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#mistreated
We are people. Not machines. We are meant to be appreciated- and not as merely property.
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Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM UTC
Do you own me?
the girls I danced with I never wrote songs about the girls I kissed under bursts of fireworks I never won carnival prizes for the girls I entered the sheets with I never made a deeper connection the girls who gave me their best I never understood their motives and I wondered where they all went and why we parted ways like cathedral doors and why they took the hand of other monsters and vanished into the night. I was too naive to notice all the red flags waving behind me and too dense to turn around and open my eyes. but now I face this dry vacancy and I see they’re intertwined with their domestics constricted with their marriages taunting their husbands commanding their boyfriends obsessed with their photo albums cramming belief and guidance into their children its the same unabridged story told over and over and over and over again. I too, sit with this adverse outcome: this one wants me to quit drinking and that one wants me on a diet and this one wants me to get a better job and that one wants me to exercise more. I’ve never been one to rest on my laurels, but as I lay down in this bed with this one like so many buried cold beneath the Earth, I can’t stop thinking of those angels from my past that have flown off into other heavens. I was never deserving of their time nor their presence and I am neither here nor there.
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Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM UTC
vacancy
Am I too caring? Am I being used? Do I want to be used just to be someone's choice? Will I ever find someone who cares as much as I do? How many more people do I have to teach to fly? And who will teach me? These are the questions that keep me up at night. They make me stare at the ceiling like a block of ice. Who will thaw me out with answers? If you don't, please let me stay frozen. I'm sure one day someone will give me fire. One day I'll stop being someone's flight tutor or someone's fire. And that will be the day I lose myself. Not for others’ cause, But because of others‘ taking.
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Dec 2, 2024
Dec 2, 2024 at 6:04 PM UTC
Questions
I'm the mature one I'm the respectful one I'm the nice one I'm the mistreated one I'm the useless one I'm the younger one I'm the smarter one She's the older one She's the immature one She's the carefree one She's the disrespectful one She's the mean one She's the better one She's the one that misbehaves She's the one that everyone loves She's the favorite Everyone babies her Everyone cares about her While everyone glares at me While everyone tells me What to do Just because she's blood related to you I'm not blood related to you But I'm still family But you don't treat me like family You treat me like I'm her very distant friend Even though I'm not her friend No- I'm her step-sister She was the one to talk about the *** talk when I was six It was sick She started hitting me Abusing me She has the strength of a grown man that came out of the military It isn't temporary She started hitting me in the head When I was sitting on my bed This is when I was eight And I ate Well But too skinny for my health She gave me hickeys when I was at her grandparents house and on the bed After a while, she started to choke me She was treating me Like her stress toy She made me her puppet That she could control, then get out of the allegations of everything she has done to me She kept manipulating me Hurting me in the process She choked me about 5 times throughout my whole life I wished I would have control of my life They never seen the things she had done to me I wish they could see What happened But they could never imagine Their child doing stuff like this She was never punished I wish she were punished But all my ideas and allegations has been dimished They act like I'm just a liar Like I'm supposed to be on fire While they think SHE'S trustworthy When she's unworthy They act like she's their God While I'm just an odd Commoner That just wants to do whatever I want to her She has gotten better More better Than before But I got to wait longer before I can actually trust her again Then I can be caution free around her
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Nov 16, 2024
Nov 16, 2024 at 11:33 AM UTC
Family Life
I'm the mature one I'm the respectful one I'm the nice one I'm the mistreated one I'm the useless one I'm the younger one I'm the smarter one She's the older one She's the immature one She's the carefree one She's the disrespectful one She's the mean one She's the better one She's the one that misbehaves She's the one that everyone loves She's the favorite Everyone babies her Everyone cares about her While everyone glares at me While everyone tells me What to do Just because she's blood related to you I'm not blood related to you But I'm still family But you don't treat me like family You treat me like I'm her very distant friend Even though I'm not her friend No- I'm her step-sister She was the one to talk about the *** talk when I was six It was sick She started hitting me Abusing me She has the strength of a grown man that came out of the military It isn't temporary She started hitting me in the head When I was sitting on my bed This is when I was eight And I ate Well But too skinny for my health She gave me hickeys when I was at her grandparents house and on the bed After a while, she started to choke me She was treating me Like her stress toy She made me her puppet That she could control, then get out of the allegations of everything she has done to me She kept manipulating me Hurting me in the process She choked me about 5 times throughout my whole life I wished I would have control of my life They never seen the things she had done to me I wish they could see What happened But they could never imagine Their child doing stuff like this She was never punished I wish she were punished But all my ideas and allegations has been dimished They act like I'm just a liar Like I'm supposed to be on fire While they think SHE'S trustworthy When she's unworthy They act like she's their God While I'm just an odd Commoner That just wants to do whatever I want to her She has gotten better More better Than before But I got to wait longer before I can actually trust her again Then I can be caution free around her
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I'm your loyal dog And you're my ruling God I find it quite odd It sends my brain into a bog I can't stop following your orders YOUR ORDERS The curse, the spell you casted onto me to obey you I'm your only servant The loyal servant forced to be observant I've been praying for you Even if you treat me like trash Even if you're the wind and I'm the ash After a while, you grew tired of me You abandoned me You threw me away Just so that way You released that curse you placed on me Just to be adopted by someone else Just to get cursed by someone else I barely got a break from all the abuse From all the use Yet, they thought I was so oblivious Just like you thought I was so oblivious They thought I was so cute - adorable, naïve, thoughts just like you Why does everyone act like you? My God? It's so odd I feel like I'm stuck in a time loop Stuck in all the goop I feel like I'm just a foot rest you can use I feel like I'm just a puppet you can use I feel like a young slave you can use I'm over here working my *** off Just so you can have work off Just so you can have a vacation While I live in caution Scared of everything Every single thing
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Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024 at 11:18 AM UTC
Curse
I scroll thru pics like I’m invading your life. I adore the ones I pick either still or live. I know I don’t say much but I’m still alive. As roam these roads I still survive. I know you don’t care but I still incline. Sending messages in the air & you still decline. Telling me nothing is wrong, just **** the lying. Your attitude stay strong, yet you’re still denying. I repeat the same song but change the rhythm. No drama in my life, the range is given. Distance is needed from the strangest women. Those that been cheated on, abused, or beaten on. Misused or treated wrong, confused..yet still proceeded on. Therapy is needed don’t walk on by. Shrug your shoulders & say “It’s Just Life!” I’m sorry if you’ve been through that. I hope those that hurt you karma comes back… I’m sorry
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Jan 17, 2024
Jan 17, 2024 at 4:07 PM UTC
Untitled
Don't let them step all over you, Put your foot down and keep it down, You hold all the cards, You have more power than you realize, Take a deep look and you shall see, Never let anyone treat you unfairly, You don't need them, They need you. You can poke the bear but so many times, Until they just can't take anymore, Don't allow to take advantage you, Stop playing their game, Play your own game, Don't follow their rules, Live by your own rules. I may not be perfect but I care for you, They ain't never cared, They only care about themselves, Only out for themselves nobody else, Look around and you'll see what's true, The truth always reveals itself. Stand up for yourself not stand still, It's not okay to be mistreated, Never let anyone mistreat you, You deserve better don't accept nun less, Respect yourself and others will as well.
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Sep 5, 2021
Sep 5, 2021 at 7:32 AM UTC
Step all over you.
you are priceless capable of so much more than just some being being mistreated you are deserving of so much more than what you are receiving to witness the worst is the worst but continuing to inhabit is robbing the value of life.
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Aug 11, 2020
Aug 11, 2020 at 2:31 AM UTC
The Cost
Let your losses be losses And just sew up the hurt Where it bleeds -JP
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Nov 23, 2019
Nov 23, 2019 at 1:30 PM UTC
Closure
My sweetheart is a man's man heiress Her man must be a carbon copy of Jupiter, her father, An alpha, a beta, a kappa, an omega male altogether A carpenter by trade, The epitome of masculinity Who could solve any math problem in a second And knew how to fix everything A car, electric, plumbing A family hero, a handy man Who built houses from the ground up He could swaddle a baby's nightmare properly Open doors to the winds of sadness And pull chairs to the lights of happiness And he could dress every day to the nines Infusing in her heiress forever wine 's bouquet And the love of animals. So consequently My sweetheart is an animal 's animal heiress She eats meat only  if it has a label on it Saying that animals are not  caged Or mistreated in anyway.
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Sep 25, 2019
Sep 25, 2019 at 4:12 AM UTC
A man's man heiress
Emptiness crippling the walls, Steps dragging the shallow bodies. It's been too long since it was spoken, & words feel as broken as scarce touches. Call my name, I've been lost in my thoughts.
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Apr 3, 2019
Apr 3, 2019 at 2:25 PM UTC
My name
Empty as a broken drawer, The breathing slowing Drowning in hollow thoughts. You are alive but not living. You are aware of nothingness. & you are grooved in the habit. I am empty, broken, slowing breathing, & drowning in thoughts. You are cemented... There... that... I am alone!
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Dec 30, 2018
Dec 30, 2018 at 7:01 AM UTC
Shell
I'm hopelessly in love with someone who'd rather push and shove I feel so distant yet they make me feel close but really they're farther than they've ever been and I try to save but they turn me away like the tears on an abandoned child left on a deserted door step I feel so very lonely in this world full of mixed matched feelings broken dreams and shattered hearts they continue every day to give me false hope just enough to fall in love again and I feel like a wicked candle lit on fire with burning passion just to be extinguished and forgotten about until they embark on a dimly lit date with someone other than me
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 8:00 AM UTC
~ Hopeless ~
Shy Girl hides beneath her hood Her hair covers her face Her headphones blare a beautiful sound Protecting her from this evil place She is lonely Mistreated And loved only one guy Who killed her inside Her soul is dark Crawling with demons and rage At war with herself "Which wolf will win? Good or bad? The one you feed." If you had a heart you'd end her suffering She hides this all inside On the outside it's just Shy Girl
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 2:10 PM UTC
Shy Girl
Your method of parenting does not work. You can't deprive a plant of light and expect it to grow. So why do you deprive me of happiness and expect me to not drown in sadness?
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 6:34 PM UTC
Metaphorically Speaking
I hugged the thought of you, but the bruise's still hasten the reflection of me in the mirror. Was this me, or was this the naughty boy you told me I was, without a word spoken. Can I only fall so many times? I'm always tripping over your insecurities? Why would I be your anger vocalized on my features never the face. Where reality sinks in, showing your guilt, hidden under a cloth of luminous pain. It shines in so many colours that ache when ever they arise. Some shades deeper than a reflection, and I weep on those rainbows inside, for nothing is bright,only shades linger. I was never the gold at the end of the rainbow. You just thought I was the puddle, trying to forfeit the brightness, I was a rainbow that shined, in the pain of your misgivings.
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Jun 22, 2018
Jun 22, 2018 at 5:10 PM UTC
When Raindows Are Dull Within
I was too immersed, in love with the idea of love. My intellect drowning in the fascination of desire. The ideology of you manifesting the adoration I demand. Instead deceit trickled from your throat, oozed from your lips to plug my eardrums. The bitterness of trickery fresh on your tongue for me to taste. Ignorance played on repeat, rehearsing the sickly sweet tune you once sang. An epiphany of misconception. The creator of my contorted heart, over dreamed daydreams.
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Oct 4, 2017
Oct 4, 2017 at 2:57 PM UTC
Demented Desire
WHY should I tell you I love you    when the moment I close my eyes thinking that I am safe you crept up and left me WHY should I tell you I love you    when the only thing that is certain in my life you want me to turn around and backtrack into uncertainty WHY should I tell you I love you    when you don't even realize all the pain that you've put me through WHY should I tell you I love you    when the past of my life is a shadow of a man beating me down with words WHY should I tell you I love you    when the stretch marks on my skin are proof that I have done everything that I've can just to hear you say I am pretty and then not believe it WHY should I tell you I love you    with all these tears creeping down on my face and you act like they're not there WHY should I tell you I love you    when I have given you my bones and every fiber of my being and you responded with thats it? WHY should I tell you I love you    when I wrote out my heart on this wholesome message that you acted like i didn't even write it WHY should I tell you I love you    when you cant even say it back WHY should I tell you I love you    when the moment that you said you do, you put distance on us like I am all the way across the world WHY should I tell you I love you    when you question every thought in my mind WHY should I tell you I love you    when I'm doubting everything you gave me WHY should I tell you I love you    when you say the things I do are not fair WHY should I tell you I love you    when you left me for someone else and never looked back WHY should I tell you I love you    that the moment you did, you thought that was enough WHY should I tell you I love you    when you don't even know how to apologize to me WHY should I tell you I love you    when you take back every word you've said WHY should I tell you I love you     When that is not all you did
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Sep 26, 2017
Sep 26, 2017 at 11:40 AM UTC
Why should i tell you?
WHY should I tell you I love you    when the moment I close my eyes thinking that I am safe you crept up and left me WHY should I tell you I love you    when the only thing that is certain in my life you want me to turn around and backtrack into uncertainty WHY should I tell you I love you    when you don't even realize all the pain that you've put me through WHY should I tell you I love you    when the past of my life is a shadow of a man beating me down with words WHY should I tell you I love you    when the stretch marks on my skin are proof that I have done everything that I've can just to hear you say I am pretty and then not believe it WHY should I tell you I love you    with all these tears creeping down on my face and you act like they're not there WHY should I tell you I love you    when I have given you my bones and every fiber of my being and you responded with thats it? WHY should I tell you I love you    when I wrote out my heart on this wholesome message that you acted like i didn't even write it WHY should I tell you I love you    when you cant even say it back WHY should I tell you I love you    when the moment that you said you do, you put distance on us like I am all the way across the world WHY should I tell you I love you    when you question every thought in my mind WHY should I tell you I love you    when I'm doubting everything you gave me WHY should I tell you I love you    when you say the things I do are not fair WHY should I tell you I love you    when you left me for someone else and never looked back WHY should I tell you I love you    that the moment you did, you thought that was enough WHY should I tell you I love you    when you don't even know how to apologize to me WHY should I tell you I love you    when you take back every word you've said WHY should I tell you I love you     When that is not all you did
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I was in the twilight of my life, and the charming person I met along the road was my only dawn. At night, I fall asleep with images of myself, swaying and smiling with them... you I wished over and over and over again, that smashed yet sparkling me could stop loving you, darling. I want nothing and everything with you. It completely scares me. I had nightmares of becoming a beautiful yet tragic poet, but upon meeting you I saw those dreams spread like the billion stars in the night sky. Honestly, I didn't mind because I know that all it takes is getting all you ever wanted, and then completely losing it to know what you can be. Years of being on a never-ending world journey and my memories of you were the only things that persisted me, and my only blissful moments. When the people I used to live around discovered what I have been doing, and whom I have been kissing, what I’ve been drinking, and how I'd been living, they asked me, “What the hell are you thinking? However, there's no use to talking with people who have a home. Every experience was fire itself and that terrified me yet helped me obsess for freedom, dear. These faint-hearted mice do not know what it's like to find safety in other people - for ‘home’ to be wherever or whomever you want. I want an honest compass pointing me anywhere but I have an indecisiveness inside me that is as wild and wavering as the sea. I always had this fiery madness intimately inside me it dizzied me and then you tossed gasoline on it and it dazed me. I think I was born to be the other woman. The woman that belongs to everyone and no one at the same time, merely emptying herself to please others. But then I start to believe that I am my own woman. And that wonderful tease in control and loving the war I created with myself. I adore being the unrequited one in particular. You are my coffee but I feel like the mistreated coffee machine. Thank you for my dreamy blues.
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Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 10:56 PM UTC
Dizzy Darling
I was in the twilight of my life, and the charming person I met along the road was my only dawn. At night, I fall asleep with images of myself, swaying and smiling with them... you I wished over and over and over again, that smashed yet sparkling me could stop loving you, darling. I want nothing and everything with you. It completely scares me. I had nightmares of becoming a beautiful yet tragic poet, but upon meeting you I saw those dreams spread like the billion stars in the night sky. Honestly, I didn't mind because I know that all it takes is getting all you ever wanted, and then completely losing it to know what you can be. Years of being on a never-ending world journey and my memories of you were the only things that persisted me, and my only blissful moments. When the people I used to live around discovered what I have been doing, and whom I have been kissing, what I’ve been drinking, and how I'd been living, they asked me, “What the hell are you thinking? However, there's no use to talking with people who have a home. Every experience was fire itself and that terrified me yet helped me obsess for freedom, dear. These faint-hearted mice do not know what it's like to find safety in other people - for ‘home’ to be wherever or whomever you want. I want an honest compass pointing me anywhere but I have an indecisiveness inside me that is as wild and wavering as the sea. I always had this fiery madness intimately inside me it dizzied me and then you tossed gasoline on it and it dazed me. I think I was born to be the other woman. The woman that belongs to everyone and no one at the same time, merely emptying herself to please others. But then I start to believe that I am my own woman. And that wonderful tease in control and loving the war I created with myself. I adore being the unrequited one in particular. You are my coffee but I feel like the mistreated coffee machine. Thank you for my dreamy blues.
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It isn't a game. But one can definitely lose. There are no competitors. Yet self comparisons fog hind sight. Leading to more dreary backroads that the world forgot about. It was fun for a little while. Telling yourself that you threw away the world and not vise versa. Was truly the greatest lie. One that grew into actual belief for a time. But found that the greatest hell. Is watching your paradise burn. Bound only by disbelief. Dumbfounded. It's a shame that when you lose everything. Somehow your mind is the only thing that stays intact.     As if those aspects were programmed into humans in preparation for it.. And happiness got the short end of the stick. Then to further rub dirt into the wound we create hope. By means of pursuit. Shakespeare knew the questions. And left it up to everyone else to answer. Only as generations pass. We couldnt be further from any resemblance of an answer. Let alone know the question has already been proposed. Writers play with this notion and yield no two pairs alike. Lifes most important knowledge sadly can only come from experiencing it. But with the world in such a desensitized state. The fear of stagnation is becoming the only real possibility. Preposterous? No Predetermined the moment we chose to let others choose for us. There is no freedom. Only sacrifice. Right.
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Aug 27, 2017
Aug 27, 2017 at 4:22 AM UTC
Further
is an egg ever left out of the egg carton? or a red crayon out of a pack of 24? what about the right-foot-sock or the left-hand-glove? no did the husband ever forget about his wife? well, maybe sometimes but i would never forget about you the group of white sheep and i the black roaming around aimlessly searching for friendship for an invitation into your bountiful pasture where you graze day after day and where i stand on the other side of the fence gazing in wondering if you'll notice me or my efforts or anything really do you notice anything other than yourselves? can you see over your side of the fence? do you even want to see? i am the egg i am the red crayon i am the right-foot-sock and the left-hand-glove do you know what happens to things that are lost? they are eventually found
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 8:53 PM UTC
Left
Every time you texted me after we went our separate ways gave me hope. That was very ****** up of you, I still wait around and I don't know how to cope. You absence and silence cut deep into my core. Deeper than any knife, stronger than any lure. Though you squeeze my heart You'll always be the man I adore. Your touch heats my skin, Your kiss sets me on fire. You take only what YOU need, And leave me burning with desire. I've been told to be patient and kind But I'm only an object, aren't I? So why do people care if I fall and break And take lives in my wake? You called again. And I hate myself. This is how it always goes Before the second ring I'm already saying hello.
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Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 7:07 PM UTC
I Love That You Hate Me
She was a flower, Blossoming in each direction she stepped. A flower tucked in a rose woven sweater. She grew thorns to protect herself from those whom sought to misuse the essence of her beauty. The spread of her fragrant bud, spreading her petal in the midst of where she stood. Paying no never-mind to her roots, her petals withered. Applying water to everywhere accept where it was needed most. They continued to pass, her sweater now dingy. The ***** of different fingers, she no longer swayed the same. A season of orange and red leaves. Then came the winter. Hard but fair Robbing her of all the beauty she possessed. It was when her petals fell that she remembered what mattered most
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Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM UTC
A Rose Bloomed
Hush little baby Stop crying now Mama’s well trained I will show you how. Lock your feelings up inside Don’t let them out until you’ve died. Stop little baby Don’t you feel! Keep your soul In a heart of steel. Promise Mama that you won’t. Love breaks everyone’s heart if you don’t. Sleep little baby That does the trick Crying all day Can make you sick. Nobody like a kid who cries No one will come to sing you lullabies. Good little baby Never says a word. Quietest baby I have ever heard. No one would ever guess That inside you are a mental mess. Hush little baby Stop crying now Mama’s well trained I will show you how. Lock your feelings up inside Don’t let them out until you’ve died.
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Mar 16, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM UTC
HUSH LITTLE BABY