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#irreversible
my prime motive, revolutionary action, is to contribute, any desperate way I can.. to conduct research for the environment. I want to help, But I feel so powerless. all this destruction of land, this deep hurt, this pollution, this cold-blooded ****** FOR WHAT? For money, for greed? For NOTHING, really. HOW CAN WE COURSE CORRECT? WHEN ALL THE BIG PLAYERS DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, nor THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS? WHEN THEY DON'T BOTHER TO LEARN HOW THERE'S IMMEASURABLE AND ALMOST IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE BEING DONE TO THE ENVIRONMENT, OUR UNIFYING SKY? Using our planet as a single-use waste container for purpose of profit and then die off to leave us with the exponentially worsening impact they don't know how out of balance, how out of touch they were and are with their surroundings and nobody knows how shaky with violent emotion I feel I don't know my individual impact on the world around me, Now that I live in an imperialist society. I don't know, I can't quantify it. I can't quantify it. How would I do that? How could I begin to keep track, and assign a numerical value to this damage? MY damage? It feels selfish to do my laundry every week using products that will harm the environment Using power, wasting water, using plastic Throwing out excess food after every shift. I'm contributing to the problem, I'm not above it all. Disgusting waste and spoilage integrated into our culture. Every coffee, every to-go, every sandwich that needs it's own wasteful home that only gets used for 5 minutes I feel as if I'm about to be sick. How every little thing adds up, compounds, contributes, to producing toxins in a self-sustaining cyclical fashion. How much it's all connected. Theres a heavy disgust that stirs and pushes in my chest. I feel that I'm contaminated. And I can't clean what's wrong. I can't fix this sickness within us. I can try to be hopeful. Specific, passionate about changing and contribute to change. But that will take time, and hard work, my life is already feeling relentless. When can I ever rest? My life requires a level of discipline I wish I could dedicate to AND attend to basic needs. In general, I just feel powerless. And that I am, Less than a person. A number that can be manipulated into working to the bone; spending as much money as possible, staying hungry and unwell. Trying to take up space makes me jump through mental hoops, My guilt is immense. I want this to hurt. And it does. It feels as though with every repeated ache to my heart, It might eventually match the inward; how intense, sharp, ebbing, Shouting to me, THIS IS R E A L . I feel that I am simply not. good. enough. to help the world. As I am a human that can't constantly be working and studying. As I need rest. It feels as if I am not reading the room yet again. I am losing time, they need the solutions NOW. Before the point of no return. I look at my sleep as a time sink. I've taken naps to substitute for bedtimes this week to get up early and finish lab reports. Only even doing so because I couldn't continue to focus from physical exhaustion. What if I let this **** me? that. would make it easy. No more fear. No more anxiety, powerlessness. Nothing. Living is harder. But. If I want anything to ever change, I need to survive this, and live. It would be such a waste otherwise. It would be playing exactly into what they want. Loss; of life, of kindness, of hope. We will all die someday. And my talents would be wasted if I didn't go into scientific research for the environment though this gift of lifetime. I am dedicated, observant, attentive, passionate, and above all, Relentless. I will keep going. I don't have any other choice. It's hard to live just for me right now. As I have a complicated relationship with my physical body; getting in the way of my goals. But I need to stay well. In order to dedicate myself to something bigger than my own personhood. I am not a genius; but I am persistent. I can be trained to not present bias in thousands of experiments; understand the inner workings of instruments, what they can measure for us, method-optimize. I am powerless right now but I cannot turn away now that I've seen it. I wonder how many generations of scientists have felt this way. Voluntarily wanting to go through these horrible, lonely, mental trials, humiliating, humbling, shaky crises. Not for status or monetary gain, But simply just to help. That's all I've ever wanted to do. I want to help.
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Feb 8
Feb 8, 2026 at 1:45 AM UTC
To Help, as Less than a Person / Environmental Grief
my prime motive, revolutionary action, is to contribute, any desperate way I can.. to conduct research for the environment. I want to help, But I feel so powerless. all this destruction of land, this deep hurt, this pollution, this cold-blooded ****** FOR WHAT? For money, for greed? For NOTHING, really. HOW CAN WE COURSE CORRECT? WHEN ALL THE BIG PLAYERS DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, nor THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS? WHEN THEY DON'T BOTHER TO LEARN HOW THERE'S IMMEASURABLE AND ALMOST IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE BEING DONE TO THE ENVIRONMENT, OUR UNIFYING SKY? Using our planet as a single-use waste container for purpose of profit and then die off to leave us with the exponentially worsening impact they don't know how out of balance, how out of touch they were and are with their surroundings and nobody knows how shaky with violent emotion I feel I don't know my individual impact on the world around me, Now that I live in an imperialist society. I don't know, I can't quantify it. I can't quantify it. How would I do that? How could I begin to keep track, and assign a numerical value to this damage? MY damage? It feels selfish to do my laundry every week using products that will harm the environment Using power, wasting water, using plastic Throwing out excess food after every shift. I'm contributing to the problem, I'm not above it all. Disgusting waste and spoilage integrated into our culture. Every coffee, every to-go, every sandwich that needs it's own wasteful home that only gets used for 5 minutes I feel as if I'm about to be sick. How every little thing adds up, compounds, contributes, to producing toxins in a self-sustaining cyclical fashion. How much it's all connected. Theres a heavy disgust that stirs and pushes in my chest. I feel that I'm contaminated. And I can't clean what's wrong. I can't fix this sickness within us. I can try to be hopeful. Specific, passionate about changing and contribute to change. But that will take time, and hard work, my life is already feeling relentless. When can I ever rest? My life requires a level of discipline I wish I could dedicate to AND attend to basic needs. In general, I just feel powerless. And that I am, Less than a person. A number that can be manipulated into working to the bone; spending as much money as possible, staying hungry and unwell. Trying to take up space makes me jump through mental hoops, My guilt is immense. I want this to hurt. And it does. It feels as though with every repeated ache to my heart, It might eventually match the inward; how intense, sharp, ebbing, Shouting to me, THIS IS R E A L . I feel that I am simply not. good. enough. to help the world. As I am a human that can't constantly be working and studying. As I need rest. It feels as if I am not reading the room yet again. I am losing time, they need the solutions NOW. Before the point of no return. I look at my sleep as a time sink. I've taken naps to substitute for bedtimes this week to get up early and finish lab reports. Only even doing so because I couldn't continue to focus from physical exhaustion. What if I let this **** me? that. would make it easy. No more fear. No more anxiety, powerlessness. Nothing. Living is harder. But. If I want anything to ever change, I need to survive this, and live. It would be such a waste otherwise. It would be playing exactly into what they want. Loss; of life, of kindness, of hope. We will all die someday. And my talents would be wasted if I didn't go into scientific research for the environment though this gift of lifetime. I am dedicated, observant, attentive, passionate, and above all, Relentless. I will keep going. I don't have any other choice. It's hard to live just for me right now. As I have a complicated relationship with my physical body; getting in the way of my goals. But I need to stay well. In order to dedicate myself to something bigger than my own personhood. I am not a genius; but I am persistent. I can be trained to not present bias in thousands of experiments; understand the inner workings of instruments, what they can measure for us, method-optimize. I am powerless right now but I cannot turn away now that I've seen it. I wonder how many generations of scientists have felt this way. Voluntarily wanting to go through these horrible, lonely, mental trials, humiliating, humbling, shaky crises. Not for status or monetary gain, But simply just to help. That's all I've ever wanted to do. I want to help.
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When the sun sets and all seems forgiven that shiver in your spine you’ve hidden, emerge unsustained, serves as a reminder of what you blindly offered the soul binder. The turmoil of your choices running thin while in peril with nothing more to win. Wipe those tears, put that remorse aside, the Hell you knew, you’re already inside. Shedding your skin, facing the cost, regrets in the shadows of the life you lost, in vain since you offered that precious soul, a bargained heart now consumed whole. Rips you apart to know how you got here, because what higher price is there, for that sweet life solemnly granted, than all that you said you ever wanted, taken away from you, like plucked corolla; the dreams you had, paid with your flora.
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Jan 3
Jan 3, 2026 at 7:18 PM UTC
Irreversible
A broken vase can never be fixed even glued. A torn page can never cover it's despatched appearance. Rifted paths can never passby again. Past that happened can never be changed. Occured loss can never be recovered. Likewise,hurting others with words or actions can never be healed with a mere sorry.
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Jul 17, 2025
Jul 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM UTC
Irreversible Scars
The memories fade milliseconds before I drown in another one Frozen in fear at the irreversible end of an uncorked weapon A canon hand cannon Staring down the rifled barrel of a hunting gun I can't comprehend the timing of when to run Most always find myself in a state of stun Literally can't remember, oh what have I done... ©2024
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May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024 at 5:44 PM UTC
~•§•~ Drowning in Memories ~•§•~
For every night spent wide awake Crying, tossing, and turning because of you For every time you decieved me Tore my heart in two. For making me participate in your game And stringing my innocent self along Until I was certain that lonely place Was exactly where I belonged. For every "I love you" I believed Every other sweet word you said For each compliment you truly meant Every night spent in your bed. For every last broken promise For abusing my heart day after day I am writing this to you for the love I wasted For ******* me up in so many irreversible ways.
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 10, 2018 at 7:04 PM UTC
This Is For Breaking Me
she was a system i can never violate again
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Jun 6, 2018
Jun 6, 2018 at 7:12 PM UTC
chaos theory
I sometimes wish to own one of those personalized address stamps. You know the kind. The one with your name and your spouses. Or just with your shared name that became your forever last name. "The Jones' 102 Bliss Ln." The thing about those though? They're permanent. And I am not. In the past five years I have lived... 1, 2, 3, 4,... 8. Eight different places, all but two in the same town. Now imagine if I set out to roam the world. Too many options. I can tell every college student going to my alma mater where the safe areas are too live. "You don't want to live on the corner of here and there or that and this", and, "don't you dare think of living anywhere east of that street." "Oh that street? Yes it is has beautiful red and yellow tulips in the spring." I can list off which apartments have hardwood floors, which are furnished - leather couches or ugly brown ones you'll sink down into, whose wifi ***** and doesn't. Stir crazy. That's what that's called. At least that's what I get when I'm in one place for what I deem as being too long. I had to graduate so I changed houses, not cities. Although I considered a commute. Now being here is driving me insane too. Crazy. It won't be long before I drop everything and move on. Now you can see why I can't have a personalized letter stamp. Hell, I don't have a permanent "home" longer than 6 months at a time. How do you expect me to have a permanent change to my last name as well. To be laid out in ink? Irreversible like these moves I've made.
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 3, 2016 at 8:03 PM UTC
Ink Stains
I sometimes wish to own one of those personalized address stamps. You know the kind. The one with your name and your spouses. Or just with your shared name that became your forever last name. "The Jones' 102 Bliss Ln." The thing about those though? They're permanent. And I am not. In the past five years I have lived... 1, 2, 3, 4,... 8. Eight different places, all but two in the same town. Now imagine if I set out to roam the world. Too many options. I can tell every college student going to my alma mater where the safe areas are too live. "You don't want to live on the corner of here and there or that and this", and, "don't you dare think of living anywhere east of that street." "Oh that street? Yes it is has beautiful red and yellow tulips in the spring." I can list off which apartments have hardwood floors, which are furnished - leather couches or ugly brown ones you'll sink down into, whose wifi ***** and doesn't. Stir crazy. That's what that's called. At least that's what I get when I'm in one place for what I deem as being too long. I had to graduate so I changed houses, not cities. Although I considered a commute. Now being here is driving me insane too. Crazy. It won't be long before I drop everything and move on. Now you can see why I can't have a personalized letter stamp. Hell, I don't have a permanent "home" longer than 6 months at a time. How do you expect me to have a permanent change to my last name as well. To be laid out in ink? Irreversible like these moves I've made.
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When we were young Our frozen breath was smoke From cigarettes When we were young Our hands were guns As we'd to shoot each other to the ground When we were young Our lead and our pencil Were a syringe we pressed against our flesh When we were young We didn't have to worry about the cost Because to us it was all pretend But now we aren't so young And the things we do are no longer pretend So now there are costs we can't escape
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 9:39 PM UTC
when we were young