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Putting on the smile in the morning that is my makeup. Putting on joy and confidence as my clothing. I do it for my children. They don't need to know it's only skin deep. I will make myself into whatever they need to have the childhood I longed for.
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Dec 9, 2024
Dec 9, 2024 at 10:04 PM UTC
Smile
The joy of my baby right before me But I can't seem to feel it. Loving husband on my side But I can't seem to see it. Precious friends with a lifeline But I can't seem to grasp it. A mist has settled all around I must find my way through it.
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Jan 19, 2024
Jan 19, 2024 at 11:18 PM UTC
Postpartum
She wished her life would end
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Jan 30, 2023
Jan 30, 2023 at 6:47 AM UTC
Better off dead
There's a mom out there who is staring down at her legs with so much anger and pain she can barely see. There's a mom, with no proof she recently cleaned the entire house, she tries to calm down her toddler who has yet to sleep. There's a mom, with tears and a loud mind waiting until she wins back control of her emotions before she ***** something else up. There's a mom all on her own and no therapy/counselling that worked, she began to build her walls again for the last time.
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May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020 at 8:16 AM UTC
Baby Steps
Why is death so evil when you try to **** yourself? people turn the other way pretend you didn’t speak those four words Yet, when others die from other causes they cannot talk enough of it?
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Dec 19, 2019
Dec 19, 2019 at 3:44 PM UTC
Death
How can you love me more than words describe but when I see myself I just feel shame and empty inside? How can you be so happy to see me but I can barely look in the mirror? How can you be so afraid to lose me but the mere thought of dying brings a smile followed by tears?
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Dec 18, 2019
Dec 18, 2019 at 10:50 PM UTC
How?
A few minutes ago I hate myself a bit more than I usually do. I cut my thigh. One single cut, but it was at that moment I realized I was...alone. I can’t tell my mom she’d be upset. Couldn’t tell My brother he’d tell mom. Couldn’t tell My other brother I was scared to. I also wanted to die but couldn’t because of my son and I hated that. I also hated that I hated that. 1 year and 1 month. 13 months. 395 days. Gone. Because I was a weak.
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Dec 11, 2019
Dec 11, 2019 at 10:35 AM UTC
13 months since...
I don’t know and nothing is all I feel; it’s all I think. My muscles aren’t responding or maybe my brain just didn’t tell them to do anything I don’t know. My eyes however haven’t stopped flowing. Other than my heart, which I feel beating behind my eyes, seems to be working
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Dec 11, 2019
Dec 11, 2019 at 10:31 AM UTC
I don’t know..
Empty rooms and empty chairs, No one present here nor there. Week by week I stand alone, And when it ends is still unknown. I fill the emptiness with puzzles and games, And try my hardest to not blame. But every single time I've tried, I feel a darkness grow inside. I loathe for this, I loathe for that, I loathe myself for being fat. I loathe my feeling so many things That aren't grounded realities. Things like thinking I no longer look nice, All because he's stopped telling me every night. And things like he just doesnt love me as much, That he'd rather be far away and such. A part of me knows that these things aren't true, And that thinking they are is a certain miscue. But it's hard to look up when I'm all by myself, So I hide all my worries on a deep mental shelf. And there on my shelf shall all my fears stay, As I make myself live each and every day. I put on a smile and don't let anyone know, That deep down inside, I truly feel low.
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Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017 at 6:53 PM UTC
Lonliness