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I learned to read anger before I learned to read books, every slammed door sounded exactly like my name. My father spoke in wounds disguised as “lessons,” and somehow I still waited for him to say he was proud. At dinner, the silence sat heavier than the plates, his words cutting through me like they were born rehearsed. “Useless,” became a nickname I answered to too quickly, while my mother stared at the table like prayer could save me. Now grown, I still flinch when people raise their voices, still apologize for things that were never my fault. Because some fathers do not break your bones they break the mirror you use to see yourself.
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7d ago
May 27, 2026 at 1:52 PM UTC
The House That Raised Its Voice
am i over you or just high i smoke now to get by 6 months sober then 4 blunts and red eyes time changes and resets timelines do you speak of me smoke me out like s a g e can you hear my frequency panic alerts of hurts and dependency whatever works, whatever burst wake and bake my memory whatever stings, whatever hurts numbing is my remedy
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Mar 8
Mar 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM UTC
Remedy
Letters not sent Words untouched by hands, There is no softer gaze, Opening radiant ways With rapid pulse of breaths, In spoken sentences. The invisible margin of lost attention. I saw unsettling light, The sun glinting on the window, An ordinary building across the street And an elusive, surreal reflection Of a blurred sphere, not giving warmth. I stare at this distorted image, Wanting to endure it directly, Longer than I could bear, In a motionless pause The side effects of this manifestation. My eyes were slightly closed To hug the contours of an unclear shape. The luminosity from a distance Safely stays at a fragile layer, So as not to freeze and not to burn Before the piercing, conclusive truth. Being for so long and perfectly alone. So many hours punished by the silence, The long days in tamed anger, Waiting for relief, All those good wishes in letters were never sent. The gleams turned in the blunt, painful light. Just two living spheres and a clear, cold glass In the ocean of rigid duties, A star’s slow implosion, Reshaped colorful memories, grasping at remains. The vivid balloon with the air gone— No longer flying above our heads. Nothing else, just indifference that forgot How it used to cry.
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Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM UTC
Blunt Light
You are the Love that I Remember, You melt me through Aeons of Winter. You make me the blazing Djinn, You make me the Christ without Sin. You are the Cure for The Cold and my love is like Footsteps in Snow. Where I follow with Feather and Rose. To give you my Heart and my Soul. You are the Love that I Remember. You are the Love that I Recall, You are the Spirit of my Crossing, You tie me in Beautiful Woes. You are the Essence of Color. Also the midnight cruiser. You are the spring fawn, and its your laughter that makes me grow. You are the will of the bright. You are the source of my spiritual writing. You make me the king in blessings. Blessings of virtue and light. You are the love that I remember, the truth and the love that is tender. You are the ocean of responsibility, that I pick up when reason is withering. You are the quintessential virtue. That all there is to know is full. The fullness you supply, I imbibe these virtues; with intimacy, grace and time.
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Jan 24, 2022
Jan 24, 2022 at 2:27 PM UTC
Reunited Ignited
tattoos on my neck but should be your lips instead tattoos on my neck but should be your hands instead I want every part of me, enmeshed in you the sun kisses my back as she creeps up behind the hill shedding light on the aftermath of drunken thrills I miss the blaze of the blunt and the bass in the club relinquish my demons as we are talking it up do you like my eyes that's where they hide? do you like my thighs wanna try them tonight? because tattoos on my neck but should be your lips instead
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Oct 31, 2021
Oct 31, 2021 at 8:23 PM UTC
Tattoos on my neck
Grandma insists the nation Is without an eye so I'm wondering Who leads her She says we have all We need for the big picture but can't simply Presit_then_see A proof that you're blind is clearly the fact that You can see Diobimma
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Oct 9, 2020
Oct 9, 2020 at 12:40 PM UTC
Presidency
the time i had with you was nothing but luck.. time was always a little bit blunt maybe too blunt. but oh dear i'm sorry i had to leave oh-so soon.. too soon. and i know the time we shared was oh-so short. but even so you got to admit it was fun.. yeah oh-so fun.
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Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020 at 3:43 PM UTC
oh-so blunt
17/02/2020 Quite often, either joking or desperate, I wish more and more I could shoot my mind here and now for maiming me, my spontaneity and all my dignity. Whenever it brings me to a crisis – condemns my passions, rebellion, astrality, joyful freedom, innocence, love, irrationality and “thoughtset” – every place I come to sit, stand or just be at, becomes tainted, isolating, with miasma for air and like an eternally prolonging waiting room. Waiting for what? Probably redemption seeming out of reach at such moment Whilst amid the dark matters. Mostly sure that’s how Catholic purgatory would be like: ****** depression, no God, copper taste in the soul, tight space, condemnation, tower of pressure, no greatness to behold, no hope for another day to come.
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Jun 19, 2020
Jun 19, 2020 at 5:47 AM UTC
Gioielli di Giornale #15
Don't clear the smoke Let me be in the smog of what-ifs In my la-la land I shall live my best life In the heat of the blunt I will live in the moment
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May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 at 4:33 AM UTC
Lit
You said you were the blunt, smoking others like they smoke, But you never inhaled back. All smoke and now blunt rhymes. You all gesture, hanging out with your boys always behind never up front. Missing in the pictures, short **** behind the trees. I'll exhale in your face choking you out on reality that your lost in the smoke. No one will ever be above you, as your always looked down upon. Short **** blunt rhymed hack. lets be blunt, not the smog, but the facts. that I'll alway smoke you...
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Feb 7, 2020
Feb 7, 2020 at 8:46 AM UTC
Lets Be Blunt
Let's Pretend Smile For the Camera (Nobody wants to see the real) Cry behind closed doors (Show them success. What are fears, tears, eyes, and  ears?) Scream alone while everyone's asleep. (Let the lambs sleep, you weren't meant for this) Work hard, and smart  while others quit (No doors are closed, when you become the key) Focus on yourself, and you won't notice them. Be successful for you, don't get so stuck watching others. You fail to see what's wrong in front of you, if you keep looking around. Shut down, and build up (Eat, sleep, over power them. Make this world yours, don't get stuck in the lions den.) E
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Feb 6, 2020
Feb 6, 2020 at 8:30 PM UTC
Let's Pretend
"I love you," she said. "I don't" he said.
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Dec 23, 2019
Dec 23, 2019 at 2:13 AM UTC
The Shortest Tragedy
I’m the only one with dirt on my hands, I’ve been crossing my fingers and snapping rubber bands. And the fragments and pieces build into a story, I transformed it to a thesis; the quality’s too low for me, and I never set my expectations too high, as should I, a lack of truth and abundance of lie. My oh my and by the by. There’s cracks in my ceiling and head, there’s splinters in my skin and my bed, there’s poison in the words I was fed. I’m the only one missing pressure on my shoulders, replaced the gentle weight with two heavy boulders. I was wishing on satellites thinking they were stars, breaking free from embraces thinking they were bars, admiring fireflies not realizing they were cars but I’m painfully aware of my own scars. I’m holding open seminars to these memoirs of ours. There’s cracks in my ceiling and shell, there’s craters in my heart where I fell, there’s holes in each story you tell.
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Oct 8, 2019
Oct 8, 2019 at 6:04 PM UTC
Waiting Room
I am a No good No-one and you can't Tell me Otherwise. In the end I've found All that really Matters Is who you were to them, A year before you died. Because I put a bullet where I should have put a helmet, Along with Honesty and Sincerity, And all their friends and Virtues. Rebirth is easy, it's living that gets tricky. Reborn as a sinner: Love me, Hate what I do Best. What I do best Is watch you fall to pieces Limb from crushed bone limb, And what I do best Is write sad songs That I hide away in a corner of my Closet(ed mind). When you die, They remember you with flaws they had of their own. They make it about them, And their pain, As though being a martyr Could actually bring you back. (As though a martyr Could actually come back) So call me Apathy, That'll be my new name. A lack of empathy No pitying sympathy. Because I cannot seem to make you realize, I do not empathize Nor will I ever sympathize With you no-good Nice guys. I'm a bad guy What can I say, I'm the villain, the antagonist, I was put here as a test-- I went wrong, I went far beyond wrong, I took a wrong turn onto the wrong path in the wrong forest Where I just don't belong. So goodbye for the night, and maybe the next few, But remember my number not name, as only the living seem to do. So just remember these words, from time to time: I am a lack of the holy seven-- You see, in place and in honor, I make nine.
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Jun 15, 2019
Jun 15, 2019 at 1:51 PM UTC
Making Nine
My worth is not seen by the harrowing nature of my own eyes I have seen too many lives pass before me They are wilted Jilted by an unrequited dream Lives that are my own because I always place myself inside your heart If I could take the next bus home it would be toward that time when I was 10 I hugged my Papa so tight because he was at my birthday party That would both be the sad and happy time for me Only to experience great loss and great gain and great forgetfulness The fear of neglect is so close to my heart That when I feel any sort of bird born in my cages It is also a trap to set it free There is a song sung before it flies away: "Premature maturity The never ending running man In one place is a rot on my mind Until it dies of nothing Because my body is where ideas come to grow and die and bear fruit My body is where I am alive for the new roots to plant itself in my skull To listen to the whisper of the woman in my ear She says she is my mother There is nothing to fear" But why Mama did you leave us? To grow in a place where nobody knows us To belong in a world where you are rejected Your children feeling nothing but loneliness The back of my head is haunted by a man looking over my shoulder He sees everything I have searched for I find nothing But he finds me without fail He knows everything That man inside this cage of mine His nose is broken, his grin is crooked like a hunger inside him is restless There is a dark pit I cannot find If I find it I might just get lost in thought Pondering on an idea I can't quite remember My mind treads unto idea upon idea Until the stores have closed It's nothing short of a shame I don't mind your sorries I only mind the explanations If you could only find me my father again
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May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 at 2:36 PM UTC
My Birthday
My worth is not seen by the harrowing nature of my own eyes I have seen too many lives pass before me They are wilted Jilted by an unrequited dream Lives that are my own because I always place myself inside your heart If I could take the next bus home it would be toward that time when I was 10 I hugged my Papa so tight because he was at my birthday party That would both be the sad and happy time for me Only to experience great loss and great gain and great forgetfulness The fear of neglect is so close to my heart That when I feel any sort of bird born in my cages It is also a trap to set it free There is a song sung before it flies away: "Premature maturity The never ending running man In one place is a rot on my mind Until it dies of nothing Because my body is where ideas come to grow and die and bear fruit My body is where I am alive for the new roots to plant itself in my skull To listen to the whisper of the woman in my ear She says she is my mother There is nothing to fear" But why Mama did you leave us? To grow in a place where nobody knows us To belong in a world where you are rejected Your children feeling nothing but loneliness The back of my head is haunted by a man looking over my shoulder He sees everything I have searched for I find nothing But he finds me without fail He knows everything That man inside this cage of mine His nose is broken, his grin is crooked like a hunger inside him is restless There is a dark pit I cannot find If I find it I might just get lost in thought Pondering on an idea I can't quite remember My mind treads unto idea upon idea Until the stores have closed It's nothing short of a shame I don't mind your sorries I only mind the explanations If you could only find me my father again
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I'm just a beautiful liar, with nothing but chains and whips to cover the truth. I'm just a beautiful liar, with nothing but wounds and scars to cover the pain. I'm just a beautiful liar, with nothing but twists and schemes, to cover the hate. You may deny me, you may admit me, you may underestimate me. But somehow, I have you questioning yourself. I'm just a beautiful liar, trying to be good. I lie with no remorse, yet, I tell the truth bluntly. I know my capabilities, only a few I choose to use it on. Don't trust me, and I won't trust you. I'm just a beautiful liar, beggin, to be good. Punish me daddy, for I have lied to tell the truth. For I have sinned to be good. For I have underestimated my own intelligence, to get my way. I'm just a beautiful liar, covered in promiscuity.
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May 9, 2019
May 9, 2019 at 2:26 PM UTC
The Beautiful Liar
Tonight I burn with a reckless abandon Both ends in embers I am choking on my smoke I’m sorry I’m blunt I’m sorry I’m numb I’m sorry I run away From everything trying to help me I cannot share my sadness with you.
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Apr 21, 2019
Apr 21, 2019 at 2:04 AM UTC
Blazing
Just because its called a blunt, Doesn't mean it dulls the edges. It keeps everything turnt, Giving a sparkle to the senses. It gives you joy. Whilst fading away your tensing. Trips, it takes you on. Just inhale. Take flight, take off. . .
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Feb 14, 2019
Feb 14, 2019 at 1:17 AM UTC
Blunt
I’ve discvoered A strange pastime of mine I like to look for flaws Little things I am ashamed of Then use poetry To slowly unravel them Bit by bit Like the Small intestine We unraveled in our seventh Grade fetal Pig disection Just like that The ugly flaws Are unraveled bit by bit Left in all their original Blunt grotesque Glory In my mind To be analyzed And on paper -or a screen I suppose Embeleshed, Into something Beautified and attractive But, Still honest despite Holding back To an extent ... Meanwhile, In my mind The flaws are Picked apart With little probes Occasionally, A finite solution And method to Get rid of the Flaw Placed on My never ending Bucket list But, More often than not- ... ERROR NO SOLUTION REQUIRES FURTHER STUDY
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 11:58 PM UTC
Dissecting my Flaws
When my inner self and my outer self disagree I tend to let my inner self free I will not be repressed by society. I am labeled straight forward abrasive Some say it with respect and admiration Others, like I have a disorder They can call me abrasive I'm prepared for it to continue until my inner self fully replaces judgement with Love I am determined to seek empathy I will continue to let my inner self free I will not be repressed by society. I have a long way to go but, I trust me.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 7:34 AM UTC
Abrasive