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venom leaks, darkness seeps. shadows flow in, lone wallows. blackness leeching on, ******* away remaining light. in a world of pain, one stability. one peace. one love. alcohol.
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1d ago
Jun 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM UTC
stability
‘’i’m lying on my bed with my phone settled next to me; halfway covered by my blanket i hear the ping that just won’t stop i see the messages full of excitement but i can’t bring myself to feel what you feel to be as excited as you are to be alike ‘’what r u up to 2day??’’ ‘’wanna hangout??’’ ‘’we should get froyo :)’’ ‘’i miss u!!!!’’ i sigh i pause i shut my eyes and i turn away because we are not longer akin no longer bonded no longer similar no longer same.’’
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May 26
May 26, 2026 at 1:16 PM UTC
alike & same
There’s a difference, Between being sad, And being depressed. Sadness is a storm, Loud, then gone. Depression is a hurricane, That learns your name. And stays. Mine did.
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM UTC
This isnt sadness.
Vines grow in the corners of my mind, Dragging memories I left behind. Thoughts I buried, locked away, Yet somehow they return each day. Whether painful, filled with shame, Or memories I cannot name, My mind insists they stay alive, Refusing to let me survive. They started as little weeds, Tiny roots and scattered seeds, But now they’ve grown through all my thoughts, Twisting through the battles fought. Choking me From the Inside Out.
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May 24
May 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM UTC
overgrown vines
There’s a light in my dreams that won’t turn off. Someone stands at the end of a long hallway made of brightness, calling me forward like they know my name. I start walking. Step by step, I follow the glow. Halfway there— I stop. Something holds me still like the air turned into hands. “Come on!” they call. “You’re running out of time!” But I can’t move. Because something in me knows— it isn’t my time yet.
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May 23
May 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM UTC
I dont want to go yet.
Why am I not satisfied? I have all I want, everything I need. There are people who have it worse than me, so why do I still crave more? Why am I craving time? I think I’m running out of it. I feel it slipping somewhere beneath my skin, though I am young and everyone says youth is endless. So why do I ache to see more? Why do I ache to be seen? Maybe there is a hunger in me that cannot be fed by gratitude alone.
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May 18
May 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM UTC
Crave
The words still live inside me, I know they do. I can feel them scratching at my ribs like trapped birds, desperate to be let out. But every time I open the document, the page stares back empty, and suddenly every idea feels dull before it even exists. I used to write until 3 a.m., fingers aching, thoughts pouring faster than I could catch them. Stories felt alive back then. Characters breathed beside me. Now the cursor just blinks like it’s waiting for someone who never showed up. I miss the version of me who could turn pain into poetry, who could build entire worlds from a single sentence. Now everything feels unfinished. Half-written lines. Abandoned chapters. Titles without stories beneath them. And maybe the worst part is the ideas are still there. I still imagine scenes in my head while trying to fall asleep. I still hear dialogue in passing conversations. I still feel entire stories sitting heavy in my chest. I just don’t know how to reach them anymore.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM UTC
what happened?
I keep looking for someone in crowded rooms in songs I’ve heard a thousand times in the silence after everyone goes to sleep. I think I miss somebody, but every face I try to pin the feeling onto slides away from me like rain down a window. Maybe it’s not a person at all. Maybe it’s a version of myself that existed for a moment and never came back. Maybe I miss laughing without thinking, or waiting for a notification from someone who used to know every strange thing about me. Maybe I miss the feeling of being expected somewhere. There’s an ache in me with no name attached to it, a ghost with blurred features standing at the edge of my mind. And somehow the not knowing hurts almost as much as losing them.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM UTC
i miss someone and i dont know who.
I sink into the void Peaceful Quiet The water wraps around my limbs Peaceful Quiet I listen to the nothingness Peaceful Quiet Everything’s so Peaceful.. Quiet.. I open my eyes Stressful Draining I’m back from the void Stressful Draining I sit up in bed Stressful Draining I lay back down because it’s so Stressful.. Draining.. I close my eyes again Peaceful Quiet I’m back in the safe place Peaceful Quiet Nothing can hurt me Peaceful Quiet The day ends Peacefully quiet.. Then I open my eyes again… Stressfully draining..
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Apr 25
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:08 PM UTC
The Quiet
How can it be? That we've come to desire Something we ought to be afraid of? Something we were once scared of, Now haunting our dreams. And our lives, it seems, But can your life end if it hasn't begun? Can you ever be whole again, If you've already come undone?
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Apr 20
Apr 20, 2026 at 3:08 PM UTC
Suicidal Dreamers
What are we, You love me, yet you’re with her. You ignore her, come see me, Its like a big secret, I don't want it to be, I want it to be us. You say she needs you, i need you, You say you help her, you help me survive. I love you, do you really love me? When people ask, its always ‘were not together yet’ When is yet, can yet be now? I need you. You say im yours, but whos is she? I dont wanna be the other woman, I wanna be your woman.
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Jun 20, 2025
Jun 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM UTC
Your woman
The last 5 years feel like a numb, confusing blur. Like I laid myself to sleep for a while. Like I needed to be dead to the world. Then one day I suddenly awoke to a longing in my chest. A feeling I couldn't fight. A quickening of my breath. The outside world shone through the cracks and my legs guided me straight outside. Fresh socks on the grass of spring's early morning dew. As it soaked through to my feet, I felt alive again. But who am I now? And who the hell do I want to be? What just happened? And what am I doing here? I keep blinking to wake up but I'm finally awake. It feels like I've forgotten everything, I'm trying to remember who I am again. I've been playing Eurotruck Simulator for 2 days straight. Mindless driving through virtual country roads. I've jack-knifed my truck and need to pay the service toll. Have to deliver this big bag of seed to Hamburg but I'm stuck in the middle of the road. The traffics piling up and everyone's honking their horns. This is way too much pressure. “Don't Worry Baby” By the Beach Boy's plays softly in the background. But in fact I'm very much worried. Whether in my online trucking game or the real world it just never seizes. All I asked for is a day where I'm not incapacitated by my own thoughts. They're useless, nonsensical pesters that make everything go wrong. Stupid worry gremlins with bells on their ankles. The harder you try to ignore them, the louder they love to play. Until your mind is an orchestra of gremlins beating their feet into your brain.   It's impossible to get anything done when they're dancing away. What matters is I'm still trying my best. I'm leaving the house again, changing my old routines. I even went out past 7pm. What a real rebel I'm becoming. Breaking old boundaries takes time but false 'safety' doesn't serve me anymore. I sat in the pub last week and finally felt 24. Maybe I'm a little behind compared to everyone else. But I managed to save my jack-knifed truck and ship the seed to Hamburg, everyone has their own strengths.. Jack of all trades. Master of none. But in Eurotruck Simulator I'm No1.
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Mar 9, 2023
Mar 9, 2023 at 4:42 PM UTC
Eurotruck Simulator 2
The last 5 years feel like a numb, confusing blur. Like I laid myself to sleep for a while. Like I needed to be dead to the world. Then one day I suddenly awoke to a longing in my chest. A feeling I couldn't fight. A quickening of my breath. The outside world shone through the cracks and my legs guided me straight outside. Fresh socks on the grass of spring's early morning dew. As it soaked through to my feet, I felt alive again. But who am I now? And who the hell do I want to be? What just happened? And what am I doing here? I keep blinking to wake up but I'm finally awake. It feels like I've forgotten everything, I'm trying to remember who I am again. I've been playing Eurotruck Simulator for 2 days straight. Mindless driving through virtual country roads. I've jack-knifed my truck and need to pay the service toll. Have to deliver this big bag of seed to Hamburg but I'm stuck in the middle of the road. The traffics piling up and everyone's honking their horns. This is way too much pressure. “Don't Worry Baby” By the Beach Boy's plays softly in the background. But in fact I'm very much worried. Whether in my online trucking game or the real world it just never seizes. All I asked for is a day where I'm not incapacitated by my own thoughts. They're useless, nonsensical pesters that make everything go wrong. Stupid worry gremlins with bells on their ankles. The harder you try to ignore them, the louder they love to play. Until your mind is an orchestra of gremlins beating their feet into your brain.   It's impossible to get anything done when they're dancing away. What matters is I'm still trying my best. I'm leaving the house again, changing my old routines. I even went out past 7pm. What a real rebel I'm becoming. Breaking old boundaries takes time but false 'safety' doesn't serve me anymore. I sat in the pub last week and finally felt 24. Maybe I'm a little behind compared to everyone else. But I managed to save my jack-knifed truck and ship the seed to Hamburg, everyone has their own strengths.. Jack of all trades. Master of none. But in Eurotruck Simulator I'm No1.
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a leaf falls onto the bench, completely mute. you pick it up, begging it to make a sound. i wonder why, it won't work wonders; i wonder why, has it fallen down, i wonder why, are we all just leaves, now on the ground?
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Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021 at 2:59 PM UTC
leaves
Shouldn't be in public Not fit for company Won't remember names Might interrupt, awkwardly Failed attempts at humour You must hate me Failed attempts at flattery Please don't hate me Didn't mean to say that Small talk breakdown Why am I still talking Self sabotage takedown Why am I still here I'm the absolute worst This shouldn't be so painful I wish I wasn't cursed NCL May 2019
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May 5, 2019
May 5, 2019 at 10:03 AM UTC
Social Anxiety
Anxiety knows the world is burning    Even if we can't see the flames Anxiety knows predators are out there    Even if we don’t know their names Anxiety knows bad luck happens   Simply unfortunate events lay claim Anxiety knows less about statistics    And much about things that maim NCL July 2019
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Jul 20, 2019
Jul 20, 2019 at 5:48 PM UTC
Anxiety Knows
A broken maze hides inside my mind; Revelers rambling round never find The end - lacking signposts or guides, They tread eternities while the exit hides From echoing clatter to blinding roar, From gentle pitter-patter to take no more, Crowds mill through in groups and pairs; The walls vibrate, as do I downstairs Food trucks ply their bountiful snacks Feeding frenzy, launching scent attacks; The noxious steam combines to rise, Waft out, confound and desensitize Enclosed in walls impossible to climb Trapped all together in layered time The revelers begin to sway and swerve Blundering on networks of frayed nerve With no path to success or even escape The horde begins to push and scrape The walls - tremble, creak, quiver, quake; The maze, my mind, my universe - break NCL August 2019
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Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019 at 10:17 PM UTC
A Broken Maze Hides Inside My Mind
One foot in front of the other days Long, slow and ponderous Grey with clouds that rest Heavy on my heart And drag along behind
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Apr 23, 2019
Apr 23, 2019 at 2:39 PM UTC
One Foot Days
Wiggle out the worries Until the sky is full of furies, The what ifs and might be’s Swirling on a tight breeze Tease out all the tension Into the third dimension Gather all the strands Braided into supple bands Navigate the nerves Know their subtle curves Tie each to a tension line Watch the cords intertwine Into a net, thrown in the air Capture all the worries there Pull the strings, cinch the net What a fine price you'll get NCL July 2019
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Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019 at 1:26 PM UTC
Settling Debts
Lucifer was my first lover, Now I have a twisted fantasy seeping darkness into my head. I can no longer grow brain cells but I can now grow horns. Splitting out ot my skull like thorns from a branch. There's dried blood dripping down the crown of forehead again. Dancing with the devil is child's play. He's wrapped a chain around my neck. Belts upon my arms, ties around my legs. I'm fully undressed and unholy. Light the circular fire while I become my purest form. Lay me on dirt while the embers silhouette around me. I'm burning like amber, illuminating the nights sky. This is a ritual, I can take it. I'm not human, I'm reborn. Mephistopheles' forked tongue spits gasoline over pale skin. Imp's are beating on drums as the ceremony begins. Sacrifice me, I am the chosen one. Beat me until I believe. Face down in damp soil I'm a mural against the green. The mausoleum next to me will guide my spirit where it needs to be. Lily-livered eyes cremate excervasion into my flesh. Taloned hands drag my body to the crypt. Bathe me in others as unfortunate as me, Then dress me in Ivy so those in the underworld can see:   I'm the "Purest Form Of Innocence." The one who was once "Me" has finally become "We." The Archfiend tells me to kneel and I obey his every command. Falexn eyes control me to undress myself once again. " Filia Diaboli" He calls me as he places his hands on my head. I feel my body ascend through the dirt I used to lay. And when I open my fawn eyes, I'm in the real world once again.
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 7:47 PM UTC
E.M.I.K.O
Lucifer was my first lover, Now I have a twisted fantasy seeping darkness into my head. I can no longer grow brain cells but I can now grow horns. Splitting out ot my skull like thorns from a branch. There's dried blood dripping down the crown of forehead again. Dancing with the devil is child's play. He's wrapped a chain around my neck. Belts upon my arms, ties around my legs. I'm fully undressed and unholy. Light the circular fire while I become my purest form. Lay me on dirt while the embers silhouette around me. I'm burning like amber, illuminating the nights sky. This is a ritual, I can take it. I'm not human, I'm reborn. Mephistopheles' forked tongue spits gasoline over pale skin. Imp's are beating on drums as the ceremony begins. Sacrifice me, I am the chosen one. Beat me until I believe. Face down in damp soil I'm a mural against the green. The mausoleum next to me will guide my spirit where it needs to be. Lily-livered eyes cremate excervasion into my flesh. Taloned hands drag my body to the crypt. Bathe me in others as unfortunate as me, Then dress me in Ivy so those in the underworld can see:   I'm the "Purest Form Of Innocence." The one who was once "Me" has finally become "We." The Archfiend tells me to kneel and I obey his every command. Falexn eyes control me to undress myself once again. " Filia Diaboli" He calls me as he places his hands on my head. I feel my body ascend through the dirt I used to lay. And when I open my fawn eyes, I'm in the real world once again.
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I am so much more than I ever expected to be Despite drowning in this insufficiency A chorus of deafening inadequacy Proving myself and others wrong, So deliciously I never expected to be so far I expected to be much farther I never expected to be alive I expected to be demising I know I’ve hurt I know I’ve broken others I know I’ve bruised I know I’ve used others Regretful I suppose No Just reactionary behavior And I have succumbed to my darkest depths Though they have never won And I have fallen back 12 steps Yet still, I scale the rungs So when I say “I’ve given up” Never do believe me I am capable of getting up Love, I’m just that crazy.
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Nov 9, 2017
Nov 9, 2017 at 8:33 PM UTC
I can
Sometimes I feel like it's all just a game in my head. I go from moments of intense emotion to nothingness, and when I finally feel okay the cycle starts all over again. And I can't keep these lightning shifts to myself, so I end up ruining everything and everyone else. And even when I recognize the behavior, it shifts to a seemingly more innocent danger. I can't help it, and I can't victimize, so I'll just make everyone hate me so I'll just make everything die.
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Aug 28, 2017
Aug 28, 2017 at 5:32 PM UTC
The games I play
Take me, Satan, for I have sinned. I fell down on the job, fell down on my sword but with no real purpose or cause. A martyr for the sake of martyrdom is as useful as a parka in Mexico. Slit my wrists with a freeform kiss. Cracked teeth, cracked skull, saltine crackers. Counting calories, skipping meals.   Did it hurt to ascend from hell, and how did you wash away the grime? I want to believe that you love me but the world is unkind. I need a shot of reassurance like a shot of eighteen year old scotch, neat. Rapid fire rejection, thunderstorms of doubt. **** me with a smile. Rebuild my psyche, brick by brick. Mortar me, babe, and I'll adore you for it. Melt into my mind and live there, the mice who currently occupy the quarters are hungry for touch. Ride my metaphor like a throbbing **** longing for release; please, release me.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 5:02 PM UTC
#9
I feel the pressure to create bearing down on my skull like a claw hammer. I am not a conquest. And no, I will not be your conquest (yes, you). I am me: flawed and imperfect but somehow still here. Fighting through the misery with Marlboros and earl grey. Bone broke, broken bones; a metaphor for broken imagery, a torn imagination soaked in ***** and blood. Would you still love me if I threw myself down a flight of stairs? Two for one pain, buy one dose, get one free. Ragged breathing, lace collars, four inch pumps and a plastered on lipstick smile.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 3:00 PM UTC
#8