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BloodOfSaints Jul 31
Her chest feels tight,
Even dreams don’t feel right.
She still flinches when it gets dark at
Midnight.
Sad, trauma, trauma recovery; short poem, rhyme, sadness, strength , gothic, dark
Chameleon Jul 31
I should have
put in the work
instead of looking
for an easy out.
I don’t want any more
chemicals in my brain
or my body.
I want to know that what
I’m feeling is real,
and it’s me.
I genuinely can’t say that
I’m happier now,
in fact I was sent into
a manic episode which
hasn’t occurred in years.
I want to sleep,
eat, drink and be merry.
designed your phone designed for mine a thumb as the secret god of a hairbrush teaching blood to crawl

designed eating designed eating the bee stings in our smuggled bread

designed the injured designed the dead
Lynn Stillman Jul 31
The words do not come,
when I try to write of love.
No ink in my pen.
Kellie Gray Jul 31
Talk, they say. But talk to who?
I cannot talk and neither can you.
Talk is cheap. Feelings are fleeting.
Day after day, the same day repeating.
Where does it end and with who?
I want to be happy, really I do.
But like the sadness, happiness passes.
I'm so alone amid the masses.
If you could take what's in my head.
Read it aloud, spare me the dread.
I'll let it be said, loud and clear.
All of them listen but none can hear.
It penetrates me, this life on the surface.
But does any of it really suffice?
Could someone dig deeper and see what I see.
I just want to love and have someone love me.
I write it down in shoddy verse.
It's not perfect, but it could always be worse.
when you fall head over
heels, how does it go?
are we honest, or two
masks just pretending?
craving words like hot
air in my lungs, I would
scream and cry if only
it'd mean anything at all.
demanding with your eyes
out for blood, violent red
but I know, deep down?
all you want is someone
to meet your gaze, and keep it.
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