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Jun 8, 2025
Jun 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM UTC
Too Much
Once I was a caterpillar, Curious but often naive, Observing from the ground, Waiting for my time to leave. Then I was a luna moth, Silhouette whispering to the moon, Drawn to the heat and fleeting warmth, Of men who did what they wanted to do. When I was a black widow, A man eater they'd say, I lived recklessly in my villian era, Until my empathy got in the way. I think I'll try again as a hermit, Not very brave but tired of bleeding, I traverse through this sand, Longing for a shell that won't demand meaning.
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May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM UTC
Stages of She
At midnight I will scare myself into the new millennium with dates and charts and graphs about fractions and formulas and fundamental folly all because some genius thought that in the grand scheme of things 2 > 4
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May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM UTC
Y2K
that feeling. you know the one. all emotion is drained of your body and all worth is ****** away. When you're so numb you can't be real, yet you feel every little thing that grazes your skin. you feel tired, yet so overwhelmed and awake and it hurts. you cant escape and it hurts. that feeling of overwhelming upsetting forgetting and regretting. your mind isnt your own, yet your body is undeniably so. you cant even decode your own thoughts, for the mess they spew out is only to be just that, a mess. your words come out as delirium, your heart racing and genuinely not functioning everything everywhere all at once. like you have no mouth, yet must scream have no control incessantly and unequivocally continuous that visceral, inexplicable feeling remaining, restraining not just disorder, complete discord, chaos, absolute anarchy inside the mind and again this body remained still. you couldn't possibly imagine could you? of course not.
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Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM UTC
that feeling.
Let me slip into my Queen. Appetite, Slumber, Sloughs off of her as easily as water. She passes through, to The other side of Fear In her penetrability She has no Peer Shapeless threats of the night Merely dampenings of light Let me slip on my frigid Queen. Mortal fears free of her lease Reign wild, at the very least But before my Queen They quiver, shrivel, Into a sheen Of ice, from sniffling drivel. Her countenance a light deadpan, Her governance, her birthright, tends A sooty silence, A dumb penance, Mum.
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Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024 at 9:01 AM UTC
Intent
Legs feel weaker Eyes want to stay shut It's like my body doesn't want to move anymore Stop seeing anything but darkness All my hurt and pain visibly coming out of me One puke and tear drop at a time My heart beats faster and faster as if wanting to complete all the beats it has remaining in this instant I imagine this is what a robot experiencing a malfunction feels like But then again, a robot can't feel anything What I would give to be able to not feel anything right now Or just be able to swtich off with the hit of a button
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Jul 11, 2020
Jul 11, 2020 at 8:50 AM UTC
Rejected
I can feel suicide in me In the heaviness of my limbs The numbness of my heart The slowness of my movements The emptiness encompassing me Of course I won’t But I find it disappointing
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May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020 at 12:54 AM UTC
Within
why am i so cold i'm making my brain freeze
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Jan 15, 2020
Jan 15, 2020 at 8:26 PM UTC
cold
Her crisp vocals paint paths, long poised by me. Her beauty is a reality where my ecosystem drives. Her omnidirectional audio reads every touch and feels every string. Her heart-bytes pump voltage in my device(veins). Her smartness is a safe place, where I shut down. © Feelings Coated
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Jul 13, 2019
Jul 13, 2019 at 7:49 AM UTC
Ecosystem
Your structure was tall like a tree in the night, yet they shot you down faster than lightning. I felt myself falling in this deep endless abyss, while they stand tall above us in this empty place. Nothing is clear to us. One by one each payment is erased, one by one each month is replaced. the more we look, the more it hurts us, as we sit here in a confused daydream. Vulnerable people grasping onto what they can, it sounds dramatic only when you feel safe. They say their words represent our feelings, yet every person I know never felt the same. I never knew how to feel like them. One by one each payment is erased, one by one each month is replaced. the more we look, the more it hurts us, as we sit here in a confused daydream. For you grew in a shell of a place, I never knew from my experiences. But, for the place I did know for years, I feel the colours fade away. Every hue, every shade. One by one, each person begins to walk away, one by one, they make out it’s our fault again. Yet, instead of fixing what is broken in masses, we find new ways to paint over it again and again. For I wonder what becomes of us? If I’m not enough, will we be enough? Even then, will they come knocking, for us to pay their debts? My pockets are empty.
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Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 7:50 AM UTC
The Opposition.
An electrical fence Lines the inside of my body Within it I can feel The semblance of emotions As they throw themselves Furiously against the wires Electric tremors flare through my limbs Waves of whispered feelings Tear through my muscles Begging and screaming for me To let them live and breathe freely But my mind tells me not to It says I can't trust my feelings And if I am not my emotions Then I can still trust myself I'm told that feeling is dangerous That it hurts other people more Than not feeling hurts me And how can I argue with that? But the feelings keep screaming They keep scratching at the floor and Infuriating their essence with electricity Please just let me be Please just set me free I'm suffocating under the pressure Ripping apart from this tug of war My brain promises that I'm fine My feelings say that's a lie All I know is that I'm tired I just want a break I can't fight like this forever And it's not just me While I'm exhausted and in pain Those around me don't see They think this is just me But I can't connect to them With my emotions behind bars Theres no room for empathy No room for intimacy I am alone Yet I can't feel lonely What a well-oiled machine This human without feelings
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 9:18 PM UTC
A Human Without Feelings
Impervious. The defense of age. Our hearts become small. We’re loathe to engage. We put up a wall. Impervious. In an armored suit. Seeking protection. To be resolute. Avoid connection. Impervious. To one more heartbreak. We like to think so. But that’s our mistake. Our hurt makes us grow. Impervious. I have tried to be. It was just pretense. For your love found me. It pierced my defense. Impervious. Was never a thing. I was closed off to Almost everything— Everything but you.
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 6:08 PM UTC
Impervious
I fall from grace upon jagged lands and demand to be the center of attention Yet an overwhelming need for self evaluation causes me to close my eyes, shut doors I've just opened, and breathe in the stale air of loneliness I really am better in your dreams
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 3:55 PM UTC
Dreamer
I'm seeing you tonight And it's been quite a while Four days to be exact I remember a time when It drove us crazy To not see each other most days I act like I don't care Sometimes it feels like I don't But I feel the sadness looming over me How can I not when I know I want to see you more? Life isn't that easy though It's best not to feel Not to care A self-protective coping mechanism That lets me function as human again I'm nervous to see you I don't know how I'll feel and If I really am compartmentalizing I know it doesn't hold up When I'm laying next to you I don't want to want you this much I still want to be with you though Just not so invested It's unsafe It's uncontrollable And as someone who needs to feel A variation of both of those I'm terrified that seeing you Will destroy these walls I've built Until I'm left with nothing but Myself and My feelings
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 2:56 PM UTC
Shut Down in Love
Is it not a foe who taunts — that in itself could be borne Is it not an enemy's tirades— from them one could hide Instead, an arrogant intimacy— life's equal, companion & friend. What close companionship now scattered in the chill of uncaring autumn winds from familiar paths once   walked together in gardens of fond affection and glee.
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Mar 11, 2018
Mar 11, 2018 at 5:31 AM UTC
pocket knife
Pause. Start again. It's too dangerous to stop. What's on your arm? Tug your sleeve down, refuse to talk. Don't let them know or your secret will be out. You could stretch out your arm reach for someone's hand, but they will never fully grasp the weight of your situation. Close your mouth, your eyes, your mind. Just shut down.
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Feb 18, 2015
Feb 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM UTC
Shut Down
Isolated, trapped in a dark abyss, Remained under her lulled admonition; Never wished to depart, but to depress, Grieve then be stiff, yielded in damnation. Cut off away from the world’s speed of light, Off she choked a too petty eulogy; Swore never to venture off from its sight, Deprive hope, ****** apathy with elegy. The dark poet’s ode continues to cruise, Spills & spreads to her frail soul like poison; Intoxicate & numbs her as a bruise, Nullifies every positive motion. Go better off now, my little sweet one, The world has just locked away your sunshine; Forget about help, you’re banished & gone, Sleep it all away, not one can outshine.
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 9:04 PM UTC
The Complete Shut Down