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Calliope Dec 2018

The demon saw me sleepwalk,
now he knows what I’ve done.
I don’t know where I went,
but he does.
If we are defined by our actions,
He knows me better than I know myself.
That sentiment is more than haunting, so
I tried to ****** him into hell.
I am naked and exposed and vulnerable, and I would rather not need an exorcism.
But he walked away before I could cast him back into the underworld with all of the other evil spirits, who are also seeking the ruin of already broken souls.
So now he’s free, and I still don’t know what happened.
Where’d I go??
Where am I now??
And how do those two places connect???

I get blank outs from PTSD and it is not fun.

#ptsd #demon #angry #sad #scared #free #help #save #questions

Calliope Dec 2018

Your words not mine

“You’re good”
“Don’t apologize for needing help”
“Don’t worry, I got you and I’ll always protect you”

#help #love #sorry #apology #save #protect #worry #good

Calliope Dec 2018

Not my own.

I still can’t write about him.
I still can’t say his name.
He is “the guy”.
The guy who ruined my childhood,
The guy who stole not only the safety of my bed,
But the safety in my head.
They tell me not to “let him win” or “give him the power”
But he already has it all.
There is no power left to give.
No game left to be won.
No innocence left to be claimed.
He can look at me, and he will know I’m his.
I’m his.

#**** #ptsd #help #save #claim #win #game #innocence #sad #cry

Noah Dec 2018

And Therefore Cannot Save Yourself

When you look into her star-filled eyes
And realize you love her
Your heart will stop
Because now you know your going to loose her
This was not supposed to happen
Because now you are cursed with the knowledge that you cannot save her
... ever

#heartbreak #love #save #curse

Tash Dec 2018

Untitled

Life’s issues and life messes
all added up into greater masses.
Life’s issues and life’s craziness
Not one but a few can handle it’s pain.

Not taking into consideration the thought of its ideal
crumbling up the mind of its nearest victim.
Taking up the life of the one it attacks so mercilessly.
Consuming the very existence
of that one who was deemed for greatness.
And bring up tears and grieve
to the family so undeserving.

Life,
some say it’s a beautiful thing,
some say live and let live,
some say appreciate it
for we are unworthy of it
and some say just let it end.
But for me, life is a journey worth taking an enemy at times worth fighting with and for
and a blessing in disguise worth sharing about.

Life, a circle of stages occurring
please be at least considerate
to the one whose failing
in caring how to on go with you
and spare the lives of the worlds greatest that God has made to see change come through.

#life #depression #save #***

Madison Greene Dec 2018

poets are not surgeons

if my father has taught me anything in twenty years
it is to avoid a man with any resemblance of him
and it's not that I feel sorry for myself but if we're being honest
he broke my mother's heart before mine was ever intact
and I was born trying to piece together a mess of a man with no intentions of being saved
because I believed every drunken "baby things will be different soon"
and I thought that if you loved someone it meant pulling them out of the pit they dug themself into
so I keep letting people fall temporarily in love with me
and trying to fill the gaps of my past with boys with their own open wounds
hoping my words are a scapel until they realize I'm just a human and not a surgeon
I just knew what it felt like to have your heart ripped into shreds before I even knew what organs were

#poets #heart #organs #save #drunk #love #boys #wounds #human #poetry

Mat Dec 2018

watchdogs

gritted teeth, paving
the sidewalks where we
told each other that this
had gone too far.
market lights illuminating
the cascade of mistakes - lies
we told ourselves at night
to keep afloat

treading water until dawn.
with a cry, savior!, so
soft we could not hear it ourselves,

if our, savior!, did hear
would he bother to save!
two watchdogs disguised as
masochists waiting for
the other to leave
the flock behind,
or would he look
the other way, knowing
that we can't be, saved!
unless we want to
save! ourselves

#romance #broken #water #pain #save #savior #mistakes #lies #cry

Amanda Kay Burke Dec 2018

Hero

For so long been a victim to your charm
Sweet and seductive smile
So I have seen voodoo put to work
Learned to accept it, at least for awhile.

Time has taken toll on us
Which is an excuse for behavior
Watch me grow up and grow tired
Of you being my savior.

What do I do to rescue myself?
Heart does not know how to fly
Is the leap worth the risk I take?
He isn't a hero, he's just a normal guy

She needed a hero, so that's what she became.

#love #life #hero #save #superpower #girlpower #rescue #heart #fly