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Noah A Baker Mar 2014
A lot of time spent
having miscellaneous conversations with the air.
Even stupid questions like "how's your day" acting as if it'd give an answer, or, even more,
a whisper of inspiration
It's an obligation, or, maybe a delegation, or, a confirmation?
that we will create a masterpiece before insane peace
With a piece of our minds becoming a little less peaceful by the day.
Soon our minds will turn into violent catapults hurling out sentence after sentence making our paper bleed
                                                     Black, Blue, Red, Gray
Joining a cult created by the letters we created ourselves
falling into the abyss these stanzas and paragraphs invite us into
And don't get me wrong, it sounds terrible, but it's home.
There's no place like it.
Where these words are so much more than words,
they're family.
But frequently, we get into arguments that erupt into something sinister
and our desks become littered with papers that wilt and wither into nothing more than liters upon liters
of a type of alcoholic beverage that'll tempt us into becoming outspoken drunkards
But that's the goal:
*to be outspoken.
hm. I need criticism on this, please.
Oyashumi Mar 2014
Once upon a time
a girl fell in love
But the tale has a twist;
he doesn't love her back,
and the butterflies are dead
bxtch Jan 2014
I fake a smile
And say I'm fine
I hide my scars
And calm my mind
I starve myself
And dry my eyes
I hold it back
And keep it inside

Welcome to my diary.
This is the real me.
bxtch Jan 2014
It's just a tease
It's just a joke
I'm sure that she
Can take much more

'Twas just the cat
'Twas just the diet
'Twas just the meds
That kept her quiet

Help her soul
Her soul is fine
But save her mind
From what's behind

Thunderstorms and razors
Linger in mind
"I'm fat , stupid and weird"
Is what's behind

So the purging came
Like a knight in shining armor
And the freeing of pain
Came running through her veins

And all she ever needed
From all of these madnesses
Was the thought of silence
Being only a cut away

Because It was just your tease
And It was just your joke
That made her think
*Happiness is just a hoax
Bullying isn't funny.
bxtch Jan 2014
It's just a tease
*
It's just a *joke


I'm sure her wrists
*
Can take much more

For every *word

that ached her heart
was written in red
within her skin



'Twas just the cat
*
'Twas just the *diet
*
'Twas just the *pills


That kept her silent



Help her soul

Her soul is fine

But save her perception
*
From the *false veracities




A deluge of razors
*
Raid in mind

"I'm fat , naive and eccentric"

Is what's behind



So the *purging
came

Like knights in gory battle
Relentlessly ravaging
Shattering the girl from the inside

*

And all she ever felt

Was the *absurdity

Of the gory knights
Ready to slit the thread of life

Blinded by the agonizing relief
She lost her mind to perfection
And ‘twas only then when
*She whimpered in bitter regret

*

Because It was just your *tease
*
And It was just your *joke
*
That emboldened the knights

to make her think *happiness is just a hoax
A revised version of "Withered Joy"
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