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Kennedi A Jan 2015
I love you.
and I'm afraid.
I love you.
and I am ashamed.
I love you.
and Cupid has bad aim.
I love you
and I feel stupid.
is this all a dream?
maybe the type known as lucid.
loving you is unhealthy
because you don't see me the same.
loving you is scary, on the contrary
loving you drives me to insanity
but yet you are my clarity.
your words taunt me
like a game quietly whispering
in my ear in the night
to come and play.
this love is toxic
this love is sick.
it isn't even love.
maybe an obsession.
unhealthy
Kennedi A Jan 2015
one boy, two girls, three hearts.
four tries, five lies, six cries.
seven attempts to die.

seven shots of *****, six bruised limbs.
five pills, four fractured bones
three cracked ribs, two slit wrists.
one reason. . .

looks like love has won again
Kennedi A Jan 2015
I knew a girl
who had a friend
that came in many different forms.
her friend
was small
sleek and silver.

her friend helped her draw
when she was sad and frustrated
though her friend  was small and delicate,
the pictures seemed to be  
deep and detailed.
her drawings sometimes tell a story
and sometimes have patterns.
they can even say words
her friend was silver
but every picture
came out red.
some with a deeper meaning
the shades of red
differ from picture to picture
she hasn't seen her friend
in a while.
she thinks he has gone away
she said he doesn't help
draw pictures anymore
she said he doesn't help with much of
anything anymore.
"Good."
I tell her
"He wasn't much of a friend anyway."
Kennedi A Jan 2015
it was his charm
it was his demeanor
it was his dashing looks
his intellect
that first caught my attention.
most importantly,
it was his words. . .
his words
when spoken
seemed to be complementing me
his words. . .
when spoken,
seemed to draw me in
further and further
deeper and deeper,
until I was hooked.
his words. . .
which tasted like the sweetest of nectar
turned out to be
poison dripping from
his pink padded lips.
I should be used to this
it was all the same
the same old game
now I'm left here
with my heart broken again.
Kennedi A Jan 2015
don't shut down       
don't shut yourself off
when you shut down
and shut yourself off
you become out of touch with reality
and out of touch with your emotions
then you're stuck
pouring cheap alcohol down your throat
gagging on pills
prying your veins open
and sitting in a pool of your own blood
because you snapped
scrambling trying to find the answers on how to feel again
Kennedi A Jan 2015
they say misery loves company
one would find joy in knowing
that others are just as unhappy as they
one would generally want to
overcome depression & misery
escape the treacherous & unforgiving sorrows
but yet somehow..some way
I have grown comfortable
comfortable with misery
comfortable with depression
comfortable with the madness of sorrows
comfortable with pain
I've grown immune -
almost numb
to the darkness
to the pain
it's as if the light never shines
or maybe I just do not allow it
sadness & darkness are like cousins & have made themselves
at home here
they have become
such a comfortable state
comfortable like a cashmere sweater
draped across my shoulders
to protect me from the cold
protect me from the unknown
but something that was once used for protection
quickly turned into something
horrid & threatening
no longer draping across my shoulders, rather causing me to drown without sinking
or dying
but how can something so dark..
treacherous & evil even consider to be "comfortable?"
how did sadness & darkness
become so comfortable?
how can one be afraid of happiness?
I guess it's because I am afraid
of the unknown
terrified of reaching out
I remain in this "comfortable" state
watching others get caught up
by this seemingly alluring comfort
of happiness
and hoping it will soon
find me worthy
and take me upon its grasp
into a new journey of comfort

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