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#normalcy
She says I love you however you are She's not meant to be playful with me In expression her sincerity won't gamble When reading to me from her distance I understand the financing of pain I produce I've no money I've no means to be more at the hours hand The art stumbles upon me, curious I become benign and submerge
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Feb 22
Feb 22, 2026 at 12:57 PM UTC
Submerged Stupor
acid has been slowly dripping into my lungs for as long as I can remember. it's an endless plink. plink. plink. of liquid against flesh. it festers and burns starting out manageable. just a faint pain and a cough. but everytime something happens.  everytime I meet a stranger's eyes. it is like they are spraying more and more acid into my lungs. until the pain is unbearable.  until it hurts so bad my eyes go blurry and I choke and cough until I'm vomiting up the acid that had filled my lungs to the brim. leaving me heaving and sobbing for air.  as I cry "why am I like this. why can't I just be normal.". then it goes quite and eventually... the burn begins again. just the plink. plink. plink. of liquid against flesh.
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Nov 5, 2025
Nov 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM UTC
acid.
Somebody, give me your soul. Clone army, Somebody 1, Somebody 2, Anybody! Give me to you, So that I can become Normal. I am Nobody alone. Just a waiting John Doe For somebody to know I was never my own. I wish, I wish it was the case That we were more alike: That it wasn't such a hike To walk the way you pace, But I'm not. I'm only this. And if you knew me For even an eternity, I'm one no one'll miss. I'm nobody playing a role.
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Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM UTC
Somebody / Nobody
tick tock tick tock time runs forward miasma in my brain a spark that keeps lighting, lightning in my limbs been alight so long don't know what it's like not to burn
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Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM UTC
Anti-Normalcy
“The one thing you shall not eat, Can devour what you be. The Red sweetness holds thee; Core of poison, core of deceit.” For many others without conscience tells, They chant lies, they clang bells. For power is not its conflict of corruption, But a light to evil, a light of destruction. Apple drops a head of thought. Others, however, are long got. For they have no will, long gone they sought. They boldly think, they blindly condemn, Yet logic’s truth eludes each of them. Because, presence wises the bird of them. The worm that eats, the sweetness it brings. The bird eats it so, masqueraded in wings. For knowledge only gives moths light, the tempt to corruption, arrogance flight. And no told that numbers are right, No knowledge of order, ultimate sight. They chopped the apple tree, fuel it alight. Now, they pay their price, their final blight.
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Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM UTC
Knowledge
My rough past, a lonely gravel path that directed me here One riddled with loathing and fear from myself and every peer It all pales in comparison to each and every fallen tear Added to the unforgiving shame of having tried to check out that one year It's this reign of pain that stops me in my tracks like headlights freezing a deer It's clear I don't know how to steer and can not get out of first gear My entire windshield is a rearview mirror, the next tragedy always closer than they appear My over corrections and over reactions are too severe, they're starting to break down the veneer Put in place to simulate normalcy and hide the real me but I'm a horrible engineer The intentions were sincere but this cavalier attitude never allowed the good in me to adhere I've given in to my dark passenger allowing it to commandeer the space between each ear At the time I thought it'd be far messier if I tried too interfere with the puppeteer So I grabbed a few memories as a souvenir and tried to disappear ©2023
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Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023 at 4:40 PM UTC
~•§•~ Reign of Pain ~•§•~
my work sprouts from the simplest indeterminate sense                                                depicting more than verge death organisms          freshly ground expectations are composted alongside considered                                                                                                           traditions                                  allowing our vigorous grip of normalcy to disperse     changing infancy energy into visceral landscapes of amplified color                                                                                               a falling into rest where we can blossom into our own embodied environments
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Nov 5, 2020
Nov 5, 2020 at 7:30 PM UTC
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Normalcy is a strange word. No definition is certain and allowed to be called “normal”. Differs in different lands. And never asks for Hate to come in its absence. And no-one can seem to fulfil it. Normalcy seems like a dream far away, in a distant land that is strange. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone is normal. If not, Normalcy is perfection. We strive for it. And we practice diligently. And fail to achieve it wholly. Yet we find normalcy that is perfection partially.
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Nov 3, 2020
Nov 3, 2020 at 11:57 AM UTC
Normalcy. Perfection.
Nothing, Nothing compares... To the sight of a cold corpse, Dry tulips atop a lustered rectangle, A box for the truth, A cell for the dead, The sound of bells from a nearby wedding, The cries of babies on tired arms, The smell of a dusty church, Burning in the middle of a December afternoon. I hold a rosary, More for the living than for the dead, For the living are often dead, And the dead are often living, Maybe we'll meet someday, Say your last goodbye, It's time to go, Bury the dead, Go on with the living, Hide the truth under the soil, But know that it will grow again, You'll see it in fresh cut tulips, The white sun will remind you, The breeze will whisper my name, Syllable by syllable, My name will haunt you.
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Oct 11, 2020
Oct 11, 2020 at 12:14 PM UTC
Requiem
I wake up everyday to the sight of the New Normal Open my ears to the sounds of the news A black man killed before he could breathe A child bombed before he could eat And I think What is normal? What is rest? What is hope? Normalcy doesn’t sound normal these days Rest doesn’t sound restful these days Hope doesn’t sound hopeful these days And I wish they did anyway I wish writing, making art, cooking, playing games, short naps, or social media Were enough to make us forget about Restless civilizations These days Heartless politicians These days Senseless discrimination These days The failures of the system These days I sit with my heart on my hand Comprehending nothing at all These days While chaos all around us ensues These days And months seem to go by as quickly as they can Yet nothing seems to change Racism is still racism War is still war Hate is still hate These days And yet we’ve just realized These days How much we valued other days And there’s no longer any returning to Those days Cause if it took us a pandemic to realize How much we’ve failed those who needed us the most On days We’ve looked past reality Just to see what we wanted to see And believe what we wanted to believe in That we chose right That we’d never be able to fear going out Since we’ve kept ourselves inside our social bubbles That kept us from seeing That everyone else had always been suffering Before these days I’d rather have These days So what is normalcy? What is rest? What is hope To those who couldn’t afford to have those in the first place? But I’d like to think that we haven’t completely forgotten Those days I’d like to think there will be better days Where we’ll finally be able to settle down all our differences That we won’t differentiate black from white That we’ll finally know wrong from right And we’ll see that days Are not just days But everyday struggles for many to live In a world that hates living so much So don't just wish these days Instead help these days So that others may be able to live their days too And not just you Today.
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May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020 at 12:26 PM UTC
These Days
I wake up everyday to the sight of the New Normal Open my ears to the sounds of the news A black man killed before he could breathe A child bombed before he could eat And I think What is normal? What is rest? What is hope? Normalcy doesn’t sound normal these days Rest doesn’t sound restful these days Hope doesn’t sound hopeful these days And I wish they did anyway I wish writing, making art, cooking, playing games, short naps, or social media Were enough to make us forget about Restless civilizations These days Heartless politicians These days Senseless discrimination These days The failures of the system These days I sit with my heart on my hand Comprehending nothing at all These days While chaos all around us ensues These days And months seem to go by as quickly as they can Yet nothing seems to change Racism is still racism War is still war Hate is still hate These days And yet we’ve just realized These days How much we valued other days And there’s no longer any returning to Those days Cause if it took us a pandemic to realize How much we’ve failed those who needed us the most On days We’ve looked past reality Just to see what we wanted to see And believe what we wanted to believe in That we chose right That we’d never be able to fear going out Since we’ve kept ourselves inside our social bubbles That kept us from seeing That everyone else had always been suffering Before these days I’d rather have These days So what is normalcy? What is rest? What is hope To those who couldn’t afford to have those in the first place? But I’d like to think that we haven’t completely forgotten Those days I’d like to think there will be better days Where we’ll finally be able to settle down all our differences That we won’t differentiate black from white That we’ll finally know wrong from right And we’ll see that days Are not just days But everyday struggles for many to live In a world that hates living so much So don't just wish these days Instead help these days So that others may be able to live their days too And not just you Today.
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I've had these dreams each night I can't seem to remember names. Just bodies. Faces Evade me Action Movement Conversation Volume Touch All my senses engaged to the inertia, the energy, the power- Each night I come back to this palace. The Watering Hole of a society who's waking life has been forced into sleep People destined to find one another Hear one another See one another Feel one another We are all but dreams to eachother. Wishing to wake up to a reailty that for the first time is sweeter than dreams.
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Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020 at 3:03 PM UTC
Dreams Dreams Dreams
Defense and apprehension keeps me Should i mention this immense, ascending feeling reaping me? The reeling out of sight bright, shining at the sight if you. You shine for me You shine on me I'd be hardly known, uneasily and seemingly roam, not free form from room to room, in and out an unavoidable unavailable vacancy of gloom. In bloom, my flowering budless, aweless, awfully lawful, peer-free, though id cease to be not flawless. I want nothing more than this. God i want you I need you to feel what i have when i see you see me feeling you. I love you.
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Mar 10, 2020
Mar 10, 2020 at 10:32 AM UTC
Faithful, fateless
Coffee cups and midnight snacks The gentle breeze as the people pass The sunset against the windows of a car Observing life from afar Diamond glints on cracked road The embroidered patch that I sewed On my bag that rests on the empty chair It says "I don't mind, I don't care" Life goes on as it does As lonely as it may seem The flowers will bloom, the bees will buzz I'll live life peacefully.
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Mar 5, 2020
Mar 5, 2020 at 5:14 AM UTC
Peaceful
So you say PINK is the color of BLUE Blue meaning me and You Blood and tears sweat sadness from fears I am full Yet we are empty Maybe it's just me I'm a pink period monster Who death had begun her Death of Innocence 'Death of Silence Death of Normalcy Because between you and me We can be free PINK, red Ice BLUE to undead
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Dec 12, 2019
Dec 12, 2019 at 5:00 PM UTC
Pink & Blue
go to school obey authority follow tradition join society go to church worship god get married get a job pay rent be responsible have children stay faithful work harder be productive rest and silence are ****** seductive wear clothes don’t offend don’t care just pretend act normal stand in line grow old now you die
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Aug 16, 2019
Aug 16, 2019 at 1:04 PM UTC
Get it Right
I told myself I was different I didn’t excessively bleed No one could see anything I was doing just fine. To me cutting became expected. For others it wasn’t okay, but for me? Just a daily routine As normal as brushing my teeth.
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Jun 21, 2019
Jun 21, 2019 at 6:35 AM UTC
flowing need
In this world, there are some of us who get left behind because we don’t fit the bill. A bill that is arbitrarily in place and which makes some magnificent, many perfectly normal, and some of us a bunch of unworthy f***s who don’t deserve affection, attention, and any of your time. Go on, erase us from your narrative, from this world’s narrative, erase us completely because our bodies are a certain way, because it would require you to change your perspective slightly to accommodate us into your view, because there’s a billion to choose from who are perfectly normal We might as well be not human because some of us don’t get to experience human joys strictly because of how we look. The least you could do is understand very clearly this fact that for whatever reason, not all of us are able to experience being a human in the sense that most of you are able to
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Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 at 1:42 AM UTC
Being Human
Normalcy is surreal So surreal that it almost feels real Trying to absorb it all We get stuck in this timeless pitfall In the end just callousing If we could've done something different from it all. . . . Mehek
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May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019 at 12:18 PM UTC
S. U. R. Real
The emptiness did not swallow me today it was normalcy in which I lay life seemed possible today, the black hole in me had no sway. . . . Mehek
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May 5, 2019
May 5, 2019 at 7:29 AM UTC
WANT
i hope you revel in the normalcy when you feel the sunrise on your skin walking down a brick path i hope you breathe in the morning hold the ordinary close to you like a life that almost didn’t happen because for some of us it didn’t happen i have never felt the blissful repetition in being surrounded by what is expected standing in seasons and looking at skylines that your mothers and fathers have stood in and looked at mothers and fathers who do your laundry when you come home to a home that has smelled the same for the past twenty years so i hope that you laugh and drink a little too much and kiss people who make you feel seen i hope you listen to bad music and hug your friends too tightly and skip your eight a.m. just because you need slowness and stillness and a coffee from the corner and a breath of fresh air in the morning on a brick path with the midday sun on your skin
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 9:35 AM UTC
vanilla
The chances are never perfect I am disappointed because the world has never stood up to what is ideal what is right is hidden behind the veil Innocents are tested each time and the fight goes on. Bending the rule, using people as tool dead and alive making every fool and the normalcy spreading this sickness over what is going on so wrong. Moving on getting over it forgetting every little bit, we stick to our lives protecting us what possibly how we can also be duped and save ourselves from becoming the national news.
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May 2, 2018
May 2, 2018 at 12:09 PM UTC
National News
the restless peace cries inside calm but there is pain who cares what is underneath she is sipping on her tea picture of normalcy there is hidden trauma it was missing the usual sugar tasting the bitter as her vision of the truth her morning of clearing dust touching the rust and all what was hidden beneath the carpet came clear. The false sense of security vanished away foolish to the fault good awakening to welcome the new resident misery for expecting a good fantasy in this fair world.
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Mar 7, 2018
Mar 7, 2018 at 1:50 PM UTC
Fair World