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A heart that is so scarred, It no longer feels. A mind that is so overwhelmed, It no longer thinks. Is this what I have become? A mindless, Expressionless, Emotionless, Girl? Life feels dull Not even black and white just mute. No pain or hurt, I have suppressed it so much None of it exists to me anymore. I could careless about anyone else right now. I would rather just float through the scenes of the rest of my life than make an effort to change what will inevitably happen. I want to throw a lot of it away. Throw it into the wind And not even watch as the things i had once worked hard for disappear. I don't give a **** about anything anymore.
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 6:49 PM UTC
Don't Give a F
Pills and pills slide down my throat, it’s for my safety, I suppose. But maybe it isn’t, maybe pills and pills slide down my throat and it’s for their safety, for the people around me. Because when pills and pills slide down my throat, they don’t have to see me suffer. But if pills and pills slide down my throat and it’s all for them, what does that mean for me? As for I will still suffer. Even though pills and pills slide down my throat, I will still feel the consequences, the lack of energy, the dark thoughts. You know, they said that when pills and pills slide down my throat things would be better, feel better. And even though pills and pills slide down my throat, I don’t feel better and things have certainly taken a turn for the worse. I didn’t feel so bad and things weren’t so terrible before pills— all those pills and pills sliding down my throat. But if I take those pills and pills away, will I feel better or do I just need more of those pills and pills sliding down my throat? Messing with my body, more consequences every time. Oh those pills and pills sliding down my throat, supposed to make me better. But what are they really for, those pills and pills sliding down my throat, cause they really don’t seem to do the job they have been assigned. So there they come, more pills and pills slide down my throat, just in the tiny sliver of hope that these will help, solve my problem. So that I’ll eventually have less pills and pills sliding down my throat.
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Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM UTC
Pills and Pills
Pills and pills slide down my throat, it’s for my safety, I suppose. But maybe it isn’t, maybe pills and pills slide down my throat and it’s for their safety, for the people around me. Because when pills and pills slide down my throat, they don’t have to see me suffer. But if pills and pills slide down my throat and it’s all for them, what does that mean for me? As for I will still suffer. Even though pills and pills slide down my throat, I will still feel the consequences, the lack of energy, the dark thoughts. You know, they said that when pills and pills slide down my throat things would be better, feel better. And even though pills and pills slide down my throat, I don’t feel better and things have certainly taken a turn for the worse. I didn’t feel so bad and things weren’t so terrible before pills— all those pills and pills sliding down my throat. But if I take those pills and pills away, will I feel better or do I just need more of those pills and pills sliding down my throat? Messing with my body, more consequences every time. Oh those pills and pills sliding down my throat, supposed to make me better. But what are they really for, those pills and pills sliding down my throat, cause they really don’t seem to do the job they have been assigned. So there they come, more pills and pills slide down my throat, just in the tiny sliver of hope that these will help, solve my problem. So that I’ll eventually have less pills and pills sliding down my throat.
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I choke my vape, lungs burning, multitudes of tears droning — bees, hummingbirds, all their beauty spilling nectar...                            _I’ll never taste it._ If this is a song, it’s an instrument playing itself, strung out on instincts, but struck without melody. And still— this feeling ******* stinks.
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Sep 1, 2025
Sep 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM UTC
I ******* Hate Depression
_Sigh_! It comes like a train — an express line through my thoughts, _no stops, no warnings._ Oh how DEPRESSION clips at my heels, familiar as shadow, unwelcome as memory. Defeated — like sunlight pressed to branches too burdened to bloom. My heart hangs in moss — heavy, strangled in the green silence of old grief. Tears lean like leafless trees, bowed in all directions, yet rooted in a place with no direction — a forest dying quietly, where even the familiar trails feel like ghost roads I no longer recognize. I feel short of worth — like coins counted in silence, never enough to buy the currency of being loved. I glow in daylight, but dusk takes its due — and now I dim with every breath. I try to speak, but end up forcing books down my throat, pages crammed with words I never learned to say. But you’ll never see me cry in public — I’m an island left off every map, burying bottle messages even I won’t recover. I have so much hopeful words for others, but I’m a stack of unread stories to myself; a pen that dries before I can name the ache. And somewhere inside —I find a red box with hidden compartments, each one meant to hold something sacred. But they echo when I open them — _soft, hollow_ reminders that even my soul has forgotten how to fill its space.
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Jul 27, 2025
Jul 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM UTC
The Compartments I Can’t Fill
I don’t have a license to drive anyone crazy — but I do have a mind that keeps itself driven. __Always on__. Dreams at any given. And I’ve felt the kind of love sickness that lingers too long — where obsession is the disease of craving for something that was never really yours to begin with. Envy stays green, growing tall like something proud. But even weeds grow healthy, and we still call them plants, _right_? I’ve been tied to other people’s hopes — roped in by their strong faith. "_And I still try to believe._" But saying that out loud feels like lying to my own mouth. So I daydream in the interest of peace, trying not to wake the ghouls I’ve tucked under my thoughts. I’ve had people toss my advice like a smooth stone in their hand; pretending it’s weightless, like their hands aren’t made of sand — like shallowness could ever carry any real depth. _But it just echoes the sea_. I always notice the ones who aren’t really seen. __The unread__... The Blue and Grey ticks. While others get their messages read and ignored, I’m just the message never opened. Still _typing_, still _thinking_ of the right words. I’ve come to represent the depressed, the lost, the young — the ones really trying to figure this **** out. __Pause__ yourself if you need to cuss, but I swear it’s not a curse to feel like **** sometimes. It just means in that moment, you’re not feeling so clean. Not broken — _just not fitting the costume_. Sometimes you just need one reason — __just one__ — to feel like yourself again. Not a version of you tailored to fit in. And that’s why it suits me better not to force anything. So yeah, I wear shorts to church — because life is too short, and I don’t see the point in dressing up pain to make it feel prettier. Especially when it’s always some casual man speaking formal hopes, trying to iron your sadness into something presentable. As if comfort should only come with a collar. But I’m not here for that. I’m just here trying to feel real — and maybe make peace with the parts of me that still feel unseen.
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Jul 3, 2025
Jul 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM UTC
Not Clean, Just Human
I don’t have a license to drive anyone crazy — but I do have a mind that keeps itself driven. __Always on__. Dreams at any given. And I’ve felt the kind of love sickness that lingers too long — where obsession is the disease of craving for something that was never really yours to begin with. Envy stays green, growing tall like something proud. But even weeds grow healthy, and we still call them plants, _right_? I’ve been tied to other people’s hopes — roped in by their strong faith. "_And I still try to believe._" But saying that out loud feels like lying to my own mouth. So I daydream in the interest of peace, trying not to wake the ghouls I’ve tucked under my thoughts. I’ve had people toss my advice like a smooth stone in their hand; pretending it’s weightless, like their hands aren’t made of sand — like shallowness could ever carry any real depth. _But it just echoes the sea_. I always notice the ones who aren’t really seen. __The unread__... The Blue and Grey ticks. While others get their messages read and ignored, I’m just the message never opened. Still _typing_, still _thinking_ of the right words. I’ve come to represent the depressed, the lost, the young — the ones really trying to figure this **** out. __Pause__ yourself if you need to cuss, but I swear it’s not a curse to feel like **** sometimes. It just means in that moment, you’re not feeling so clean. Not broken — _just not fitting the costume_. Sometimes you just need one reason — __just one__ — to feel like yourself again. Not a version of you tailored to fit in. And that’s why it suits me better not to force anything. So yeah, I wear shorts to church — because life is too short, and I don’t see the point in dressing up pain to make it feel prettier. Especially when it’s always some casual man speaking formal hopes, trying to iron your sadness into something presentable. As if comfort should only come with a collar. But I’m not here for that. I’m just here trying to feel real — and maybe make peace with the parts of me that still feel unseen.
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_Reflective tears_— but none fall. Glass-stained eyes, holding back a flood that forgot how to break. The walls pit inward— tightening like regret, closing in like the hole in my heart. Hurt me again— my mind almost begs for it; not for the pain—but for the proof I still feel. Cracked knuckles answer what cracked thoughts can't say. A fractured mental frame held together by restraint. I want to cry, but as I reach for the memory of it, the tears don’t come— Just the hollow ache of forgetting how to let go in that way. _It be like that some days..._
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Jun 24, 2025
Jun 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM UTC
Cracked Open, Quietly
Pictures of my present— but none of them smile back. Just me, talking to the man in the mirror,     _his eyes tired,           his silence loud._ He stands in the frame, wrapped in skins made of fear— To stand tall beneath the titles they gave him; _layered, worn,   worn down._ To call it strength when you pretend to be more than you are. But no one asks what it costs to keep holding up the _image they’ve         painted of you._ I want to stop performing, but giving up feels like giving in to everything they already believe about me, there's never an _account for the fallen man—         only fingers pointed,   as they count him out like a statistic._ I think about a demise so often it no longer shocks me. It just waits—patiently— like something I’ve already    _shaken hands with,     gripped by time pressing on me._ Sometimes I feel like I’m boiling alive, my chest cracking open with a salty crunch, like a crab    _in a sealed ***     no escape, just steam and pressure._ A slow, bitter truth: no one’s turning the heat down. And all I can say is—    “Crap.”      _Not funny. Not light._ Just the word that stumbles out when your soul folds in on itself and even pain doesn’t know how to explain itself anymore.
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Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM UTC
The Man in the Mirror Doesn't Blink
Cross my tears, lose my eyes— these feelings fall as sadness starts to rise. I lose my space to lose my mind; I cross my hopes and pray they survive the night. My joy feels too old;  these skins want to die young—tired, stretched thin from wearing sorrow too long. I feel like a blade that’s forgotten how to shine. Rust gathers under my lips; I’ve spoken too much to the voices in my head— and all of them, _all of them_ just want me dead. Static feelings stuck in my sweater— crying, even when it’s warm; cos I don’t own a sweater, just a hoodie— Something to cover my soul when I feel like a ghost in daylight. In my reflection, an invisible hand gives me an invisible middle finger. Even my mirror won’t look me in the eye. These lips— they started off soft; now they’re triggers, eager to flip me off, shoot me down. I am the despised poet— too hideous even in my sweet dreams— this is the  real version of me: _unwritten, unwanted, unmoved._ My soul’s literature is tired— not of bleeding, but of no one noticing it still bleeds. And truth be told... I know the purest colour of feeling blue.
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Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM UTC
Ghost in Daylight
Wet. My sadness is like this damp cloth inside my rib cage that I can only remove if I claw my chest open. I don't understand it. It's slimy and changes its shape as I walk and run. Sometimes I don't feel its cold, damp wetness that much. And sometimes I feel like I'm drowning in it. It's like being cursed to wear perenially wet socks that you can never remove. I can only imagine what warmth would feel like...the thought of my heart finally heating up in that glow is so delicious, it curls my toes automatically. Or Maybe that dampness would start to rot my insides, consume me like quicksand...and when that moment comes I just hope my memory is kind enough to resign from service;)
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Jul 7, 2021
Jul 7, 2021 at 3:50 PM UTC
Wet