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who sanctioned these tears? i might drown. my body is not strong enough to carry the weight i drag myself down. there's whispers, slight tremors of what ailed me. vibration inadequate to challenge what failed me. am i good enough? or does the silent screaming distract too much? ask for too much?
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Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM UTC
the sinking
Coffee in the ashes a chaotic tragedy teetering on the edge of infantile sanity. clawing away at what hindsight gave me; what the mishaps shaved from me. and you keep coming back like a perennial gunshot to the barricades i put up.
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Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM UTC
what i didn't realize
what I would do here reminiscing in your shadows. faint laughs wafting: sweet gestures taunting. I crave what was I cave from what is. call me mentally weak but I doubt anyone else would've lasted this long, cried this hard, held on this strong. what i could do with your tone piercing my sanity I long to be cherished and seen not tolerated or screamed at like a dog. what I should do just waiting to spring from my tongue, boundaries like flowers I never watered; sun-dried and half-withered.
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Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM UTC
coulda/woulda/shoulda
cease my dance and ask why I don't smile I've laid down my wants and needs I've ignored what I know to be true all so you could have your throne. drowning in a pool of my self-loathing and you want to see me splash, perform all I am melting down to be bite-size for you. breaking down to my nerves and fibers, cause you want to see me rip myself to shreds. you want me in a corner so I won't call for help isolated from everyone who cares so I won't tell anyone how I really feel no space in your arms, I feel heavy in your heart I've crushed myself like a soda can no air, no light, no exit art take this sadness for what it is wishing I'd only parted from you then "thus much let me avow" you killed what good I had left bruised the happy I should have now decay replaces the once vibrant green. poised at the ready to take one for the team. selfish as it may be, I can't breathe.
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Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM UTC
selfish
perfection is hard when you're not it bolsters confidence but proves nothing still average but now everyone can see im just here running away from me. aren't I pretty, sometimes refined; a whole vibe check inclined with riddles, jokes, and poems on a dime?
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Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM UTC
perfect
i shatter with the slightest nick a vase teetering on the edge waiting to spill over, the next avalanche. i bruise with the wind: my attempts never severe enough. maybe i want to be saved, maybe i've already given up. the tide holds no grudge against the moon for dragging it.
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Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM UTC
volatile wave
there's an evil in my heart it sings malice and cries for help bvut no hears she calls for revenge and bleeds for the truth to be revealed there's an evbil in my heart that i cant let go of until karma sets you ablaze until the universe gives you back all that youve given me.
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Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM UTC
return to sender
Seem to only be myself When I’m mad When I wanna fight When the world is caving in And I can’t get past the need to scream. Speaking up, speaking out Just to be shut down Never noticed the smile fade Never batted an eye as the world within wasted away.
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Mar 15, 2025
Mar 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM UTC
observant
seem to only be yours When I’m quiet When I’m following your non-existent lead Down into the depths of oblivion. No doubt you’ll lead me to my death No doubt the flowers will spring where I wept. Our causality; A casualty ripped to the marrow. Ruining this reality; So I dissociate, Since I can’t amputate.
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Mar 15, 2025
Mar 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM UTC
a path
Seem to only be alive When I’m breathing But the air is full of sadness And I’m choking on your ego. I wanna learn to forget But my love language is words. All I hear is how much you hate me Or wish I were someone else As if that’s supposed to endear me to you Make me not want to crawl into myself Make me wish turning the wheel wasn’t so easy The letters I wrote, may they never be read But I know there’s only rest for the dead.
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Mar 15, 2025
Mar 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM UTC
untitled
Veiled wounds in the mind A tired soul cant use honey to catch the flies Too many attempts, blood flows when she tries A mirage of water in a desert; The illusion of calm serenity Parched and starving on your ideology I sit wading in the dark, impatiently. What darkness spills forth now As the disillusionment wanes What power in the emptiness The numb causality of being callously tamed: A caged animal will bite the hand that bleeds it.
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Mar 15, 2025
Mar 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM UTC
caged
you disrupt me I'm feeling too much at once I'm feral but only where you cant see the line between what makes you and what hates me is too close unsteady in the corners that shielded me hoping they protect me from what has always eaten away at me I give too much I feel in infinities "Some infinities are bigger than..." I wished and I prayed but hope seems to lag passive aggressively sailing on by demanding I switch to live urging that the way to combat the will to give is to take.
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Mar 17, 2025
Mar 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM UTC
to take
How I wish My eyes were wrong And I didn't see You sin How I wish My ears were gone And I didn't hear You with him How I wish My hands wouldn't shake And I didn't feel You betray me How I wish My words would come And I didn't silently wish You to disappear
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Sep 20, 2020
Sep 20, 2020 at 3:53 AM UTC
How I Wish
A lifetime is short But a minute is a very long time
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Apr 13, 2020
Apr 13, 2020 at 2:41 AM UTC
Law of Compensation
*create the longest distance twixt hearts in Love and sometimes they never bridge from the far apart they're torn they never fall back close, the deep canyons of doubt can't let them no matter how bravely they fight however much they try they can't hold tight lies are thieves who rob the spark wound and leave their mark one that may mean a forever without return to together*
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Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 2:36 AM UTC
Lies