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71 · Mar 2019
What I Want
Ruby Nemo Mar 2019
If I happen to die
Would you remember
the numbers written
On my wrist each night?
When you look at the sky,
do you see what you saw
Before me?

I'm no better
than the girls in the spotlight
Felt older, fell harder
Depicted demise
and I'm tired of listening
to the mindless small talk
With which I cannot engage
For the sake of my sanity.

I'm no less
than the women who pine
Drunk off of one small glass of red wine
When you look, do you see
What I want you to see?
03-22-19
71 · Jan 2020
Nursing your Evils
Ruby Nemo Jan 2020
let's forget about patching it up
I'd rather feel a l i v e
broken, and better than ever
as long as I burn
I'll feel close to the end, tangled,
tied to the bed
you with I would beg for something s w e e t
but instead, you don't want to expect that
I thrive in this fire, behind bars and in pain
are you too weak to set me back up on my feet?
I'm straight asking my ghost for a cup of black tea
to sleep with a stranger
share a joint in bad company
I'm starting to dig this transparency
did you ever seem to find your own sweet
release, the abuse you held onto, does it reveal itself in times inconvenient? when the real you is quiet until it's safe to breathe?
because these things I've adopted,
these interests are yours
and I can't keep nursing these evils
like they were ever my responsibilities
in the first place.
January 2020
Ruby Nemo Mar 2019
I wish I could say
I wasn't obsessed
but my life is too old to be mine
wither and worn, each day feels
like I've already lived it
years and years ago

this body of mine
like a shell made of wire
a sheet of remiss
over indifferent bliss

I can notice the blood
running from his lips
he was biting his tongue
for the silent dismiss
03-22-19
65 · Jan 2019
Until I Dream of You
Ruby Nemo Jan 2019
and I'll stay asleep until I dream of you
or until you decide to
speak to me like you used to
I don't want to lose you
so I'll stay asleep until reality bends
and we'll make amends
among the clouds

I'll blame myself repeatedly
until you show me how to be
more like you
I'd like to be more like you

I'll hate myself for things I've done
but baby, believe me
you are the only one
the only one

I'll force myself to sleep all day
until the pain goes away
the sun and the moon interchange
not really, for me, it's all the same
everyday, everything's all the same
you made me complete
I tore us apart
I'll slip into darkness to fight my heart.
12-30-18
63 · Aug 2018
Sluts
Ruby Nemo Aug 2018
ashamed for an irritable disposition
your queen has her hand high
and you don't know what it's like
to be condemned
08-30-18
49 · Dec 2024
Untitled
Ruby Nemo Dec 2024
breath looms in an airless space

the possible trace of us

i spin in whirling cycles, trying not to let my thoughts overtake me / wishing the sadness could last a little longer / trying to sleep.

it has been so long since i have experienced debilitating pain

even when his whispers linger in threatening taunts
even when i forget my own name

let this happiness be eternal
like an elixir of life, fueling
like i always used to feel
where did the misery come from?

romantic projections. idealizing self-harm. keeping balloons here with me, on the ground, instead of letting them float away. i am not who i always was. i stagger and side-step on tops of beams of certainties. keep things too close to me. document every feeling. hold on to the pain. nurture the sadness

i am getting quite bored now, goodbye
wednesday, december fourth, two thousand and twenty four, seven p.m., in bed

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