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crippling anxiety 
running in circles
thoughts overflowing
fragments
what is this pull
i must ignore
can’t succumb 
cravings
depth and understanding
out of this world 
true communication
levels
what is, cannot be 
have to find control
don’t want to let go
facts
Dig beneath the surface
Your stomach in knots
A relentless force
Consumed with these thoughts
That keep on playing over
You sway back and forth
Your face it contorts
Interpret obscene
Oblivious I seem
It never will end
Look at who I am
I have no more pride
I ditched my ride
I'm useless
It happened so quick
It makes me feel sick
A sheer heart attack
I guess I got my wish
I don’t recall what the “inspiration” was for this
I am awakened with a sensation going through my body

Paralyzed

I can’t move

It’s on me

Clawing at me

Finally I catch a moment

I turn and I yelp

I scream

No one hears me

I’m twisting in the blanket

Something’s watching me

223am my phone vibrates

I wasn’t actually awake

Now I feel this sensation of something all over me

I keep trying to brush it off
Itch it away
My skin is literally crawling.
I know I’m awake for real this time

Night terrors haunt me
Night terrors, sleep paralysis
When will I learn
Every time I let myself show
I think that’s what they want
But no
Intrigued by me, yet still just used for the night
A connection, so deep, you’re just like me!
I guess they read me, so ******* easily
Cause it happens again and again
And everyone has something to say
The I told yous and audacity, thrown my way
I wish I could stop finding the good in the worst people
How do you unlearn what you’ve done your whole life
2023
I buy flowers just to watch them die
I reckon this says a lot about my mind
I’ve always found beauty in death and darkness
Raw, real, genuine
People say darkness hides the light
They can’t truly see
It’s only in darkness I have found me
I don’t have light that shines
I have a darkness that sees and loves all the hidden things, one that knows and understands.
A darkness that causes such intrigue
One that makes you smile and plea
A darkness that radiates beauty and shines so bright
F2
I wish I was the one calling the shots
It’s my life I say, but nah it’s not
Cause if I don’t do what I’mtold
I’ll have nowhere to go
Im misunderstood
Unable to be myself
I so badly want you to know ME
But every time I try to share my mind, I’m shutdown
All the progress we’ve made feels so fake
Yeah you say you love me
But how can you when you don’t want to know me, your own daughter.
My thoughts are just demons you say
I’m plagued
discussions turn into fights because it’s your way or nothing
It hurts to see you listen to others and have conversation so polite
You’d quickly disown me too, just like you did my sibling, if I stopped faking just for your sake
Why am I so afraid?
I keep hoping for the day you’ll truly accept me
Our relationship is shallow, stays on the surface
Im unapologetic about not believing the things you do
And that’s been my only truth
Maybe now, here, you’ll finally see who I am




It was silly of me to believe, you might see who I am tonight., you left before I even walked on stage.
Transphobic *******.
I can’t believe I cut down  my set choices, to not mention the demons I call my friends. So I wouldn’t offend. God I wanted you to finally notice me. Now I know that will never happen. Thanks for walking out.
The first part I wrote a while ago, about what it’s like with my dad. The second part, after the break, was written as my dad walked out of the show, right before I got on stage.  It was my first time sharing my words publicly and I performed with tears streaming down my face, my voice choking. Many times I’ve tried to show him who I am, each time Im shut down, this time publicly humiliated…at least I called him out.
Dreams feel like reality and reality feels like dreams
Everything is intermingling together
Been off my medicine a few days, don’t know if I’m finding myself or losing my way
I’m not going off the rails
Emotions are in check
Just disassociating coming out the wreck
Numbness and blindness the medicine creates
The things you don’t realize until it’s too late
2023 I went off my meds for good and found who I am. I thought I had known, but never did I show.
You’ve never truly seen her until  she cries and her eyes turn green
she’s so profoundly, beautifully sad

Everyone thinks that they know her thinks that they get her
believe they understand

it’s unfortunate for the souls that she steals
cause they never really know what they’re getting into
Suddenly addicted
Witnessing her chaotic mess

She’s just my type, she’s just my type
I’ll love her for more than a night
What a mind, what a beauty, you don’t know what she does to me
She’s just my type, I love her mind

You’ve never truly seen her till she’s on fire
her eyes are a light  
Passions fueling her mind
She ******* comes alive
She’s something different, I’ll  tell her 1000 times

She still doesn’t see it
Doesn’t believe it
Stuck inside her mind
Nobody gets her, she’ll never live up to  expectations
She lives in all these lies

Ohhhhh but
She’s just my type, she’s just my type
I’ll love her for more than a night
What a mind, what a beauty, you don’t know what she does to me
She’s just my type
I long for the day someone makes my pain go away. Ever the healer, ever bringing smiles.

I’m doomed to suffer in silence. Only the scars on my wrists know my pain.  

Will I ever find solace? Will something take my tears away?

I feel like I’m screaming, but no one hears. Forever the healer, always the broken.

I can’t help myself, always busy  helping everyone else. Why am I like this?

Do I even care about myself anymore? Maybe I just want to be lost in the void. I feel at home in the darkness. It brings me warmth. I seek it out in others, connect with it, breed with it, create it.

Maybe I am the darkness, wrapped in light. Ms. Grey through and through. I exist in between.
Have you ever truly seen me
The one who does not exist
I flow so effortlessly between
All those I call my friends
I am this way
Then I’m that
One person to the next
Something to everyone
But no ones only one
A chameleon , so beautifully blending in
Always in the background
Never the big picture
Ever notice that I’m really just not there?
#courtneyjurena #thenobodies #idontexist

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