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#suicideprevention
I speak, but it’s like I’m whispering to walls Words fall through cracks, no one hears my calls I’m shouting loud, but it’s just empty air Do they even notice, or do they just not care? I’m right here, right in front of their eyes But I’m just a shadow, a ghost in disguise Would they notice if I disappeared? Would they see me or just feel relieved? Am I just noise in the background, unheard? Am I seen, or ignored? Would they notice, or am I just ignored? I give my all, but it’s never enough Like I’m chasing stars, but they don’t light me up They smile and pretend like they understand But the truth is, I’m lost in no-man’s land I’m reaching out, but no one takes my hand Just another face they don’t understand Would they notice if I disappeared? Would they see me or just feel relieved? Am I just noise in the background, unheard? Am I seen, or ignored? Would they notice, or am I just ignored? I’m tired of screaming in silence Of fading without a trace I want to be more than a ghost in the crowd I want to find my place Would they notice if I disappeared? Would they see me or just feel relieved? Am I just noise in the background, unheard? Am I seen, or ignored? Would they notice, or am I just ignored? Maybe one day someone will see The real me, not just what’s on the surface, And maybe then I’ll finally be free From being unseen, ignored, in this world’s cold purpose.
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May 20
May 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM UTC
Ignored (TW: S--c-d-)
A man that is dead, does not mean he is gone A man that is gone, does not mean he is dead For a man who is dead, can merely just be alone And for a man that is gone, could be a soul who is lost And once a man is alone, he shall not turn to a living soul, for the help that he desires Because if he chooses to do so, he will be seen as weak, by all the "passerbyers," He wished a person came just to check, Someone to check on him, someone to see. For he is alone and lost, until he wraps his neck And swings from a branch of a tree.
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Feb 9
Feb 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM UTC
A Man Who Is Dead
This thought occurred — behind the shed — A blinding fog inside my head. Barbed snags, held me there — Each word a **** too deep to bear. Silence washed in — time stood still. The darkness passed — so too the chill. The story’s end, sunlit leaves will write. Till then — a shallow breath of life.                         —•0•—
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Nov 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM UTC
Behind the Shed
There’s a girl at school with porcelain skin, white as snow— but her wrists are covered in red lines. I had to report it to the administration. It was the right thing to do. I don’t know if she knows it was me. But now she lingers in the principal’s office, her face even paler, nauseous, locking herself in the bathroom. I fear I’ve made public what was sacredly private in her universe— and that it may get worse. My chest feels heavy imagining what she might do to herself, if they don’t care for her the right way. Because once, I was a girl just like her.
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Sep 14, 2025
Sep 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM UTC
Porcelain Skin, Red Lines
Y’know, the world is flying right past you now the water is dark and thrashing approaching quickly to flood your lungs but not before time floods your mind with everything you’re about to lose. Never again, will you elbow her in the backseat dying of laughter over something no one else would get Never see her cap and gown and smile awkwardly for a quick family pic Never hold shaking hands down the aisle. The only church you’ll share now— she’ll be in black, you’ll be in a box. Never again, will you feel the leash tug after some sly squirrel Never again hear a sudden bark break a silent morning and never again be greeted by kisses and tail wags — not now. Instead he’ll sit wondering where you went, when you’re coming back Never again, will you love till your heart hurts laugh till your ribs ache cry till your throat’s sore lie awake contemplating life feel the familiar burn of the sun. scream to the sky just because Never, experience the extraordinary mess that we call life — ever again And even if you wanted to— even if you begged— it’s too late now. you’re already going down.
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Jul 22, 2025
Jul 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM UTC
Going down
Once for You Twice for You And a third for My disappointment And a third for The pattern
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Mar 19, 2025
Mar 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM UTC
3 1/2 Times
The emptiness: you’re so longing to leave behind the shadows left behind your eyes; watching quietly all the things that start to feel so summarized; building memories on every fibre of your skin, like towers crashing down in their own defeat as my eyes watch the young die younger, to feel a bit alive “Do I see dead people,” be ahead of most people- “do I behead people,” live a once lonely life, cos it comes with no sequel; but depression, a subtle prequel- subtracting most successful friends to feel equal. I fudged up: _sugar butter, milk and cream,_ but still don’t feel as sweet as enough Been so hurt and wounded- “something I also know” Felt so traumatized to act hospitalized- “something I also know” Done so much good, to get bad in return- “something I also know” Gave all your trust just to be damaged- “something I also know” Tomorrow’s sun seems to bring you darkness- “something I also know” Been in the company of friends that betray you- “something I also know” The loudness of depression silences you- “something I also know” Had so much opportunity pass you- “something I also know” Hanging around those feelings making you want to hang yourself- “something I also know” Feeling all, you can watch is this world’s poison, to want to poison yourself- “something I also know” Tried to give another shot at life, to feel like you want to shoot yourself- “something I also know” Please let me hear out the pain of your story, rather than getting to hear your story while attending your funeral- _the pain you feel is a pain I also know_
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Sep 15, 2024
Sep 15, 2024 at 3:58 PM UTC
Please share your story
The emptiness: you’re so longing to leave behind the shadows left behind your eyes; watching quietly all the things that start to feel so summarized; building memories on every fibre of your skin, like towers crashing down in their own defeat as my eyes watch the young die younger, to feel a bit alive “Do I see dead people,” be ahead of most people- “do I behead people,” live a once lonely life, cos it comes with no sequel; but depression, a subtle prequel- subtracting most successful friends to feel equal. I fudged up: _sugar butter, milk and cream,_ but still don’t feel as sweet as enough Been so hurt and wounded- “something I also know” Felt so traumatized to act hospitalized- “something I also know” Done so much good, to get bad in return- “something I also know” Gave all your trust just to be damaged- “something I also know” Tomorrow’s sun seems to bring you darkness- “something I also know” Been in the company of friends that betray you- “something I also know” The loudness of depression silences you- “something I also know” Had so much opportunity pass you- “something I also know” Hanging around those feelings making you want to hang yourself- “something I also know” Feeling all, you can watch is this world’s poison, to want to poison yourself- “something I also know” Tried to give another shot at life, to feel like you want to shoot yourself- “something I also know” Please let me hear out the pain of your story, rather than getting to hear your story while attending your funeral- _the pain you feel is a pain I also know_
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No pressure to be up today, blessed or cursed, hold on the hands in yours may be tiny, of passion, steady, familiar, frail or memorial they touch the same and need you here x
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Dec 25, 2021
Dec 25, 2021 at 5:14 AM UTC
Annual
We can talk about suicide we can no one will ever want to but its hands wander wider than you’d think Each tear you blink on the back of it is wrought with confusion: was it? is it? can it? how do I? what do I? what should I? But the truth is lost like in 7.8 billion a healthy unhealthy percentage of which have had enough and you know some of ‘em So ask them, yeah? ask them a lot repeatedly like an annoying clock Ask them
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Aug 21, 2021
Aug 21, 2021 at 9:54 AM UTC
Worth living
There are tough days too much in the way days heavy in the soul days no feeling of control days no clear thought days no witty retort days my body is a mess days where do I confess days ******** in the mirror days too much to consider days what if I’d have done that days where is all the fun at days picking at the scab days checking in to rehab days the I’m no good to anyone days someone should just shoot me days there are but they are days the same as all and though they may come thick and fast they fall so stay x
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Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021 at 8:57 AM UTC
Chew
Dreaming in Moonshine   Soaking into songs heard only through   The vibrations of insect wings   Breathing in their scented infusions within a double scene inside another unfolding painted image of what appears to be A still depleting life   Casting shadows over my restless thoughts of both promise and deceit which constitutes the inner fold of what is love…   the counterfeit of existence that lends itself to real What is real (in my world)? Coming forth to me in moments in phases from within   the possible      That lingers until the end of pond’s length  containing the infinite drops that continue to fill it up  by the immaculate hand of heaven’s reach   entrapping the limits   that give shape to such incongruity   (There  are always limits in the future even though there are so many possible ones in life- even if there are so many possibilities for us to see, to understand, to believe in, and to experience) Traipsing into waters unknown   I learn the diligence of the dragonfly who hinges   on existential wings   On this journey of trial and error   I discover freedom wholly through the mystification of my own will and the emancipation of choice only to be surrounded by the empty court of judgment   Seeing through buzz eyes  dripping in nectar   an opalescent tune raises its brow   to trigger   The wind, which blows against the tenderness of heart yet calm and   (flowing) as if through a wand   swaying in the glory   that fate whispers in between the spaces of anorexic branches meeting   How can the iridescence of a sound, of a single word Press with such kindness and bathe in such grandeur   I am amazed by the purity; by the simple beauty of this world   I recall someone telling me that just once in your life do you meet the one who gives you the belief you never could find The deep   stirring   (surge) of your spate   running inside   the cord of your spine How is that I am free today? I wish for immortal meaning : (self- reproach)   does not lead to fill me   Questioning … but simply knowing   the stars   As they look to me   and choosing not to shine   on skin   not even   into eyes of gold they look down on me mocking insecurity   This is my reality at its core   As they move  further   in between their departing   within a space   of sky   do they laugh   subconsciously   behind  the falsity of a perfect smile   looming   while the moon just sits up straight   and smirks beside   with faint and covered faces squinting eyes   Never  hinting that this could all be just a dream   Unjust Inside these walls But I know like a dream they will return   to keep me company in the mist (of shadows)   of a nightmare inside   I’m now in battle to avoid                                                                                                                                                               At times I feel slighted   yet wholly redeemed   I feel respected  yet abused beyond all things and sometimes it feels like I’m standing in front of the altar alone (on the edge of the dock)   peering down at everybody I’ve ever known   about to dive in   to land on slippery greens floating swiftly in between (the ripples) I feel chosen Yet   I feel unseen   Dispraised for the things I’ve done feeling no pain do I fade... Away   into the lambent (lucent)mist of efficacy:   into the Elysian fields of transcendent virtue   And there do I become everything I’ve ever loved, everyone I’ve ever known   Only knowing that Love's darkest form is that of deceit in the illusion of each day, I am still. But more than that, I am still alive. Thank you for saving my life.
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Jan 18, 2021
Jan 18, 2021 at 8:14 PM UTC
Living in Phases
Dreaming in Moonshine   Soaking into songs heard only through   The vibrations of insect wings   Breathing in their scented infusions within a double scene inside another unfolding painted image of what appears to be A still depleting life   Casting shadows over my restless thoughts of both promise and deceit which constitutes the inner fold of what is love…   the counterfeit of existence that lends itself to real What is real (in my world)? Coming forth to me in moments in phases from within   the possible      That lingers until the end of pond’s length  containing the infinite drops that continue to fill it up  by the immaculate hand of heaven’s reach   entrapping the limits   that give shape to such incongruity   (There  are always limits in the future even though there are so many possible ones in life- even if there are so many possibilities for us to see, to understand, to believe in, and to experience) Traipsing into waters unknown   I learn the diligence of the dragonfly who hinges   on existential wings   On this journey of trial and error   I discover freedom wholly through the mystification of my own will and the emancipation of choice only to be surrounded by the empty court of judgment   Seeing through buzz eyes  dripping in nectar   an opalescent tune raises its brow   to trigger   The wind, which blows against the tenderness of heart yet calm and   (flowing) as if through a wand   swaying in the glory   that fate whispers in between the spaces of anorexic branches meeting   How can the iridescence of a sound, of a single word Press with such kindness and bathe in such grandeur   I am amazed by the purity; by the simple beauty of this world   I recall someone telling me that just once in your life do you meet the one who gives you the belief you never could find The deep   stirring   (surge) of your spate   running inside   the cord of your spine How is that I am free today? I wish for immortal meaning : (self- reproach)   does not lead to fill me   Questioning … but simply knowing   the stars   As they look to me   and choosing not to shine   on skin   not even   into eyes of gold they look down on me mocking insecurity   This is my reality at its core   As they move  further   in between their departing   within a space   of sky   do they laugh   subconsciously   behind  the falsity of a perfect smile   looming   while the moon just sits up straight   and smirks beside   with faint and covered faces squinting eyes   Never  hinting that this could all be just a dream   Unjust Inside these walls But I know like a dream they will return   to keep me company in the mist (of shadows)   of a nightmare inside   I’m now in battle to avoid                                                                                                                                                               At times I feel slighted   yet wholly redeemed   I feel respected  yet abused beyond all things and sometimes it feels like I’m standing in front of the altar alone (on the edge of the dock)   peering down at everybody I’ve ever known   about to dive in   to land on slippery greens floating swiftly in between (the ripples) I feel chosen Yet   I feel unseen   Dispraised for the things I’ve done feeling no pain do I fade... Away   into the lambent (lucent)mist of efficacy:   into the Elysian fields of transcendent virtue   And there do I become everything I’ve ever loved, everyone I’ve ever known   Only knowing that Love's darkest form is that of deceit in the illusion of each day, I am still. But more than that, I am still alive. Thank you for saving my life.
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Dedicated to Sophie Smith I wonder if you played here as a child? Did you hunt for treasure shells write your name in shingle snake seaweed around sand kingdoms. Did you ever throw stones into the ocean and watch the ripples as they spread? Maybe you’d tested yourself before. Feet sunk into the shoreline, sea foaming at your ankles as you made your final choice. Panic or calm, fear or resolve. Nothingness. I bet the water had never seemed so dark. I hope you numbed quickly limbs silent nerves dull lips salt-fresh and longing for the end. Jade Wright
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Dec 14, 2020
Dec 14, 2020 at 8:24 AM UTC
Ripples
Her breath was ice Was she gone? Waves of time did not move her There was no fear There was no joy There were no sounds Where is she? Here eyes moved slowly Her movement had intent But she is not here She is gone A victim of her own struggle
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Oct 14, 2020
Oct 14, 2020 at 11:42 AM UTC
Eager
White walls Empty beds Silent nights They scream loudly They scream in terror Lights flashing Empty hallways That echo into nothing Praying to my faith Praying not to die Hell has found its new home I don't want to die All the voices echoing in my head I'm not crazy White walls I don't want to be here
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Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 2020 at 1:17 PM UTC
White Walls
My dog-soul forgets to feed and starves black, paces circles for a bed and with dead weight, settles thought and action, usually smitten with intricacies, are quietly smothered to nothing a flat purgatory scored with white noise, overcast rendered in a pauper’s palette on a canvas with no edge ticks remain untocked until at some distance a mechanism is rewound and a leash jangled for an ear to lazily lift again
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Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020 at 8:17 AM UTC
Black dog
Three AM awake, aching with lateness wrestling alone even if a significant other is next to you or little breaths flutter in next rooms Shadow boxing ridiculous odds in a world and heart full of treacle thick worries weighting your punches ineffectual just like in the fear-fever dreams that woke you You skirt the maw below resting place of your almighty failures as the sick orange glow breaches curtains and makes familiar shapes judgmental tut tut tutting at your uselessness Here, you are defenceless Here, the black thoughts insinuate, find cracks to prise and plant suggestions of a better world without you in it: the limit of you Dig deep, my human kin quietly get up, make a cup of tea, write a message or two to yourself, or for others later Bide and wait for the mute loved heaviness of sleep to return or the welcome thinness of morning light to wash the darkness back In the new day, reach out, with steady voice or bubble-snot, be heard and seen by friends or strangers and try to heal again
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Oct 3, 2020
Oct 3, 2020 at 9:03 AM UTC
3AM
isn’t it reassuring that a game we play as kids can teach you that by saying the wrong thing you can end someone’s life.
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Sep 29, 2020
Sep 29, 2020 at 10:10 PM UTC
hangman
The friend we all wanted with a smile we all need, she was funny and loving, just a regular teen. Black dyed hair with platform heels, nobody noticed she was missing meals. A song in her head with a knife in her heart, these rude little kids were tearing her apart. "Too skinny." "Too fat." "Too this." "Too that," This confused little girl was getting kicked to the mat. Teenage life is a struggle alone, but she was being bullied and had problems at home. We spoke up and spoke out, but the school swept it away. A perfect reputation was bound to stay that way.
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Sep 17, 2020
Sep 17, 2020 at 4:21 AM UTC
That girl
One last phone call Then you were gone Trying to make sense of it But no sense came at all. Your smile and joy You decided to quit however I know it was all a decoy Your heart was broken you felt so low You tried so hard many words unspoken I know you are watching And keeping guard Life is all good like you always said Until we meet again Be proud of all you withstood I’ll send my love up there instead.
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Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020 at 11:18 AM UTC
“Life is all good”
Another day I struggle to reach its darkened end Battling cryptic thoughts which my demons send Amidst this emptiness I find myself withering away Neither caring nor am I wanting to see another day Depression is an uninvited friend that will not leave Obstinate that it speaks only truth when trying to deceive No one can be found to convince me it is only lies Emptiness that surrounds me somehow it multiplies Depression                      Erases                                All                                    The                                       Hope ChillNPsyco
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Aug 22, 2020
Aug 22, 2020 at 2:03 PM UTC
ABANDONED
you are so precious your smile and laugh are infectious you truly are my little sunshine yet you wish you were dead? you wish you no longer existed? don't you know how much it pains me to hear that? you think you need me? baby, i need YOU i can't even imagine a world without you please don't leave i promise, it can't rain forever at the end of the day you are my little sunshine, remember?
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Jul 12, 2020
Jul 12, 2020 at 11:42 PM UTC
my dearest maxwell
Stand arboreally tall, present a strength, represent stability, provide a safe place, wide-branched sanctuary, hold rooted principles, speak truth to power, til the hour you break and tumble, your fingers thumbs and your heart falling numbed senses bent, thoughts fraying, tattered threads evasive, the very idea of existence, position, self, buckles Far-sightedness retracts, a fancy contra-zoom, Hitchcockian, eyes locked on your two feet, tip-toes edged up against your own precipice, your own private void We all feel this sooner or later, but its ridiculous melodrama stills our tongues to tell, til we’re left believing we’re the only losers facing hell To speak is strong, to cry courageous, to panic and dread next steps, next breaths, is human I pledge to listen, ask for the same and beg that next time we keep shooting the breeze until the ledge fades
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Jun 19, 2020
Jun 19, 2020 at 10:18 AM UTC
Tall trees
Ala una Alas dos Alas tres Dilat ang mga matang Gising na gising May nakatingin? Mga namumulang mata Na umaaligid Hindi lang sa kwarto Pati sa panaginip, PArang papaTAYin ka sa sakal sa oras na pipikit, Dadaganan ka Sa oras na nagdidilim, Ano ba mga ito Hindi NAman kayo ginugulo Wala AKOng gusto Hindi ko kayo kailangan ngayon Sino ba kayo Wala akong ginawa Gusto ko lang matulog Ng mapayapa, Tulong Tulong Tulong Hindi ko kayang mahayo Mga demonyong umaaligid Ilang gabi na silang Bumabalik Hindi ko na kayang mapatagal Mga nakikita Mga nararamdaman Mga demonyo Baka gusto nilang Ako nalang ang mawala?
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Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020 at 4:53 PM UTC
Demonyo
I've contemplated it, wrote it, pondered it Cried out for it, and attempted it you see I keep all my ropes now in the garage There they are of greater use to me I moved the radio from the bathroom I now prefer classic melodies I put my razors behind the mirror I'm gonna let my hair get shaggy And all my pills went down the toilet And there they can't bother me I used to lock away these horrid thoughts But to heal I must set them free I won't lie and say the thought doesn't still come Like a quiet thief in the night with a loaded gun There will always be this darkest part of me But now I try to share my thoughts in forms of poetry And I hope there is no end to the line for us
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Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020 at 7:58 AM UTC
No End to the Line