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Hudson Everett
Poems
Aug 2013
AUGUST 15, 2013
My therapist told me
that I need to just keep living
that I will find surrogate parent figures
that somebody will care about me
accept me unconditionally
and help me when I need help
But it ******* tortures me
that my dad is a ******* ******* narcissist
who gets off on being withholding
and my mom is a strong, independent woman
who refuses to stand up to him
and help her own ******* kids
this is not creative writing, or poetry or prose
this is not some late night rant
this is the ******* demon that follows me
this is the ghost that haunts my dreams
this is my ******* waking nightmare
I was born into a chaotic world
and my family didn’t do anything to stabilize it
so my world is constantly spinning out of control
and when it stops,
I can’t even bring myself to trust
the people who love me
or even the ground beneath my feet
because I feel it in my bones
it’s all gonna be ripped away
pulled out from under me
so there’s no hope for hoping
and I’m always in harm’s way
and maybe my therapist is ******* right
and with time things will get better
but right now I can’t sleep
and I want to ******* scream
and I want somebody to hold me
I don’t want to feel like I have to tread water
Constantly moving because if I collapse
or take a break for even a second
that’s it, I’m finished
I have to hold up the weight of my world
and it’s breaking my back
and breaking my heart
and breaking my spirit
And I have so many good friends
and they care about me
But I can hardly find it in me
to care back sometimes
because it hurts when people leave
And often as not, I do the leaving
preemptively, better to hurt than be hurt
but it’s not ******* better
You can tell me it’s gonna be ******* alright
You can tell me it get’s better
But I am still lying in my bed
I feel like I can’t keep this up
this pace, this nonstop pace
I am out of control
I need to get better
I need to find stability
and acceptance
and a place to rest
I have never felt at home
in 20 years, I have never had a home
Just because I have a roof and a mattress
doesn’t make me at home
I take my ******* pills
every **** night
to keep my emotions
from getting too high
or too low
but all I feel now is angry
and scared
that I will be this way
until the day that I die
Constantly searching
trying to find my way home
but it is nowhere to be found
and I feel the ***** rising in my throat
and the tears on my face
I don’t want to be real
I want to be a ******* sitcom character
or an extra in a movie
or somebody in a novel
I don’t want to have to be multi-faceted
Or complex
I just want a few simple things
And I always thought maslow’s hierachy of needs was *******
but maybe he was right and there are basic needs
that I need met
before I can have high self-esteem
but mostly **** that
I accept myself
the good bits and the bad bits
I love them all
even the messy ****
the mistakes I have made
which is a ******* lot
Can you say that?
I just want to be ok
And I want you to know that
I want to share my experiences
And I want to be able to tell people
how I went from here to somewhere better
and that it happens
I ******* hate open ended ****
this whole ******* experience
of living and being human
and nothing resolves
it is constantly changing and developing
well I guess that’s what you ******* get here too
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Hudson Everett
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