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  Oct 2020 nicole
strawberry-cigarette
i am seventeen soon
two days from sunday to be exact
i don’t know how i feel about growing old
i still feel like i am waiting to be young
will it always feel like this?
there were days when seventeen seemed
so unattainable
i didn’t plan to still be
but i’m here i guess
seventeen
how odd
nicole Oct 2020
i'm so used to someone cutting me off or just the lack of attention to what i'm actually saying
that now i'm almost scared when people really listen to me
i wait for the punchline of their sick joke and their gutwrenching laugh that will soon follow
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every word is a risk
nicole Oct 2020
you play at the edges of my mind
taking more of me every time you come
there is no prevention i could take against you
i've put trees along my coastlines by thinking of other people, putting on movies, doing work
i've even tried deleting your name, shoving it down to my murky depths
i hoped you'd stay there for everything you've made me feel
but you simply refuse to be forgotten
you only come back stronger with every tide
nicole Jul 2020
if i am to die soon
don't let my one of my so-called friends paint me as this happy person because they never bothered to check up on me.

don't let them try to joke about if i would've liked the color of the casket
or say any of the cheesy ****

no
you don't feel my presence, you feel your guilt seeping through and want to change our last interaction to offer you some kind of comfort

no
i'm not an angel in the sky looking down on you.
i'm dead.
don't try to find comfort in my death.
fathom the darkness that will keep me better than you ever could.

as you sit there with my absence
i hope you're slapped by the heavy silence just i was from all the dark nights spent crying in my room wondering what was wrong with me.
  Jun 2020 nicole
Riley Cartwright
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  Jun 2020 nicole
Emily
I look at the moon and think of you.
  Apr 2020 nicole
Deanna
when ever i hear your name
my heart instantly
sinks
to the bottom of a
sea.
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