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In The Absence of Honesty...

When I was struggling my hardest to keep the will to stay alive I was taking at most three pills a day. I just watched three dissolve in the sweet tea in front of me while another two continue to snake their way through my veins. I keep flashing back to the day I first confessed to someone I was hanging on by a thread. I loved her enough to tell her who I was and she loved me enough to stay anyway. And now I'm reminded by her every smile that she sees within me some strength, some reason to keep smiling. All I see is a fucked up pill head who can't even control his own thoughts without assistance. I can't feel loved without them but every moment I think about how much I need them all I can feel is hate which does nothing but drive me deeper into need. I want to tell her. I don't want to hide. But if she sees me for what I am then she'll never see me again. And I'm all out of pills for that.
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jasper-downey
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Aug 14, 2013
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