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"The Drifter (A Life of Trauma and Mental Illness)" . . I was told all my life, That I was stupid and lazy. In school, I drifted Into my own little world. . At home, I was criticized And made fun of for Wasting time creating The things I loved to do. . I loved art (mostly drawing). I loved building and making things. And most of all, I loved music. . All of which my family Thought was a waste Of time. . In school, I didn't focus. I was too anxious there. Like wanting to **** myself, To not have to go. . This was embedded Into my brain, daily. And I learned to believe it. It continued throughout my life. . So, I kept to myself. Or hung with the wrong crowd. This became my life. . Alcohol and drugs were all I thought about. It was almost a daily activity. And I lived to survive. . I am fifty-five now, and finally Starting to love myself. I live with mental illness, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Severe anxiety, to be exact. Both of which rule my life. . I am learning slowly to live With them, but life is hard. I live it one day at a time. I have to, it's the only way. . . A poem by Garry Ventura
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May 8
May 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM UTC
The Drifter (A Life of Trauma and Mental Illness)
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Apr 1
Apr 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM UTC
Overflow
Would you accept me if you realized I was suicidal? Would you accept me if you realized I have trouble connecting with others? Would you accept me if you realized I have horrible anxiety? Would you accept me if you realized I struggle with depression? Would you accept me if you realized I was a woman? Would you accept me if you realized I was bisexual? Would you accept me if you realized I hate being alone? Would you accept me if you realized I hate being left out? Would you accept me if you realized I hate myself? Would you accept me if you realized I think others don’t like me? Would you accept me if you realized I have harmed myself before? Would you accept me if you realized I find it hard to make close friends? Would you accept me if you realized I wasn’t pretty? Would you accept me if you realized I procrastinate? Would you accept me if you realized I sleep at midnight every day? Would you accept me if you realized I have no plan for my future? Would you accept me if you realized I spend all day on my phone? Would you accept me if you realized I’m not perfect?
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Mar 13
Mar 13, 2026 at 12:52 AM UTC
Pressure
The Stillness   It does not echo. It does not push, or pull. It only stretches into the yawning void. I stare over the edge and think, What if I went?   I do not want this, But I will not go there. I am here. I want to BE HERE.   I am floating, Hovering.   There are no voices in the stillness, Telling me to come. Telling me to go. What to think, What to say, What to feel.   I find solace in the silence— a...not quite peace. It's the space between pulses Where I am not chasing Or being chased.   No demand to perform, No mask to hold in place. It's a hush that lets me breathe, A little something just for me.   But I like it here, Right at the edge of this void. It's where I can just be. And wonder, What if I stay?   So I stay... and find out.
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Jul 10, 2025
Jul 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM UTC
The Stillness
I'd feel like a stranger at my own funeral- who's that in the box, dressed better in death than I ever managed in life? Better than my quiet attempts-those empty rehearsals at suicide. Was this the last chance I had left? Even in death, my voice isn't heard- nor the screaming ones trapped inside my skull. Even my ghost wouldn't believe it's dead, still hoping the lives I tried to save might pay my way past the gates, buy out my debts. But what if there's no heaven waiting? What if another kind of hell greets me instead? What if I never see my old friends again- never laugh without fear, never smile without pretending? What if I never stop being so ******* afraid so strangely ashamed to feel nothing, to be numb to even shame itself? All I wanted was to be born again- not into some perfect life, but one that wouldn't lead me back to searching for another end. And isn't it strange- how only in death do we see our regrets with such clarity? Because there's nowhere left to run from them once we get to the end.
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Jun 8, 2025
Jun 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM UTC
Stranger in the box
when i was five i used to sit on the floor in my kitchen and wonder what dying was like i would pick up a fruit knife put the blade to my skin if only to feel the cool metal and before a single drop of blood was drawn from my delicate veins i would shove the knife back into the drawer and run off somewhere else as if it never happened wondering what would’ve happened if the knife had slipped i didn’t want to bleed i didn’t want to die i just wanted to know what would happen would someone miss me? would someone cry? when i was ten i used to sit in my bathtub and wonder what drowning was like i wouldnt let the water drain after a shower and i would lie there until goosebumps littered my skin the water running cold droplets from my wet hair trickling down my back and before i could fully submerge myself in remnants of shampoo suds i would pull the plug on the drain and wrap myself in a towel slip into my room as if it never happened wondering what would’ve happened if i had fallen asleep there i didn’t want to drown i didn’t want to die i just wanted to know what would happen would someone miss me? would someone cry? now i’m fifteen and i sit on the floor in my room drowning in a pool of tears and i wonder if i could just disappear erase the signs of my existence quietly so no one remembered me run off to a world where i’m not tired not physically or emotionally or mentally or academically and although i try to fight off the dehabilitating fatigue as i deplete the last ounces of my energy i wonder what would happen if i succumbed to the exhaustion i think i want to disappear i think i might want to die but i want to know what would happen would you miss me? would i cry?
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Feb 13, 2025
Feb 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM UTC
would someone cry?
when i was five i used to sit on the floor in my kitchen and wonder what dying was like i would pick up a fruit knife put the blade to my skin if only to feel the cool metal and before a single drop of blood was drawn from my delicate veins i would shove the knife back into the drawer and run off somewhere else as if it never happened wondering what would’ve happened if the knife had slipped i didn’t want to bleed i didn’t want to die i just wanted to know what would happen would someone miss me? would someone cry? when i was ten i used to sit in my bathtub and wonder what drowning was like i wouldnt let the water drain after a shower and i would lie there until goosebumps littered my skin the water running cold droplets from my wet hair trickling down my back and before i could fully submerge myself in remnants of shampoo suds i would pull the plug on the drain and wrap myself in a towel slip into my room as if it never happened wondering what would’ve happened if i had fallen asleep there i didn’t want to drown i didn’t want to die i just wanted to know what would happen would someone miss me? would someone cry? now i’m fifteen and i sit on the floor in my room drowning in a pool of tears and i wonder if i could just disappear erase the signs of my existence quietly so no one remembered me run off to a world where i’m not tired not physically or emotionally or mentally or academically and although i try to fight off the dehabilitating fatigue as i deplete the last ounces of my energy i wonder what would happen if i succumbed to the exhaustion i think i want to disappear i think i might want to die but i want to know what would happen would you miss me? would i cry?
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Oh lord Forgive me for I have sinned Like Adam and Eve I am the snake in the garden Oh lord Will you forgive me for I have sinned? Like Eve and Adam I am the apple in Eden Oh lord I have sinned to be forgiven Like Adam, Like Eve All I knew was that you told me To come back to you even if I have sinned I have tasted hell for years I am going to be there for years Oh lord Forgive me for I have sinned And forgive the people who betrayed me Forgive the traitors in my past and the betrayals in my mind Oh lord Will you forgive me for I have sinned? Like Abel, Like Cain or will I be your lucifer Lost in hell forever lost touch to the rope Like the son of Noah For I have sinned?
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Jan 23, 2025
Jan 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM UTC
On the wrong side of the law
“You’re doing a great job brain, Driving the meat-suit… Just killing it.” Part 3. I woke up... What the **** am I doing? That’s a bigger question than I want to face at 4 am in the dark with an urge to **** and a limp that makes getting out of bed a decision based on pros and cons:             Pro                                 Con I won’t **** the bed.       I have to walk. Stairs in the dark are my nemesis. I get up, turn on the light so I don’t stumble and fall traversing the disaster of personal space I occupy. Middle class squalor. Druggies live like this. I am a druggie, so it’s fine, or so it seems. Back to the big question- What the **** am I doing? Nothing. Taking a **** I just have to get ok with the fact that I’m not going to leave anything behind. No great, unsung opera, or hidden magnum opus; no postmortem, unpolished, unpublished manifesto to find. Just sadness released and gifted to whoever should find me lying lifeless (unless it’s just something there looking for something to eat.) (Pt4)I limp Down the stairs one step at a time. Bad foot down, good foot follows. Can’t trust my fat *** to the broken ankle, but now the other legs getting a bad knee. I’m ******* falling apart. (Pt3cont) It’s too **** difficult. I just want to quit. You’re not gonna **** yourself. You’re too **** chicken **** You can’t do that to your mother, your father. You don’t love your family enough, but mom and dad are here and they don’t deserve that despair. Sure would be nice if something else would do it. Like an act of god or a terrorist or drunk driver (but not you). Your friend got away just a few weeks ago and it was messy, but now it’s over for her. Shut up dude. Is that what you wanna do? You’re gonna **** yourself? Then do it... what the **** are you waiting for? The right time? You ******* ******* What; are you too ******* scared? Scared you might go to hell? Or that you’re right and it’s just this one blip; and you, you lucky little **** you only get the one shot, and it’s a blink of an eye and you’re gone; and you’re gon’ turn off the light and and never turn it back on? Go ******* talk to a friend. This is just the addiction again. It goes away. (It comes back) I don’t want to **** myself; I’m scared I’m gonna **** myself; Not immediately, not imminently, I’m just afraid I’ll lose the battle One day Not tomorrow, certainly not today But what if one of these days I can’t come up with a reason to suffer through. Cause it’s getting harder to do. (He sobs and screams and tells it to go but he knows it’s just sinking back into the shadows in the corner of the room) Part 1 The part of my brain which I’m constantly fighting does not speak in language, it knows only “do” It does not even know “do not” “Not” Serves no purpose There is only do. The lizard Brain licks its own eye as it waits for the next command. It does not tell itself "wait," it just delays the pounce, it eats bugs and does drugs and serves only one purpose, -Feed- It’s not even in charge of **** That takes to much cognition How Am I supposed to fight hunger? How do you turn off the need? How Do you tell a dragon you won’t chase it How do you get a fiend to be free? Part 2. I woke up at 3:54 in the morning to ask myself what the **** I’m even doing, to which I had no reply, and the dark thoughts that creep in in dark moments alone came creeping across shadows with there fingers long and scratched at the walls and wept and moaned… It’s too **** difficult to close the door but the critters keep crawling in and making the interred corners there home. Nasty little buggers, disease ridden pests, eating up everything, automatons driven by “feed and fertilize” But you can’t blame survivors for surviving it’s all they know. That is until they get squashed by a boot Nobody likes bugs crawlin on their skin. It makes you twitch and kick and scratch and freak out. A man will slap himself to **** a creepy-crawler crawling on him, he'd slap a friend without warning to **** a bug that lands on him. But the bug I’m trying to squash is the cockroach of the mind. And it’s the most cunning little ****** I’ve ever tried to slap. You ever chased a cockroach through a kitchen? - just slamming **** on the counters out of the way trying to chase it into a corner where it can’t hide from the light. You ever had one get away and so you gotta go searching through cabinets and moving boxes of cake mix and bags a of rice and packets of seasoning and other detritus until you finally discover it’s disgusting den and you see the signs of life… (mostly, that means bug **** everywhere). But the roach is rarely there, they don’t go home at night. They get out there and get to work, trying to get high. It’s either that or home hungry, having a cry. That’s what I’m doing… This ******* guy… My dog is dreaming I can tell by her muffled barks and how she kicks. I wonder what she’s chasing? And where?  Is it the memeries of her ancestors hunting in packs she sees? Or is it great chases from her own past she relives. That one time she caught a bunny? Or stalking the neighbors cat, pouncing and chasing into a corner and catching and killing? Does she ever catch a squirrel in her dreams? She’s never caught one in the daytime, eyes open, on her feet. Can she imagine what it feels like? Extrapolate things? What purpose does a dream serve a dog? Or is it something they adopt from their masters; Like anxiety? Do dreams come with the imprint of human interaction or are they innate to brains? I need to go back to sleep. (Pt4cont) He resets his alarm A little later than before but he wants some time to dream, dream of a life where he’s not just some ******** druggie living in an attic at his parents home at 40 with no job and no life and no kids and no wife and very little will to live and even less left to give. Sweet dreams sweet Prince, you’re my favorite one, don’t tell the others, they’ll revolt and who knows what they’ll do to us when we aren’t looking. Here comes the sun (The screen just auto-switched from night mode to white mode. I’ve gotta go back to sleep, thanks for playing, it’s been fun. Fuuuuuck me…) :Existential Crisis over (for now): May 17 2024 3:54am-6:49am
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Jun 15, 2024
Jun 15, 2024 at 6:04 PM UTC
There is no do not, only do
“You’re doing a great job brain, Driving the meat-suit… Just killing it.” Part 3. I woke up... What the **** am I doing? That’s a bigger question than I want to face at 4 am in the dark with an urge to **** and a limp that makes getting out of bed a decision based on pros and cons:             Pro                                 Con I won’t **** the bed.       I have to walk. Stairs in the dark are my nemesis. I get up, turn on the light so I don’t stumble and fall traversing the disaster of personal space I occupy. Middle class squalor. Druggies live like this. I am a druggie, so it’s fine, or so it seems. Back to the big question- What the **** am I doing? Nothing. Taking a **** I just have to get ok with the fact that I’m not going to leave anything behind. No great, unsung opera, or hidden magnum opus; no postmortem, unpolished, unpublished manifesto to find. Just sadness released and gifted to whoever should find me lying lifeless (unless it’s just something there looking for something to eat.) (Pt4)I limp Down the stairs one step at a time. Bad foot down, good foot follows. Can’t trust my fat *** to the broken ankle, but now the other legs getting a bad knee. I’m ******* falling apart. (Pt3cont) It’s too **** difficult. I just want to quit. You’re not gonna **** yourself. You’re too **** chicken **** You can’t do that to your mother, your father. You don’t love your family enough, but mom and dad are here and they don’t deserve that despair. Sure would be nice if something else would do it. Like an act of god or a terrorist or drunk driver (but not you). Your friend got away just a few weeks ago and it was messy, but now it’s over for her. Shut up dude. Is that what you wanna do? You’re gonna **** yourself? Then do it... what the **** are you waiting for? The right time? You ******* ******* What; are you too ******* scared? Scared you might go to hell? Or that you’re right and it’s just this one blip; and you, you lucky little **** you only get the one shot, and it’s a blink of an eye and you’re gone; and you’re gon’ turn off the light and and never turn it back on? Go ******* talk to a friend. This is just the addiction again. It goes away. (It comes back) I don’t want to **** myself; I’m scared I’m gonna **** myself; Not immediately, not imminently, I’m just afraid I’ll lose the battle One day Not tomorrow, certainly not today But what if one of these days I can’t come up with a reason to suffer through. Cause it’s getting harder to do. (He sobs and screams and tells it to go but he knows it’s just sinking back into the shadows in the corner of the room) Part 1 The part of my brain which I’m constantly fighting does not speak in language, it knows only “do” It does not even know “do not” “Not” Serves no purpose There is only do. The lizard Brain licks its own eye as it waits for the next command. It does not tell itself "wait," it just delays the pounce, it eats bugs and does drugs and serves only one purpose, -Feed- It’s not even in charge of **** That takes to much cognition How Am I supposed to fight hunger? How do you turn off the need? How Do you tell a dragon you won’t chase it How do you get a fiend to be free? Part 2. I woke up at 3:54 in the morning to ask myself what the **** I’m even doing, to which I had no reply, and the dark thoughts that creep in in dark moments alone came creeping across shadows with there fingers long and scratched at the walls and wept and moaned… It’s too **** difficult to close the door but the critters keep crawling in and making the interred corners there home. Nasty little buggers, disease ridden pests, eating up everything, automatons driven by “feed and fertilize” But you can’t blame survivors for surviving it’s all they know. That is until they get squashed by a boot Nobody likes bugs crawlin on their skin. It makes you twitch and kick and scratch and freak out. A man will slap himself to **** a creepy-crawler crawling on him, he'd slap a friend without warning to **** a bug that lands on him. But the bug I’m trying to squash is the cockroach of the mind. And it’s the most cunning little ****** I’ve ever tried to slap. You ever chased a cockroach through a kitchen? - just slamming **** on the counters out of the way trying to chase it into a corner where it can’t hide from the light. You ever had one get away and so you gotta go searching through cabinets and moving boxes of cake mix and bags a of rice and packets of seasoning and other detritus until you finally discover it’s disgusting den and you see the signs of life… (mostly, that means bug **** everywhere). But the roach is rarely there, they don’t go home at night. They get out there and get to work, trying to get high. It’s either that or home hungry, having a cry. That’s what I’m doing… This ******* guy… My dog is dreaming I can tell by her muffled barks and how she kicks. I wonder what she’s chasing? And where?  Is it the memeries of her ancestors hunting in packs she sees? Or is it great chases from her own past she relives. That one time she caught a bunny? Or stalking the neighbors cat, pouncing and chasing into a corner and catching and killing? Does she ever catch a squirrel in her dreams? She’s never caught one in the daytime, eyes open, on her feet. Can she imagine what it feels like? Extrapolate things? What purpose does a dream serve a dog? Or is it something they adopt from their masters; Like anxiety? Do dreams come with the imprint of human interaction or are they innate to brains? I need to go back to sleep. (Pt4cont) He resets his alarm A little later than before but he wants some time to dream, dream of a life where he’s not just some ******** druggie living in an attic at his parents home at 40 with no job and no life and no kids and no wife and very little will to live and even less left to give. Sweet dreams sweet Prince, you’re my favorite one, don’t tell the others, they’ll revolt and who knows what they’ll do to us when we aren’t looking. Here comes the sun (The screen just auto-switched from night mode to white mode. I’ve gotta go back to sleep, thanks for playing, it’s been fun. Fuuuuuck me…) :Existential Crisis over (for now): May 17 2024 3:54am-6:49am
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_[Chorus] I'll never go back home. I'll never go back home... I'll never go back home. I rather be all on my own. History rewritten in stone. Not to burden anyone in a place Where I never belong. You will miss me being around Remember my voice This is the way peace sounds. What goes up. Must come down..down...down...down...._ If it's persistent. Then remain consistent In the process of handling it. Temporary problems Never require a permanent solution. It may bring silence In the most dreaded nights. Blinded by rage Remember all in sight. Think twice before you remove yourself from your own life. Everyone involved in this story Composing their chapters. Trying obtain resolve Regain. Recover. Repeat. Questioning everything except The truth in all which is right. Detrimental to determination Destiny, comes in search for you. As so it does for me. It does for all. Realistically, there is no down fall. If you never stay down, from the moment you fall. It's not just fact. It's honesty by Default.
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Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022 at 1:43 PM UTC
Default
To all the ones who didn’t make it, Tell me are you finally at peace? Did the weight of the world truly leave you be? I’m simply asking because I am one of the ones who did make it And wonder what would have happened if I didn’t make it? Has the addiction to be perfect stopped eating you from the inside out? Or the need to please everyone, by now surely that drive must no longer be around? To all the ones who didn’t make it, tell me it got easier? What about the voices, the voices in your head that could never be drowned out, the voices that always told you “you’d never be good enough” for the love of god tell me they finally listened, tell me they finally shut up? And are you still able to feel numb to all the hurt? That you don’t have to fight the cravings any longer? Tell me, tell me there is no harm to just giving in? Tell me, tell me please To all the ones who didn’t make it, tell me how it was worth it? Or would you rather ask me first? Would you rather ask me how warm the sun feels on a lazy august afternoon? Because you can’t seem to remember what that feels like any longer Or if the roses still bloom with the promise to smell sweet and to bring the honey bees around? You’re starting to forget what they look like What about chocolate you ask, is it still known to melt in your mouth and bring a smile to your face? At least that is what you think the rumours you heard say And is laughter with loved ones truly contagious? It’s been a while since you’ve done it yourself You go on to ask about blue skies and cozy rainy days Old teachers that made you fall in love with learning and the ones you’re happy you’ve forgotten about We discuss friendships new and old and how far they’ve come sadly in your absence And when I’ve answered all your questions you finally agree to answer mine But I simply smile and say, To all the ones who didn’t make it, may you please forget I ever asked?
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Jan 6, 2022
Jan 6, 2022 at 12:14 AM UTC
To All the Ones Who Didn’t Make It
To all the ones who didn’t make it, Tell me are you finally at peace? Did the weight of the world truly leave you be? I’m simply asking because I am one of the ones who did make it And wonder what would have happened if I didn’t make it? Has the addiction to be perfect stopped eating you from the inside out? Or the need to please everyone, by now surely that drive must no longer be around? To all the ones who didn’t make it, tell me it got easier? What about the voices, the voices in your head that could never be drowned out, the voices that always told you “you’d never be good enough” for the love of god tell me they finally listened, tell me they finally shut up? And are you still able to feel numb to all the hurt? That you don’t have to fight the cravings any longer? Tell me, tell me there is no harm to just giving in? Tell me, tell me please To all the ones who didn’t make it, tell me how it was worth it? Or would you rather ask me first? Would you rather ask me how warm the sun feels on a lazy august afternoon? Because you can’t seem to remember what that feels like any longer Or if the roses still bloom with the promise to smell sweet and to bring the honey bees around? You’re starting to forget what they look like What about chocolate you ask, is it still known to melt in your mouth and bring a smile to your face? At least that is what you think the rumours you heard say And is laughter with loved ones truly contagious? It’s been a while since you’ve done it yourself You go on to ask about blue skies and cozy rainy days Old teachers that made you fall in love with learning and the ones you’re happy you’ve forgotten about We discuss friendships new and old and how far they’ve come sadly in your absence And when I’ve answered all your questions you finally agree to answer mine But I simply smile and say, To all the ones who didn’t make it, may you please forget I ever asked?
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This year was supposed to be better It was to be the year I got my life back together Last year was incredibly horrible This year I was hopeful It was a mistake to feel that way My accident left me feeling such dismay Leaving me with such hatred towards the drunk driver that could've ended my life He almost took away my chance to find a wife It's been 6 months since the crash I'm drowning in so much debt; I need some freaking cash My brother wants me out by next year Tbh it makes me wish I never moved here. It's been 3 years and I never experienced a year of happiness Everything I've been through built up so much stress All this stress adds to my depression and makes me prone to suicidal thoughts. Lately I've been thinking about what it feels like to die Will I feel anything, will anybody even cry? Does anybody truly care about me? Or am I just an empty soul internally. This is how this year has got me in my feelings
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Nov 25, 2021
Nov 25, 2021 at 8:55 PM UTC
2021
Sometimes they yell, "WORTHLESS!" And I listen, Because "Listening is the polite thing to do."
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Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021 at 5:37 PM UTC
Yell
Alone, cold, Misunderstood. Fighting a battle that began before our conception. Cursed. The physical manifestation of ones fathers mistake. Emotions removed, confiscated. No longer relevant. Useless. Sympathy lost when love failed us. Patience is the only retribution. The endangered struggling black father. On the verge of self destruction. Restricted from the love of his own life force. With no direction. No support. Intense emotions personified by a series of precise phrases representing static progress and consistent negligence. Our efforts are never enough. Our words mean nothing. Our concerns, suppressed. Our worries, neglected. Our respect, vaporized. Our life. Devalued. The endangered species The struggling black father...
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Jan 22, 2021
Jan 22, 2021 at 12:49 AM UTC
Struggling Black Fathers
I think about dying At least once a day It's gotten to the point Where I crave death: To the point where suicide Doesn't seem so bad and selfish and cruel But more like a solution to all my problems Of course, I'd rather die From natural causes But the progression is way too slow So, I'm trying to speed it up a little By destroying my body in the best possible ways: -Junk food -Laziness -And bad ******* hygiene
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Jan 8, 2021
Jan 8, 2021 at 12:18 AM UTC
Addiction
Suicide; society tells me it’s a ***** word Blackens your tongue and brands you an Outsider to your beloved community; Tarnishes your dazzling reputation and Takes a beautiful, cherished, short-lived, soul. But why did society not raise me like the Painstakingly adored roses amongst Its garden of thorns; why can’t I be That happy girl. Why have I been Doused in fertiliser, a wretched **** Amongst a garden of beauty, growing Faster than lightning, roots of gnarly Agony and shoots of grey, blurred hatred for Every atom of my being- screams for the **** Killer to embrace me by the neck, apply a- Seductive dose of love-dripping pressure And set this crow free; unchain my bruised wings And I promise I will leave you be, I will never Bring misery or misfortune again. But suicide; is a ***** word, a cheek Burning, soul smouldering, darkening Shadow on the pretty plastic cases over our, Mechanical hearts. Not for the great pain of Losing a barely, blossomed flower- took one Heavy dose of white-pain sunlight and Wilted away into the black, bottomless soil. Not for the gaping loss of a singular Fertile crop in an endless year of draught and Famine. Suicide, is not a tear-wrenching, Palm-sweating word for the, heavy and huge hole It leaves in society’s newly plastered walls- But it is an unspeakable word for the pure Shame. The surly shadow of unspeakable Shame that it leaves like a, stain of red wine On the pretty, sensible woman’s white blouse Like a ****** tattoo on the arm of an infant. We do not grieve their death. We grieve our pride, Our bruised and bleeding pride at not preventing The stench of failure as a race of people, in the death Of one melancholy drowned person, we practically Placed the boulders in their pockets and said drown. And I am holding my breath; tight roping this Misery that smothers me at sunrise, see I am Permitted a feigned slumber of peace in the dead Hours of night yet I awake to the, Asphyxiation of pain, eyes bulging in terror of What awaits me when I run out of time, oxygen fast- Fading and the orange, pink of dawn lights a Fire in the honey pools of my eyes- small, mocking fires That sneer at my desperation to cease, at my plea for peace- Tight, burning stabs that tingle in my throat and I’m running low on air, on time, almost there- Deliria, ecstasy, glee dripping from my limbs And- the noose I fabricated in my non- Functioning, disabled mind slips away, faster Than I can catch it and refasten, and I am, cold In my bedsheets once more. Welcomed again, To the now bellowing daylight of, depression Another flightless, fruitless day of carefully, Hand-stitched smiles and sinfully pre-tuned Laughter. The world tells me to stand on the Pinnacle of misery with one broken leg and If I dare fall, I am a branded shame on the surface Of the earth, I am the centre of all failure in the Universe so I, valiantly ride into no-mans-land, A knight in shining armour except, I have no steel And no bronze to, protect my heart from the cannon fire Of pain, I have no shield to shelter me from the Poison gas of self-hatred. But I am perfectly okay being Defenceless in the brazen gunfire; I am still breathing, The titanium arrows of misery protruding neatly from My mangled limbs and my broken heart. And that word, sombre and dark as ever Flashes once in my head and I swat it away with Deep-rooted disgust, and a dire hunger for such a desire. Suicide; Society tells me it’s a ***** word.
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Nov 1, 2020
Nov 1, 2020 at 2:51 PM UTC
THE 'S' WORD
Suicide; society tells me it’s a ***** word Blackens your tongue and brands you an Outsider to your beloved community; Tarnishes your dazzling reputation and Takes a beautiful, cherished, short-lived, soul. But why did society not raise me like the Painstakingly adored roses amongst Its garden of thorns; why can’t I be That happy girl. Why have I been Doused in fertiliser, a wretched **** Amongst a garden of beauty, growing Faster than lightning, roots of gnarly Agony and shoots of grey, blurred hatred for Every atom of my being- screams for the **** Killer to embrace me by the neck, apply a- Seductive dose of love-dripping pressure And set this crow free; unchain my bruised wings And I promise I will leave you be, I will never Bring misery or misfortune again. But suicide; is a ***** word, a cheek Burning, soul smouldering, darkening Shadow on the pretty plastic cases over our, Mechanical hearts. Not for the great pain of Losing a barely, blossomed flower- took one Heavy dose of white-pain sunlight and Wilted away into the black, bottomless soil. Not for the gaping loss of a singular Fertile crop in an endless year of draught and Famine. Suicide, is not a tear-wrenching, Palm-sweating word for the, heavy and huge hole It leaves in society’s newly plastered walls- But it is an unspeakable word for the pure Shame. The surly shadow of unspeakable Shame that it leaves like a, stain of red wine On the pretty, sensible woman’s white blouse Like a ****** tattoo on the arm of an infant. We do not grieve their death. We grieve our pride, Our bruised and bleeding pride at not preventing The stench of failure as a race of people, in the death Of one melancholy drowned person, we practically Placed the boulders in their pockets and said drown. And I am holding my breath; tight roping this Misery that smothers me at sunrise, see I am Permitted a feigned slumber of peace in the dead Hours of night yet I awake to the, Asphyxiation of pain, eyes bulging in terror of What awaits me when I run out of time, oxygen fast- Fading and the orange, pink of dawn lights a Fire in the honey pools of my eyes- small, mocking fires That sneer at my desperation to cease, at my plea for peace- Tight, burning stabs that tingle in my throat and I’m running low on air, on time, almost there- Deliria, ecstasy, glee dripping from my limbs And- the noose I fabricated in my non- Functioning, disabled mind slips away, faster Than I can catch it and refasten, and I am, cold In my bedsheets once more. Welcomed again, To the now bellowing daylight of, depression Another flightless, fruitless day of carefully, Hand-stitched smiles and sinfully pre-tuned Laughter. The world tells me to stand on the Pinnacle of misery with one broken leg and If I dare fall, I am a branded shame on the surface Of the earth, I am the centre of all failure in the Universe so I, valiantly ride into no-mans-land, A knight in shining armour except, I have no steel And no bronze to, protect my heart from the cannon fire Of pain, I have no shield to shelter me from the Poison gas of self-hatred. But I am perfectly okay being Defenceless in the brazen gunfire; I am still breathing, The titanium arrows of misery protruding neatly from My mangled limbs and my broken heart. And that word, sombre and dark as ever Flashes once in my head and I swat it away with Deep-rooted disgust, and a dire hunger for such a desire. Suicide; Society tells me it’s a ***** word.
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Resting your head on the side of the bathtub, Half-hoping you won't fall asleep and slip under the water. Walking into the street without looking both ways, Half-hoping you won't be hit by a car or some other vehicle. Running down the stairs, taking them two at a time, Half-hoping you won't trip and fall all the way, all the way down. Turning off the oven after cooking your dinner, Half-hoping the gas hasn't leaked and isn't filling your entire house. Leaving a candle lit for a moment as you leave the room, Half-hoping it won't fall over and set your bookshelf ablaze. Doing any number of seemingly monotonous chores, And half-hoping your mind won't hope for the dreadful way it could end.
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Aug 20, 2020
Aug 20, 2020 at 11:51 AM UTC
Here's to Half-Hoping
Cutting my own arm every other night cause of what I am hearing from the ones I trust
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Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020 at 8:27 AM UTC
Broken #3
Fill your lungs with air, they say These black fireworks are getting closer Crawl around, it's fun, they say The slower I move, the deader the knot gets You're dizzy, shadowed, they say Apple after apple, only glowing poison You'll see, you'll see You'll want to someday But all I want is out.
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May 20, 2020
May 20, 2020 at 5:40 PM UTC
The Breathing Cage
I am so very extremely depressed I want to sleep but I'm way too stressed I try to talk with friends and with fam But they seem to think that I don't give a **** They call me lazy, heartless and dull I've stopped eating food; they just think that I'm full My arms are restless, I kick in the night Can't someone tell me what I'm supposed to fight? I wait for the next day, and the next, and the next Waiting for when I finally breathe my last And then it occurs to me; why hadn't I seen it? I have the power to **** and destroy it Tell me one reason that suicide is bad Besides the fact that it'd drive others mad I should be concerned with the rest, but I can't Just let me be selfish and let me rant I want to die and I want to die now The only question left to consider is: how?
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020 at 2:22 AM UTC
Dark Theme
A brain chemically imbalanced. How could taking two little white pills every morning slowly but surely resolve eight years of major depression ameliorate symptoms that strangle the mind and spirit, destroying self-worth, competency, basic functionality. Despite a set-back of a month of unstable, barely restrained suicidal thoughts, whole-heartedly consuming every minute of conscious thought and shattering already severely fragmented sleep, the only repose from the onslaught of endless thoughts each one affirming deservance and supplying means to an end. The vile depression, mind-warping, heart-marring, shape-shifting, perspective-rearranging, adapting to every new environment, clawing its nightmare-grip further into my chest day after day, haunting me even in its remission: the depression was sinister. Body and brain scarred and healing, starved synapses react, a regiment of medicine, taxing-thought, and long-scarce love, but indisputably vital: taking two little white pills every morning slowly but surely resolves eight years of major depression. A brain chemically balanced.
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Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020 at 4:17 PM UTC
Chemical reaction
Poison. Poison is all that's on my mind. I could go out in edgy flair By the point of a dagger Or, I could disappear by poison. Free myself from this cage with cyanide A sleepy, seamless death. No marks No pain Just true freedom. No more drugs pumping through my body to stall while death is lurking Maybe then I could finally be released of the pain I hold in my chest The pain of a thousand wishes and hopes orphaned Crushed I'll never be worthwhile. I know that. May this last vision To some so vile Be carried out for once in my life.
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Mar 29, 2020
Mar 29, 2020 at 5:18 AM UTC
Worthless
I sit in the shower, wishing for my brain to work the way it should. I sit in the shower and let the water beat against my face, hoping that will drown out my thoughts and insecurities. I sit in the shower and cry because I know no one will hear me. I sit in the shower and question my importance here. I sit in the shower and gag myself while I sob quietly. I sit in the shower and take apart razor blades and let them dance across my wrists so that I will stop numbly staring at the shower wall. I sit in the shower and wonder, if I should really be here tomorrow. So, how do I tell my friends I sit in the shower?
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Mar 20, 2020
Mar 20, 2020 at 7:54 AM UTC
How Do I Tell My Friends I Sit in the Shower?