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Lately my sentences have ended with periods. I've meant everything I've said hurtful or not. I've spilled my heart to my mirror countless times and ended it all with that single dot. But when it comes time to tell another human being all that comes out is dot dot dot... I list the causes of my hatred with a colon: my reasons splayed out like a grocery isle full of sickness. I use to talk with commas, always more to say Always ending my sentences with one to continue it later, Making myself able to feel like I could carry on but now everything I say is final. I end my words like my last will and testament. Never to be changed. No semicolons to tell more later. No commas to pause for a breath of life anymore. All I want is that period. That final bullet through the paper to close the book and let it be over. I want to speak with commas again, to let it all flow like there's nothing wrong nothing to hide behind that period or those dots... I want to be able to pause again, to catch my breath, to let myself heal, I want to use the proper punctuation to be okay again,
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Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017 at 9:53 PM UTC
Punctuation.,;:
Lately my sentences have ended with periods. I've meant everything I've said hurtful or not. I've spilled my heart to my mirror countless times and ended it all with that single dot. But when it comes time to tell another human being all that comes out is dot dot dot... I list the causes of my hatred with a colon: my reasons splayed out like a grocery isle full of sickness. I use to talk with commas, always more to say Always ending my sentences with one to continue it later, Making myself able to feel like I could carry on but now everything I say is final. I end my words like my last will and testament. Never to be changed. No semicolons to tell more later. No commas to pause for a breath of life anymore. All I want is that period. That final bullet through the paper to close the book and let it be over. I want to speak with commas again, to let it all flow like there's nothing wrong nothing to hide behind that period or those dots... I want to be able to pause again, to catch my breath, to let myself heal, I want to use the proper punctuation to be okay again,
EmptyAstronaut
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EmptyAstronaut
21/Non-binary/The Nothingness
Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017 at 9:53 PM UTC
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