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 Feb 2016 Paul Butters
Aeerdna
February is like one of the darkest nights,
a sleep full of nightmares,
it is like a bad, old cigarette,
filling up my lungs with
smoke
that won’t let me breathe.

February is like a muddy day,
anywhere I go it makes me feel miserable and filthy,
it makes me feel like a child whose birthday everyone forgot about,
February is like the monster under the bed,
it gets me scared and makes me cry
and I cannot sleep at night.

February makes me want to run away,
it’s like a bad mother who keeps on hurting her child,
it’s like a storm when you’re walking home after a hard day,
it's like the worst sunburn or
the worst paper cut.

February is like an endless Sunday
it’s like the saddest clown,
the most painful song,
February is like a cemetery at night,
like a day in a ****** war.

I have the same menu every February day
wine for breakfast and wine for lunch
and  some more wine for dinner..
I still can’t forget, I still can’t forget
the way you left.
I'll always love you anyway.
 Feb 2016 Paul Butters
halioth
i awoke with a crime scene for a face

thoughts filthy like ***** underwear

heart heavy with stacked sins and mistakes

tears assembling in lines of dismay


*i think of you and sobbed while i lay
I said...


Ribbons lemon chewing gum
Daisies dandelion
Button teabag souvenir
Cheese cake Uncle Brian

Pepper buses diary
London *** Nantucket
Leaves carrot underwear
Ten piece bargain bucket

Raisins phone apple pie
Sock key Zanzibar
Duvet sausage dinosaur
Peanut bumper car

Mouse banana chicken wing
Fleas vermilion
Elephant soda stream
Stoat pavilion

Moose flower stickleback
Garlic salted butter
Taco dragon paper cut
Poison pizza cutter

Sandwich Batman coffee cake
Vaseline grape snow
Golf ***** haberdashery
Weasels tally-**

:o)
Just being silly :o)
The world has become a minefield
One that would eat you alive
A world that tears at you body
Rips open your soul
Each day you struggle
To wake, to fight, to live
Each day the darkness envelops you
And you search for a way out
But there is none
Before the blackness covers you
You gasp for breath
Before the murky waters of the day
Drown you once again
You are damaged by it's air
Hurt by it's beauty
And taken alive to be eaten by it's sunlight
For every want you have to feel something
Your demons will pummel you
Until you feel only the numbness of their pounding fists
You take to wanting pain if nothing else
To want pain because it lets out the poison
Lets out the hurt
Lets out the darkness
Your scars heal only to be reopened
They become a doorway you have created
To escape from the world
A world that wants to devour you
And yet through all the desolation that is your soul
Through the darkness that consumes you
I can only see love and light and beauty

I see a child
Lost in the wilderness
Calling out my name
Calling out to be saved
If only from yourself
And I weep that I cannot help
I reach out
But you cannot grasp my hand
You listen
But you do not hear me tell you
You are loved
Your tiny body bears scars
Tiny screams of need
Lines and lines of goodbyes
Calling for someone to save you
**And I see you so clearly
You are a fighter
Taking on the whole world while you cry
A delicate child
Taking on the dragon who wants to burn and crush
And hoard your bones
And I am in awe of your strength
To do battle day and night
With such a mighty foe
I pray you will triumph
I pray you will slay your dragon
And stand victorious
With it's ****** corpse at your feet
Do not worry
For your scars are a mark of strength
Of your fight.
They will become your victory speech
You will one day overcome your nemesis
And I am forever proud of you
My child
My love
My fighter
My soldier
Because I never met a true warrior
Who didn't bear the scars of battle.
This is about self harm, depression, anxiety.
This is for my children,
all of whom have faced their own dragons
and continue to do so.
They inspire me to be better, to do better.
They are my rock, my safe place in this world.
Re-posted from my previous account.
Okay, so, in your sleep...you died.
You had a heart attack and...and you died.
But they started it again, enough to take you here.
To hospital.
That's were you are now.
The machines make me hope you are still alive.
But, you died, this morning,
quietly in your sleep.

The doctors, they say that you have stopped...you know...inside.
No brain activity at all and your heart well...it's broken...
properly broken.
And even though the monitors make you breathe and your heart beat, you died you see, this morning,
quietly in your sleep.

So i'm going to whisper in your ear just one last time and...
I know that you can't hear me, but for now...
for now I'm going to pretend that you can okay?
"I love you"

We all love you so very much,
you are the most beautiful person I have ever known
and just...I love you"

Okay...look...they are going to turn the machines off soon
so you can rest forever peacefully.
Because, you died, this morning,
quietly in your sleep.
My last moments with my Dad. Saying goodbye was truly devastating but we had no regrets, no words unspoken. I knew he loved me and he knew I loved him. I try to live my life telling those who I love just that, even if it makes me sound like a complete dork. I don't care :D
it's important!
Re-posted from my previous account.
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