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#selferasure
It’s not the hit. that part is simple. it’s got a shape, it’s got a bruise you can point at like a cheap tattoo you regret. the real mess is later. the morning after when the coffee tastes like pennies and the light comes in and makes your place look like a bad decision. you tell people it’s nothing. because telling the truth takes too long. and most of them only want the short version anyway, the one that fits between their errands and their appetite. so you practice. you get good at it. it’s fine. it’s nothing. it’s been worse. you hand that sentence out like a receipt for a thing you never wanted to buy. and you get tired, tired in a way sleep can’t fix, tired of translating pain into clean words for people who need it tidy or they won’t believe you. the hit is not the end. the end is when you start shaving yourself down without anyone asking. you swallow the laugh. you tuck away the opinion. you apologize early like it’s a habit like it’s a tax. you shrink so the room can feel bigger. then you walk around like you owe the world a smaller you. like you should take up less space and be grateful for whatever they leave you. and that’s the part that ruins you. quietly. like rust.
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Jan 4
Jan 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM UTC
The Little Surrender
Every man has left a different door open in me. I keep the lights on for all of them. I have learned to call this love instead of what it is: a mouth that stays open long after the word has gone. They come to me burning and I let them. I have held so many people through the worst nights of their lives and still gone to bed alone, my hands still warm from someone else's grief. The ribcage is a room. I have known this for years. I have furnished it for everyone but myself. How beautifully they applaud the bruise. To be known for the song is to be unknown for the throat. I am always the feast, never the table. I watched a boy kiss a girl under the streetlight, his mouth the anchor, her body the sea. I have so much water in me and I am still dying of thirst. They walked back to their lives I built out of air. I built out of air and called it enough. I called it enough. God, I called it enough.
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May 16
May 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM UTC
I Have So Much Water in Me
As the blossoms would cherish a pretty smile — I keep offering the softest parts of me, hoping someone will notice the bloom, not the trembling stem beneath it. I start plucking away the petals of myself; turning my own hands into the gardeners who decide which version of me should survive. And every time I pull a part of me off, I whisper a blessing and a burial — change this, hide that, soften here, don’t show too much there. It’s strange how becoming better can feel so much like becoming less. I stand in the mirror repeating the ritual: “I love this version… I love not this version of me.” Both truths hold me, both truths undo me. Some days I bloom. Other days I collect the petals I’ve torn off and try to remember what I looked like before I started editing myself into someone else’s _favourite flower._
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Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
Not Your Favourite Flower