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#innerwar
Just when everything was pieced back together, it explodes. Gears and pulleys no longer function as they should. No respect, or decency for an abused harborer of blood. Each time stripped and pulled apart. Restructured with stitches of lies and broken promises. Cracked open by the unworthy. Tainted by ***** hands, and chipped blackened finger nails. Cut and infected, poisoned and bruised. Stupid thing. Crying "love me, love me!" over again. **** it learn! No longer make yourself out of soft, breakable, easily torn. Instead surround with metal and iron. Impenetrable. Make it so. I blame you. I will stitch your mouth shut with iron thread. I will make it so that you beat only to live a little longer. I will stop listening, I will no longer allow you to have a say. You will become nothing to me. I am sending you to the basement, I am taking all feelings away. You will no longer roam free. You will become my unspoken shame. You will be the secret that I keep. No one will come to know you. No one will ever see you again. You cease to exist this very day. I will not feed you, I will allow you to die. I will chain you up and watch you wither away. You don't deserve to live for what you have done to me. I trusted you to many times and now you must pay. I lock you up. I bury you deep. The only link you have to me is the blood you pump through my veins. I owe you nothing. From this day forward you are dead to me.
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Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 5:48 AM UTC
Betrayed
You aren't the girl you'd always wanted to be, the letters on the page said, just barely into my grasp You aren't who you wanted to be when you were three, though it long since changed when you were nine. In fact, you aren't even sure who you wanted to be, because you were always thinking where you wanted to go What you wanted to learn, what you wanted to do What you wanted to be good at, and you craved to be someone everyone liked Liked, but at the same time free You didn't think much of the future, maybe you didn't think there would be one That it was just so far away you would simply never get there You aren't the girl you want to be today, either Less of a burden on everyone else Even now, as you think of what you want to do, you can't imagine a life where'd you be at peace You do not want to go into the future, and the past is too far away as well The present is not a gift no more, as it seems like it's a cruel joke You can't help but sit here and read this-- ready to choke Your end should have came so long ago, but yet here you stand at this edge of this cliff, in this darkened shift of the show Your fingers already numb, as the blood darkens the snow Your end should have came already, and you’re sorry you missed your chance Your plans always changed, and you never made it in time or when the time came you were stuck in your mind Your time should have came, but delusions will pull you back that rope tied around your shoulders is all you have So where do you go? And why must you always have plan A and B? Why must you always insist on going to the most wonderful places to see That is where you'll go when you're so far far away Up on that bridge or at a bottom of a lake So you can see a beautiful sight before you can blow out the candle and be free
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Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM UTC
A Letter Never Sent
You aren't the girl you'd always wanted to be, the letters on the page said, just barely into my grasp You aren't who you wanted to be when you were three, though it long since changed when you were nine. In fact, you aren't even sure who you wanted to be, because you were always thinking where you wanted to go What you wanted to learn, what you wanted to do What you wanted to be good at, and you craved to be someone everyone liked Liked, but at the same time free You didn't think much of the future, maybe you didn't think there would be one That it was just so far away you would simply never get there You aren't the girl you want to be today, either Less of a burden on everyone else Even now, as you think of what you want to do, you can't imagine a life where'd you be at peace You do not want to go into the future, and the past is too far away as well The present is not a gift no more, as it seems like it's a cruel joke You can't help but sit here and read this-- ready to choke Your end should have came so long ago, but yet here you stand at this edge of this cliff, in this darkened shift of the show Your fingers already numb, as the blood darkens the snow Your end should have came already, and you’re sorry you missed your chance Your plans always changed, and you never made it in time or when the time came you were stuck in your mind Your time should have came, but delusions will pull you back that rope tied around your shoulders is all you have So where do you go? And why must you always have plan A and B? Why must you always insist on going to the most wonderful places to see That is where you'll go when you're so far far away Up on that bridge or at a bottom of a lake So you can see a beautiful sight before you can blow out the candle and be free
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__This is war!__ Not with guns, not with flags, but with myself. Every scar, every voice in my head is an enemy line I’ve crossed. I fight with silence, I fight with scars, I fight with the version of me that swore I’d never get this far. From being a punching bag to punching back. But it’s hard not to fall back—into old habits; retreating from myself, and telling my reflection to _fall back..._ Headlights slice the black, brief flashes through the dark. Shut my eyes over myself, let their auras pass like thanks. To all who hurt me: I’ve grown from you all, see my thanks and my exhaustion. I’m too tired of you all, to carry your remarks, too deaf to listen to people who say you owe them all. Between myself and a tertiary exterior: a third self waits— the superior version of me, complete, unbroken. Body, mind, and soul to show off to the outside world... still searching. Thankfully, I’m on the right road.
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Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM UTC
This Is War (With Myself)
Destruction Between my heart And head Because they often fight Both thinking they’re right This internal war Doesn’t let me sleep In spite of all the white noise, and teas Keeping me up, reminding me of everything All my worries All the decisions I have to choose between, Until I decide not to make one At all But even then, I. Can’t. Stop.
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Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024 at 9:47 PM UTC
Thinking
Dark tower was struck by lightning Gargoyles and statues started fighting Tombs began to regurgitate their bones The violence was written over their stones The army of evil is matching down the street The warmth feels cold as if it had lost its heat Ominous mist enveils the hoard Invisible enemies that cannot be bought
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Apr 6, 2021
Apr 6, 2021 at 5:49 PM UTC
Dark tower was struck by lightning