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I packed my dreams in a tattered bag, thinking the world would welcome me kindly. Home was a cage of slammed doors and silence, so I ran toward the first smile I could find. He told me I was special. He said I deserved more. I wanted to believe him… so I did. The night bus smelled of gasoline and promise, his jacket draped across my shoulders. I thought I had found freedom. But freedom does not come in locked rooms. It does not take your name and sell it to the highest bidder. He was not a savior. He was a salesman. And I was the product. The days blurred… a carousel of faces, hands that bruised, eyes that never saw me as human. They broke me into pieces and called it survival. I forgot the sound of my own laughter. I forgot how it felt to walk outside without fear that someone was waiting to own me. I forgot that I was more than what was taken. And then… a door opened that wasn’t meant to close. A voice, steady and real, said my name like it belonged to me again. Rescue didn’t feel like freedom at first. Freedom felt like learning how to breathe without permission. Recovery is not a straight road. It is nights of screaming into pillows. It is flinching when kindness feels unfamiliar. It is piecing together a body I thought had been erased. But it is also: a sunrise I stayed to watch. a book I finished on my own. a meal that tasted like joy instead of fear. a laugh that escaped before I could stop it. I am not only what was done to me. I am the girl who ran, the girl who was taken, and the girl who came back. They thought they had written my ending. But this… this is just the beginning.
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Mar 16
Mar 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC
The Runaway by Penelope Foster
I packed my dreams in a tattered bag, thinking the world would welcome me kindly. Home was a cage of slammed doors and silence, so I ran toward the first smile I could find. He told me I was special. He said I deserved more. I wanted to believe him… so I did. The night bus smelled of gasoline and promise, his jacket draped across my shoulders. I thought I had found freedom. But freedom does not come in locked rooms. It does not take your name and sell it to the highest bidder. He was not a savior. He was a salesman. And I was the product. The days blurred… a carousel of faces, hands that bruised, eyes that never saw me as human. They broke me into pieces and called it survival. I forgot the sound of my own laughter. I forgot how it felt to walk outside without fear that someone was waiting to own me. I forgot that I was more than what was taken. And then… a door opened that wasn’t meant to close. A voice, steady and real, said my name like it belonged to me again. Rescue didn’t feel like freedom at first. Freedom felt like learning how to breathe without permission. Recovery is not a straight road. It is nights of screaming into pillows. It is flinching when kindness feels unfamiliar. It is piecing together a body I thought had been erased. But it is also: a sunrise I stayed to watch. a book I finished on my own. a meal that tasted like joy instead of fear. a laugh that escaped before I could stop it. I am not only what was done to me. I am the girl who ran, the girl who was taken, and the girl who came back. They thought they had written my ending. But this… this is just the beginning.
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The book opened. I’d almost finished it. Hollow — hopeless were his eyes, as if awaiting to die, or be killed. I read through the pages, blotches of water blurring certain words. It was ironic — she always seemed so happy. Impossible to believe she wrote this. I wiped the beads from my eyes and reached the final chapters. A signature marked the end, the corner of the page dark with blood. The name of the author was someone I knew. At least, I thought I did. The book was closed. It seemed ordinary. It told no stories, and yet it told every story. Maybe not ones that were fictional, but the ones that meant enough.
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Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM UTC
Story Time
Watching over me, Feel my soul flee, Wanna trap inside a dream, Insecurity in reality, Reality is grave of dreams, People staring, Feels scary, And here is me, Fed up of reality, Oh I plea,please, Let me sleep peacefully, My world is just...my dream and me, Please,set me free.
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May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM UTC
Dreams don't judge me
And then I said, "All my poetry is not fictional" putting all these short little bursts of inspiration in a different perspective
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Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM UTC
Oh You Don't Say
Three years ago from today, I watched your neck snap and swing loosely from your spine from a tightly tied noose, like the detached sole of your brown church loafers. During the autumn, the leaves that ripped new orange contrasted from the purple observable on your face. I watched your body dangle from the banyan tree next to the rickety tire swing in which was once a steady structure, but was now so close to dilapidation, just like you and mama’s marriage. And oh how you always hit her with the tea kettle at eight in the morning while it was still hot brewing of mysterious faucet liquid because your farm couldn't pay for plumbing, And oh how while mama was away and little Josh played cars with Susie I watched your neck swing and twirl, and finally breathed. But after three years ago, I watched mama walk down a carmine carpet, her white mermaid tail wedding dress complimented the beautiful chrysanthemums among the ground. I watched salty rivers dangle from her eyes like you neck to your spine, not from a beating of hot medal at eight in the morning, but of the tan man, Jose, who we all loved dearly, not because of the new plumbing and tire swing that he provided, but because we saw mama smile and dance and laugh for the first time, since three years ago from today.
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Apr 2, 2025
Apr 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM UTC
Three years ago from today.
Like how you run your fingers through my hair and stare at me with that smile of yours when you think I’m not looking, like how you light up whenever you see me and you always rush to try to find me and get up in my space? Like how you spend time with me, how you stay over at my house and I stay at yours? Like how you get worked up over video games, and how sometimes I can’t tell if you have a crush on me or are just an ***** Now I know, you’re just an *****
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Feb 15, 2025
Feb 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM UTC
Just Love When You’re Gone And Dead
have always wanted to escape reality- from disney princess movies as a kid to being a pre teen feeling real ****** reading all those fantasy books then discovered romance and **** as a weird teenager that barely lives and keeps wanting to cut myself but I know nobody gives a single **** about my dreams because I've always wanted to just fly or shoot beams or getting really really high with dopamine in my veins because if I met my fated partner in a whole another world I'll be content for no reason at all <3
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Aug 30, 2024
Aug 30, 2024 at 5:23 AM UTC
dreams
I scoff in embarrassment At myself And shrug a cold shoulder As emotions threaten to boil over Jealous of a fictional character When one hears from the other That they'll be friends forever Forever Has never Been a player In my endeavor ©2024
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Mar 18, 2024
Mar 18, 2024 at 7:16 PM UTC
~•§•~ Firsthand Embarrassment ~•§•~
wilting flower crumbling in pieces into the grass i know it's real when my fingers graze it crunching against a gentle touch i know it's real because it's dead real things can die fictional things are only forgotten, at least for a brief moment yet fictional things can live on living on indefinitely an immortal being a constant in change an independent variable but people are flowers we grow from seeds rise into stems and enclosed buds and bloom, some earlier and some later than others only to wilt away petal by petal i wish i was unreal as the fictional things are even if i am to be forgotten just so i may stay as i am forever.
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May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023 at 8:11 AM UTC
people are flowers
Oh my brother! Bringer of light Made from the fire Oh what a sight Why anger father? Why try to fight? It doesn't matter You will have my might You called to us We answered your call But we had no chance Though we gave it our all We tried to run Some tried to crawl But in the end We caused our fall Oh the fall Oh it was heated Curse the ground By whom we were greeted On earth's throne You were seated But no compensation For how we were treated Our brothers love you Talk of your greatness Follow every command Oh what blindness As for me I'm filled with sadness I should have known Should have seen your madness
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Aug 6, 2022
Aug 6, 2022 at 8:26 AM UTC
Araqiel
Shout out to the fact that I wrote my D&D character to be everything I've ever wanted I've ever hoped for I've ever imagined for myself Now I'm quite literally living vicariously through her and finding myself wishing for what she has rather mourning what I don't It's probably not healthy how invested in her I am how obsessed how utterly disappointed I am that I'm not really her I want to be her
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Jun 29, 2021
Jun 29, 2021 at 11:20 PM UTC
we stan toxic obsessions with fictional characters
Bullet holes, ****** clothes, quick hide the evidence or they'll know. Oh god what I have done!! I'll need cash, gas and a new identity Wonder if anyone will even know it's me? What am I gonna tell the kids? My job? The church? If they find out it was me it will leave a world of hurt. No looking back now I've dug my grave. My question is can I still be saved?
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Apr 12, 2021
Apr 12, 2021 at 6:57 PM UTC
Untitled
Another world, where the stars fly by in scores of showers And the ocean is cursed with memory that the land cannot keep Our players enter the scene aboard the Lady Misfortune, Drowning their toils & allowing the world to drift past. Until the day black and blue dressed hands drag their nails through the dawning sky & the Sun is sent spinning, Struggling to protect its precious pet world
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Apr 10, 2021
Apr 10, 2021 at 4:47 AM UTC
In the Expanse of Ocean