#shrink
The view outside the window showed frost. Trees seemed frozen in dance. Behind you the lounge was empty except for the new woman who sat in the corner smoking and gazing into space. You hadn’t heard her come in; she must have crept in on tiptoe. She came yesterday and was introduced as Lilly. She said little just wandered the corridors smoking. You were out of cigarettes so walked over and asked if she had a spare cigarette. She looked at you with sad eyes and pulled out a packet of cigarettes and gave you one and lit it with the end of her own. You thanked her and walked back to the window. Your other self lay deep within you asleep. In the distance traffic passed by on the road on the other side of the tall wall. Yesterday the shrink had you in his office and asked you all kinds of questions. Two nurses were in the room in case you should attack the shrink as you had one of them. Don’t answer the ******* your other self said loudly, tell him to go **** himself. You sat and let her shout out causing the two nurses to come across and stand beside you just in case you turned violent, but you didn’t, just sat there in silence, your other self whispering inside your head. You wished the snow was back outside instead of the frost. You inhaled and smiled. The shrink had dismissed you yesterday and your other self whispered I bet the big cissy ****** himself.
Jun 20, 2025
Jun 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM UTC
Why
Do I have to feel like this
Why
Do you always do this
Why, please tell me why
My ship is sinking
And I can't help thinking
I'm gonna drown again
In the ocean of my tears
Why oh tell me why
You said what you said
Theres no going back
Don't tell me you're sorry
When I'll have enough strength to attack
Yet you talked behind my back
You talked and you talked
Why, please tell me why
And I'm dying
Again, I'm crying
Yet you keep on saying
"Poor him, sad being"
Why, oh tell me why
And you think I don't know
And you think it's all right
But it's not, it's really not
And I'll tell you why
Nobody cared when I was crying
Nobody cared when I was dying
Nobody cared when I had something to say
"Seen" was all you did
"Seen" is what you do
To ignore the **** I'm going through
And I'll forgive, even forget
Why? I don't know
Why. Just tell me why
Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024 at 3:02 AM UTC
where do you go
when you shrink yourself
so small?
sometimes i imagine
when you shrink
into this fragile thing,
in some far away place
the pieces of your self you hid
are growing exponentially,
a garden in full bloom.
Apr 4, 2021
Apr 4, 2021 at 3:38 PM UTC
I do not think,
because from there I sink
into the depths of the poison I drink.
smaller and smaller I shrink
until one day I cannot unlink...
𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 404: 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤.
Oct 14, 2020
Oct 14, 2020 at 7:17 PM UTC
I am sensitive;
If you hurt me,
I'll shrink...
If you hurt me;
I'll shrink...
But I'll grow!
I'm sensitive;
My growth will hurt you...
I've my thorns.
I'll shrink;
I'll never stop growing;
I'm a plant "touch me not"!
Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020 at 9:12 AM UTC
You will never know the scars my heart bears for all it had shared it did always dare to shrink a bit now i am not sure if theres a heart left.
Apr 2, 2020
Apr 2, 2020 at 1:32 PM UTC
you were knitted together before the world first heard your cries
and you were born whole
you were made to break barriers
never to hide behind the shadow of a man
it is time you stop trying to shrink yourself to conform to the world's ideals
you are a walking contradiction
both peaceful and wild
delicate and resilient
remind yourself you do not need his arms when you were given two of your own
do not let them burn out the flames within your soul
you belong only to yourself
Mar 8, 2019
Mar 8, 2019 at 11:55 AM UTC
Times moves
Like waves.
It comes and goes,
Elongates and
shrinks.
It doesn't exist.
-- Eleanor
Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 12:31 PM UTC
Shrinking as I wait for my shrink
Minuscule in appearance
Skyscrapers overshadow
Obsolete rock with tiny feet
Plants feed off the heat from nearby concrete
Each brick cemented by century
Droplet from the sky is opposite
Magnifies true irrelevance
Cross legged at the cross walk
Visitor at the cross road
Flickering light bulb thrives in day
At night it diminishes
At night it's just a fade
Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 5:18 PM UTC
Dastardly and reluctant I have came to speak for the wretched things that have made me weak. Sit silent as I speak, it softly settles as I move to quick retreat.
Bare in all that is me to be the might of examination. If that is so what you please? But also remember you are just as evil and ****** up as me.
I am so quick to want to be worth more when I treat myself less. Intolerably suffocating the idea we should all forget. More or less of a forfeit.
Stranded in solitude of the ever deepening abyss. Complete consciousness in adrift.
So much remorse, so much regret. Who am I?
Where off am if I eventually forget? It seems intangible be it that you are not here. The sound of her voice Start's to disappear. Albeit there seems to be more to this. Than a lost soul and lost mind driting into the abyss. No. There is defiant tendencies that do exist. A reason to run from the part of me I do not want to adress.
I cannot seem to just carry on and forget. It eats at me like locusts latching on to my neck.
So I write to capture the moment to quickly relinquish it. Only you can picture this.
Imagine we are somewhere beautiful. Imagine we were better off than this..?? Imagine I was someone who could offer you advice, someone who has also dealt with this.
Oh wow that sound's great. Yea here is a prescription. This should handle it. By the way this pill gives you the shit's. So you might wanna also take this. Whats this?
Oh this? This is a pill that will offset this. Thats two signatures.
Two pharmaceutical trial drug checks. Well it seems to work I mean other than the nausea or the frequent headaches. It is also free to me because the insurance pay's for it...pays three hundred a month for insurance. Just thought I would add that.
Face yourself alone, find your weaknesses and eradicate them.
Small changes eventually add up to a big change. Start where you are.
-RSC
Mar 6, 2018
Mar 6, 2018 at 5:51 PM UTC
i see my life hung out to dry
my memories slowly falling to the ground
my mind losing all colour
leaving behind a shell of the person i once was
slowly i shrink
Feb 13, 2018
Feb 13, 2018 at 12:25 PM UTC
If I went to a professional they'd probably say it started when I was younger
Which begs the question why it didn't affect my older brother
Maybe it's just the way my brain is wired
I'm just so god **** sick and tired
Of being so **** sick and tired
Why am I always so ******* tired?
I just go through the motions
All the days just blend together
The only thing keeping me going
Is the hopes that this won't last forever
I can say that I care about a few things
But it'd be only to myself that I feed lies
There's a lot I need to get off my chest
But it's hard when I have to make it rhyme
I don't consider myself a poet
More of an alocoholic with a pen
I get myself into a drunken haze
And spill all the thoughts in my head
You're probably wondering where this is going
And I can't say that I have the answer
I kind of just type away
Until I start to feel a little better.
Jan 15, 2018
Jan 15, 2018 at 4:57 PM UTC
I see a fat kid, twenty eight and aging
A welfare old kid, casting sideways eyes
At store front windows to make sure
S/he's getting smaller, to take up less space
This is a small place, we cook in snake oil
A young, self-assured place, still fitting graves
Even the sun shines on this necrotic fixation
Everyone lives in maudlin infatuation
I am neither, born of the expanse in-between
Shrink,
Tiny aspirations, that's us!
Shrink,
Shrink with me into the night in the land of rolling holes
Six feet, at least, sweet destiny sweeps sooner, so soon
Shrink,
Tiny aspirations, that's us!
Shrink,
Shrink with me into the night behind the day,
in the land of thick lipstick over genocide
Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 at 5:48 PM UTC
the salesperson
pointed me towards
the petite section
told me
*'oh the women's section
isn't for you'*
made me realize
how much
i've shrunk
don't get me
wrong
i'm still 5'2 (& a half)
still weigh
somewhere near 120
but
i have bent and burnt
into
the corners
i have
shrunk
it's a slow process
you don't
even realize that it is
happening
until you find yourself
smaller than ever
and you
wonder
how could a personality
as big as mine
become
as small as this
perhaps it first began
when i
learnt to
stay quiet
when
i really
wanted to say
no
or
yes
or
maybe
or
i believe
or i don't think so
but instead
i looked down
kept
my lips
sealed
and my
eyes closed
blinking
only to
feel my eyelashes
against
my cheeks
i once
had a boy
tell me
he fell in love
first with my voice
then
with me
he tried to solve
me
like a puzzle
putting back the bits and pieces
to create something
whole
but in the process
the pieces got
jumbled up
into something new
and the
voice
i had
that captured
his soul
slipped
away
i started shrinking
when
i lost my voice
and now
i think i've lost
my heart too
my
passion doesn't
flow so
loudly in
my veins and
every now and then
it does
scream
but i silence it
*be good,
little girl,
be silent*
and to
the girls who
are walking on
glass made
of unwanted opinions
and voices
which are far louder than
theirs,
i say,
remember.
remember who you are
remember what
you are worth.
and remember
that not the father
nor the son
can take from you
the fire
that burns
brighter than the
sun above.
my daughter,
i say,
let your voice
be heard and
let your freedom
burn
and
*if
there is a day*
when a man
comes and tells you
that he
will replace
the vocal
chords into
something
softer
you
open your hands
offer him peace
and if he rejects
use your freedom
to send
him
far
far
away.
Sep 15, 2017
Sep 15, 2017 at 2:09 PM UTC
I am that fragrant thought, still alive,
as a seed,one of nature's wonder
that sprout in a season not expected,
in your mind in a blue moon night.
Though we loved and lost without
knowing reasons and sans any regret,
We still would be probing for errors,
in the book of accounts love never can keep.
You were left alone for long, yet moved
by love that caressed your heart
with such intensity only once, that
made possible many flights together
with moon beams as wings of fantasy.
But that was before the tsunami hit,
just a memory now,but would last long!
Now, here the magic happens again,
as musky fragrance hovered
in the west wind,stirring passions,
I can't understand the dynamics of this:
somehow a beam of light hit,
my being telling me about,
your plight in a flash and
our hearts melted together,beating
making shrink the distance between us!
We touched each other's heart,felt
love traveling at the speed of light.
The world suddenly looks a place brighter,
What if we wouldn't meet even once, hereafter.
Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 11:53 AM UTC
Sometimes it feels like the world is coming down on you...
... And the only thing that you can do about it is to shrink...
... And Shrink...
... And Shrink...
... Until there is absolutely nothing left.
Jul 19, 2017
Jul 19, 2017 at 7:29 PM UTC
I'm just a normal person,
or so another may think.
If only they could see in my mind,
oh, how my normalacy would shrink.
Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 6:23 PM UTC
They say:
-Be yourself!
And later
They take you to shrink
Dec 14, 2016
Dec 14, 2016 at 7:58 AM UTC
Hello, said you.
Hello said me.
Whats wrong you ask
I smile, nothing
You glare, Do not lie
I grin, But I'm not
You huff, Talk to me
I sit like a robot
You write in your book
my actions, Im sure
But I wont share my thoughts
with this talking doctor
Dec 3, 2016
Dec 3, 2016 at 1:24 PM UTC
*Like a candle we all shrink away,
and are left in a pool of our own mess,
but I collected up the wax,
to make the broken things new,
and that's when my candle holder shattered,
and you can't fix things like broken glass,
the same way you can with old used wax,
it has to stay broken,
because you can't mend all broken things.*
May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016 at 7:28 PM UTC
To be
a husband, or a wife,
a friend
a sister, a brother
a mother, a father
an aunt, an uncle
a grandmother, or a grandfather,
one has to be a stronghold...an indestructible wall
amidst storms and droughts, never to fall
be thought of as Fire and Ice:
be the Fire, the steady flow of heat on icy, or wintry nights
the wood crackling, to fuel the flames dying...
a burning spur for the mind, when nothing comes out of the well
fire to boost the wilting spirit..bringing in newborn courage...
the warmth from hands that would hold... heal and save
to fight for those near you...even the ones farthest from you
be the Ice that never melts, right in the middle of the fire
to gently freeze anger...hostility...madness
neutralize the fiery air, to balance the atmosphere
to be a cooler head, among violent minds
make glaring eyes and deaf ears, receptive to reason
from red-orange...be an icy blue...
"Are you a shrink?"
i was asked once...
the thought lingered for a while...
Why, maybe...yes!
i've got no license, though
all i have are experiences,
a drop of wisdom...here and there
from times, when i failed
to notice what i was wearing
even the weather prevailing
because i was swimming
floating,
coping
with troubled, murky waters...
As heads of our families
Fire and Ice, we have to be...
Sally
Copyright September 6, 2015
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 8:57 AM UTC
I want to shrink
And throw myself
In the waste-paper basket.
That's how ******
I am feeling.
F.Z.N
Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 2:54 PM UTC
It was a room crowded by people.
They talked in groups with so much eager.
But beneath the laughter and joyous sight
was a girl who saw not the light.
And there she was, standing
in the corner, just pretending
that she was happy to be around,
when, really, she was screaming with no sound.
Everyone was so happy,
but all she wanted was to flee.
None of those people cared of her!
Why should she stay and drown in fear?
None of them even noticed her there!
Like she was just another gust of air.
When there was yet another party,
who got uninvited? None but she!
When there was a share of cake,
She was lucky she could have a take.
Then why? Why did she stick around?
It hit her. Because for another year is she bound.
Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 8:35 AM UTC