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What would happen if she saw me now? My cuts, scars, fake smiles, my starved body. All of it. She might cry. No, she'd be confused. Maybe she'd give me a hug. We all know I need it. Maybe she'd give me bandaids. The ones with cartoon princesses. Maybe she'd ask me to play on the trampoline with her Or with her dolls. I'd call her by my nickname She'd tell me, 'Mum said not to let anyone call me that.' Maybe she'd share her coloured pencils with me and we'd do colouring ins Maybe she'd make me watch Dora The Explorer or ABC Kids Maybe we'd ride bikes up and down the street or go to the playground across the street. Maybe she'd tell me about her friends Not knowing how ****** they actually are. She'd tell me she feels like she eats too much. Thanks to Mum for planting that seed Pointing it out Maybe she'd take me to the block and we can drive the quad bike Maybe we'd draw stick figures in the dirt in out front yard Give them a happy life story Or maybe we'll make sandcastles in the sandpit in the backyard Maybe we'd play on the swingset Or have a game of hide and seek inside. Maybe we'd be fairies Maybe we'd be mermaids Maybe we'd be superspies Maybe we'll watch barbie movies. Maybe we'll be happy. . . . Maybe I'd lie to her and tell her we'll always be that way.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM UTC
Diary entry
I watched from a distance As we swayed and danced To music made for no-one But the two of us Paying no mind to strangers Who called us out Who called us weird Who said you weren't enough. I watched from a distance As your breath hitched, your steps faltered Your record scratched And my hologram never heard it. Until I felt your hand slipping from mine Was your smile always this strained? You didn't tell anyone You made your last day count Now I count how many breaths Since you were still with me Since I knocked on your door and it never opened.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 5:36 AM UTC
Distance
I was eight years old When you sat me down. You wanted me pretty enough to be sold. Not fat like a clown. "Just control your eating." I never took you seriously. Years of not competing. My silhouette anything but lovely. Until my image digusted myself. And your words echoed in my mind. So I began carving into something for a shelf. Knowing the road wont be kind. Yet, mother, you still aren't happy. With what I've become. Even after following your advice literally. "Its too light to weigh forty-one" What will it take to satisfy you?
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Apr 21
Apr 21, 2026 at 10:52 AM UTC
Satisfy.
"No, please no!" I beg. Desperately. Miserably. Lifelessly. The demons in my mind. With claws and teeth and tails, And malice in their eyes. As they whispered incantations. Words sweet like honey. I fall. Down the pit they dug for me. During my recovery. Only this time, they left no escape route. Pushed to the edge by self loving-turned-loathing. Thrown over the edge by my search for the light. Landing in eternal darkness. No hope left. It's best they all forget.
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Apr 18
Apr 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM UTC
The pit
Delilah stares at it all in awe. Her soul walking into his awaiting arms. This day is finally here. (Doubt and fear, exit stage right) For them, there is no time left. Eyes bright, pearly whites flashing. Hoaxes holding her high, Almost as tight as her grip on the bars of this cage. If she didn't know any better (Which she does not) She would succumb to his sweet fruits. Every brush of contact - Everything to her. If he stole that too from her well... She's sure she would reduce to ashes.
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Apr 16
Apr 16, 2026 at 1:44 AM UTC
Delilah
Smooth and cool on my palm. Enough to bring my mind some calm. Quick, sharp, and hence, Perfect for silence. Never enough to **** just enough to feel. In the hopes that one day, they may heal. I see it in your eyes, your disappointment. As you book me a doctor's appointment. Hoping, praying that the drug's ruse Will replace my need to tie a noose.
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Apr 14
Apr 14, 2026 at 9:43 AM UTC
Drug's ruse
"Teachers know everything" "Teachers are always paying attention" "Teachers see everything" They can see you using your phone in class. They see you whispering with your friends. They see your grades falling. Though, they never seem to see why... No adult in school sees the child with bruises on her neck From a "loved one's" oh so loving grip. They don't see the child bleeding under their sleeve. Would they care if they did? Adults don't hear the child's stomach rumbling. This is his ninetieth hour. They don't read the note I wrote in class. The last thing I'd ever write..
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Feb 19
Feb 19, 2026 at 3:57 AM UTC
Teachers.
You're silver, you shine You call to me like Satan Calling his sinners
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Feb 17
Feb 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM UTC
Blade
You say 'the worst of the worst' And we believed you We let you onto our streets. And you took. You stole children from their mothers' arms Husbands from their wives. Sisters from their brothers. Concealing your faces like cowards. You said 'the worst of the worst' So why are 73.6% of detainees innocent? 48 377 out of 65 735. Read those numbers again. You terrorise us, claiming to take the 'real' terrorists. You can't solve a problem by being the problem. You said 'the worst of the worst' Then why are they gone? Alex Pretti, Lucia Lopez Belloza, Genry Ruiz Gullien. Countless others. Who's calling the shots? Everyone knows. Maybe he gets some sick thrill from this. The bloodshed of his people.
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Jan 29
Jan 29, 2026 at 4:01 AM UTC
**** ICE
The thoughts and memories plague my mind. Hollowing out my head Until nothing remains in it Besides you, beloved. You do not haunt me, no My final actions toward you do. Abrupt texts fired in your direction Thousands of miles of sea between us Guilt that struck me then And hasn't left since. Apologies you'll never hear from me Final words as I drown In a sea of guilt
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Dec 20, 2025
Dec 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM UTC
A Sea Of Guilt
I hope you know That you look and act like a pig. You can call me rude and blunt: I really don't give a **** My only concern is making sure you know that what you are doing Is wrong
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM UTC
Pig.
I wonder if you can pry open my mind: With nothing but a glance And read through the lines of the storm that is my mind. When you find the eye of my sound storm, Please be gentle with the child who resies there. Tell her about pretty things, And shield her from reality. Maybe it would be best if you send her far away. Away from aches and pain And the darkness that is Her life
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM UTC
Be gentle with her for me, please.
Darling, when I'm gone. Please do not cry. Walking away from this From us Is my decision. I know you'll hurt when I'm gone tomorrow. It'll hurt me too But our love is like this earth: Doomed Only, this will be entirely my fault. My love, I will never forget you But I will beg you to forget me Do not forgive, please forget. Hold your tears, I'm not worthy of them. One day, After my departure, You will smile again And I will thank the gods above that you are Happy As happy as you deserve
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM UTC
To the one with diamonds in her eyes
Why is it that when we cry, we feel that pain physically? Could it be that when our pain is too great for our minds to handle our bodies take it upon themselves to offer some relief?
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM UTC
Physical pain
Maybe if someone had shown up At just the right time Before spirals, aches, numbness, pain, and scars And they told me the right things I'd just maybe be happy
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM UTC
Presence
Remind me to thank you, My love For when I opened my mouth To simply ask you For a bouquet of flowers You, my darling, gave me an entire field. Now, I lay in bed Alone Your side is cold and the living room reeks of alcohol. But I still feel your reminder. Your field of violets As they bloom across my body And I pretend they don't hurt me That you don't hurt me.
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Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM UTC
Quiet With The Violet
And to that old friend The one who has made a home In the bottomless pit in my stomach. I welcome you back home until the end. Forever, in the depths of my mind, I will let you roam. In this Hell, you may hang your hammock. I will fall to my knees for you and pray and you slowly destroy me from the inside out and, my love, I wither away for you. And all you have done for me.
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Nov 5, 2025
Nov 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM UTC
Welcome home
I've learned not to trust good days. Because bad days always tag along And I've learned the same rules apply to Good moments With a high There comes a low Every. Time.
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Oct 4, 2025
Oct 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM UTC
Trust
Shattered glass on the side of a road. Thrown out of a car window. By a drunk. On a highway. Was once filled. Once used and useful. A bottle of ***** Chilled. And bought when needed. When one needs to forget. When one's mind has become their worst enemy. Their own mind. And it plays their worst memories. Like a sick and twisted *** tape. Haunting. Like those nights. Words, screams, shouts. Glass breaking, doors slamming, knives slicing. Sweat dripping, tears dropping, blood spilling. Then the silence. And the recovery. Though that's not what it really is... Shattered glass on the side of the road. Not from a bottle. From a car window A car with its bonnet a tree. And a smiling dead body in the driver seat.
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Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM UTC
Final.
I used to scream for fun And listen to my voice as it bounced off the walls of my room and came back to me. Until the day my screams came back They planted themselves in my head And now, they live there I haven't known the peace of quiet since then
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Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM UTC
Echoes
Sometimes, I tend to watch blood as I make it gush out of my body like it hates me too.
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Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM UTC
Blood
You look at her and see her beauty I look at her and think what you think I see her creative spark and the way she smiles. Though, what she does not tell us is that her mind has ran out of words We have lost our window into her mind.
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Sep 24, 2025
Sep 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM UTC
She ran out of words
They come to me as whispers in the night Though they don't strike at night They catch me in broad daylight Large hands that wrap around my throat And they drag me back When I try to run, when I try to escape They grab me by the ankle and drown me in the dark and murky waters they reside by They've made it very clear they don't like me The people in my head... they don't like me.
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Sep 23, 2025
Sep 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM UTC
The people in my head
Do not leave me alone with a pen and a scrap of paper. For I will bleed. For my mind will spill through my eyes. Eyes that have seen more than they should have in fifteen years Do not leave me in the kitchen. They say it’s the most romantic room in a house In a home. But this is not a home So here I serve I serve you dinner Dinner with a pen and a knife.
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Sep 21, 2025
Sep 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM UTC
A pen and a knife
I don't know either. Maybe I am drifting Maybe I did something wrong Maybe I'm losing my mind, my sanity, my worth, my sense. Or maybe I opened my eyes And saw the thorns on your roses through bleeding eyes.
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Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM UTC
Bleeding eyes