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I hate giving you the satisfaction of seeing me like this. I called you at 3 in the morning thinking maybe, for once, I could still be something good to you. Something useful. But it was all ******** You used to call those girls stupid. Now I’m one of them too. Was I ever different to you? Or did you just know the right words for every girl who wanted to feel chosen? You made me feel special like it meant something permanent. Like I wasn’t replaceable. But where were you when everything became real? You said it was true love. I think true love would’ve stayed. Now I keep thinking beauty is just another way to be consumed. All beautiful girls think they’re loved. The truth is people love looking at them. Not knowing them. Not keeping them. You become a body first. A person later. Maybe never. I wish I were smarter than this. Smarter than waiting. Smarter than believing you. My head is full of paranoia and doubt. Every memory feels poisoned now. I wish I had never met you again. Some things don’t heal. They just learn how to stay quiet.
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May 26
May 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM UTC
All beautiful girls think theyre loved
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
He fell first, she fell harder Fell and never got back up again. He stood up while she was still down. In a way it was good, until the emotions took over. Not able to focus , she failed and kept failing. Everytime she hated on him, only brought tears to her eyes. For how could she ever hate him, when she listened to those pretty lies It was bad enough to go through, with the heart now starting to shatter. Now wishing none of this was true, only because she fell harder.
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Jun 11, 2025
Jun 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM UTC
Fall
Everything is too sugar-spine, salt-lipped, staticstitched and jitterglow. I can’t sit still without turning into a girl-shaped emergency. I keep my synonyms in jars— one for ache, one for almost, one for the word I made up that means I miss you so much I become a faucet. Language is a loose tooth. I tongue it until it bleeds metaphor. Call it poetry. Call it coping. Call it anything but what it is: me, peeling the world into vowels because I’m scared if I say what I mean, you’ll hear it. And then what? You’ll answer? You’ll echo? You’ll send a voice memo saying same and I’ll combust on the Q train like a well-read matchbook? God, I am so caption-core, pun-drunk, rhyme-accident-prone. I named my stomach pit afterthought. I named my wrists reminder. And I named you don’t. But I still say it every time I open my mouth to speak.
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Apr 6, 2025
Apr 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM UTC
Loose Tooth Language
Why do I attach to people so easily They come into my life And I latch onto them like a leech I can't settle these internal cravings To find the one That latched back on to me Yet instead I find myself easily disappointed Tossed aside like a useless piece of trash My soul searches To realize my own worth Yet I measure it Based on the actions of those around me How many time Will I be tossed away and forgot Left without a second look My need for acceptance is forever growing Yet this love for me is shrinking And the dislike is overgrowing
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Jun 16, 2019
Jun 16, 2019 at 12:34 PM UTC
Attachment Issues