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How does one feel okay to discard me instinctively, While I am left burning with the smoke that has consumed my very being? The bellowing beast howling through the ashes, Relentlessly telling me I was not enough. The ink bleeding onto these pages Is the post-mortem of how innate my solicitude was toward you. The salt streams running down my flushed cheeks Are proof that I would have sat with you through the bloodiest trenches. Even though my anguish will never ricochet back to drown you, Even though she is a blinding shooting star lighting your sky— Is it plausible that I was still profoundly important to you? That is the cruel, fickle trap of closure. We are left to swirl the unanswered questions in our artistry. She possesses a striking consciousness, But did my devotion require the mere footnotes of your life? She is granted the grace to be a phantom in your life, But why was my soul the one condemned to bear your invective?
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3d ago
May 31, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC
Footnotes In Your Life
My every waking thought, is scorched by the ghost of her existence The permanent place that she's effortlessly kept, while I spent months hoping to float in his orbit. It is not loathing that I feel towards her; It is worse. It is obsession. An obsession with the turning mechanics of her brain, An obsession with how she occupied his mind delicately, While I am left scavenging for simple afterthoughts. His insults settle like vitriol on my skin, acid leaking from my eyes in the dead of night, I am haunted by the quiet cruelty of his wicked thoughts, wondering if he always seemed to measure my entity against hers. A mere duplicate. That is the only reason he reached for me, While I foolishly conjured up the hope That he saw me for me.
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4d ago
May 30, 2026 at 10:53 PM UTC
The Afterthought
I'm sorry I'm the ***** up mum I wish I was the daughter That you could admire Instead I just destroy Everything I desire I'm sorry I'm the ***** up mum And I'm not like the siblings you love I promise you that I'm trying But I know that it will Never quite be enough I'm sorry I'm the ***** up mum The others seem to find it so easy I wish I could breeze through life Without a care Just like the others I'm sorry I'm the ***** up mum I promise you I'm working Towards a better future for us all Even if it feels like It's just a steady crawl I'm sorry I'm the ***** up mum I love you more than words can say I would do absolutely anything To make you proud One day
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Mar 4, 2019
Mar 4, 2019 at 3:03 AM UTC
I'm sorry