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#ihatemyself
the cool air brushes your shoulder, leaving a shiver down your spine. the thin clouds dance in the stars. the cold wet grass beneath your feet, and the mud in between your toes. it’s odd time, a feeling of being watched and discomfort , but something in it is soo calm. like nothing in the world can touch you where , the air numbs your pain, the clouds and stars a dream, the wet grass grounding, and the mud a connection to everything, that ever was and ever will be. when the world becomes thorns tearing at my throat, i come here, because twilight is the unsettling comfort, and twilight hides all.
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Mar 1
Mar 1, 2026 at 9:08 AM UTC
twilight
when your head screams endless words of terror and judgement when all the noise stirs a fog settling behind your eyes you push it to the back try to hide it as the fog takes over it keeps forming until all that is left is a weightless lifting you over the edge of your sanity
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Feb 23
Feb 23, 2026 at 6:22 PM UTC
The deafening voice
Isolating myself. doing whatever it takes to keep that distant feeling from sinking farther into my stomach the moss yields under my step (i fall deeper) the wind whispers in my ears (my vision blurs) my knees hit the leafy ground the thorns claw at my chest (they wrap my rib cage) The tree roots strangle my throat and then its calm i am once again running through the woods
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Feb 23
Feb 23, 2026 at 6:12 PM UTC
Running through the woods
do you want us to paint pain with sugar and spices , light the candle , pass the flame , no matter if it burns , because you ' d rather ignore the lyrics , and now the candle ' s burn ' t down , and we ' ve been paint ' d with gold , rich with the suffering of millions and the silenced screams , because you refuse to confront the mirr ' r that faces the wall , in the corner of your blindfolded room . aren ' t you proud ? seraph ?
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Jan 14
Jan 14, 2026 at 10:47 PM UTC
angel ' s promise
i ' ve become something animal , inhuman , climbing waves of disgust , painting myself in mud . a desperate attempt to become undesirable again . nocturnal and alone . you ' re gripping , groping , crawling , stroking , clawing , writhing , the maggots are playing their game again . larvae laughing up my thighs , creep over me , as i attempt to squeeze to ash any form of desire i ' ve left in my broken body
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Jan 14
Jan 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM UTC
humane
you wake up it feels weird, as if the life is sloughing off of you in pools of broken skin and white waiting rooms the catheter in your arm hurts (you think) (actually, you're not quite sure) (nothing feels anymore) there are bandages on your arms and needles in your shoulder (who took me here) (i didn't want to be) (anything) (anymore) they ask you why you did this they ask you if you were trying to **** yourself (as if they couldn't tell) you get the same depression screener again. you've gotten it hundreds of times already you sleep you wake up watch tv eat a crumb or two of the stale breakfast cereal they had before. get your meds (they don't really work anymore) "wake up" you didn't want to
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Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM UTC
the day after you try to **** yourself
i wish i wasn't so ******* jealous you deserve better than me why the **** am i having a breakdown because you hung out with someone else it's so ******* selfish and i know you're my friend, and that you claim that nothing in the world could change that, but something could. you're just saying that to make me feel better i know what it is you pity me, don't you? you think i don't see it, how you're constantly too nice but you've never actually liked me you're just nice because you think i'll have no one else without you i don't need you. i can handle everything on my own i don't need anyone wait come back i didn't really mean that
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Oct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM UTC
jealousy
[ i miss us ] [ the playground we went to near your house, when it got dark out ] [ messing around at lunch ] [ the smell of your house ] [ sitting on the storage container in the field ] [ imagining what life would be like if (when) we finally got away ] [ i don't like this new space ] [ but i guess it was meant to be ]
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Oct 22, 2025
Oct 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM UTC
[burn marks]
to younger me i wish i could tell you it gets better i wish i could tell you that we come out of our shell that we start being a good person that the numbness goes away but we get friends but we're more lost than ever maybe someday in twenty years we'll feel okay maybe someday in twenty years we won't be at all to older me are we still there? do we feel better yet? has it finally stopped? do we get meds? do we get to transition? (god i want estrogen) are we alone yet? i hope not. do we hurt more? do we hurt others? do we still have a good fashion sense? or do you think of me as cringey and weird? are we okay yet? do we deserve to be?
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Sep 26, 2025
Sep 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM UTC
to me
#1 get out of bed #2 get dressed #3 practice smiling in the mirror #4 cut #5 count your steps on the carpet curtain's almost up #6 hide the dark circles #7 pretend everything's okay #8 cover the tear tracks #9 shove down the sadness #10 silence the screams time's up curtains open camera rolling
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Aug 29, 2025
Aug 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM UTC
over and over
there was a boy with scars once he had anger years of red hot gum stuck in his furnace of teeth the mirror of his mouth protecting his soul like thread knotted twisting twisting s n a p . he punched the mirror and the glass fangs swallowed his heart there was a child made of flowers once the fangs are still embedded in their ribcage, but now flowers grow from their scars, sedum and chrysanthemums sprouting for all to see but every morning, the flowers are carefully glued on, so the scars underneath don't exist once, there was a girl made of thorns she glides on the wind, the forest echoing her name (because there was always someone calling) she comes and goes, a child of the road never a home, always a house once upon a time, the girl made of thorns and the child made of flowers were one, and the thorns taught the flowers to take pride in their scars, as the flowers taught the thorns to push back the glass monsters, (but leave the fangs so you never forget)
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Jul 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM UTC
once
my mouth burns since i was young i was taught to please, taught to hold the flames in my gums and let them burn my flesh for the sake of others the words i have eaten rise like flames in my throat, scorching every bite i take like it was my fault the charred teeth make it hard to eat so i stopped (it did wonders for my figure) (at least, that's what they said) the root of my teeth turns green with rot, until it's indistinguishable from the bile in the sink their opinions served to me on a silver platter, red and pulsing organs matching the scarlet scars on my wrist and in my mouth this life was given to me, this heirloom passed down, so everyone gets to feel the weight of wanting to be needed and needing to be wanted when the opinions go uneaten (i'm full on my own) the heart goes unbeaten (why should i help you) the response unsweetened (you're not helping) and the meat reacts (violently) so the scars are ignored, the burning mouth and charred teeth unnoticed. their rotting flesh is painted red
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Jul 18, 2025
Jul 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM UTC
teeth
why did you leave why is it always me why am i the sick one why are you always perfect why should i have known why didn't you tell me before i didn't understand i didn't know what i was doing wrong and now it's going to happen all over again why did you leave me and why didn't i deserve to be okay?
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Jul 13, 2025
Jul 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM UTC
why
i've always wondered what it would feel like to stitch my skin open to have control over myself finally to reshape my body by cutting away at parts and stitching in others will the silk thread and red-hot needle bear the weight of my troubles or will it snap and my stitches come undone
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Jul 13, 2025
Jul 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM UTC
flesh and bone
don't touch me i'm scared of what will happen if i forget to not feel and if you get too close and you pull away i'm scared that i'll finally break
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Jul 8, 2025
Jul 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM UTC
don't touch
i tried so hard please forgive me mom im sorry im so so sorry
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Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM UTC
cut
it happened again the bathroom floor is covered in blood mom help i'm stuck in my nightmare how do i get out?
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Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM UTC
relapse
what an ugly person. they look so stupid. it makes me angry. i want to **** them. why do they still live? they don't deserve to. i punch them, and the mirror shatters, the shards lined with blood.
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Jun 12, 2025
Jun 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM UTC
ugly
my greatest fear is that i will forever be the friend left behind, the one uninvited with friends, but always alone i'm scared to let people in not because of the damage you'll do, but the damage you'll find what happens if i never become someone's "someone?" will i just be no one? i'm scared that you will see past my lying smile, and realize that the little girl waltzing on broken glass is all i will ever be my greatest fear is that you see me the way i see myself
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Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM UTC
fear
i pull the silver brush against the pale peach the red drips through the canvas
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Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM UTC
painting
maybe if i get bad enough you'll see why i hurt maybe you'll notice the bruises maybe you'll notice the scars if i destroy my life enough will you finally understand i need help
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May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM UTC
;
will you help me when i'm more scar than skin or will you leave like the others disgusted by me
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May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM UTC
scars
echoes of forgiveness screech through the wood with bark knotted flesh and leaves constructed of artificial veins as the ashes of what we were burn down but the forest is still alive the woods are alive why are they still alive why do they get to live when you did this but now the blood is drying and the woods are gone and everything is gone and i'm gone but you're still there because you're perfect and can do no wrong and i'm the ****** up one why why why why why do you get to stay when i leave why do you get to continue and turn the page while lightning strikes the tree i tied myself to but oh no no i don't die no but the lightning strikes again and again and again and again until i wish i was dead again and i wish you were dead again and everything's gone why would you do this how could you do this but now its gone and we're gone and the world has fallen off its axis but at least the woods are dead and the blood is dried and the flesh is petrified and it can't hurt if i can't feel it or see it or touch it or taste it or smell it anymore right? but i cried a river for you then you held me underwater drowned me in my own suffering 'til i couldn't breathe but my lungs are getting stronger and the light is getting brighter and the voices are getting louder why are they still so loud how are they getting louder i tried to forget i tried to leave it behind but it followed me to the ends of the earth and i'm looking over the edge into the abyss considering jumping because your voice won't leave and her voice won't leave and i see her everywhere but she's gone into the woods but now we're the ones lost but what happened to "we" because now it's just you you you you standing on her grave proclaiming your hatred for the world but then the dirt falls open and the old you is gone where did you go you were fun and nice and worth it but now you're lost and i made it out why did it take me? why me? because once it's locked in the jar lit with our ashes and buried in the dead woods who will remember us who will remember us in 100 years why would anyone remember us when there is no "us" anymore right? right?! because that's what you said but now you're gone and i'm bleeding from the hole you left in my chest when you walked over me on your way out you didn't care you didn't care at all but now i'm bleeding out on a bathroom floor sobbing daily with scarred wrists because of you and we and us and me and the Everything that feels so big it could crush us but there is no "us" anymore now it's just me with the weight of the globe you broke on my shoulder and i know its not your fault but it certainly feels that way and now i'm the bad guy because you tied me to the tree and it lit up in flames so now i'm burning and my ashes will be blown away until we are forgotten too because who are we without others who are we if no one remembers us who will care but you when i'm gone? oh right you don't sorry i forgot
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May 10, 2025
May 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM UTC
[untitled]
echoes of forgiveness screech through the wood with bark knotted flesh and leaves constructed of artificial veins as the ashes of what we were burn down but the forest is still alive the woods are alive why are they still alive why do they get to live when you did this but now the blood is drying and the woods are gone and everything is gone and i'm gone but you're still there because you're perfect and can do no wrong and i'm the ****** up one why why why why why do you get to stay when i leave why do you get to continue and turn the page while lightning strikes the tree i tied myself to but oh no no i don't die no but the lightning strikes again and again and again and again until i wish i was dead again and i wish you were dead again and everything's gone why would you do this how could you do this but now its gone and we're gone and the world has fallen off its axis but at least the woods are dead and the blood is dried and the flesh is petrified and it can't hurt if i can't feel it or see it or touch it or taste it or smell it anymore right? but i cried a river for you then you held me underwater drowned me in my own suffering 'til i couldn't breathe but my lungs are getting stronger and the light is getting brighter and the voices are getting louder why are they still so loud how are they getting louder i tried to forget i tried to leave it behind but it followed me to the ends of the earth and i'm looking over the edge into the abyss considering jumping because your voice won't leave and her voice won't leave and i see her everywhere but she's gone into the woods but now we're the ones lost but what happened to "we" because now it's just you you you you standing on her grave proclaiming your hatred for the world but then the dirt falls open and the old you is gone where did you go you were fun and nice and worth it but now you're lost and i made it out why did it take me? why me? because once it's locked in the jar lit with our ashes and buried in the dead woods who will remember us who will remember us in 100 years why would anyone remember us when there is no "us" anymore right? right?! because that's what you said but now you're gone and i'm bleeding from the hole you left in my chest when you walked over me on your way out you didn't care you didn't care at all but now i'm bleeding out on a bathroom floor sobbing daily with scarred wrists because of you and we and us and me and the Everything that feels so big it could crush us but there is no "us" anymore now it's just me with the weight of the globe you broke on my shoulder and i know its not your fault but it certainly feels that way and now i'm the bad guy because you tied me to the tree and it lit up in flames so now i'm burning and my ashes will be blown away until we are forgotten too because who are we without others who are we if no one remembers us who will care but you when i'm gone? oh right you don't sorry i forgot
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skin stretched over bone nearly translucent almost disappearing fainting dizzy falling falling falling falling
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Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM UTC
frail
wandering through the woods the darkness all-consuming holding the shards of a life lived and dreams exhausted the voices whisper NO STOP PIECE ME BACK PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE but the glass cuts so it's dropped falling
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Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM UTC
broken dreams