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He hides from life, he runs away,                                                            ­            
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 can't handle the strife of his everyday                                                         ­       
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       If he doesn't see it, it did not happen,
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feelings reserved, he's living on   rations                                                          ­                                                                 ­   
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Can't take the pressure, can't push
himself,                                              
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out of his safe zone and into our hell                                                             ­       
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So easy to pull the covers over your head,                                            
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I would rather live in the light
instead                                                          ­    
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One day he will realize, he's all
alone                                                        
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within the walls of his safety zone
Mariah Apr 25
A box outside
A box for my
Heart in its varied size

A box inside
A box for my
Mind and all it's eyes

6 steps away
Enough to embrace
Safety without the pain

Steel but rusted spine
Guts that can't decide
Faults in my design

Pieces of me
Trying to find recovery
In a place where you won't
Judge me

Intimidating
The world is lately
So I try to give it time
Hoping it won't ruin mine

A box of whine
A box divine
While I appempt to recombine
I'm sick. I can't sleep. I want to crawl inside a box.
Lostling Apr 21
Water listens, acknowledging the pain
It washes and cleans the wounds lightly,
Soothes and calms,
Like a burbling brook to sit next to.

But blood…

Blood is thick and heavy.
It leaves a taste of copper in my mouth
Even after my head resurfaces and I can breathe again.
It stains and flows from cuts, tearing my stitches
As much as I love my parents, I’d rather go to my friends so I won’t get lectured and/or  scolded
Zywa Apr 20
Our nature to keep

our world safe makes us afraid --


of foreign people.
Poem "Évian" (2017, Ghayath Almadhoun)

Évian Conference in 1938 (32 countries) on the Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria, after which the Völkischer Beobachter writes on July 13th: "Keiner will sie haben" ("Nobody wants to have them")
Raven Kuhn Apr 20
I want to go
on
living,
so
I have
to be safe
at last.
Originally a blackout poem.
i am the strength, the saftey, the fear.
i stay close, always near.
the one they call when things go wrong
the silence hurts, their screams a song.
the body aches, battered bruised
couldve been simple, had he refused
you
all those nights ago.
but he didnt know.
i keep them alive.
let the body thrive.
system poems part 1
Damocles Apr 11
How does one actually speak to a mod from this site?

There are some serious nefarious things going on in the background (which I can’t say here because I I know the responsible party will flag it) but there is an unhinged individual mass messaging people of weird untrue crap…they are banned in several accounts…any help would be most appreciated.
I’ve emailed Eliot directly but can a mod please reach out to me?
preston Apr 10

I move through the day
with my headphones on—
not just for the music,

but for the remembering.

A wire,
a pulse,
a quiet line
that tethers me

to the hush on the other side.

I charge them every night—
because she might need
the warmth of soundless presence,
the kind that doesn’t reach in,

   but wraps around.

She is hidden,
but not gone.

She is beneath
the hush of fabric and mercy,
where no eyes ****,

no explanations are required.

And I—
I go on,
lifting and lowering weight,
cutting silence with work,

holding space

for the one who is learning;
that Light can contain her
without devouring.



So I charge the headphones.
I keep the line open.
And I carry her
as lightly as I can,
because right now—

   that is how
   love breathes.


And underneath this blanket
of containment,
she is unfolding.

There is a safety here
that her spirit
so desperately needs..


As she learns how to Become,
   again


and as I work, she is blissfully doodling,
on the other line  with me
Immersed in the covering  of safety
that only Light can bring

#Love
Kaiden Mar 31
You're like a safety pin.
Holding onto life for me
When i no longer can.
To this one special person.
I pray for her safety,
The world is scary.
I pray for her happiness,
She deserves joy.
I pray for her,
That not even a hair will bother her.
I wish I could be there always
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