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Sky Sep 2018
You wanted someone to love you,
but the second that I did,
it wasn’t enough for you.
                        -sky.d
Matteo Palermo Sep 2018
I just wish I was:
Special
Happy
Content
Your's
Matteo Palermo Sep 2018
Was I not the better choice?
What made them better then me?
If it's change you want
I'm willing to become a different
Person
If it means once again I'll be the
Better choice
Anything
to just
Feel wanted
Again
Thomas Bodoh Sep 2018
Mankind
What are you doing
Black and white and gray
You twist and turn and rage and shine
My love, your love, our love
My brokenness, your tatters, she crumbles, he shatters
Closed eyes, open mouths, poisoned words, ***** words
Dates, times, places, people, smiles, faces, masks
Him, her, you, me
Talk about people, talk about people
Use them and wear them, win them and hang them
Elegance, poverty, hurricanes far away, imaginary crucifixions
Look at me, look at my scars, look at my hurt, look at my heart
Words and words and words and tasty, tasty words
Names, names, names, a thousand souls, a thousand stories
Changing, twisting, turning, losing, loving
Emotions, complications, complexities, perplexities
It makes me want to say
Mankind
What are you doing
Victoria Kvist Sep 2018
I'm fine.
I'm crying,
but only when I'm alone.
So in front of you,
I'm ok.

I'm ok.
I'm losing my mind, 
but that's only in my head.
So in front of you,
I'm all right.

I'm all right
I'm pulling out my hair,
but I wear hats.
So in front of you,
I'm pleased.

I'm pleased.
I'm not sleeping,
but I conceal my undereye bags.
So in front of you,
I'm good.

I'm good.
I'm tearing my skin apart,
but my shirts have long sleeves.
So in front of you,
I'm well.

I'm well.
I'm killing myself,
but when I'm dead its all over.
And then I'm no longer in front of you,
I'm dead.
Elliot K Sep 2018
I sit in my bed, my head is empty, and I am feeling so, dead. Life has taken me and made me into something I am not. It has thrown countless curve ***** at me until I can barely walk, and it throws another one just to make sure I can’t ever do it again.

I’m breaking, I’m aching, I’m screaming for someone to hear me. To hear my pain. See the hurt in my eyes as I stare at the floor for twenty minutes at a time, sometimes more. I am not having happy thoughts, the only thing I am thinking about is wanting to die.

This life gave me false hope for an okay time, but I feel like now I’m stuck on a ride, that I don’t want to be on. I’m having a hard time staying alive. This life, everything it promised was a lie, I’m not happy, nor having a fun time.

The only thing it seems that’s keeping me alive these days, is the girl with freckles all over her beautiful face. She gives me hope for a future, one with her, one that I want to live to see if we can be anything more than friends or if this stupid world will take her away from me, too.

I asked her out and she declined, she says she loves me, but she still isn’t mine? I don’t know how love is supposed to work these days. Maybe that’s why I said for far to long that I love you to a guy who believed it was perfectly okay to slap me across the face, and call me names like petty, and worthless every, single ******* day.

Every view I have on this world is ******, the thing we call humanity has touched each and everyone, making them poisonous, I can’t even look at myself anymore without wanting to die. This world I was born into isn’t something I want to be apart of in my every day life.

I wish I could end it, but instead I’ll just cry, because I have the freckled beauty, and some pretty okay friends by my side. Who I could never leave. Not until they decide I’m not worth their time.
Elliot K Sep 2018
Depression is a war, one that i’m trying my hardest to battle but still no matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to fight. The words are painful, they hurt more than the ones kids at school would yell.

The words I tell myself daily, like “**** yourself” they are the echo of this world I was brought up in, they are my fathers words, the bullies, the ex boyfriends, the ex friends. Those are the words that ring in my head, as I tell myself daily how much I would be better off dead.

I look in the mirror and I can’t find anything else to say except ‘ew’ the once pretty boy I knew is now a ghost, an empty shell of someone who tried to take on the world but ran into the wall of reality, that this world isn’t perfect like it’s said to be.

I struggle some days to get out of bed, I stay awake at three am, grasping onto any happy moments I can find in this empty ******* head. I need happiness, I crave it like it’s a drug, and hell to me, it is.

My life is like a dumb game, one that I don’t want to play. I would think I was dead if it wasn’t the constant heaving of my chest as a reminder that i’m still alive.  

Depression is a war, like I said. I’m not a fighter, and one day, I’m going to be dead. Maybe not now, or even in a few years but I struggle to live. This life is hell, I have no friends, no family to care. Poetry is my only escape from here.
Furey Sep 2018
Today I sit
I look at the sheet
It sits in front of me
I don't know what I'll do
I know they'll be disappointed
If I don't score high enough on this
Why is it that something that hurts me
Makes these people so so much happier
Today I'll look back and think about it
I won't understand no matter what
I sit and wait for their responses
No matter what it says on it
I will still sit here and wait
So tired of these tests
This sheet sits here
While I look at it
Demons Sep 2018
Who would’ve guessed,
The Nerd sitting by you failed their Test.
Who would’ve guessed,
The Emo in the back passed that Test.
Who would’ve known,
The Nerd sitting by you had sinful thoughts.
Who would’ve known,
The Emo in the back had no scars to bare.
Who would’ve Guessed,
The Nerd sitting by you wanted to die.
Who would’ve Guessed,
The Emo in the back threw away his razors.
Who would’ve known what went through that Nerd’s Head.
Who would’ve Known what the Emo felt.
When everyone
Expected
Him to
Do it
1st.
Just to clear it up in the stereotypes.
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