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#self-hate
I hate myself I hate how I don't talk I hate my fake smiles and laughs I hate the mask of makeup I put on my face Just to feel a little prettier I hate how I look Never skinner enough No matter what I do I hate myself I hate how I have no friends And how I will stay at home Cutting my arm into a millions pieces Just to feel something I hate how everyone thinks that I am always like that I hate no one will notice when I cry I hate myself I hate my body I am trapped in and I can't escape I hate how you don't notice how unhappy I am And how I want to die More than anything But you have never seen me happy. Not always depressed With how I think people will think about me. I hate myself But I am trying to feel better But I keep pushing myself down I hate myself I hate myself I hate how you love me I hate how you love my curves And love how I snort when I truly laugh I hate myself But I will love myself if you will stay. I hate how much you love me. I hate myself
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 4:59 PM UTC
~I Hate Myself ~
Just breath in and out But how do I do that? Every breath seems to take more air out Until I am suffocating on nothing at all Breath Take it one step at a time But how do I do that? Every step I take turns into a tumble And now I am falling to my ultimate doom. Breath Everything will work out in the end Or it won't Maybe I was meant to fall and crash and burn The minute I was born Breath Don't worry But it is only going down hill A never ending tumble Until I crash and burn And breath in the smoke Until I suffocate On nothing at all
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Mar 19, 2017
Mar 19, 2017 at 2:52 AM UTC
~ Breath ~
i am so ugly, why am i ugly i am not happening, what is happening, still so ugly, i am trash so minnesota, i am abstract forget my alibi, i am so ugly **** what im worth, i have these maggots inside me living, morbidly filthy deserve to live me, i am so filthy no one has done me, no one i am i have these maggots, here to preserve me i am not me, i am these maggots, they represent me, deserve to live in me, i am so filthy, plz just **** me forget the feeling, i have no feeling simple being, i am so ugly, i feel so ugly, feeling like stealing, i am stealing, breathless feeling senseless beating, set fire to me i am so ugly, so ******* filthy.
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 3:21 PM UTC
Ugly (perpetrators of madness)
Everyday I suffer from self-hate I never know why I have this fate Everytime I smile, I feel insecure I hope there is a cure Giving up has always been an option Because it feels like I have no direction Is living really worthwhile? You feel awful even when you smile I used to imagine a future so bright But now it's just as dark as night Cutting myself seems predictable But I always make sure that it isn't visible
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Feb 9, 2017
Feb 9, 2017 at 8:03 AM UTC
Self-hate
I am not who I think I am— I never said I was Sometimes I’m a monster— swirling, yellowgreen skin, bristly coils of hair sticking out, strumlike underneath your fingertips— sometimes I’m a normal guy, angry and hungry with greasy-tousled greasy locks— or a subaverage woman, curvy and compassionate, warm ***** beckoning to all bereft— most often, I’m a translucent ghost, too little there yet not enough gone, genderless, formless, obsolete
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Dec 9, 2016
Dec 9, 2016 at 3:12 PM UTC
pre-halloween
My impending fear, With danger near, Only increased until I began to see myself wondering how he left without shedding a single tear. And happiness, My biggest weakness, Was on a constant downward spiral into something that made even myself wish to digress. But suddenly, Fairly abruptly, I began to understand how his absence brought me a soft feeling of serenity. My excuses, Hidden bruises, I was reluctant to push the blame onto anyone but myself even though I didn't choose this. People asked me, Quite literally, If I was aware that I smiled brighter and laughed louder now that I've had this epiphany. And finally, Now I can see, I allowed myself to be taken for granted just so I wouldn't have to be lonely. And in the end, I recommend, Looking inside yourself and seeing the broken bonds you must mend.
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Aug 25, 2016
Aug 25, 2016 at 9:12 PM UTC
Ignite Your Own Epiphany
She looks in the mirror; Oh, how ugly! You say. She touches her soft pink lips; And you remind her of her ugly lies. Ugly lies! Ugly lies! Only trash coming from her heart. She looks at her eyes; Her dull, soulless eyes — You tell her, how bland! How flat and bleak! It’s because of all the things That she has seen. She looks at her body; You say, what an ugly mess! You have all these fats Placed in the wrong spots. Why not starve yourself to death? She turns around and looks at her back You remind her Of the ugly gnarled scars And how she was backstabbed By all that she loved Because she is insecure And will never be loved.
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Jul 23, 2016
Jul 23, 2016 at 9:12 AM UTC
Glass of Insecurities
Waiting my turn in ----------------------------- line for the golden star from Self-Gratification. Now to find the shortest aisle.
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Jul 15, 2016
Jul 15, 2016 at 1:29 AM UTC
Shopping for Inner Praise
In the night, my demons come to life. In the night, I lose my will to fight. Joy replaces by fear, laughter becomes tears. No light to be seen. No warmth to be felt. Hiding under the covers, praying for the morning to come. I lost my mind, My body feels numb.
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Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 2:47 PM UTC
Demons
I love you so much, that I think you’ll hate me When I **** in trying to be helpful Instead I get into **** that’s none of my business When I hesitate to tell you something I wait days, or till the last minute And ******* the devil would be scared by your anger You make me go higher, get stronger, be kinder But...is it just because you expect me to? I can’t breath, air too hot for my lungs I feel anything but disgust at myself for being a mistake I can’t see cuz of these tears These ******* ************* tears I love you so, so, so much Yet, your love makes me afraid of you Cuz I think I’ll never deserve it
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Jun 22, 2016
Jun 22, 2016 at 10:29 PM UTC
Love Me, Do You Hate Me?
When you let the mind debate The things you distaste About yourself, what a waste Foolish to take the bait Failing to contemplate The fact were letting self hate dictate Our lives, sealing fate ~~~~~
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 9:04 AM UTC
~ Self Hate ~
if i show you will you understand? how i've outlined these arms vein after vein where sunlight runs i see only lines to trace i got a barcode on my wrists scan me for the price of beauty i am as expensive as what people think of me. do you know what it feels like to attach your worth to weighing scales and waists that never slim down? is this why they call them shoulder blades to cut through your skin to be called "pretty" thigh gaps that map the distance between your legs to make you matter so much you can't stand on your own feet. when you walk the shoes we wear will you know? the path to be called beautiful is full of self-hate and we pay for that bill.
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 9:12 AM UTC
Barcodes
1. assert yourself as someone strong, someone capable make it seem like nothing hurts you it doesn't matter if you slip up sometimes - you're only human but it has to be rare. if you feel like crying, convert it to anger let the rage overwhelm you to the point where you're blind with it let it become so overpowering that it blinds everybody else too the blind won't see your sadness; the blind will avert their eyes in fear 2. you don't feel things like other people do your emotions are never strong, unless you're feeling angry or depressed but you keep those quiet, only ever spoken softly to close friends, these secrets hidden like taboos. you don't care, you don't love don't let them convince you otherwise show them how much apathy you have inside you by letting go of hate and love altogether- when they cut you open, let them find nothing but bland organs; your only colour is red because you do bleed you're still only human but you don't bleed your soul like ink onto journal pages that would mean you feel something - and you don't 3. never smile in photos, never smile in your selfies let them see you're "fine" even if your eyes are shaded with Midnight's charcoal pencils and lined red with Two AM's pencil crayons; the coffee in your hand isn't a sign of exhaustion - you're just bitter no milk, no sugar this helps you succeed with steps 1 and 2 as well you're strong enough to stomach the caustic nature of black coffee, you can't feel it burn your throat on the way down and you don't flinch nor grimace when it lingers on your tongue. you've already bitten back enough of the harsh thoughts that try to slip out like saliva, impossible to miss, impossible to avoid; your tongue is numb to the taste of salts and sours, of words so violent they land blows significant enough to sign death sentences 4. let them know that you are a bomb ticking, teetering, trembling with the temptation to trigger terror your hands stay curled into fists that you'll rarely throw, always ready always willing to go no one will ever say another bad thing about you, and if they do it won't be to your face no one you know is brave enough to look Death straight in the eye and taunt him by now your defenses are so thick and sturdy that they'll call them bomb shells covering what's burning away inside you, unforgiving, toxic but it's your cool, collected carvings of ****** expressions that'll leave them with the most shell-shock. and they'll never find out that the only trigger in you is a self-destruct button because you've always hurt yourself more than you've ever hurt others. you keep it that way, and they'll never know how much you actually do care.
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Apr 13, 2016
Apr 13, 2016 at 7:34 PM UTC
4 rules 4 survival
1. assert yourself as someone strong, someone capable make it seem like nothing hurts you it doesn't matter if you slip up sometimes - you're only human but it has to be rare. if you feel like crying, convert it to anger let the rage overwhelm you to the point where you're blind with it let it become so overpowering that it blinds everybody else too the blind won't see your sadness; the blind will avert their eyes in fear 2. you don't feel things like other people do your emotions are never strong, unless you're feeling angry or depressed but you keep those quiet, only ever spoken softly to close friends, these secrets hidden like taboos. you don't care, you don't love don't let them convince you otherwise show them how much apathy you have inside you by letting go of hate and love altogether- when they cut you open, let them find nothing but bland organs; your only colour is red because you do bleed you're still only human but you don't bleed your soul like ink onto journal pages that would mean you feel something - and you don't 3. never smile in photos, never smile in your selfies let them see you're "fine" even if your eyes are shaded with Midnight's charcoal pencils and lined red with Two AM's pencil crayons; the coffee in your hand isn't a sign of exhaustion - you're just bitter no milk, no sugar this helps you succeed with steps 1 and 2 as well you're strong enough to stomach the caustic nature of black coffee, you can't feel it burn your throat on the way down and you don't flinch nor grimace when it lingers on your tongue. you've already bitten back enough of the harsh thoughts that try to slip out like saliva, impossible to miss, impossible to avoid; your tongue is numb to the taste of salts and sours, of words so violent they land blows significant enough to sign death sentences 4. let them know that you are a bomb ticking, teetering, trembling with the temptation to trigger terror your hands stay curled into fists that you'll rarely throw, always ready always willing to go no one will ever say another bad thing about you, and if they do it won't be to your face no one you know is brave enough to look Death straight in the eye and taunt him by now your defenses are so thick and sturdy that they'll call them bomb shells covering what's burning away inside you, unforgiving, toxic but it's your cool, collected carvings of ****** expressions that'll leave them with the most shell-shock. and they'll never find out that the only trigger in you is a self-destruct button because you've always hurt yourself more than you've ever hurt others. you keep it that way, and they'll never know how much you actually do care.
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i write about you but you do not exist or maybe you do; maybe you do and i'm just talking to myself maybe you're just another part of me that i hate so much i have to talk to you, i have to punish you because i know i shouldn't like the way it feels- and i don't; but i keep coming back for more anyway i amend: i know i shouldn't be addicted to this hatred you tear me open and pull at my frayed edges so that i split apart and lose my functionality - and i let you then i let you thread me back together once more you build my body with thicker wool each time, hoping that one day i'll be warmer, and harder to unravel and you sew my edges with fragile promises of a better future as breakable as the metal pin that bends between your crafty fingers the materials started off so colourful at first, like rainbows maybe that's why i'm so queer though over time you started toning down my personality. as my depression embroidered me, my sexuality dulled purple and black and white and grey you manipulate my patterns. some nights i sleep through, others i don't sleep at all and some nights my strings are stretched so taut across the nightmares that one small pull will undo me i am ripped apart then made into patchwork; there are white seams over my arms you call me a work in progress, damaged goods to be fixed, to be mended: you can't afford replacements that doesn't stop you from looking wishing you could upgrade me into something more, something better and every time i fall apart again i'm left itching with apologies but never to you; i never say sorry for hurting you my only regrets are to those who become collateral damage. i do not apologise to you because you are me, and i am you you are a part of me and i hate you as much as i hate myself.
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Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 at 3:39 PM UTC
me and you
i write about you but you do not exist or maybe you do; maybe you do and i'm just talking to myself maybe you're just another part of me that i hate so much i have to talk to you, i have to punish you because i know i shouldn't like the way it feels- and i don't; but i keep coming back for more anyway i amend: i know i shouldn't be addicted to this hatred you tear me open and pull at my frayed edges so that i split apart and lose my functionality - and i let you then i let you thread me back together once more you build my body with thicker wool each time, hoping that one day i'll be warmer, and harder to unravel and you sew my edges with fragile promises of a better future as breakable as the metal pin that bends between your crafty fingers the materials started off so colourful at first, like rainbows maybe that's why i'm so queer though over time you started toning down my personality. as my depression embroidered me, my sexuality dulled purple and black and white and grey you manipulate my patterns. some nights i sleep through, others i don't sleep at all and some nights my strings are stretched so taut across the nightmares that one small pull will undo me i am ripped apart then made into patchwork; there are white seams over my arms you call me a work in progress, damaged goods to be fixed, to be mended: you can't afford replacements that doesn't stop you from looking wishing you could upgrade me into something more, something better and every time i fall apart again i'm left itching with apologies but never to you; i never say sorry for hurting you my only regrets are to those who become collateral damage. i do not apologise to you because you are me, and i am you you are a part of me and i hate you as much as i hate myself.
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When I'm with friends I am supposed to be happy I am supposed to laugh at their jokes I am supposed to have intellectual discussion I am supposed to talk about love, lust and life I do these things but I don't feel them like I should Warm and fuzzy feelings A sense of accomplishment for the things I do All of which is not there Instead replaced with a sense of numbness A numbness that spreads from the tips of my toes to my watery eyes All of which is directed by my unmanned control panel Sure there are some days that I want to cry But I'm not sad because of anything I'm sad because of indifference Indifference to the pleasure and pain in my life Indifference toward whether or not the people around me love me It seems that the only indifference I don't have is indifference to myself I hate myself for being this way Looking into the past like a pool of water Convinced that I can even do anything besides splash it And when I turn around to look to the future Finding that I am surrounded by a jail cell with bars and no keys Trapped forever in a state of perpetual limbo of pathetic self-pity I find it hard to express myself because when I do I am told repeatedly that I need to put it aside Like it's okay that I am feeling it alone Like it's okay that I feel there are only ever two types of days Bad days or worse days Like it's okay that I pray every day that today won't be a worse day Maybe if I had control it would be okay Maybe if I treated my failures like no big deal it would be okay Maybe if I had a motivation or a sense of purpose it would be okay But I have none of those things So it's not okay Nothing is okay and I will never be okay
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Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 12:49 AM UTC
Feeling Alone
When I'm with friends I am supposed to be happy I am supposed to laugh at their jokes I am supposed to have intellectual discussion I am supposed to talk about love, lust and life I do these things but I don't feel them like I should Warm and fuzzy feelings A sense of accomplishment for the things I do All of which is not there Instead replaced with a sense of numbness A numbness that spreads from the tips of my toes to my watery eyes All of which is directed by my unmanned control panel Sure there are some days that I want to cry But I'm not sad because of anything I'm sad because of indifference Indifference to the pleasure and pain in my life Indifference toward whether or not the people around me love me It seems that the only indifference I don't have is indifference to myself I hate myself for being this way Looking into the past like a pool of water Convinced that I can even do anything besides splash it And when I turn around to look to the future Finding that I am surrounded by a jail cell with bars and no keys Trapped forever in a state of perpetual limbo of pathetic self-pity I find it hard to express myself because when I do I am told repeatedly that I need to put it aside Like it's okay that I am feeling it alone Like it's okay that I feel there are only ever two types of days Bad days or worse days Like it's okay that I pray every day that today won't be a worse day Maybe if I had control it would be okay Maybe if I treated my failures like no big deal it would be okay Maybe if I had a motivation or a sense of purpose it would be okay But I have none of those things So it's not okay Nothing is okay and I will never be okay
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You should have only had one chance And you failed You got another One other chance to be a better brother He tries to look up to You Says he loves You with those eyes Too bad You're too **** busy looking at Your girls thighs Begs for You to listen They call tell You to come over Can't! You're too busy ******* Your lover Respect Your elders You never listen Since after You *** You're too busy pissin' No one thought You were enough! You had to go and get busy working Yet Your ignorance is clouded by the darkness that is lurking Gotta run to this place and You gotta run to that You say, "Nope sorry, see you later, can't chat!" You are a ******* fool You are a liar, a thief You are watching him fail and You don't care! No one needs You, no one wants You No one cares about You for who You are No one wants You for who You are Because the world doesn't want You The world would be better off without You I hope You die because then I wouldn't be able to hate You so much.
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Feb 22, 2016
Feb 22, 2016 at 11:44 PM UTC
I and You
Wow, what even is this? Terrible, terrible. Why do you even bother, it’s no good Thanks, now get out. I admit I’m not the next Frost I may not even be the next anyone. So, without further ado, I’m sorry. I apologize. I’m sorry Blake, Burns, Wordsworth. I’m sorry Poe, Frost, Ginsburg. I’m sorry Plath, Petersen, Bremer. I’m sorry Church, Winter, Dychkowski. I don’t measure up, I don’t even rhyme Selfishness is my reason for this Feelings on paper and thoughts in obscurity All written without form, no scheme Is it real if it doesn’t make sense? I’m not stopping, no, I’ll persevere But I offer up these apologies to those who are poets Somehow I got labeled with you Somehow I ended up here. Poetry. My one stay. An escape I can always turn to. I’m sorry. My apologies. Forgive my excuse.
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Nov 17, 2015
Nov 17, 2015 at 2:38 AM UTC
With Aplogies to Poetry
you’ve broken me  you wrapped your hands around my throat and whispered your words of malign, pulling my hair cutting my tongue  there’s no escaping you, old friend of mine but I lost you in the tremors of my mind used to be filled with beauty, kindness and grace but I don’t even recognise your face I look at you with disgust  and you look back at me with revulsion  I clench my fist, you clench yours  now, shards of glass are on the floor
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Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 7:50 AM UTC
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
Hello Love I'm breaking up with you tired of all the little things you do and I'm telling you now cause I'm feeling blue. You might return, but I don't think so can't believe what you choose to show not that you say what I already know. Forget you loved me time moves on you'll soon see that some love isn't meant to be. Goodbye my inner demon so divine hey Pauline I won't let you shine I'm taking this broken reflection as my sign.
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 11:38 PM UTC
Pauline
Your not good enough, Especially not for him. Your too difficult, Not worth his time. He doesn't love you, Never has, Never will. Why would he? Have you looked in the mirror, Ugly Fat Gross. You pathetic Worthless Piece of **** Why should he love you? You're nothing. Nothing but an object, A *** toy, A play thing. For him to use, And throw away. You're not worth it.
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 12:18 AM UTC
My brain says,
***baby my body is a masterpiece my scars are a work of art every battle and every victory has had its own important part my legs were my canvas my blades were the paint by night I was Picasso and by day I was a saint***
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Sep 18, 2015
Sep 18, 2015 at 11:14 PM UTC
a work of art