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I smell of promises unkept, Of abandonment And torment, Of events planned But not once attended. I smell of deeds and vows, Of scars and bows. I stink Of no comings, But goings. I stink of lies And sometimes of unsaid words. I stink too deep, Too hard to keep. I wash it off all I might, But couldn't get it out of their sights. The smell's so hard to ignore, Telling all my lost lores. I'll stink again With screams and hurls, Be abandoned And left with words unburned.
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6d ago
May 29, 2026 at 1:29 AM UTC
Rotting
can we change someone or is that just a beautiful lie we tell ourselves to make staying easier? we are made like different skies, even twins carry different storms. two minds don't merge they collide, they resist. they say love can change a person. no... love is not a sculptor. it cannot carve new souls out of stubborn stone. "i'll change for you", they say, soft as a promise, fragile as smoke there, then gone. people don't change because they are asked to. they change when something inside them breaks or when they lose what they never thought they would. and even then, nothing is certain. so no, we cannot change someone. we can only stand at the edge, watching as they either become someone new, or remain a storm we were never meant to calm
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Apr 5
Apr 5, 2026 at 12:34 AM UTC
"where change refuses to bloom"
You bleed as if the blood in your body traveled the whole world, only to spill out through your fingertips, aimless, uncontained. You press a tissue, a Band-Aid, but nothing stops the flow. You don’t know how to stop bleeding.
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Oct 18, 2025
Oct 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM UTC
You Don’t Know How to Stop Bleeding
I broke me. Not in the ways people see. Not in the way you think it starts— with a moment, with a choice. It began quietly, the way a storm whispers before it rips through everything. The weight of things pressing on me until I could no longer tell where I ended and the pain began. I broke me. I didn't need anyone else to hurt me. I didn't need the world to tell me I wasn't enough, because I already knew that truth too well. There were no words loud enough to drown the silence inside, no love that could stitch the cracks I wore like a second skin. So I found a way to feel something— anything. The blade became my breath, the only thing that made me real when everything else felt fake. Each line, each scar was a plea, a confession, a cry that no one could hear. I broke me. Not because I wanted to die— but because I didn’t know how to live with the weight of all the things I could never say. And when the bleeding stopped, it wasn’t relief. It was emptiness, a hollow quiet where the pain used to be. And I wondered if this would ever end, if I’d ever find a way to unbreak myself. But I broke me— and sometimes, that’s the hardest thing to forgive.
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Apr 21, 2025
Apr 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM UTC
I Broke Me
don’t think you’ll get away with this! you pushed an innocent soul into the abyss. ‘sacrilege’, i say - what a terrible way… to enslave a wounded angel; pluck away at its shrewd feathers; torture it for wits; and for what? some cheeky wordplay?   how could you! how dare you watch it bleed -   through the trappings of your greed. have you no pity? have you no mercy? are you so bereft of compassion, that you’d go so far as to maim a messenger of God, just to have what you need? let it out, i say! let it free. none of this is fair, i know… i agree! but you never had the right - to steal the light: from a spirit so bright, in the stillness of the night.   it’ll all be forgotten, should you accept the blame. perhaps, find a piece of rock to maim. not a soul so benign, even in such misery it prays -   ‘forgive him for his sins, my Lord, for i have done the same.’
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Nov 27, 2024
Nov 27, 2024 at 11:28 AM UTC
unforgiven
I am incapable I am insufficient Unworthy To walk the path of man What I have down Or what I thought I did Is inexcusable My abilities over reached me And now your gone. I am now left with The hidden messages in your Bleeding words
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Nov 1, 2015
Nov 1, 2015 at 6:11 PM UTC
Insufficient