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Thurdays are the best, there is no tests because teachers save that for Friday, there are no assemblies because it is thursday. On thursday, you turn in all your projects, you finish and that big weight under your chest floats into the air along with the birds, the bees and the balloons. Just the word Thursday sounds good. "See you on Thursday." "Ok." I don't know about you, but Thursdays are my day.
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Mar 20, 2025
Mar 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM UTC
Thursday Afternoons
And I swallow metaphoric medication Until they burn down my throat And similes are like cereal for breakfast With which I refuse to partake My words bleed out Personifying my grief Hyperbole is too big a mass I can explain It would take years to finish Would roses choked in thorns be a symbol of oppression Or a nature of destruction in beauty Take me to the emergency room I'm sick of this language I speak
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Apr 10, 2018
Apr 10, 2018 at 12:31 AM UTC
Language, dear
I hold in my hands... The mean things people say to me Each one cutting me Bit by bit Like paper cuts Not doing much damage on there own But all together creating a deep ****
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 2:28 PM UTC
Paper Cuts
If pain develops character, why am I so lousy? If love wakes you up inside, why am I so drowsy? If life is an adventure, I'm a stereotypical hobbit. If I was holding my own, well then I think I might have dropped it. I'm walking on eggshells, and they're cutting my bare feet. I live in a glass house, and it's about to sleet. Love sets your soul on fire, yet I'm feeling pretty cold. New dawn, new day, they say, but these nights are getting old. I've barked up the wrong tree, and I'm being driven to the pound. Back to the drawing board, but I think I lost my crayon. I'm having my stomach pumped, cause I bit off more than I could chew. If actions speak louder than words, then I'm so lazy I'm a mute. I was burning all my bridges, but then I caught on fire. I never gave up my day job, I just wasn't ever hired.   Can't judge a book by its cover, but my story is ugly too. I would make a play on words, but my theater class is through.   If love is blind, then why do I have 20/20 vision? I was accused of cutting class, but I made no such incision.   In the heat of the moment, my icecream sadly dripped. Beating around the bush was fine, until I freaking tripped.    If clouds have silver linings, then I see an empty sky. It's hard to keep my head up, while the sun is in my eyes.   I guess I need to lighten up, but I was saving battery power. If it's all a piece of cake, I have an allergy to flour.
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 5:47 PM UTC
Pessimism
The lights are off but I am shining; A radiant, beaming, golden glow, An ambient ray of love manifested. Excitement emanates from me, Like tongues of flame, lapping At the shadows in the hollow cheeks Of this dark room. I am smouldering; I swear I could burn straight through The mattress and through the floor, Down beneath the sandy Florida soil, And even the high water table Couldn't put me out. I'm on fire for you, burning for you.  This fire won't go out, it's been raging Scarlet and vermillion embroidered With gold since the day I met you. Your liquor kisses seeped into My black charcoal heart, And the conflagration is consuming Everything.
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 2:18 AM UTC
Helios