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I don’t have a license to drive anyone crazy — but I do have a mind that keeps itself driven. __Always on__. Dreams at any given. And I’ve felt the kind of love sickness that lingers too long — where obsession is the disease of craving for something that was never really yours to begin with. Envy stays green, growing tall like something proud. But even weeds grow healthy, and we still call them plants, _right_? I’ve been tied to other people’s hopes — roped in by their strong faith. "_And I still try to believe._" But saying that out loud feels like lying to my own mouth. So I daydream in the interest of peace, trying not to wake the ghouls I’ve tucked under my thoughts. I’ve had people toss my advice like a smooth stone in their hand; pretending it’s weightless, like their hands aren’t made of sand — like shallowness could ever carry any real depth. _But it just echoes the sea_. I always notice the ones who aren’t really seen. __The unread__... The Blue and Grey ticks. While others get their messages read and ignored, I’m just the message never opened. Still _typing_, still _thinking_ of the right words. I’ve come to represent the depressed, the lost, the young — the ones really trying to figure this **** out. __Pause__ yourself if you need to cuss, but I swear it’s not a curse to feel like **** sometimes. It just means in that moment, you’re not feeling so clean. Not broken — _just not fitting the costume_. Sometimes you just need one reason — __just one__ — to feel like yourself again. Not a version of you tailored to fit in. And that’s why it suits me better not to force anything. So yeah, I wear shorts to church — because life is too short, and I don’t see the point in dressing up pain to make it feel prettier. Especially when it’s always some casual man speaking formal hopes, trying to iron your sadness into something presentable. As if comfort should only come with a collar. But I’m not here for that. I’m just here trying to feel real — and maybe make peace with the parts of me that still feel unseen.
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Jul 3, 2025
Jul 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM UTC
Not Clean, Just Human
I don’t have a license to drive anyone crazy — but I do have a mind that keeps itself driven. __Always on__. Dreams at any given. And I’ve felt the kind of love sickness that lingers too long — where obsession is the disease of craving for something that was never really yours to begin with. Envy stays green, growing tall like something proud. But even weeds grow healthy, and we still call them plants, _right_? I’ve been tied to other people’s hopes — roped in by their strong faith. "_And I still try to believe._" But saying that out loud feels like lying to my own mouth. So I daydream in the interest of peace, trying not to wake the ghouls I’ve tucked under my thoughts. I’ve had people toss my advice like a smooth stone in their hand; pretending it’s weightless, like their hands aren’t made of sand — like shallowness could ever carry any real depth. _But it just echoes the sea_. I always notice the ones who aren’t really seen. __The unread__... The Blue and Grey ticks. While others get their messages read and ignored, I’m just the message never opened. Still _typing_, still _thinking_ of the right words. I’ve come to represent the depressed, the lost, the young — the ones really trying to figure this **** out. __Pause__ yourself if you need to cuss, but I swear it’s not a curse to feel like **** sometimes. It just means in that moment, you’re not feeling so clean. Not broken — _just not fitting the costume_. Sometimes you just need one reason — __just one__ — to feel like yourself again. Not a version of you tailored to fit in. And that’s why it suits me better not to force anything. So yeah, I wear shorts to church — because life is too short, and I don’t see the point in dressing up pain to make it feel prettier. Especially when it’s always some casual man speaking formal hopes, trying to iron your sadness into something presentable. As if comfort should only come with a collar. But I’m not here for that. I’m just here trying to feel real — and maybe make peace with the parts of me that still feel unseen.
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In a brief squeeze, my chest _wheezed_— there goes my heart, falling out of itself, into another rhyme, into another line. Queue me up for feeling less than myself, lost in being so lost. Letting go of old grievances just to make room for new ones today. “I’m not okay”— but I won’t say it, because you MAYBE won’t think of me the same. Sometimes I’m determined, other times, indulgent. I look like I’ve got it together, but beneath the surface, _I’m exhausted_— completely out of order. _Struggling. Sweating._ But short on words to explain what’s wrong. I’d be seen as too much for speaking my pain aloud— but pain is always louder when it’s silent. So I speak now for those who are just like I am. __We are We__: navigating identity crises in these stretched-out teen years of our twenties. We are plenty— and still enough to surround each other in love that counts, instead of letting life count us down or count us out. We will rise. __Together.__
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Jun 21, 2025
Jun 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM UTC
We are We
It felt like a nightmare... I laid in a dark room...with no door Just a ray of light falling on me through the window Making me feel like...the only star in the universe And the other day....the window was smaller than before But I did nothing...as I laid on the bed the whole time The days flew by...as if they had got wings But...made the window smaller...as they went by A hole was all left...in the name of the window so weak...I couldn't even reach out for the last ray of hope with my hand The window was gone...the hope was gone... Not even a quark of strength was inside me... to collect some light for myself I laid there...paralyzed...on the bed It felt like...a never ending tunnel with no lights As I began to forget the colors of the sky and the flowers I had lost myself...infinitely lost It was getting hard to breathe in there Until one day...when I got chained to the bed the radio was broken...just silence...biting me hard the air filled with sadness laid there...hugging me all the time My heart drank poison everyday As the pain was unbearable to take My voice got trapped in my throat My own words choked my neck Couldn't even shout...or ask for help I just laid there...all the time...like a living dead.
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May 31, 2021
May 31, 2021 at 7:49 AM UTC
The never ending tunnel with no light
it's the little things about you that make me go crazy. like the way you bite your lip when your nervous or flustered. or when you laugh you cover your mouth because you hate your smile. i love it. it proves that you're happy. but you can be sad. you can be putting a fake smile on just to please others. you can be hurting but not want others to. you need to understand that, you're not gonna be happy all the time. you're not going to to be able to please people all the time. you can't stress yourself over nothing. you can't always look outside the box. you can't always focus on the big things. sometimes the little things are the best things.
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Mar 24, 2018
Mar 24, 2018 at 7:36 PM UTC
little things.