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#conflicted
So I was correct, drawing a line. There you go, leaving me here. How I wish I wrote you a letter, a poem similar as so many already written, sent by mistake or on purpose so you know. It turns out we really are normal people. A message from you, if I reveal it, so exhilarating we are more close than they know. You go, and I stay. Would never ask you otherwise. Life requires change. Naturally, knowing, understanding, I still feel my eyes water. You were the first to steal my heart. Would ever chose to keep it? You showed me care, love, how capable I am to give, to receive. I should let you be. Still, a selfish me wants you near.
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Apr 22
Apr 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM UTC
selfish me
You're sugar that turned salty You're a candy that turned bitter You never gave me an opportunity Yet I still feel like a quitter We could've made it work We could've kept our slates clean We could've prevented all the hurt If you could just say what you mean It's not like I was perfect But at least I still tried You make it seem like there was nothing But I think our connection faded and died Your eyes make me regretful But I think I'm the only one Even though I had to cut it off Sometimes I wish we weren't done Now I feel conflicted inside And I don't know what to do Was I just doing to much? Could there ever be a me and you? Was I just being delusional? Or could you and I make sense? If you think so,do you miss me Or do you just miss my presence? I think about this with every encounter But I'll never have any words to say I don't know if it was fun while it lasted But I hope I'm not blamed for your bad days
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Nov 28, 2025
Nov 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM UTC
Bittersweet
how would you know how hard it is waiting waiting waiting i just want you only you where are you piles of used tissues theres something you dont know about the issues we all have it so accept it dont get away with it who why when where how which one should i use to ask you never understands all my faults stops bits
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Aug 14, 2025
Aug 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM UTC
wasted tissues
Even though I chose you Even though I’m here, with you My mind still whispers— Don’t give in Not yet Learn a little more first
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Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM UTC
Don’t give in
* It was your choice I wasn't your boss I had no voice It was your loss I wished you'd stayed I should have chased I never betrayed I never replaced I wanted you back I let you go If you were to ask I'd have to say no I changed my mind I would say yes I tried to be kind I should've guessed It's not your fault It's you I blame In every thought I play this game *
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Jul 22, 2025
Jul 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM UTC
I of the Beholder
i do not know what i feel the void in my heart echoes defeat all i ever wanted was a loving home yet nothing seems to catch up to my desire seems im only getting further away from it nomatter how much i try to gaslight myself the truth is always staring me back in my solar i know what i know yet i can't if i do, i'll be the one responsible for it this is all too much to bear alone my therapists can only do so much, im impatient i want resolution right now i just want the same warm arms to consistently feel safe at home. what if i was never meant to experience this? and it's just wishful thinking? will my life only amount to desiring and watching others get it instead? i did everything right with my heart yet i feel my life doesn't reflect the depths of my being what is missing? my worth, my certainty they evade me when i need them the most what will become of me in this timeline? noway to know but surrender to the flow of life happening as me so I lament
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Jun 29, 2025
Jun 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM UTC
lamentations
those are the options a boy is given at birth, a choice between two evils— for to be is to conform, to choose the path of ignorance, for to not be is to remove oneself, to stray from the social norms, To be is to blend, to fade into a mass of faces that never ask questions, to wear the uniform of comfort, to follow the crowd without ever knowing why. It’s to shut your eyes, to smile and nod, and pretend that you’ve figured it out when the truth is you’re just drifting, suspended in a current that leads nowhere. But to not be— to stand apart— is to feel the weight of a world that cannot understand you. It’s to be misunderstood, labeled as lost or crazy, but deep inside, there’s a fire that refuses to be extinguished. To not be is to question everything, even your own reflection, to challenge what is said to be true and create your own truths, even when it feels like you’re the only one who believes them. And so the boy stands, on the edge of these two choices, each a path with its own promise, its own cost. To be is to live in a lie that everyone else accepts— to wear a mask that fits just right, but hides the person beneath. To not be is to risk it all— to tear away the mask, to live in the rawness of truth, to be exposed, and to wonder if the world will ever be ready to see you as you are. And so, the boy is left wondering was he given two options at birth? Or was the real choice always this— to be neither, to refuse the roles they've set before him, and to create his own way, somewhere between the lies and the isolation? To decide not what the world tells him he must be, but to question, to carve out his own existence— for, perhaps, the answer lies in asking the question again and again… to be or not to be?
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Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM UTC
To Be Or Not To Be
those are the options a boy is given at birth, a choice between two evils— for to be is to conform, to choose the path of ignorance, for to not be is to remove oneself, to stray from the social norms, To be is to blend, to fade into a mass of faces that never ask questions, to wear the uniform of comfort, to follow the crowd without ever knowing why. It’s to shut your eyes, to smile and nod, and pretend that you’ve figured it out when the truth is you’re just drifting, suspended in a current that leads nowhere. But to not be— to stand apart— is to feel the weight of a world that cannot understand you. It’s to be misunderstood, labeled as lost or crazy, but deep inside, there’s a fire that refuses to be extinguished. To not be is to question everything, even your own reflection, to challenge what is said to be true and create your own truths, even when it feels like you’re the only one who believes them. And so the boy stands, on the edge of these two choices, each a path with its own promise, its own cost. To be is to live in a lie that everyone else accepts— to wear a mask that fits just right, but hides the person beneath. To not be is to risk it all— to tear away the mask, to live in the rawness of truth, to be exposed, and to wonder if the world will ever be ready to see you as you are. And so, the boy is left wondering was he given two options at birth? Or was the real choice always this— to be neither, to refuse the roles they've set before him, and to create his own way, somewhere between the lies and the isolation? To decide not what the world tells him he must be, but to question, to carve out his own existence— for, perhaps, the answer lies in asking the question again and again… to be or not to be?
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Once apon a time so gentle, Watched sunrises as the birds sang good morning Then broken in disillusionment, became a dangerous weapon Nothing can be gained without loss, Even the celestial gates demand the reapers sickle. He who seeks peace Must face chaos I know not what scares me more. To see you once more, Or never again. I tremble at the choice unseen To embrace the risk of once more Or brace for impact on never again.
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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM UTC
Once more, or never again
I love you, I love you not I love you I love y... Wait a second... If it's not bipartisan Honestly It does not matter how many peddles this flowers got ©2025
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Jan 22, 2025
Jan 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM UTC
~•§•~ Two to Tango ~•§•~
Lies are all what people tell me They act like I can barely see How much lies they tell me People tell me great stuff about myself People tell me that I need to appreciate myself Because of all I do  But, it reminds me what I did to you It's like my brain Doesn't want me to obtain The kind words someone gives me  Instead, I'm supposed to believe that they are simply lying to me It's just like my heart can't let me be My brain tells me I need to believe them While my heart says I can't believe them  Paranoid of what to choose I chose the ***** I chose to be indecisive I hate being being indecisive But that's who I am I don't know who to believe Or if I should even leave And close the curtains Or just leave the curtains Alone I feel like I'm drowning in decisions I don't even mean to make My life is at stake Just because of mistakes I choose to make Every decision I make comes with bricks That's one of my conflicts Bricks always in my palms I can't always keep calm! Why can't you people understand that?! I feel like I'm getting closer to death Closer...and closer to death All conflicts are made by my mistakes Now other's lives are at stake But am I the person who actually created these *****? Even so I always say sorry I say sorry Too much All you do is munch On my apologies Like you're my allergies You never forgave me Don't act like I can't see I don't even know if I should stop saying sorry I keep on saying sorry It feels useless To not do any less To do more But I don't know anymore  I don't know what to do anymore
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Nov 26, 2024
Nov 26, 2024 at 8:11 PM UTC
Conflicted
Lies are all what people tell me They act like I can barely see How much lies they tell me People tell me great stuff about myself People tell me that I need to appreciate myself Because of all I do  But, it reminds me what I did to you It's like my brain Doesn't want me to obtain The kind words someone gives me  Instead, I'm supposed to believe that they are simply lying to me It's just like my heart can't let me be My brain tells me I need to believe them While my heart says I can't believe them  Paranoid of what to choose I chose the ***** I chose to be indecisive I hate being being indecisive But that's who I am I don't know who to believe Or if I should even leave And close the curtains Or just leave the curtains Alone I feel like I'm drowning in decisions I don't even mean to make My life is at stake Just because of mistakes I choose to make Every decision I make comes with bricks That's one of my conflicts Bricks always in my palms I can't always keep calm! Why can't you people understand that?! I feel like I'm getting closer to death Closer...and closer to death All conflicts are made by my mistakes Now other's lives are at stake But am I the person who actually created these *****? Even so I always say sorry I say sorry Too much All you do is munch On my apologies Like you're my allergies You never forgave me Don't act like I can't see I don't even know if I should stop saying sorry I keep on saying sorry It feels useless To not do any less To do more But I don't know anymore  I don't know what to do anymore
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A Tree Sat steadily at the centre of an endless field. Never still. Its branches grow, then fall. From nothing, to green, then only decay, Even the leaves come and go. Yet, always there sits a shadow, constant behind the everblooming oak. A boy fiddles with an apple as he sits within the shade. He does not wander, only sits and plays, Gnawing away at the fruits born.
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Dec 10, 2022
Dec 10, 2022 at 2:33 PM UTC
In the shade
You worship at My shrine and give Your sweet and labored love You tell Me “i’d give my whole life to You” And “I only want to be held by You” I look down and swallow it whole It is not enough Though ripe and plump And full to bursting It is not enough Is it fair of Me to ask a mortal to feed My thirst? Is it fair that I look for a different taste A better fruit then what anyone can offer You built My temple and made Me whole But it is not enough And your fruit is simply too sweet If I demand you to wait While I look for a better taste Would you? If I told you to kneel At My holy shrine Until your knees bleed And your fruit rots I know you would
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Nov 21, 2022
Nov 21, 2022 at 6:21 PM UTC
worship
Are my lips not enough like honey? Are my words not sweet as Eden? Do I palely compare to the affair of your dreams? Woe, though I still love me.
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Jun 16, 2022
Jun 16, 2022 at 1:14 PM UTC
Luminary
affection has an expiration date. becomes affliction, turns sour like 4 month old whole milk. love is always past due. thrown away fresh out the oven, now hogged during family dinner. take what can only be given. nothing can be given. only take. it expires.
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May 23, 2022
May 23, 2022 at 5:10 PM UTC
only time will tell.
What do I think we are Did I expect to see stars Spining around both our heads Forgetting the path that I fled It all sounds so silly to me Going back to such lived misery How can I entertain my delight At the thought of being under your spotlight It all felt so decided, quite final Like our last song on a vinyl An album played ad nauseam Swimming circles in stagnum But a tale as old as time The whimsy to rewind In my attempt to create closure I found the itch to flip our record over.
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May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022 at 11:53 AM UTC
Play Me Out
I'm tied up and my stomach is weighted down A dark force is trying to make us disappear into the ground He followed me with a noose that hung around a slender neck A vulture who haunts my flesh just waiting for a peck Hitting my chest to get the negativity out envisioning light entering and the darkness dispersing about Yet I still hear the hangman's words I blocked them, yet they are still heard "Little skinny girl, just used for a cinnamon swirl She will stutter just a little more I can't seem to find her allure." He has a hold on me whispering line after line I honestly don't think I will make it in time I found a place of redemption and a glimmer of hope Yet I fall every time my foot moves to leave this slippery slope Loosen the knot and slide your rope around me Make sure there is a snap when I start to swing
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Dec 10, 2021
Dec 10, 2021 at 9:13 PM UTC
Hangman
I live conflicted between the life I'm gifted and fault lines that have shifted under my feet for a dream delete under the concrete mob elite. The grass isn't green and **** I stand here beetle bit I can't seem to sift through the needless rifts brought by greedy grifts and seedy spit on our supply side cliff. I stand out of the range of the morally deranged which is how they arrange my inability to effect change which puts me down in the count and down on the scoreboard so I can't purchase a mount to start moving forward. I'm the disease and the antidote I'm the hunter and the antelope water rushing through the dam I broke flooding the land of hope with my brand of nope down a tantrum slope. There's a cynical patter in town saying it doesn't matter if I drown or if I burn either way I suffocate then put into the ground in turn they just listen to sounds that churn as the unbound learn there are hounds on Earth that scour the turf. I sit on the sidelines begging them to stop but then I find I'm cheering the beating of cops after seeing their glocks protecting nothing but stocks when an uptick in mops is what we should want. I am the owl sitting in the tree I am the fowl dead among the leaves I watch the world turn from my grave where I burn as a slave just to return to my cave to repeat this the next day.
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Sep 30, 2021
Sep 30, 2021 at 8:35 AM UTC
Conflicted
Why do I feel so lost? My life is getting better day by day, But my mental health seems to be the cost. I'm trying to listen, but I'm tired of what they say. The voices in my head are so loud, It's drowning out everything out. I feel like I have to act proud, But I just want to shout. Leave me be you stupid inner thoughts! You cut me down harder than a knife, You make me feel like I'm at a loss. I don't want to die but I wanna give up on life! Why does everything have to be a certain way? Why do people continue to judge? Can't people just finally stay, I'm tired of each and every petty grudge. This world is simple but yet so hard, I want to give up but I don't know how. I make a mirror break and use a shard, I'm not okay, there is no way back now. Like ***** I've known for awhile, It doesn't change the fact that I still love you. I keep trying to live in denial, You keep changing but I wish you loved me too.
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Sep 20, 2021
Sep 20, 2021 at 12:11 PM UTC
What is This Life?
I cannot explain all the pathetic measures my eyes will take to avoid your gaze, all the paths my legs will journey to avoid bumping into you on my way home. All the ways I knead my hands to the bone and all the toothpick excuses skewering my tongue. And I cannot explain the way your presence deflates something inside my chest. I don't know what to do with all that empty space. It echoes. I fill it with the thimble's worth of pride that I scrape together, every meager flake of validation I pick from the floor. I shovel slopping handfuls of sawdust to try and soak up some of the shadows but everything dissolves in that oily void, green and hideous. God, it echoes, and everyone hears it. I muffle it with my radio silence. I look at you and I see everything I hate about myself under a microscope. Every blemish, every scar, every gaping hole that you lack. Stop, look. Here. Wrong. Hear? I blind myself with radio silence. I don’t know how to live with an eternal reminder that I am incomplete. You, and the place you hollowed without even knowing it. Green and monstrous. It echoes and everyone hears it. I love you, but I cannot explain my radio silence.
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Aug 24, 2021
Aug 24, 2021 at 3:38 PM UTC
Radio Silence
Oh so family is supposed to always be there for you Just not when sharing your feelings;it's not cool? You can't confide in them with what you are dealing with Got me feeling like a sith That my feelings are too dark Like I'm red kryptonite Clark Leaving me to become real bitter Like all the times i was verbally attacked by a "her" I'm told to act my age I'm only 30 I'm not a wise sage
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Aug 8, 2021
Aug 8, 2021 at 11:33 PM UTC
Not a wise sage
For awhile now I've been free, But I feel stuck, drowning in the sea. I've been good at hiding my emotions and scars, I've been searching for you among the stars. Running into eachother broke my heart, But you say it's better to just stay apart. I still have my demons I need to fight, And you took away my light. You can leave my life that's fine, But don't blame me when I shine. I may not have you, But I have someone new.
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Jul 6, 2021
Jul 6, 2021 at 6:36 PM UTC
Conflicted
Who knew I could be so L O W But so H G I H at the same time? It seems like my emotions are chosen at R D N A O M
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Jun 5, 2021
Jun 5, 2021 at 11:01 AM UTC
Random
there's no need to be alone so long as someone wants you no reason to be sad so long as there's happiness to be had not for you not a need to be afraid unless you live with your fears one track one line, a straightaway only left to shift the gears not for you this machine this marvel of a beast a prize itself but not for you
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Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 at 9:37 PM UTC
It's Not For You
Though peaceful is the life I attempt to live, to stop the harm I must forgive. Sitting in the shallows, dwelling on the pain I've caused, inflicted thus so with little pause. On myself I work so hard, yet setbacks they abound, eating me from within it seems, hope it gleams, but there sits my own reality ripping at the seams, collapsing all around. Expectations undulating beneath my feet deep within the ground, it appears they cannot be fulfilled. I'm stuck in the mud that is my own apathy, clawing at the earth trying to be free. The question remains, why can't I just things be?
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Dec 10, 2020
Dec 10, 2020 at 1:13 PM UTC
Way of life?