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#ruminating
The things that replay in my head. Over and over and over. They won't come out of my lips, No matter how badly I want to know. Fear keeps me silent.
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Oct 17, 2023
Oct 17, 2023 at 10:13 PM UTC
I Want to Know
My facade chases wind Feigning hot I actually run cold The give of the years taking note Of my spill Above the old watch talks now. Being the contempt of points I will have to gather once. Eventually the control we've both lost dwindles further outside amongst the throng. Staying near the window to figure it all out an appealing mechanism has a lost lullaby we miss. I decided to go out for a walk.
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Feb 10
Feb 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM UTC
Borrowed Winds
**** my senses through my vices Ill never taste that silver lining Staring out the window unable to hear you anymore
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Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM UTC
Muted
the anxiety creature made up of slime and ooze with sharp claws that dig into my mind trying to drag me down with it whispering in my ears making me tremble and ruminate i try to run and escape it but it always catches up i won't stop running from it soon enough it will tire and i will be free
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May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM UTC
anxiety creature
brainless shuffle c r a w l i n g nerveless fog lifts. tingling fingers gut drop (you have one of those now) look up, knife to chest the seasons passed without you. and just like that you can mourn the end of love.
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Jan 30, 2022
Jan 30, 2022 at 11:51 AM UTC
on the brain starved
Tangled unfinished thoughts rehearse midnight waltzes in attempts to fill the gaps left behind by transient dreams
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Mar 12, 2021
Mar 12, 2021 at 1:43 PM UTC
Midnight
we always look for ways to save ourselves but not to shelter the miseries of others empathy is dead in this modern age fragile labels aren’t made for people what’s unspoken of in the darkness keeps us from our true potential devastated with life we push through until we die in the circle of life survival is never an option
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Dec 8, 2020
Dec 8, 2020 at 12:33 PM UTC
rüminashon
You say that you’re proud  That I’m by your side  You shout it out loud  While your chest being wide Am I your crown Making you feel like a king Or just a bangle  Adoring you but meaningless Am I the light  Of the candle that illuminates you  Or just the wax  The leftover after the fire burns out  I question myself  I have all these doubts  They sit on the shelf  Covered by clouds  I think what would be  If it was not me  Would you be still happy If I was nobody
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Apr 3, 2020
Apr 3, 2020 at 1:08 PM UTC
Jewel
I contemplate the inevitability of                    Death                           Over the course of a Cigarette As Otis Redding plays.                          I should really stop smoking...
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Aug 22, 2019
Aug 22, 2019 at 11:26 AM UTC
Morning philosophy
He asked, "What am I supposed to feel looking at these old photos?" I guess i wanted him to never forget those memories The ones we had together And how much happiness it has brought me. But also remember that it's all gone And i have been ruminating about those times How deeply sad i am Maybe you felt nothing But those pictures, Brings meaning to me, Even if you don't feel the same
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Jul 25, 2019
Jul 25, 2019 at 10:44 AM UTC
Reminiscing
this is to my old mister: i saw that you deleted pictures. it spread relief through my veins. it hurts you, too, still, to see my face. are you angry? or is she jealous? am i still pretty? how're the fellas? do you miss me? you still a coward? pushing petals off cut flowers. candy with nuts- your special garlic. i eat them whole and push you farther than you can move or where you've settled. for the worst, you've won some medals. for the best, you've let me better, but why did you send me that short letter? there's no time bomb in my belly, for sometime I was unsullied of thoughts of you, thoughts of she, thoughts of them, thoughts of we, don't know why, i'm still vindictive since from my heart, you've been evicted. i wont respond, you get none, no more of you, from here on.
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Nov 12, 2018
Nov 12, 2018 at 12:34 AM UTC
*banish spell*
A box of shadows lies dormant in a cluttered altar Seething in circuitous rage it ravages for a state of tranquility Clinging to clichés it finds a familiar maze of cognition to pace Crunch Time Crunch Less of it... A prosaic necrosis leeching at the lungs of the pure until the labyrinth halts and coughs for another chance to die But there A smile permeates the glass of the half empty and the being forges on in the wish of a kiss beyond birth But no one could want such a putrescent jinn A miscegenation of indolence and desperation half-cocked to quake at the cackle of a shred of hope... Her illiterate alliterations go as far as a pebble into the deep where once She found her depths
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Nov 11, 2018
Nov 11, 2018 at 4:07 AM UTC
The Graveyard
i live in the past as if its home it is disgusting it causes me pain because every corner or room the backyard another memory creeps up and im pathetic it makes me uncapable unlovable uncomfortable i remember each sound touch voice reminds me of each person screaming ****** assault malicious predator i live in the past as if im stuck there and i am
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Jun 3, 2018
Jun 3, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
the past
Tentative tendrils of memories encircle me today. I eat, bathe and walk with them; whispering sweet words; grazing my ears with kisses of the past. I can feel myself weaken, give in to your misty essence. What place are you going to take me to this time? I know what images you please yourself with are at least real. Were real. Not just sickly cravings, fantasies of an escapist. But reminiscing can be painful too. You coalesce at the corners of my vision; Beautiful, frail beings of floating moments. My own ghosts; you don’t haunt or stalk, but drift alongside me. Every few minutes I’ll walk through you, and images will flood me. Voices, colours, senses, emotions; a pocket of the past to relive again. This one is fresh. Recently swaddled and placed in storage. How considerate of you. To make me remember what the rapid fall for a new love is like. The reserved smiles, thinking you can peek and they wouldn’t see. The shy touches, always longing for something heated. The small toss and throw, between words, gestures, hands and hearts and lips aching to be closer. The world vanished, ****** into its own black hole, when I laid eyes on you. I melted. Seeped into warm, golden streams. You left me feeling bold, my desire unchallenged; you pulled it out of me like pulling string out of its coil. Your arms slowly made the journey around my slender waist; holding me close. I could nuzzle and cling and I never wanted you to pull away. Ever again. Wrapped in each other’s warmth below the map of stars and before the beacons of the city, our kiss was slow and long, sweet, sugary taste and warming. A fire at the first spark, rising from ash. Ghost, why trail me like this? On those days I have yet to see him, I still crave him. You remind me of that lingering pull. I sit on that bench where we embraced, but he isn’t there. All I know is you ghost. Hovering beside me, a still, pale presence moulding into him. But you are empty. A white spectre leaving me wanting. Stop shedding my memories before me like dead skin. They were. Stop reminding me. I’m still left yearning after your visit to my mind. Rooting through the archives, trudging through my still weeping pieces. I pull away, and your vision collapses. Finally you fade into nothing. I can be at peace without your play.
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Aug 2, 2016
Aug 2, 2016 at 10:41 PM UTC
Tendrils of Memories Circle
Tentative tendrils of memories encircle me today. I eat, bathe and walk with them; whispering sweet words; grazing my ears with kisses of the past. I can feel myself weaken, give in to your misty essence. What place are you going to take me to this time? I know what images you please yourself with are at least real. Were real. Not just sickly cravings, fantasies of an escapist. But reminiscing can be painful too. You coalesce at the corners of my vision; Beautiful, frail beings of floating moments. My own ghosts; you don’t haunt or stalk, but drift alongside me. Every few minutes I’ll walk through you, and images will flood me. Voices, colours, senses, emotions; a pocket of the past to relive again. This one is fresh. Recently swaddled and placed in storage. How considerate of you. To make me remember what the rapid fall for a new love is like. The reserved smiles, thinking you can peek and they wouldn’t see. The shy touches, always longing for something heated. The small toss and throw, between words, gestures, hands and hearts and lips aching to be closer. The world vanished, ****** into its own black hole, when I laid eyes on you. I melted. Seeped into warm, golden streams. You left me feeling bold, my desire unchallenged; you pulled it out of me like pulling string out of its coil. Your arms slowly made the journey around my slender waist; holding me close. I could nuzzle and cling and I never wanted you to pull away. Ever again. Wrapped in each other’s warmth below the map of stars and before the beacons of the city, our kiss was slow and long, sweet, sugary taste and warming. A fire at the first spark, rising from ash. Ghost, why trail me like this? On those days I have yet to see him, I still crave him. You remind me of that lingering pull. I sit on that bench where we embraced, but he isn’t there. All I know is you ghost. Hovering beside me, a still, pale presence moulding into him. But you are empty. A white spectre leaving me wanting. Stop shedding my memories before me like dead skin. They were. Stop reminding me. I’m still left yearning after your visit to my mind. Rooting through the archives, trudging through my still weeping pieces. I pull away, and your vision collapses. Finally you fade into nothing. I can be at peace without your play.
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