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the voice tells me i am
worthless
irrelevant
ugly
fat
stupid

some days i block out the voice
and i am happy
but some days i listen
i cry
i believe what the voice tells me
and i am sad

and each day
the voice gets louder
and stronger
the voice tells me to starve
to exercise
to purge
i listen
i obey

when i feel brave
i will rebel against the voice
i eat
and eat
and eat
and eat
until i am numb
unitil i do not hear the voice anymore

i feel free
out of control
the voice comes back now
the voice tells me
to stop
to purge
because i am fat
too fat

i want
to get rid of the voice
so badly

i want to be free

i want to be normal

help
me
I know why I woke up angry
can kick you out of my life
but can't get you out of my dreams
still trying to believe that
you would actually do this to me
I just don't understand a move you make

do you see me sometimes
when you close your eyes
it is worth being hurt
or fighting for?

I dance like a woman possessed
trying to shake your memory
but everybody sees
you inside of me

oh the things that go unsaid
that bounce around in
my head like a bullet
the last thing I needed
was another hole to fill
why didn't you just shoot to ****?

do you see me sometimes
when you close your eyes
it is worth being hurt
or fighting for?

I dance like a woman possessed
trying to shake your memory
but everybody sees
you inside of me
 Jun 2013 Reilly Nicole
David
people
write sentences
and call them
poetry.
what soul
did you put
in that small
group of words
to call it
a poem
instead of
a sentence?
 Jun 2013 Reilly Nicole
Lloyd
Exit
 Jun 2013 Reilly Nicole
Lloyd
A sixteen year old boy stands at a bus stop
Fighting back the contortions flooding his face
Swallowing down the clay in his throat
Desperately praying his knees stay strong

The bus pulls away
The boy watches as eighteen months of his life drives away from him
The girl he loved with the passion only known by a teenage boy
Is now gone

And as he stumbles in the opposite direction
Blinded by questions unanswered
The memories begin their assault
Beating him in every way he fears
I wrote this after a breakup a year ago that nearly destroyed me. Some slight tweaks have been made, but mostly I have kept it as it was at the time, as I want to try and preserve the emotion that this was written with, even if the wording seems wrong to me now.
watch gray inking night
turn to amber
like a special ink upon
some mysterious blotting paper
and the same state as previous
of profound emotional turmoil
thunders within my heart
what cause is this
that has so overwhelmed me
what sorcery is it that binds me to tears
that blink through wet stained eyelashes
and wash upon my face in tumbling droplets
form a recreation of heightened moments
of my consciousness the weightlessness of inner thought
It makes me know the winds speech
realise the attempted elimination of identity
and I try desperately to hide
from the gargoyles that now stalk me through the streets
and smell their black breath hanging in the air
like some kind of numbing intoxicant mist
and I try to resolve the enigma that is the core of my being
that which contains the esoteric voice of the wind
in rapacious resoundements of remembrance
that cannot be recalled to mind
 Jun 2013 Reilly Nicole
Maddie
Body
 Jun 2013 Reilly Nicole
Maddie
After all we've been through.
I'm still just a body to you.
My soul, emotions
They're not real,  
Or something you just can't feel?
Your eyes watched
As I continuously fell
What about My womb where your child Was held?
Remember when we said those words?
The three that mean
We
Were happy
Peacefully
Filled with glee
Then you broke it
You Shattered
Me.  
Again.
Here I am.
There you stand.
I'll give in.
Again.
Again.
 Jun 2013 Reilly Nicole
Ruth
Just 'cuz you don't see the tears,
doesn't mean I'm crying inside.
Just 'cuz  you don't see the scars,
doesn't mean that I'm not hurt.
Just 'cuz you don't hear the screams,
doesn't mean that I'm not in pain.
Just 'cuz you don't feel a beat,
doesn't mean that i don't have a heart.
And Just 'cuz you don't notice these things,
doesn't mean that I'm not a human being
 Jun 2013 Reilly Nicole
David
I have borrowed a poem
And have yet to return it.
I have taken all credit
And I lost the receipt.
One day I will find it
That day I will leave.
Til then I'll keep living
Life's deep poetry
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