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#invisiblepain
I feel like crap. It isn't the coming and going kind. It's the stick to you day and night Occupy your dreams kind. There's no escape. I don't want to talk about. I do but I don't. It's the leave me alone kind. It's the ask me what's wrong kind. It's the care about but don't care about me kind. It's the I just want to be normal kind. I want to be good enough kind. It's the nothingness. It's the emptiness. The I want to go home but I can't. I've lost every part of me. Give it away and get it back broken Snapped in half, mutilated. Now at that point where there is only a little left to give. And I have decided not to give it away anymore. I'm keeping it to myself. Not my friends, Not my family, No one. I can't give it away anymore. I'm stuck. I'm stuck. I'm stuck.
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
This kind
I gave up pieces of myself that I never found. In the midst of being with you I am mourning what I never was. I see myself and my invisibility and I just stopped trying. I gave in to things that are less than me and became less of who I could have been. I have shrank myself not because of you but because of who I allowed myself to not be. I feel powerful and weak and capable and incapable all at once. I am a mixture of confusion and loss of youth. My heart has only ever beaten sadly. Panic attacks have become common. I don’t even recognize them but I feel like I am being swallowed whole. I can’t crawl out of my skin, I am caged and I am claustrophobic. I want to be happy. It’s all here but I can’t reach it. I feel my heart wanting to burst and I am afraid of heart attacks and aneurysms. But also wonder if that would be best.
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Apr 20
Apr 20, 2026 at 4:17 PM UTC
Panic
Love my fluffy friend more than stranger parents. My innocent friend, don’t follow trend, Always same, always bland, Soaked in invisible blood stains. Soul bleeds, life is a mess. Fairytale is a home, lifelong bless. World demands unaddressed sacrifice, Always it scales the less. Providers have the crown of madness, laser light of so much pride More than the Almighty? On the pointed light, we search a corner to hide. They demand exchange, More obedience than so little guidance, From every way possible. Aren’t we kids human? Not all-rounder in every syllable. In this so called perfect world not everything is doable. Mock your looks, the love for your academic books. They say nothing matters Losers can't fight That’s how each night A fragile heart shatters. Not everyone is a topper, A beauty with wisdom , Chef, also good vegetable chopper. Not a full-time cleaner, Not a extraordinary kid and to whom world says clever Work all time, no exchange of wages, The meter of scale never truly changes. Pillow, the transparent pain you swallow, Leaves my tired eyes hollow. It hurts so much I can’t sleep, Biting my dear pillow, I silence my broken weep. Tried to keep All your demands in my hand , it stabbed too deep. It bleeds every day, Searching for the Almighty In the clouds, swaying leaves Who never demands, only gives. Buried my sleep I was never meant to keep. Gave up spectacles who promised better sight World laughs, they don’t like. (A) gets mockery over the study of hours after cleaning, chopping, cooking, being a best kid I dropped the lid of life Dropped my clingy weight — Scale wants only 45. Still, world says to little ones, “Don’t be like her, she is 1 out of 85.” A soft pillow, where we search for comfort, We blame the illegal claim. Pain sings by every broken chord. Where is pain? Yearn for God. So near, but so far, Lord of scale up there But here, scale is the only proof, Charges rent in obedience, Reward is just a roof. Here heart stays unkept. I am stuck in Life debt.
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Mar 2
Mar 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM UTC
Life Debt
Love my fluffy friend more than stranger parents. My innocent friend, don’t follow trend, Always same, always bland, Soaked in invisible blood stains. Soul bleeds, life is a mess. Fairytale is a home, lifelong bless. World demands unaddressed sacrifice, Always it scales the less. Providers have the crown of madness, laser light of so much pride More than the Almighty? On the pointed light, we search a corner to hide. They demand exchange, More obedience than so little guidance, From every way possible. Aren’t we kids human? Not all-rounder in every syllable. In this so called perfect world not everything is doable. Mock your looks, the love for your academic books. They say nothing matters Losers can't fight That’s how each night A fragile heart shatters. Not everyone is a topper, A beauty with wisdom , Chef, also good vegetable chopper. Not a full-time cleaner, Not a extraordinary kid and to whom world says clever Work all time, no exchange of wages, The meter of scale never truly changes. Pillow, the transparent pain you swallow, Leaves my tired eyes hollow. It hurts so much I can’t sleep, Biting my dear pillow, I silence my broken weep. Tried to keep All your demands in my hand , it stabbed too deep. It bleeds every day, Searching for the Almighty In the clouds, swaying leaves Who never demands, only gives. Buried my sleep I was never meant to keep. Gave up spectacles who promised better sight World laughs, they don’t like. (A) gets mockery over the study of hours after cleaning, chopping, cooking, being a best kid I dropped the lid of life Dropped my clingy weight — Scale wants only 45. Still, world says to little ones, “Don’t be like her, she is 1 out of 85.” A soft pillow, where we search for comfort, We blame the illegal claim. Pain sings by every broken chord. Where is pain? Yearn for God. So near, but so far, Lord of scale up there But here, scale is the only proof, Charges rent in obedience, Reward is just a roof. Here heart stays unkept. I am stuck in Life debt.
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_to exist_ when i want nothing but love of my own for myself some of it, dedicated entirely to my being, my skin, by all means and i feel like this skin isn't mine like a second layer some days i dream of tearing it apart and perhaps finding what i look like within is it any different from the other deformations? do i have it smooth, baby-like, good enough, to be accepted? had it been all natural, nature-given, that way i'd have perhaps accepted alas, knowing it's a play of the world onto me and in my body, my blood messing up everything it's meant to do for me all because of the ones that were supposed to create antibodies _there's this guttural scream that ensnares me whole_ where do i go when i see them fight the demons outside and around i can't even win the battles that i carry within me, all time round and i'm on a war with myself there's rage, there's ache, there's the pain of when will i accept i shall forever bargain why do i even begin to heal if i have to go down the same place down the same low the lows hit lower i see new symptoms, new symphonies of how it could and would and it does—it gets worse again and it's a cycle healing, accept the white little ***** that carry the science of potential magic put all my hopes, have them disintegrate go back again start at the beginning, new dose around—i'm healing and then i come crashing down again and it's the nights and the mornings that are the worst both the times, when i should be at my best i'm battling, wanting to hide and disappear and wear a snake-like skin on myself _i hate me_ and this hatred lives deep within like a monster that birthed itself out of the normal, the ordinary that i have lacked there are days where i pull at my roots watch them fade watch them fall i cry and lose hope with every strand that couldn't stand tall and it's like cemented on me had it been scales on a snake, i'd have called it flashy it's disgust that's piled in my eyes, against my being i see the look on my face the dead, the dead stares back every time i try to play pretend and it whispers it whispers, smirking in my ear _this is what you get_ be normal? oh i would do anything—exchange half my lifeline if i could live through a healthy half of life or whatever remains i've tired myself out of it all anyway there's bumps and there's fractures i feel like it's my own skin that peels every time i grasp it and it's visceral too graphical, no gore however makes me wonder how it'd be—moments of softness where i cherish just me where who i am isn't my enemy even just for a breath i wish to write about that breath but oh— imagining is hard when there's nothing left for you to do the ones living in delusions have thought and wondered if it could all come true my case is different so far, years upon years i've been hoping but the last of this strength, the last drop in the vessel that was given it might run out as soon as i stop breathing and moping and i am perhaps the most devastating liar of all you shall never see me burning myself to the ground for i'll stand tall through it all and in front of your lies, i'll deceive and speak my practiced lines i'm alright, it is what it is—i'll be fine _i won't be. i am not. i'm tired. give me some hope._ i might be a ***** for feelings and i fear—i fear so loudly in a silence call me a prostitute—love is what i want hatred is all that i got i have been hiding and i've been running and i sat in this adventure ride never got back out of it i'm scared and i don't think i'll get out of this shell ever so i imagine myself hiding covered in multiple shells and armors walls surrounding me, boundaries in the form of words and my own scars—the ones that aren't even on the surface protecting me, giving the silent comfort that they are here, to carry me on, forward and i've lied so much i started believing my own lies forgetting what was the truth 'cause it hurt so much what do you do when you go down? _where do you go when you are drowning?_ quiet is peaceful quiet is welcoming like i don't have to perform to exist in here, no especially the dark no one can see me i can't see me and that's just easy to exist that way been felt for, not seen on the surface not just looked at, but heard for your voice to find out of your own existence there's voices in my head that'll scare you more what even is there to love or like? i see nothing and on the surface it's all to despise show me if there's something don't tell me it's the heart that's worth it when you starve yourself for long enough the void of hunger becomes like it's a normal the new normal starving myself of everything to get used to it the best way _the void_, though continues to grow i get these random bouts of feeling such immense loneliness makes me want to pull in the closest person hug them tight take all the warmth squeeze out my life i'm layers upon layers of words and of stories of people i've met, their memory and of all who've given up before me _girl in pieces_, i shall call myself _would anyone even want me?_
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Jun 28, 2025
Jun 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM UTC
pieces of a once whole ceramic
_to exist_ when i want nothing but love of my own for myself some of it, dedicated entirely to my being, my skin, by all means and i feel like this skin isn't mine like a second layer some days i dream of tearing it apart and perhaps finding what i look like within is it any different from the other deformations? do i have it smooth, baby-like, good enough, to be accepted? had it been all natural, nature-given, that way i'd have perhaps accepted alas, knowing it's a play of the world onto me and in my body, my blood messing up everything it's meant to do for me all because of the ones that were supposed to create antibodies _there's this guttural scream that ensnares me whole_ where do i go when i see them fight the demons outside and around i can't even win the battles that i carry within me, all time round and i'm on a war with myself there's rage, there's ache, there's the pain of when will i accept i shall forever bargain why do i even begin to heal if i have to go down the same place down the same low the lows hit lower i see new symptoms, new symphonies of how it could and would and it does—it gets worse again and it's a cycle healing, accept the white little ***** that carry the science of potential magic put all my hopes, have them disintegrate go back again start at the beginning, new dose around—i'm healing and then i come crashing down again and it's the nights and the mornings that are the worst both the times, when i should be at my best i'm battling, wanting to hide and disappear and wear a snake-like skin on myself _i hate me_ and this hatred lives deep within like a monster that birthed itself out of the normal, the ordinary that i have lacked there are days where i pull at my roots watch them fade watch them fall i cry and lose hope with every strand that couldn't stand tall and it's like cemented on me had it been scales on a snake, i'd have called it flashy it's disgust that's piled in my eyes, against my being i see the look on my face the dead, the dead stares back every time i try to play pretend and it whispers it whispers, smirking in my ear _this is what you get_ be normal? oh i would do anything—exchange half my lifeline if i could live through a healthy half of life or whatever remains i've tired myself out of it all anyway there's bumps and there's fractures i feel like it's my own skin that peels every time i grasp it and it's visceral too graphical, no gore however makes me wonder how it'd be—moments of softness where i cherish just me where who i am isn't my enemy even just for a breath i wish to write about that breath but oh— imagining is hard when there's nothing left for you to do the ones living in delusions have thought and wondered if it could all come true my case is different so far, years upon years i've been hoping but the last of this strength, the last drop in the vessel that was given it might run out as soon as i stop breathing and moping and i am perhaps the most devastating liar of all you shall never see me burning myself to the ground for i'll stand tall through it all and in front of your lies, i'll deceive and speak my practiced lines i'm alright, it is what it is—i'll be fine _i won't be. i am not. i'm tired. give me some hope._ i might be a ***** for feelings and i fear—i fear so loudly in a silence call me a prostitute—love is what i want hatred is all that i got i have been hiding and i've been running and i sat in this adventure ride never got back out of it i'm scared and i don't think i'll get out of this shell ever so i imagine myself hiding covered in multiple shells and armors walls surrounding me, boundaries in the form of words and my own scars—the ones that aren't even on the surface protecting me, giving the silent comfort that they are here, to carry me on, forward and i've lied so much i started believing my own lies forgetting what was the truth 'cause it hurt so much what do you do when you go down? _where do you go when you are drowning?_ quiet is peaceful quiet is welcoming like i don't have to perform to exist in here, no especially the dark no one can see me i can't see me and that's just easy to exist that way been felt for, not seen on the surface not just looked at, but heard for your voice to find out of your own existence there's voices in my head that'll scare you more what even is there to love or like? i see nothing and on the surface it's all to despise show me if there's something don't tell me it's the heart that's worth it when you starve yourself for long enough the void of hunger becomes like it's a normal the new normal starving myself of everything to get used to it the best way _the void_, though continues to grow i get these random bouts of feeling such immense loneliness makes me want to pull in the closest person hug them tight take all the warmth squeeze out my life i'm layers upon layers of words and of stories of people i've met, their memory and of all who've given up before me _girl in pieces_, i shall call myself _would anyone even want me?_
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just a simple question, dressed as a metaphor — where do i get buried when i can barely breathe on this earth? kind of like a suffocation so deep, filling my very being — in my veins. oh, i feel so weak. invisible cuts bleed, a kind of self-punishment. spent so long handing out pieces of myself like fragile offerings to daily otherworldly deities — hoping to provide even an inch of comfort that i usually needed. was it ever enough? yet called names, looked at in strange ways — speculated every moment, like a statue in an odd place. as if they see through it all — all the façade of being high up on the clouds. humorous, it shall be, if they were to see the stricken sounds i make — grief-filled, and vowing to never ever let a pair of hands hold my heart again. this bleeds. aches so tenderly — like trying to whisper through a scream, like trying to write to a hollow that doesn't seem to cease, like an overflowing cannon that just never really spills. will this be seen as that quiet, raw, untamed beauty? beast-like, trying to hold it within the grasp of stiff hands? have they felt a little less alone? perhaps in my company — for i wouldn't want them to go into the same feelings of never being heeded to. i wished they'd see, but i'm walked all over through. can't help it — yeah, i know. always left wondering: why can't i comfort with words as they're meant to? they feel like smoke and silence — barely hard to describe or to put down. the heaviness heaves a sigh every time i spread my arms a bit around. maybe connections are hard. maybe i should be quieter. speaking has never helped — perhaps i should tie my hands, my feet, my mouth — and vanish? disappear? become a ghost without a heartbeat — because i haven’t really been living either. will you listen to the echoes of these voices — and the way they sound in the night, and when the sun dawns, and the skies align? will you see? will you listen to me?
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May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM UTC
wished to be seen, i guess
just a simple question, dressed as a metaphor — where do i get buried when i can barely breathe on this earth? kind of like a suffocation so deep, filling my very being — in my veins. oh, i feel so weak. invisible cuts bleed, a kind of self-punishment. spent so long handing out pieces of myself like fragile offerings to daily otherworldly deities — hoping to provide even an inch of comfort that i usually needed. was it ever enough? yet called names, looked at in strange ways — speculated every moment, like a statue in an odd place. as if they see through it all — all the façade of being high up on the clouds. humorous, it shall be, if they were to see the stricken sounds i make — grief-filled, and vowing to never ever let a pair of hands hold my heart again. this bleeds. aches so tenderly — like trying to whisper through a scream, like trying to write to a hollow that doesn't seem to cease, like an overflowing cannon that just never really spills. will this be seen as that quiet, raw, untamed beauty? beast-like, trying to hold it within the grasp of stiff hands? have they felt a little less alone? perhaps in my company — for i wouldn't want them to go into the same feelings of never being heeded to. i wished they'd see, but i'm walked all over through. can't help it — yeah, i know. always left wondering: why can't i comfort with words as they're meant to? they feel like smoke and silence — barely hard to describe or to put down. the heaviness heaves a sigh every time i spread my arms a bit around. maybe connections are hard. maybe i should be quieter. speaking has never helped — perhaps i should tie my hands, my feet, my mouth — and vanish? disappear? become a ghost without a heartbeat — because i haven’t really been living either. will you listen to the echoes of these voices — and the way they sound in the night, and when the sun dawns, and the skies align? will you see? will you listen to me?
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