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I'm a big fish in a small pond I dream big I see strong I dig deep To find what's wrong Bring it to the surface Where it belongs To be processed and addressed; Reclassified To bring me closer to success.
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Jul 22, 2021
Jul 22, 2021 at 3:26 AM UTC
#100
Mummified me tight in her web, she finds it funny that my eyes are left open. I shake but I cannot listen and I cannot scream and she stares until my heart is broken. she whispers and I read her lips: "I am fate, and you were held firm in my clutches ever since man has fallen. "Lay, watch, and twitch and remember my dear, every breath you take is testimony that you were chosen."
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May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 10:44 PM UTC
Fate
My feet are above the ground, Like a rocket ship with nothing in the way, I take off, And I keep going. I just keep going... No longer restricted by the confounds of flesh, By birth and by death. I leave behind who I was, and now I’m I am.
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Apr 11, 2019
Apr 11, 2019 at 8:46 PM UTC
I Am
I can not do what you do so I sit on the sidelines and watch. I see you dance and clap and all I can do is scream! Must I mention, it is not joy. It is for a change so I can be the same.
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 11:54 AM UTC
Restricted
An ability we can't explain, the ability to feel our love. To feel it still even through pain, what a gift it is, or so it was. Before we forgot and squandered, loosing it to the infinite. Before we rationed and excluded, basking it in pride. Before we took the reins and pulled too tight, what once was boundless...now out of sight.
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Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 9:20 AM UTC
Reservations
eyes peel open              my nostrils tingle as the smells of soil and sweat                           permeate the air the heat is unbearable     breathing shallow             movement restricted I only wish to wipe the sleep from my eyes *who would prevent me                          such a simple request?* anxiety billows for                 a brief moment       surrendering complacently as the frequency of my rising chest                                     slows I sense my sightless eyes dimming resting shut  I am so tired...
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Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 5:03 PM UTC
6ft Syndrome
The hands that haven't held The legs that haven't walked The skin that has never felt The eyes that couldn't see The ears that couldn't hear I owned the mouth that never spoke, filled with words hidden behind lips that filled my throat but, I couldn't speak the last and only thing I felt was the awful feeling of being choked whenever I spoke I was creature with no energy just like a flower with no petals I wasn't able to bloom I wasn't able to grow - Kaya
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Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 3:20 AM UTC
Apetalous
Sadly this woman with the biggest heart Has to rip out her most loving thoughts She must turn cold For over her, people just rolled She alway knew they would But she still did what she could She so desperately wanted to belive That everyone that was truly in need Would appreciate what she did She had the faith of a little kid She believed there was good in most everyone But now with all of that, she was done There finally was that last straw Finally a line she had to draw This decision was agonizingly painful After this, she didn't know what she would live for, would she be able The pain of this was greater then all that had came before This killing of her own soul hurt so much more Than what any human monster had inflicted With this her heart would truly be restricted She took the broken pieces of her being Ground them to dust as tears down her checks kept steaming She knew with this final self inflicted act There would be no coming back There would be no more love, no hope If not for drugs, how would she cope With one last sigh One last cry She pounded what made her, her to dust She felt no other way out, it was a must The chain that bound her to helping others just turned to rust It broke and fell away She wondered why on this earth would she now stay For with all the good she had tried to spread into this wicked place She sincerely thought it would be returned when difficulties she faced Only to find No other human would act as kind Every single person she tured to Only replied "what can I do" "I would help, but I must put myself first" Her loving heart made her feel so utterly cursed So she decided that was it No longer with the afflicted would she sit No longer would she put others before herself They could all fall off the ******* shelf This decision was not freeing It was gonna **** her completely, her fragile soul, her being It was gonna break the ties that held her to this life But when she need help, no one was there to end the strife Now this woman with the biggest heart Has to rip out her most loving thoughts Now she is as cold and heartless as the rest But look really hard, there is still the stain of tears upon her breast
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Jun 26, 2016
Jun 26, 2016 at 6:07 PM UTC
Helping Hand is No More
Sadly this woman with the biggest heart Has to rip out her most loving thoughts She must turn cold For over her, people just rolled She alway knew they would But she still did what she could She so desperately wanted to belive That everyone that was truly in need Would appreciate what she did She had the faith of a little kid She believed there was good in most everyone But now with all of that, she was done There finally was that last straw Finally a line she had to draw This decision was agonizingly painful After this, she didn't know what she would live for, would she be able The pain of this was greater then all that had came before This killing of her own soul hurt so much more Than what any human monster had inflicted With this her heart would truly be restricted She took the broken pieces of her being Ground them to dust as tears down her checks kept steaming She knew with this final self inflicted act There would be no coming back There would be no more love, no hope If not for drugs, how would she cope With one last sigh One last cry She pounded what made her, her to dust She felt no other way out, it was a must The chain that bound her to helping others just turned to rust It broke and fell away She wondered why on this earth would she now stay For with all the good she had tried to spread into this wicked place She sincerely thought it would be returned when difficulties she faced Only to find No other human would act as kind Every single person she tured to Only replied "what can I do" "I would help, but I must put myself first" Her loving heart made her feel so utterly cursed So she decided that was it No longer with the afflicted would she sit No longer would she put others before herself They could all fall off the ******* shelf This decision was not freeing It was gonna **** her completely, her fragile soul, her being It was gonna break the ties that held her to this life But when she need help, no one was there to end the strife Now this woman with the biggest heart Has to rip out her most loving thoughts Now she is as cold and heartless as the rest But look really hard, there is still the stain of tears upon her breast
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Constricted Restricted Bound Helpless Four fears remaining constant
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 10:15 PM UTC
Fearing
Suffocation isn’t always hand on neck, Squeezing, pressing down, Blocking off air death. Suffocation is the man with his tie tightened around his tender neck Every morning 5 am He is told he needs to work hard (and overtime) to feed his family Does he not care about them? Whittle his soul down to a single strand of consciousness, Again and again, Exhausted, stressed Failing relationships, Doesn’t speak to parents, Hasn’t seen wife in 3 weeks But work, yes bills, more important. Work till you die, Profit first everything else second. Suffocation is the student, Hand squeezing pen, Eyes shut, Failed another test, She didn’t have time to study, Deadlines, Homework, Projects, overwhelming, pushing her down, tries to scream fails can't breathe, silent cries for help unnoticed, passion for learning depleted cold and dark and alone, anxious, trembling, when will the next test be when will the next failure come when suffocating dying restricted. not always hand on neck restricting. Sometimes, it's the restriction of the mind;restriction of the soul.
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 8:49 AM UTC
suffocation
I feel constricted Like the buds of flowers closed at night The eyes watching me And trembling at the sight of me Because I've been worn by the chains And not the other way around My soul's been twisted and churned And ground into a fine powdered sand The fear is crippling It consumes It devours It leaves me stripped of all I once was And of all I wanted to be Until I feel empty inside A hollow wisp Of someone I once admired
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 9:31 PM UTC
Someone I Once Admired
The doors were shut again. Inside, Wendy could hear him typing. The click and clack sounds of a typewriter had grown monotonous to her, a never-ending drone, so unlike a human heartbeat. Jack said, “Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you’re breaking my concentration. You’re distracting me. And it will then take time to get back to where I was.” She placed her hands up on the doors and put her ear to the wood, listening. Click and clack, click and clack. Jack said, “When you come in here and you hear me typing, or whether you don’t hear me typing, or whatever the **** you hear me doing; when I’m in here, it means that I am working. That means don’t come in.” Jack asked, “Now, do you think you can handle that?” Wendy liked to believe the best sound in the world was the sound of creation. Jack favoured the clatter of typewriter keys. Wendy preferred the sound of laughter. Wendy wondered, with all this typing going on, if she could still keep her place in his heart.
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 6:56 PM UTC
Restricted Area
I am always in solitary confinement: Just me, in my body, with a vague yet distant Presence of others
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Feb 13, 2016
Feb 13, 2016 at 9:32 PM UTC
Solitary Confinement
**Nothing in this world hurts more than being bound to someone who wants to remain boundless.**
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Feb 11, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 at 4:04 AM UTC
Prisoner of Love
I can't fly without feathers So why are you putting me in tethers I can't swim without fins And still your sticking in the pins And pulling off that little dolls limbs Like right out of the fairytale grimms' Your vicious as hell with that voodoo doll of twine You made in my image so it would be mine I constantly feel the shivers run down my spine I don't understand why you keep me here entrapped And leave all of our potential so untapped Instead you think I must be kidnapped It's trust that you're so desperately lacking Wish you would just relize it's not me that's been slacking
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Jan 28, 2016
Jan 28, 2016 at 11:19 AM UTC
Voodoo Doll
Can't even join the rat race Lonely, sitting here caged.
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Jul 16, 2015
Jul 16, 2015 at 3:58 PM UTC
Bound (10w)
In my world people will not have to stop themselves from saying "I love you" to others no matter their gender or relation to me, because if I love them as a person, then I love them none the less. You see now in days, we as people give no love. It is feared. Opposite genders feel uncomfortable hugging one another, need to say making any physical contact at all. Why is showing love so limited and why does it feel like love is not okay? We as people must pick and choose who we can verbally say "I love you" to. But I love every one! Old, young, man, woman, shy, loud, weak, strong, beautiful, ugly. I love them all! I love that I am not alone on this world and that I met you. We are all God's children, so why not act like sisters and brothers. If I like someone, I LIKE THEM! Why should I be afraid to show compassion, THIS IS WHAT WE ARE MADE FOR! We are living creatures who require physical contact, affection and LOVE from both MEN and WOMAN. Have you ever noticed when you DO hug the opposite *** it feels so GREAT, so COMFORTING yet so AWKWARD? When you tell some one I love you, even if they may not be super close it feels good to say yet odd? That is because we need love as people just like we need food. Men need love! They too need to be told they are handsome, they too need to be hugged and comforted when they cry be told everything is okay. & Women need love! They too need to be told they are beautiful, feel cared for and comforted when they feel hurt. We need each other, so why does society put a large wall in comforting one another, having inoccent connections and bonds with people of the opposite *** and race? So why is showing common love so limited and restricted, why is love not okay?
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 8:49 PM UTC
Why is love not okay?
In my world people will not have to stop themselves from saying "I love you" to others no matter their gender or relation to me, because if I love them as a person, then I love them none the less. You see now in days, we as people give no love. It is feared. Opposite genders feel uncomfortable hugging one another, need to say making any physical contact at all. Why is showing love so limited and why does it feel like love is not okay? We as people must pick and choose who we can verbally say "I love you" to. But I love every one! Old, young, man, woman, shy, loud, weak, strong, beautiful, ugly. I love them all! I love that I am not alone on this world and that I met you. We are all God's children, so why not act like sisters and brothers. If I like someone, I LIKE THEM! Why should I be afraid to show compassion, THIS IS WHAT WE ARE MADE FOR! We are living creatures who require physical contact, affection and LOVE from both MEN and WOMAN. Have you ever noticed when you DO hug the opposite *** it feels so GREAT, so COMFORTING yet so AWKWARD? When you tell some one I love you, even if they may not be super close it feels good to say yet odd? That is because we need love as people just like we need food. Men need love! They too need to be told they are handsome, they too need to be hugged and comforted when they cry be told everything is okay. & Women need love! They too need to be told they are beautiful, feel cared for and comforted when they feel hurt. We need each other, so why does society put a large wall in comforting one another, having inoccent connections and bonds with people of the opposite *** and race? So why is showing common love so limited and restricted, why is love not okay?
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trying to find the right words, words that mask or conceal, my mind immediately flashes to an aspect of life that little can be revealed. green leaves, peekaboo rays of light through the shade of an old oak tree, such things are familiar, easily relatable, and bare nothing about me. i don’t want the world knowing, what goes on in my head, so i’ll write about nature when I’m forced to pick up a pen. but someday, i want to share myself with someone, let them know the inner workings of my head. but right now, i’m not ready, i share scenes of nature instead. and i’ll continue to write about the birds hopping along sidewalks and squirrels dancing among the brush, until i can open up to others, do away with my hush.
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 3:07 AM UTC
*only mine to know*
Lost;          stuck Free me    shackles wrapped    clenched suffocating not even near          but far drive away    rearview mirror, you wash away   I waved farewell spinning                   turning                                  endless fly and.                         go.                                get. you ask me why       or how answerless I remain. putting the pieces          together and          apart Riddles;                   I solve, Let myself know myself But fearing   questions’ answer for knowledge       Knowing knowledge Knows no bounds. Sometimes there are       tears but smiling       floating mysteries       solved slowly simply   unraveled and still shackled but breaking       free And one day I will be                                           in the sky, wings spread           to sunset: I’ve found it.
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
Shackles