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#abandonmentissues
“you tap my keys and create a beautiful melody as your foot presses gently over mine; it makes me blush you fix my strings when i am a little out of tune; you’re never annoyed to help me out you gloss my wooden casing with a smooth finish to display all of my beauty but you grow bored of me after a while and i am left to dust in an old storage closet with my strings thinning and my gloss peeling i barely remember the last song i sang to you because i never expected you to simply just leave.”
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May 8
May 8, 2026 at 11:37 AM UTC
my pianist
“i love my papa he carries me on his shoulders once i’m too tired to walk he makes me waffles in the morning sometimes and helps mama fix my hair he pushes me on the swing at the park and tickles my feet once i kick high enough to finally be as tall as him my papa hugs me when i’m sad but he always makes a joke just to make me smile i love my didi he helps me with my homework even though he barely gets it he makes horrible jokes and is always trying to prank me; even though i never fall for it he watches my favorite movies with me even if they aren’t to his liking my didi listens to me prattle for hours because he likes the sound of my voice i love my dad he helps me up when i’m too depressed to get out of bed; it makes me mad when he does but i know why he does it he cleans the cuts on my arms with a gentle and steady hand; i’ve never seen him look so sad but also so caring he holds me on the couch while i cry after a bad argument with my sister; he has never let me down i don’t know what i’d do without him my papa my didi my dad.”
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Feb 2
Feb 2, 2026 at 2:47 PM UTC
my papa
A never-ending pattern, my own internal fight. I get attached too easily, pour my soul into others, give them my all and leave nothing for myself. Maybe if I make them happy, keep them safe, they’ll stay this time. Maybe for once, I won’t be left empty-handed, rebuilding again. A never-ending pattern, my own quiet war. Maybe if I give enough, they’ll finally like me. Maybe I’ll finally be loved without having to beg. Maybe I’ll finally be wanted without having to bribe. Until then, my pattern of destruction continues. Demolishing my own foundation just to furnish others. Turning myself into shelter for people who never intended to stay. I attach too easily, too quickly. I try so hard to fix others, forgetting I’m just as broken, just as alone. I get excited too easily, too quickly. I try so hard to hold onto others, but they always leave. And I’m left there, demolished by my own bricks, heartbroken and crumbled, because I let it happen again. But even in the rubble, I ignore the caution signs because some part of me still hopes. She always has. And she always will.
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Aug 4, 2025
Aug 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM UTC
Built to break
It lives with me, an unwanted guest, All the thoughts I try to repress despite its presence, I try my best to pretend it's not there, that it doesn't exist, but no matter how hard I try to resist, They get beck in my head and it brings back the past holding me captive, I'm falling fast, stumbling and tripping over my darkest fear All the nightmares , I'm scared I don't want them to last
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Jan 2, 2021
Jan 2, 2021 at 1:42 AM UTC
Scared
sometimes I wish I could die just for a day to see how you would react
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May 11, 2019
May 11, 2019 at 4:04 PM UTC
just to see
I’ve always been consumed with a sadness and heaviness i could never rid myself of I wrote constantly. I knew what heartache felt like and yet nothing could have prepared me for this. I have not yet lost you. You’re still here, you still love me. But for how long? My mind keeps running back to that sadness to that emptiness and i ask, “how much longer do i have?” I’ve taken up tarot cards, runes and pendulums and i ask them all the time. I ask them how things are really going. I ask them if you still love me or if you’re only pretending. “How much longer do i have?” Why? I want to be prepared. I want to know you’re leaving before even you do. I want to grieve before it happens so it doesn’t **** me. I feel the anxiety burning in my chest already. I find myself daydreaming about a future where I’m in a lonely little apartment late at night and I can feel your arms around me. However, when I roll over to face you there’s no one there and I remember that you’re with someone else and you’re happier with her. I don’t want that to be real. I don’t want you to leave. I’m scared. So I try to hope for the best but I want to prepare for the worst. Please tell me how long I have. Please tell me before it ends.
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Jan 11, 2017
Jan 11, 2017 at 11:51 PM UTC
... but that was then and this is now
god **** it, you left a heart at the end of your message and i felt my own lurch in my chest i don't love you i won't love you but just for a second, one precious, fleeting moment you flirted with the fragility of my mind by showing me you cared and, for a moment, it felt like maybe i could; maybe i could love you but i don't and i won't
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May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 at 9:18 PM UTC
another untitled bleed of feelings
My Therapist said that I have abandonment issues, says that I tend to idolize the people who leave me, She says that I build shrines for those who leave, and tombs for those who stay.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 8:39 PM UTC
Shrines For Those Who Leave