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ary Dec 2019
Someday I will be able to look at the sky, up and under the stars or the clouds or the lazy light of the moon or the heat of the sun, standing still in humid habagat or the windy amihan, and say without the familiar weight on my chest, that suffocating barbed wire strangling my neck, i'm glad i'm here

someday I will be able to go by a week not miserable and empty and unhappy, but proud and weightless and briskly walking through the cobblestone path of i can do this, i can do this

someday there will be bad days, days of uncertainty except the bad blues, the gloom that takes over when silence and insecurity and fear seep in through cracks and crevices left from those other bad days. some days will be awful days, not wanting to get out of bed, letting joints rust away and sore muscles become excuses. or a book feels like a 100 miles long, or a song like a glimpse, a blink of an eye. no time for reminiscing. no time for rest, even if it feels like everything is still and quiet.

but i know there will be days, other days. better days. or nights, because i'm not picky. i just want good. better. rest, but never permanent.

someday may be tomorrow or the day after that. someday will happen soon, i know i know i know. i will pour my heart out onto concrete when that day comes, when breathing becomes a joy and not a burden. when living is easier and loving is light.

someday
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shatteredpoet Dec 2019
everything erupts inside me.
it comes out angry and
heartbroken and confused
until all the fire and light burn out.
i am no longer the girl
with thousands of brightly lit
stars attached to her body.
but the truth is i can-- we all can
move on from what broke us,
what took us from our place in the stars,
and what changed us forever.
i may not move through the stars
the same way i once did,
but i will keep moving.
the need to fight, to heal, to exist
is enough for me to find all the stars
hidden underneath all the pain and what if's.
so maybe —just maybe— the girl
with a thousand brightly lit stars
is still there somewhere ready to feel free again.
Emily Dec 2019
everyone leaves.
everyone lies.
everyone hurts.
everyone dislikes.
everyone loves.
but no one loves me like you do.
everyone lies to me but you speak the truth.
everyone hurts but you heal the deepest bruise.
everyone dislikes me, everyone but you.
everyone leaves, everyone but you.
so I'll hate, hurt, dislike, leave, and lie to anyone else.
anyone else but you.
and I'll love nobody else but you.
ment for a special someone
A M Ryder Dec 2019
The problem with being happy
Is a lot like the problem with pluto
It was a vague way of
Describing a complex thing

Our sense of happiness is so fragile
It can be destroyed by simply asking whether or not it exists
Instead I'm busy
I'm interested
I'm fascinated

I want to build things
And then break them

I want to be busy and beautiful
And brimming with
Ten thousand moving parts
I want to hurt
So that I can heal

And that's okay
eli Dec 2019
relapsing is part of healing
just because you relapse
doesn't mean you lost all of your progress
Kylee Dec 2019
I use poetry as my wielded sword

But I’m tired of fighting the same battles
And writing the same lines

How is this wound supposed to heal

if I keep prying it open?

-the battle is only in your head now
Atticus Dec 2019
I drip viscous honey from my lips
Soothing those who are broken

But when does the honey run out?
I feel as if manuka isn't always enough

When the hole inside of someone is all-consuming
When it cannot be filled

When a person fills the void with acrid bitter substances
Chasing the euphoria

We walk through life with honey dripping from our lips
Anthony Feng Dec 2019
I don’t need your permission to love

I don’t need your permission to think

I don’t need your permission to fight what’s best for me.

I don’t need your permission to heal
what you can not see.

I am going to blossom into a warrior
& shine like never before.

I will learn from my mistakes,
without your stares & your doubts.
Here’s to the society that thinks that they can control us and stop us from loving who we love, from thinking freely, from doing what we’re passionate about, from healing from our past, and thinking we can not change from our mistakes.
floW Nov 2019
your pain may not heal,
too drained to feel,

but life drags on.

your heart may ache,
in part for someone you just can't shake,

but life drags on.

but don't yet give up
for what a gift it is to live, buttercup.
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