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December 11, 2012 - Misery and Self - Loathing

Draw a bar across my eyes.

I’ll try in vain to block out yours.

I miss the wrinkles in your sheets and pressing my cold feet between yours.

Get up, stupid girl

Get up and get on

Time waits for no one:

Time marches on.

Ah, please, can’t I have a minute? A moment? Or several?

I’m not pathetic. This isn’t the End.

But I want to feel this pain

I want to dwell in misery

I want to wrap myself in emptiness and let Alone seep into my bones

Through my clothes and

Under my skin.

It shalln’t be like this forever --or even more-- for long

 

I can’t decide which is worse

Sorrow or apathy

I’d tend toward the latter

Because at least with the first, I feel

When indifference comes around

There’s nothing--

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Dec 18, 2012
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