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#selfdestruct
i have the terrible gift of foresight seeing the future before it happens the ability to bend time when i look closely in the mirror you know what they always say 'with great power, comes great responsibility' but my power is destructive i have already built ruins before the foundation is laid it is a terrible habit sneaking glances at the ending i would have gone blind stopping everything from changing hindsight offers no comfort when i already know the end i've seen it myself because i played a hand in it
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Dec 2, 2023
Dec 2, 2023 at 2:36 PM UTC
the fortune teller
Faking it til I make it, but there's a monkey on my back. This normal way, I have to say, is starting to show cracks. Turn up to work and get boring **** done, be nice to the ******** who think they are fun. Clean up my jokes and censor my speech, **** corporate blood like a well behaved leech. I'm dying inside and I know this shit's killing me. I feel the old poisonous tentacles pulling me. Just get ****** up, and **** it all off, live your worst life, the one that you love.
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Jul 13, 2022
Jul 13, 2022 at 7:11 AM UTC
What the monkey says...
I can't remember the last time I've known such anticipation I had forgotten what innocence looked like Felt like Urging the agitated cells in my being to settle To be patient, to resist the burning ache The intrusive impulses To push too fast To hide my heart behind my body To self-destruct
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Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021 at 6:50 PM UTC
Forgotten Innocence
6 years old loves barbies plays outside learning to ride a bike shes getting taller 9 years old loves chapstick flavors walks outside rides her bike everywhere she is the tallest in her class 14 years old loves mascara runs outside to burn off the cupcake bike sits alone she is the biggest in her class 16 years old loves black runs lines down her arms, she doesnt see the sun she drives around for hours thinking about everything but nothing she is shrinking 18 years old loves loneliness runs and runs and runs from herself she drives around hoping that she will be strong enough to make it home she is breaking slowly 20 years old loves skipping meals goes running until she feels like she's going to pass out, then runs another mile she drives around thinking about her suicide attempt and thinks about heading home she doesn't even know if home is a place or a feeling or if its real lines going up her thigh now because she found out that wrists make people worry 23 years old loves medicine and **** and alcohol goes running and then to work and then tries to sleep but never can so she turns on phoebe bridgers and goes on a drive at 3am she decided that home was a place on her childhood roof looking at the stars but her parents sold the house she got a tattoo instead of making her own scars because if she’s going to be in pain anyways someone might as well make art out of it- but she found the tattoo didn’t hurt her at all so the grid on her thigh came back anyways. people don't understand the process of self destruction it started a long time ago and it will never end until she does.
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Oct 12, 2021
Oct 12, 2021 at 2:10 AM UTC
growing up
6 years old loves barbies plays outside learning to ride a bike shes getting taller 9 years old loves chapstick flavors walks outside rides her bike everywhere she is the tallest in her class 14 years old loves mascara runs outside to burn off the cupcake bike sits alone she is the biggest in her class 16 years old loves black runs lines down her arms, she doesnt see the sun she drives around for hours thinking about everything but nothing she is shrinking 18 years old loves loneliness runs and runs and runs from herself she drives around hoping that she will be strong enough to make it home she is breaking slowly 20 years old loves skipping meals goes running until she feels like she's going to pass out, then runs another mile she drives around thinking about her suicide attempt and thinks about heading home she doesn't even know if home is a place or a feeling or if its real lines going up her thigh now because she found out that wrists make people worry 23 years old loves medicine and **** and alcohol goes running and then to work and then tries to sleep but never can so she turns on phoebe bridgers and goes on a drive at 3am she decided that home was a place on her childhood roof looking at the stars but her parents sold the house she got a tattoo instead of making her own scars because if she’s going to be in pain anyways someone might as well make art out of it- but she found the tattoo didn’t hurt her at all so the grid on her thigh came back anyways. people don't understand the process of self destruction it started a long time ago and it will never end until she does.
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burn all the study notes smash the greenhouse windows destroy the lab equipment and flood the basement storage shell anything personal shuck any valuables abandon this invested waste become unpossessed unburdenable unpossessioned you think your heart is broken ? her token is silt in memory take it to the streets at night sully it thoroughly and file off the organs remaining operations make it un-abusable and option-less what about your face ? bleed away you recognize nothing bleed actual jail from your eyes and crawl from the fight that mauled you claim your part in the background a pant of the great huffin' lose yourself in the noise the trade the interference the indifference find you're a vile version and drag this edition to it's rotten point the lowest style of limb where you needn't fend where you are securely unmended a gentleman approaches... - PEDDLE YOUR WORTH   AFORE IT IS TAKEN ? you peer from pinhole - THANK YOU ; I AM DONE he looks 'the you' over - RIGHT YOU ARE you pass the city border beyond the last streetlight you have earned ghost now you may be of some use now 'you' are not                                         - canvas
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Jan 6, 2020
Jan 6, 2020 at 7:06 PM UTC
Jime
she liked vibrant colors. how could she not? i mean, see how striking red looked against the paleness of her wrists
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Jul 8, 2019
Jul 8, 2019 at 10:32 AM UTC
vibrant colors
writing you poems feels like relapsing into self-destruction
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Jul 8, 2019
Jul 8, 2019 at 12:58 AM UTC
venice
you — kissing the scars on my skin; such a delicate, carefully crafted form of poetry, honey, i will lay it down apollo's altar. your lips. my wrists. again. and again. and for a moment there, they don't look like a bedlam of veins cut open. for a moment there, they look nowhere near the metaphors used in place of my self-destruction.
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Jul 7, 2019
Jul 7, 2019 at 8:44 AM UTC
a poetry idea:
I always end up Self-destructing, leaving those Close wounded or dead.
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Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 2:43 PM UTC
Casualties (Haiku)
Please take a seat In the back of my head Stop hijacking my thoughts And wishing me dead Hand over the reins I'll take it from here You will self destruct And you're insincere I look to the future I welcome the new You served no purpose And I am stronger than you
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Mar 18, 2018
Mar 18, 2018 at 11:08 AM UTC
Voices
When I fall for a guy it's like doing ****** Barely eating because he turns my stomach inside out when he kisses me with tongue (and he knows it). Restless sleeping because I hear my skin begging him to touch me (and he knows it). I trace lustful track marks, reveling in the ravaged fallout but ignoring the dark hollows under my eyes and ribs poking out from crop tops-- they don't bother me so naturally my friends give a full length Ted Talk on "Being Independent: Don't Get Attached and Give Him Everything He Wants 101" Family doesn't even ask but tell me he's not good enough, handing out cryptic warnings like condoms from the RA that isn't worth listening to. So naturally I ruin their interventions with sleepover sexcapades that not even a wine-drunk binge can fool me into thinking is real. His pretty words whispered into my ear are needles into my arm--facilitating illusions that are just delusions.
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Jan 19, 2018
Jan 19, 2018 at 3:20 PM UTC
Independently Dependent
*if happiness was a cake, i wouldn't get a slice. i would circle around it, smelling, wanting & drooling over it. but never daring to take a slice. waiting for everyone to take their share. & when everyone has taken one or two, i see the empty cake plate & sigh. my stomach grumbles at me again. i am hungry, starved of food again. but i refuse to take a slice of cake. & like a sick girl, if i was offered a bite of someone else's slice & i ate it, i'd ***** purging myself of the things i'm not allowed to have. because i'm not a girl who deserves this cake. & i cry myself to sleep asking myself "why"? why can't i just eat the cake & be happy? but i still refuse to take a slice of cake. because it seems so much easier when i'm empty.*
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Jul 27, 2017
Jul 27, 2017 at 9:03 AM UTC
cake {i.}
Come and take me, My misery's attacking me, You don't have to save it, Just destroy it so it's gone. I look at myself and think, I should just purposely ***** up more. If it's easy for life to **** me up, Then surely I get to go further. Nothing's okay, There's just always a facade, To satisfy the rules, Because the world will keep turning either way. Of course I'm not going to sit and complain, Vocally every second of the day. When I'm socially active around others, What they see is normal, For me at least, Even if in the background I hear screaming, Of my thoughts never sorting themselves out, So instead I welcome more: Everything that eventually "left me", Why don't you come back for some more? If destruction's where life is taking me, Then why shouldn't I join in, Just another bad habit, Won't bring the end that closer, If anything it will make myself see, How much I know this is getting, Too tough for me to be. I know how I'm acting, Even if you do not, I know I contradict myself, I can't just tell you the truth, I need to do what it is I want to prove, Although that disproves what I assure you, By about a thousand degrees, From before I hear my own last screams, As I once again ignore my very own beliefs. Never going back, They're so sure that's the truth, Most of the time I have been too, I know how to convince, After I finally gained trust back. The issues are almost irrelevant to me, Because I've taken to just concentrating, On exactly what I'm doing now, Because I gave up the effort of relying on the aftermath. I know the next time, That this comes to light, It will probably just be even worse, Maybe it's half why I need my secrets, To pretend they don't happen, That they don't matter, Because I'm back to believing that's true. Don't save it, Just take it. I'm finished with trying to preserve it, I've found there's no use, While looking for something else without a clue, Because everything's just impossible, And I don't want to have to, Get to where I cannot reach, Maybe other people do see things in me, Although I'm often self-positive, In general terms, I still don't see the point in being, When I show up places, It's not like I have a choice, I've just always mostly been obedient, If you dismiss the scratches I have made, They won't forget the indentations, Because they felt it too, They felt me drop, crack, break and watched me, Pick myself back up again, So going back downstairs is silent, Avoiding the inevitable from happening a second time: Prolonging my pain, Deafening this angry silence from them, To lengthen out the disappointment, They must one day receive.
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Jul 6, 2017
Jul 6, 2017 at 10:09 AM UTC
Please Don't Save Me Again
Come and take me, My misery's attacking me, You don't have to save it, Just destroy it so it's gone. I look at myself and think, I should just purposely ***** up more. If it's easy for life to **** me up, Then surely I get to go further. Nothing's okay, There's just always a facade, To satisfy the rules, Because the world will keep turning either way. Of course I'm not going to sit and complain, Vocally every second of the day. When I'm socially active around others, What they see is normal, For me at least, Even if in the background I hear screaming, Of my thoughts never sorting themselves out, So instead I welcome more: Everything that eventually "left me", Why don't you come back for some more? If destruction's where life is taking me, Then why shouldn't I join in, Just another bad habit, Won't bring the end that closer, If anything it will make myself see, How much I know this is getting, Too tough for me to be. I know how I'm acting, Even if you do not, I know I contradict myself, I can't just tell you the truth, I need to do what it is I want to prove, Although that disproves what I assure you, By about a thousand degrees, From before I hear my own last screams, As I once again ignore my very own beliefs. Never going back, They're so sure that's the truth, Most of the time I have been too, I know how to convince, After I finally gained trust back. The issues are almost irrelevant to me, Because I've taken to just concentrating, On exactly what I'm doing now, Because I gave up the effort of relying on the aftermath. I know the next time, That this comes to light, It will probably just be even worse, Maybe it's half why I need my secrets, To pretend they don't happen, That they don't matter, Because I'm back to believing that's true. Don't save it, Just take it. I'm finished with trying to preserve it, I've found there's no use, While looking for something else without a clue, Because everything's just impossible, And I don't want to have to, Get to where I cannot reach, Maybe other people do see things in me, Although I'm often self-positive, In general terms, I still don't see the point in being, When I show up places, It's not like I have a choice, I've just always mostly been obedient, If you dismiss the scratches I have made, They won't forget the indentations, Because they felt it too, They felt me drop, crack, break and watched me, Pick myself back up again, So going back downstairs is silent, Avoiding the inevitable from happening a second time: Prolonging my pain, Deafening this angry silence from them, To lengthen out the disappointment, They must one day receive.
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An ashtray full of buts smoked away by conversations of the past. I'll show you open wounds that can't be healed, If you tell me secrets that, til then, they had last. Hang up those shoes with holes of adventure, on the subsiquencial line to nothingness. It's not as if we'll spawn again, you've already left me to forget, but you can not pretend that none of this was worth anything, that you wouldn't come back if it hadn't gone to **** You can't just blame me for the things that you did! Untied laces, Missing pieces, empty bowls and missing lighters. unforgotten memories eating at me, the person i was taunting the person I've become. I've always heard the weak pull down the strong. these inevitably destructive visions, unfinished cigarettes, half empty bottles flat in the morning, stolen clothing and broken glass. I doubt whatever this seems to be, the feeling that hits me from the past, a confused, somehow nostalgic me. Yet, everything is better now, no one to be harmed by and no one to soak up disrespect from, only a perfect protray of everything I lacked before, and this.. this is what I've been in need of, a reliability that I love and they may love me in return.
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Dec 8, 2016
Dec 8, 2016 at 5:17 PM UTC
Nastalgic Veins
I used to think love was when someone gave you a warm tingly feeling, If cherry chap-stick erupted into an emotion, If cotton candy could bleed. Now I know that love is heavy. Love is heavy and sweet, with occasional bitter layers in between; love has a mouth on it. Love will keep you in line. Love will blur the lines entirely but still expect you to remain inside them. When you feel love, you become drenched in it, you are simply sopping wet with irrational decisions spawned out of love. It is a weight I will gladly carry. I will walk into the ocean with no stopping in sight carrying armfuls of love.
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Nov 23, 2016
Nov 23, 2016 at 6:02 AM UTC
The Waves Could Never Compare to the Crashing of My Heart
Nothing in particular Just high Addicted ****** **** **** my liver Kidneys Dissociation is the key I've spotted the freight train Have I made it? Bring me there I beg you Spoon me Me, the spoon, all me Drink DRINK like a FISH pop pop pass percocet C-c-c-c-c-cocaaaaiiinneeeeee ***** ****** bored, dumb **** my LIVER AND KIDNEYS Dolla dolla nose job **** a stuffy **** me on a tuesday, sneez sick puppy horsey Cant finde me Kant fine me Run run run run run baby, yes ya do Explain but not excuse Substitute kkkills as much Methadopamine or a xany ***** one night Dextrahydraphetamine, ketamine meta-clean Don't try. Understand to Completely Every spring runs dry **** son, 'least enjoy the high
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Nov 21, 2016
Nov 21, 2016 at 2:50 AM UTC
makeshift combo-elevation
Trusting her with a book of spells, With all the knowledge of destruction for yourself, Teaching her each and every incantation, Letting her be to practice it all. Even if there's no certainty that she won't use it on you, But you are willing to bear the pain if that is what she wants, Because you know you are willing to give your entire soul to her. Now that's a great sacrifice for someone. To be able to give your all to the person you truly care. -HIY
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Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 8:42 PM UTC
The beloved apprentice.
6 years old loves barbies plays outside learning to ride a bike shes getting taller 9 years old loves chapstick flavors walks outside rides her bike everywhere she is the tallest in her class 14 years old loves mascara runs outside to burn off the cupcake bike sits alone she is the biggest in her class 16 years old loves black runs lines down her arms, she doesnt see the sun she drives around for hours thinking about everything but nothing she is shrinking 18 years old loves loneliness runs and runs and runs from herself she drives around hoping that she will be strong enough to make it home she is breaking slowly 20 years old loves skipping meals goes running until she feels like she's going to pass out, then runs another mile she drives around thinking about her suicide attempt and thinks about heading home she doesn't even know if home is a place or a feeling or if its real lines going up her thigh now because she found out that wrists make people worry people don't understand the process of self destruction it started a long time ago and it will never end until she does.
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Apr 22, 2016
Apr 22, 2016 at 1:45 AM UTC
growing up
***** gin, wine or *** Anything will do A girl needs something strong Just to get her through In this utter crap & solitude To which I find I'm living My friends are Henny's cider Or any other sin Tobacco and not eating Are helping me lose weight And perhaps a line of coke will do To deaden all the hate I really should take more care Especially for the child But I still can't quite remember The last time that I smiled To self destruct is what I know From years of selfish pain But I will pull through I will be strong I will return again (C) Pixievic 2016
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Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 3:34 PM UTC
Coping (or not!)