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My little sister called me tonight. Her voice cracked before she even said hello. She saw the heart I typed, and thought I was saying goodbye. She shouldn’t have to live like this— bracing herself every time I answer too slowly, learning to read my silences like warning signs. She’s just a kid. My baby. The one I used to tuck in and promise monsters weren’t real. But now I am the monster. Not to her. Never to her. But to myself. I am the nightmare she can’t wake up from. The danger she can’t punch away. The reason she checks her phone like it’s a lifeline and a bomb at the same time. And I hate it. I hate that she’s learning to live on edge because of me. Because I might break and take her with me. So maybe— maybe the kindest thing I could do is just end it. Once. Not again and again in panicked calls and whispered fears and “I love you”s that sound too final. Not in sirens or hospital beds or birthdays where I couldn’t come. Just once. One clean tear through the timeline. One scream. One silence. And then nothing. She’d cry, yes. But she’d stop being afraid. She wouldn’t have to wonder anymore. Wouldn’t have to scan my messages for signs of collapse. Wouldn’t have to carry this slow, rotting dread that her sister might be dying in a place she can’t reach. Maybe grief would be easier than fear. Maybe heartbreak would feel like freedom after years of holding her breath. I think about that a lot. How maybe the kindest thing I could ever do for her is disappear.
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May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM UTC
The Kindest Thing
My little sister called me tonight. Her voice cracked before she even said hello. She saw the heart I typed, and thought I was saying goodbye. She shouldn’t have to live like this— bracing herself every time I answer too slowly, learning to read my silences like warning signs. She’s just a kid. My baby. The one I used to tuck in and promise monsters weren’t real. But now I am the monster. Not to her. Never to her. But to myself. I am the nightmare she can’t wake up from. The danger she can’t punch away. The reason she checks her phone like it’s a lifeline and a bomb at the same time. And I hate it. I hate that she’s learning to live on edge because of me. Because I might break and take her with me. So maybe— maybe the kindest thing I could do is just end it. Once. Not again and again in panicked calls and whispered fears and “I love you”s that sound too final. Not in sirens or hospital beds or birthdays where I couldn’t come. Just once. One clean tear through the timeline. One scream. One silence. And then nothing. She’d cry, yes. But she’d stop being afraid. She wouldn’t have to wonder anymore. Wouldn’t have to scan my messages for signs of collapse. Wouldn’t have to carry this slow, rotting dread that her sister might be dying in a place she can’t reach. Maybe grief would be easier than fear. Maybe heartbreak would feel like freedom after years of holding her breath. I think about that a lot. How maybe the kindest thing I could ever do for her is disappear.
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Anorexia She's the most cowardly death There can be. So much effort Many lies And also a lot of courage Just to be consumed And see you die More and more Everyday. But never I felt more cowardly than now. Never. Anorexia Like self-harm Are the scariest monsters I could meet Because even when I think I'm out of it I know it's not like that And I suffer And I try to do everything possible For not to swallow anything But it's late now I just have to stay Waiting for that flow of acidic liquid Get out of my mouth And free me Free me From that feeling of disgust that I feel Throwing down a single bite. So I would like To take me to cuts Cut that crap of fat Everywhere And be light And free.
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Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 at 9:53 AM UTC
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She draws Breath In As she knows To do When the panics Rise And suddenly In the edge Between inhale And ex She wills The knot Of muscle Beneath ******* And bone To rest And slow Band By Band Until It is still So she can be For she is very tired.
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Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018 at 9:00 AM UTC
Arrest