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Atticus Jul 30
She lingers where the silence sleeps,
In breathless hums and eyelid weeps—
A ghost in velvet funeral threads,
Dancing in the static of my head.

I dream her drowned in mirrors cracked,
Smiling with the eyes I never get back.
She speaks in tongue, in fevered sighs,
Each word a wound beneath disguise.

My fingers twitch with phantom touch,
Starved for her... it’s far too much.
She bleeds in shapes across my skin,
And still I beg to let her in.

She once was light—but light decayed,
Now she's the price I always pay.
A veiled eclipse, a lover’s curse,
She’s the better half of every worse.

No pulse—just rhythm, raw and slow,
A symphony of undertow.
I kissed the rot behind her grin,
And built a shrine beneath her sin.

She isn't mine.
She never was.
But I was hers,
And still... because—

The scars she drew are vines, divine.
I drink the venom, call it wine.
She is the ache I can’t outlive.
She took what love refused to give.

She isn't real.
But she's the only thing I feel.
if she isn't real, i can't make her real
poets are pain
pain is hurt
hurt is blood
blood is red
red is poppies
poppies are war
war is hate
hate is horrid
horrible things come with a cost
and cost is something not forgotten a lot
and not forgotten is remembered
and remembered is never forgotten
and never forgotten are poems
and poems need poets
and poets are pain
As a kid, i would think the world was ending from the sound of a loud semi-truck. pain is everywhere if you listen hard enough.
My hope is finally stronger than my fear.
My resilience is finally greater than the anxiety and pain you left me with.
These revelations are the most beautiful thing I've ever penned—a testament to a mortal soul's ability to discover life after death.
This newfound hope and courage might not sound like much to anyone else, but in my world, they're everything...

-Rhia Clay
C J MILLER Jul 29
You.
I have a few words for you
you snake
to have shown me such great love
to have given me what I desired,
A family
at a young age you hurt me
without a second glance
was it ignorance or stupidity
I don't care anymore
I stepped around the eggshells,
needles, and pills.
and still I loved you
all I know is the rage I feel
when I think of you,
you sickly being
how could I
have ever
called you
mom
my soul cries,

and i know, i know souls cannot cry, but if they could, mine would, forever,

and always,

the wind brushes the soul that cries, and my face wets with the invisible tears,

for my pain is deeper than water, deeper than sand, it is the pain we all hold above us,

i hold all their pain.
i shall write until my fingers can no longer type the words i feel. i never meant to share this, but here it is.
Jolene Jul 29
It’s crippling
Breath trembling
My pain is paining
My body is falling
No one’s calling
The ambulance isn’t coming
There is no running
Just tumbling
The ground is falling
Beneath my feet
It’s dropping
My body is trembling
Abdulla Jul 29
It was never that bad —
until it was.
Until I tested my luck
and didn’t pass the spoon.

I wasn’t the “good girl”
I had to be.
And it cost me — heavily.
You say I made you.
I knew the rules.
I broke them.
That's how you want me to think, right?

But I know the truth.
You’re a polar bear
to the unaware.
With your crisp white coat.

But even they slip —
leave blood on that coat.

You forgot to check my phone.
I have a video
of you preying on the weak.

But I won’t show anyone.
I won’t fight.

That’s the difference —
between me and the prey.
The prey doesn’t feel bad
for the hunter.
The prey asks for help.

And I?
I stay.

Your coat stays white.

Just hoping you leave me
alone to fight.
Jesu Jul 29
A child who always
longed for heed,
affection and concern,
But left the world with
a quite ache unseen
by her beloved world.
Once, with a bright smile and an unblemished heart She was attacked by
a tragic backdrop.
She believed, and was
deceived,
She devoted - and
was betrayed.
Her agony turned it
into her final day.
Feyre Jul 28
The words claw themselves
through miles of skin
and bone.
It is a path carved
of blood and tissue,
a journey made
in the silences
between sentences.

Gagging, coughing
up my thoughts
until I am a mess
of misspoken words
and unfiltered thoughts.
It is a sickness,
and the journey’s end
is a death sentence.
spoken word: the harbinger of death.
Feyre Jul 28
my heart
coils and quivers
grotesquely,
reaching out and
stretching the taut skin
of my limp body,
until it bursts
in a frenzied explosion
of stardust
and flames:
a fire, set ablaze
from within.
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