Not being able to say no
Mysic loud enough to silence your mind
and the pretty silver lines engraved on your skin

It's not fair
i just wanted a normal life
Abuse is not that big of a deal, or is it?
167 · Apr 22
gone.
Kaiden Apr 22
My fingers
Interlocking with yours.
For the last time,
You'll never know you won't see me again.
Ever.
I'll be gone.
F O R E V E R.
i wanna get out of here
164 · Jan 8
Bathroom
Kaiden Jan 8
A shirt hanging on the door handle,
Preventing your eyes from
Looking at me.
I was 11.
I was a kid but i still had to put a shirt on the door handle so no one would stare at me. Some people are disgusting.
162 · Nov 2024
Not a poem but
Kaiden Nov 2024
Yall i found my old notebook with some poems i wrote when i was like 12-13, should i post them here? Perhaps make a collection? Let me know what you think in the comments
162 · Jan 10
Home
Kaiden Jan 10
You tried so hard to leave.
Why did you come back?
Asking myself this exact question since forever
161 · Mar 7
Poetry
Kaiden Mar 7
You can't force it on yourself.
The words come by themselves,
In the most random moment,
To help you
Or doom you.
They have their own will.
A sudden wave of inspiration,
On a train, bus, school,
But when you want to write,
It tells you you're not ready.
My teacher once told me that she's not a proffesional writer because she doesn't want to force herself to write.
161 · Nov 2024
Dissapointment
Kaiden Nov 2024
A notebook in my hand
A Monster in the other
What would think of me,
My precious absent mother?

Would she be proud?
Or rather dissapointed?
The answer is neither.
She wouldn't care.
Sometimes you love someone you're not supposed to.
158 · Jun 25
Reality
Kaiden Jun 25
A nonexistent construct
Believed by many,
And broken by few.
nothing is real lol
156 · Jun 6
again.
Kaiden Jun 6
everyone is already asleep
the pills seem to stare right into your soul
you grab the blade,
the cold edge hitting your skin
almost tenderly.
as the thick, dark liquid stains the sheets,
you open the bottle with your shaky hands.
and take them out
one by one.
it tells you to hurry up.
you quickly consume every single one,
before you could regret it.
you write a few notes, texts, explaining why you'll be gone,
possibly forever.
they don't have to know that though.
you can already feel the headache coming,
the regret slowly creeping in,
you pass out.
you wake up a few hours later,
confused,
the realization finally hits you.
you don't want to listen,
but the pill whispers:
"again."
honestly i've failed so many attempts i lost count. this is probably the last thing i'll write in a while, or maybe the last thing i'll ever write. if that's the case, i love you all and i'm so sorry.
153 · Jan 1
Workaholic
Kaiden Jan 1
You wake up.
Immediately, you check your phone.
The amount of things to do is unbearable,
But you have to get it done anyway.
Why?
You don't know.

You start doing the work by yourself,
No one there to help you yet.
As always.
You have to do everything alone.
Why?
You don't know.

You finish the work
And you feel empty.
You HAVE to do something, anything.
Why?
You don't know.

You're completely burnt out,
They ask you if you're okay.
You're not.
Why?
You don't know.
If you're reading this, PLEASE take a day off, i know work is important but i don't want the same to happen to you that happened to me.
153 · Jan 29
Abuse
Kaiden Jan 29
Abused
Belittled
Used
Scared
Exploited
153 · Apr 21
Force my thoughts
Kaiden Apr 21
Force my thoughts
And tell me what i think.
Shaping my mind
To your use and will.
To what you think is true,
Yet it isn't.
I'm so ******* tired of people telling me what THEY think i think. For example now, i said something, i genuinely didn't mean for it to sound rude, and my grandma said something like "you're a terrible person, think about what you have done" so i asked her what i did, genuinely confused, and she just started insulting me and saying things like "you think *insert a bad thing*" and i told her i dont think that and she just kept telling me i do. Like okay, i'm autistic and might not recognize some things but this is ******* ridiculous.
152 · Feb 1
Validation
Kaiden Feb 1
I crave it
Like a drug.
It pulls me through the words
As i type on the screen
Or notebook.
It's almost like attention-seeking
Yet i won't give up
Until i get enough.
I sometimes feel like i need way too much validation
151 · Nov 2024
Nothing as it seems
Kaiden Nov 2024
A mother is not a mom
Nice clothes aren't consent
Abuse isn't discipline
Scars don't make you weak
Fake friends aren't friends
Forced acts aren't obedience
A child isn't a worker
Yelling isn't love
Art is not a waste of time
A woman isn't a cooking mashine
What you see might not be what you think
This one isn't really good, might rewrite it later
149 · Jun 6
Gaslight
Kaiden Jun 6
Gaslight yourself.
Into thinking you're important,
Happy,
Normal.
That thin line of denial
Being the only thing keeping you alive.
They would miss you if you were gone, wouldn't they?
they would not, and im honestly tired of pretending they would
147 · Nov 2024
Judging
Kaiden Nov 2024
You judge people from their appearance or skills
I judge them from their writing style
The way someone's writing is like a window to their soul
145 · May 29
Love your hatred
Kaiden May 29
Because one day it'll leave too
I wish i could just simply hate someone, at least i would have a distraction from everything
144 · Apr 3
Living on autopilot
Kaiden Apr 3
I know that i'm here,
What i do or say,
But i don't know how or why.

I see through my eyes,
But as a completely different person,
Often not controlling myself.
Almost like living on autopilot.
Please tell me im just not ****** up and this thing actually exists/is somewhat normal cuz it's been happening to me for the past year and i have no idea what to do about it or what it even is, it's kinda freaking me out.
Kaiden Apr 4
See through their souls
And the things they like,
Write like they want to read it.
The writing style that according to them
Shall be successful.
Make it more simple,
More complex,
Whatever they like,
Make it realistic,
Or dreamy,
Happy
Or sad.
Tell a story
They would tell themselves.
I go to this writing contest every year since 5th grade, i got the 2nd place 3 times and 1st place once. The only time i didn't get anything was in 6th grade, when i wrote how i liked it. Trust me, on those you won't get far, you have to write how they like it. But it's also very important to write how YOU like it, otherwise it becomes another task.
140 · May 29
Do me a favor
Kaiden May 29
Do me a favor,
And pick up the gun,
Killing what used to be your son,
That's now a memory instead.

Do me a favor,
And pick up the knife,
Killing what used to be a life,
(be happy, he could take it on his own)

Do me a favor,
And give me the pills,
Every single one that kills
The mistake you made
When you were 21,
The 14 years old accident,
You wanted gone.
Finishing some draftsssss
I actually wrote this in a mental hospital lol
140 · Dec 2024
Overthinking
Kaiden Dec 2024
Overthinking.
It starts with silly little fears
And gets worse as you age.

Soon, you don't only worry about making a mistake, no.
It turns into paranoia.
You lose the ability to escape in your thoughts
Because you're anxious that someone in the room can read minds,
Even though you know it can't be true.

You avoid doing embarassing things on your phone,
Thinking someone might have hacked it and sees what you're doing.

You start worrying if you walk the correct way,
Anxious of every little mistake, unnoticable by the others,
But noticable by you.

You're scared of doing everything you love
And soon, overthinking takes away your whole freedom.
As someone who's paranoid for literally no reason, these are some of my thoughts and stuff like that, i was wondering if anyone has it similar.
136 · Jan 29
Poet
Kaiden Jan 29
A soul broken into pieces,
And given an ability to write in return.
As "compensation".
To make people relate,
Getting the tiniest bit of happiness
From their work
While dying slowly.
I feel like this one is kinda selfish but idk
134 · Dec 2024
Words
Kaiden Dec 2024
I have to have you comply
For i will take away your will to live.
In the end, you'll end it anyway.
Your lean figure leaning over a torn piece of paper
With tears in your eyes.
Some people can't bear being with a bear,
Winding up for harsh winds
Or being so close to closing yourself.
Okay this doesn't make any sense but homographs are cool, change my mind
132 · Jun 25
Control
Kaiden Jun 25
A feeling
That over time turned into a word,
Being too far to reach.
Trying to reclaim it,
You get hurt,
Or hurt others,
For the tiniest feeling of power
That feels so wrong,
Yet so right.

Trying to regain control controls you.
at this point i dont really have control over much stuff but oh well
131 · Apr 22
VALIDATION...
Kaiden Apr 22
I once had you
To push me through life
Now i do anything i can
To get the invisible drug
Sometimes i'm embarassed to admit it
But it doesn't matter right now
Come back.
Starting to get worried about my writing tbh
129 · Dec 2024
Perfect student
Kaiden Dec 2024
You were a stright A's student,
Winning competitions,
Was the writer of the year 4 years in a row.

But one day something changed
Your grades began to drop,
You started skipping school,
Drinking an entire bottle of water at once
So you would throw up and not go to school.

Suddenly, people that loved you started to hate you
You were gifted, sure
And it might have been impressive when you were younger
But now others caught up

You're no longer special.
Having troubles with school rn
128 · Nov 2024
Children
Kaiden Nov 2024
All adults were once children
There are no exceptions
And that's what's truly heartbreaking
Villians are made, not born
At least not always

Every angsty drug dealer
Every teacher
Every depressed poet
Every grave

When you see a homeless person
Do you ever wonder what their life has been before?
They were just a child
With hope
Hope which died along with their innocence
In every person there exists a child
127 · Jun 6
Goodbye?
Kaiden Jun 6
I always dreamed
Of dying in a special way.
People worried,
Mother guilty for what she did,
The awkward school assembly about a dead student.
Someone trying to stop me from ending it all.

Yet now i sit in my room,
Reading the texts from earlier,
The pretty lies, saying it's "just a break".
A break i won't come back from.
i told a few people that were somewhat close to me that i'll have to take a break due to my mental health getting really bad again. honestly, it's starting to look more like a goodbye, i'm sorry.
122 · Dec 2024
10pm
Kaiden Dec 2024
10pm.
The time when i used to always text you,
The time i told you about everything
And anything.

10pm.
Every single evening.
The hour we got together,
When i confessed months of surpressed feelings.

10pm.
Now it's all gone.
But the hour remains special.
Instead of joy, it is filled with pain.
All because one text.
10pm was the time when i used to always text a guy i absolutely loved, we were together for 9 months but i guess im unlovable.
121 · Jan 29
Love poems
Kaiden Jan 29
I could never write those.
A type of art so sweet for the soul,
Yet so hard to master and understand.
A poem written by the heart,
The hand only being a
Tool for it to communicate.
Trying to explain
Something no one truly knows.
Seriously, every time i write love stuff i cringe after the first line and give up lol
120 · Dec 2024
Pain
Kaiden Dec 2024
It doesn't go away
It just transforms into something else
Like energy never dissapears and just turns into a different type of energy, pain never goes away. It can change, sure, but it's always there.
117 · Jun 17
Lost
Kaiden Jun 17
Lost in a world i knew so well,
Locked myself up in my own hell,
Losing friends,
Hoping that it finally ends,
And sets me free from my own prison.

False beliefs,
Trying to find relief from the grief
Of an alive person,
A brother, a son,
He's still here,
But i believe he's gone.
i might take a break from writing (i know i keep saying this, i'm sorry) because i quite literally went into psychosis and i can barely function, not even mentioning writing. btw yes, im getting help, it just doesn't really work tbh
116 · Apr 3
Pain
Kaiden Apr 3
The best of the worst motivators.
i feel like everytime i get hurt, i write to somehow cope with the feeling. i hate it. it almost feels as if i craved pain to get the motivation, the attention and validation to write new things. it certainly doesn't feel fair.
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