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My mouth is stretched into a parody of a smile As I look into the mirror I swallow down the rising bile Try to make my vision clearer I wipe the tears off my face As I contemplate Which choice would hold more grace? I try not to deteriorate I tell myself it’s okay You don’t have to worry anymore You can lock yourself away Deep within your core I try to still my mind And look around for the last time To this place that I will never again find This enigmatic pantomime Finally I close my eyes And when they open I’m gone My real self dies And my conscious soul is withdrawn
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Dec 13, 2019
Dec 13, 2019 at 4:33 AM UTC
Leaving
Whether it be secrets or lies She keeps them hidden inside Miseries and agonies too She's beside herself Without the silence, Too much noise breaks through Not knowing what else to do She runs to that place Where she keeps her silence Hidden away It's dark there And filled with so much pain But she can never let the silence escape Too many losses and nothing to gain Let the tears rain, she can't explain So, she hides herself in her dreams With the silence she keeps
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Jul 27, 2015
Jul 27, 2015 at 10:34 AM UTC
The Silence She Keeps
This shattered house   I've found myself surrounded by Breaks a little more each day    The walls I've built and plastered Are peeling away layers of guilt     Hanging mirrors with shadows of reflections     Ghosts of ink spilt This floor, these bricks, the cement out the doorstep      Pavement falling apart from where so many shoes have walked    Decorated with outlines of broken hearts in chalk       If these walls could talk They'd tell stories of rage and pain,    Of the misery born into its foundation            Day after day If these cupboards could hold as many secrets as those walls have heard     Of the lies they've tried to hide away inside, they would burst       If you could save the tear drops that have fallen under this crumbling roof top     Then you could drown this dilapidated house        Bury it alive with no doubt that the years of emotion and agony it's kept hidden inside   Will easily and willingly have peace when it dies        The color of the paint would simply be forgotten before the end of the day      The torn and rotten foundation would just be ripped away and replaced   With stronger cement at its base for someone new to cling to       And new walls and paint for another soul to suffer through   But this shattered house still stands       There's no plans to rebuild all these shards of my broken heart splattered on the ground    And nothing will ever replace my soul when this house falls down
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 7:28 PM UTC
Shattered House
This shattered house   I've found myself surrounded by Breaks a little more each day    The walls I've built and plastered Are peeling away layers of guilt     Hanging mirrors with shadows of reflections     Ghosts of ink spilt This floor, these bricks, the cement out the doorstep      Pavement falling apart from where so many shoes have walked    Decorated with outlines of broken hearts in chalk       If these walls could talk They'd tell stories of rage and pain,    Of the misery born into its foundation            Day after day If these cupboards could hold as many secrets as those walls have heard     Of the lies they've tried to hide away inside, they would burst       If you could save the tear drops that have fallen under this crumbling roof top     Then you could drown this dilapidated house        Bury it alive with no doubt that the years of emotion and agony it's kept hidden inside   Will easily and willingly have peace when it dies        The color of the paint would simply be forgotten before the end of the day      The torn and rotten foundation would just be ripped away and replaced   With stronger cement at its base for someone new to cling to       And new walls and paint for another soul to suffer through   But this shattered house still stands       There's no plans to rebuild all these shards of my broken heart splattered on the ground    And nothing will ever replace my soul when this house falls down
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That's me, pure fragility Been broken and put back together too many times Honestly, the lines are getting weaker And the cracks take so much less To shatter the shards into pieces Of broken heart I'm too fragile to handle any more pain And too hurt to hold on When there's nothing to gain
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Jul 18, 2015
Jul 18, 2015 at 7:03 PM UTC
Fragility
Addicted to the room spinning The blur of the lights And the red in my eyes My disguise in the dead of the night And you've been fine all this time Yet I've been drinking myself to sleep Since the beginning of all the lies Wondering how you're fine Then I realize that in the light of day Everyone sees a smile on my face No one can see all my regrets All my mistakes And I think that you hide Behind whiskey too Cause it's my only addiction Besides you And I'd like to think that you're miserable too How else could I make it through? Whiskey took your place years ago But I'm still addicted to you both At least drinking shows me the truth All I ever got was lies from you I know I need to quit You and whiskey But I can't seem to forget your face And that bottle is so pretty I guess another shot couldn't hurt anything **** you and whiskey You're both way too addicting
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Jul 11, 2015
Jul 11, 2015 at 11:54 PM UTC
You and Whiskey
Not seen by the outside world Miserable invisible little girl Hiding in the corners of her mind Hoping there's nothing left of her to find Listening to the silence of the voices Regretting life and all her bad choices Missing the happiness she once had Considering it all, she's really mad How could this have happened? What did she ever do in her past life? Pain cuts away her soul deep with a knife Slicing the pieces that remain into shards Dropping to the ground, breaking hard There's nothing left of the past regrets Now she can only pray that she forgets
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Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015 at 9:11 PM UTC
~she missed the future~
Color the insides of my soul With a black gloss paint Empty the blood from my veins Replace it with lava, Keep it flowing through my heart Fill my brain with tar Let it harden, To keep the headaches away Turn my bones to to ash Paint then neon orange flat paint Because that's my favorite color Make my skin redwood bark Hard, to help keep away the pain Because it's too much to handle Erase my memories Fill them in with a hypmotizing array Of all the colors of the rainbow I realize I'll look creepy And scary as hell But at least I won't feel anything Anymore I want nothing left Of my miserable life From before
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Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015 at 5:02 PM UTC
Pain(T)
Wonderful day Memories fade But never go away Oceans crash into shores As waves fire in the day Light in your soul before Everytime life throws a little dark Thought it was very smart For the first moon climbed above branches Frozen in time and space Shining through my bones Leaving ash as remnants of the time And burned out this link to reality Truth lies in secret so deep within Your heart can fall in my mind But together we can climb Up with the day all the way Into the darkness of night Everything must break Before it can begin again There's nothing worse than the regret Yet more often than not Debilitating lies can only hope to be forgotten To find out how to get the truth It just depends where you start Somewhere in the highest levels of heaven Dreams trickle down on my heart Life is crumbling into a desperate wind Blowing through the mirror that reflects images Of past mistakes Leading to the past that you missed Your future is now Only hatred and despair to look forward to But you know what you can do Change the path you travel And the ending with the almight judge Deciding which way to slam the gavel
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 7:25 AM UTC
Slam The Gavel
I can only be whole And actually be myself Or I can hide who I truly am And I'll simply be broken There's no inbetween
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 10:51 AM UTC
Broken
She loves deep Hates even deeper Rejection is near And scares her A last resort She's desperately in need Of something to lift her up Stop the chance that she'll bleed It's a scary life she leads She runs, she pushes and she cries It's more than she can handle But she continuously tries She asks herself these questions How does she survive? How does she fake the lies? What could she possibly do To hide her truth in disguise? There is no where left to run Her fears are all coming true She knows her life is coming undone There's nothing left she can do The life she had is finally through
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May 10, 2015
May 10, 2015 at 7:53 PM UTC
Finally Through
My life is crumbling I dont know what to do Sanity is disappearing Why is this what I go through? How do I find a way to breathe? What do I do to survive? His hate for me, I just can't believe I'm losing my drive to succed They say I'm so resilient They tell me I'm so strong I'm telling you I've lost my brilliance Everybody just seems to be wrong
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May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015 at 7:11 PM UTC
So Wrong
The words keep *t                                w                               i                                  s                                   t                                 i                                    n                                  g*                                       in my mind                Truths and lies        Becoming *h                              a                             r                              d                           e                               r*                                  and harder to find               Blurred together       between *h                          o                        l                          l                      o                          w*                                and grey lines          The differences becoming                *o                  b                s                   t               a                  c                l                   e                s*                    more difficult to define     And life has lost all its                                            *l                                              o                                             v                                                e*                                                   and rhyme
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 5:53 AM UTC
Love And Rhyme
The words keep *t                                w                               i                                  s                                   t                                 i                                    n                                  g*                                       in my mind                Truths and lies        Becoming *h                              a                             r                              d                           e                               r*                                  and harder to find               Blurred together       between *h                          o                        l                          l                      o                          w*                                and grey lines          The differences becoming                *o                  b                s                   t               a                  c                l                   e                s*                    more difficult to define     And life has lost all its                                            *l                                              o                                             v                                                e*                                                   and rhyme
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This misery Is completely consuming me Torturing me How can I fight this? Can I even win this game? Help to make my mind tame Fulfill the righteousness Leave behind the pettiness But I cannot believe in happiness When the only hearts that complete mine Have been ripped from my arms Placed into uncomparible harm For an unknown length of time The three black holes in my chest, Where only they can be placed Feels like they can never be refilled And can certainly never be replaced My life, my world, my everything Unseen to my lost eyes Torn right away from me So cruelly, terribly, all to torture me Well, it's working I'm tortured, I'm broken, I'm burnt down I can't give up, they will be found I want to stay strong, I need to be brave But this battle has become my warery grave
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 3:17 PM UTC
Torn Away
I cannot tell a lie And I will not lie back To watch you deny the truth I never really loved you I only ever felt affection For all the abuse That I knew I deserved You may think it absurd But how could I possibly Love someone else When I have yet to learn How to love myself? Or even live with myself? Show a smile based on a lie, Or a frown based on the truth, Which would you prefer? I'd like to smile Once in a while But I cannot tell a lie And I will not lie back To watch the truth die In the soulless eyes I see in my mirror That girl whispers to me But I cannot hear her So she fades away Silently Yet, I know This cannot be my destiny Lies of smiles Truths of frowns It's bringing me down I could think of a million lies But only six eyes To help me smile More than just Once in awhile I cannot tell a lie And I will not lie back To watch you steal my smiles My truths My everything I will stare in your eyes While you spout all your lies And watch you crumble And Fall While I smile Standing tall Staring down at your frown Wishing you knew the truth That I cannot tell a lie And I never really loved you
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Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015 at 8:37 PM UTC
I Will NOT Lie Back
There's no greater love Than that of a mother and her child Times that by three And the maternal instinct goes wild To not be around what you hold dear Can tear your world apart Distance and no hope brings a tear Ripping out the motherly heart *I miss them, truly deeply madly They're my whole entire world I need help to even see them again One baby boy and two big girls Their daddy was never truly a father But now he's just using them to hurt me Keeping them away, tearing them from my arms Telling me I HAVE to just sign over custody I want to fight this, I want to hold them every night But no lawyer I can find is willing to help for free I feel so lost, hopeless, like I'll never find a way So, I'm putting my pride aside and asking for help with my poetry...* http://www.gofundme.com/r5wnpsd5
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 3:04 PM UTC
I'm Putting My Pride Aside, I'm Admitting I Need Help
Regretting Some Past Mistakes Realizing what's actually At stake Feeling so helpless and confused So many memories of your abuse Screaming, kicking, punching Just too much fighting You always knew the best ways to hurt me Now you wanna take away what means everything Like your final play to torture me For eternity What right do you have to judge me? To look down upon me? I am only all that you've made of me This so called monster that you love to hate Is just the manifestation of what you helped create You WILL regret this In the end, you will lose I won't let you win, not again They'll realize what you're trying to do Remembering the years of abuse And they'll HATE you You can never destroy a mother's love Although I know you're willing to try When I win this battle for what I hold dear Don't come crawling to me with tears in your eyes Cause I won't be here
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Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 11:44 AM UTC
I Won't Let You Win
She shouted from the roof tops Her love for him And how it would never stop He simply stared at her In utter shock nobody could ever love me Or so he thought... She smiled with her arms spread apart Waiting for a response He stood there silently Unable to move but wanting to walk Walk away from the lies Cause he'd been hurt too many times She begged and pleaded Trying to make him believe It's the truth she said But he couldn't respond Simply turned around to leave women only hurt me Was all he could believe Too much pain and abuse For those lies to become the truth She sunk inside herself Filled with pain and so many tears After years of trying She finally faced her fears Only to be hit with rejection Imperfections of love Shown at there finest She couldn't stand her thoughts... He slowed his walk Thought about the past Suddenly came to realize This life is your last And there on that roof top He may have finally found some hope So he stopped his walk Turned around to accept the truth Only to find That she had jumped off...
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Mar 16, 2015
Mar 16, 2015 at 8:41 PM UTC
~she tried~
and in place of the love         that once filled my heart there is now only glass shards         tearing my insides apart and in place of the good          that once was seen in my eyes there is now only hatred           fueling my demise and in place of the innocence           that once filled my soul there is now only memories          capturing me like a black hole and in place of the happiness          that once filled my core there is now only sadness         stealing my life forevermore **brokenness can't be fixed,        it's not like it was              before**
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 6:44 PM UTC
this road has led me nowhere...
I'm laying my ragged twisted insides in the ground Mourning the death As if my soul has gone to hell And my heart Has died slowly And painfully But my body Is still here But hollow and black Through and though Just flowing through The paces Just waiting for death
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 10:58 PM UTC
Waiting
YOU are no more me than I am MYSELF Yet, you think you know me like the back of your hand or the words you write or the rhymes you create YOU might think you know how I feel or what I think or what I've done but you will never understand my SOUL or the inner workings of my mind So, you can go choke on the words you write, the songs you sing and the hearts you steal because YOU can never have my life
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Jan 24, 2015
Jan 24, 2015 at 12:09 AM UTC
NEVER
There's no satisfaction In the pain That courses through me There's no enjoyment In the happiness That in your eyes I can see There's no love In my heart That breaks daily There's no one In my life That I can see There's no hope In my future That will show mercy There's nothing Left in this world That can make me happy
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015 at 9:04 PM UTC
There's Nothing
1 cup Misery 2 cups Heartache 2 1/2 tbsp Tears 3 tsp Death 4 cups Loss A pinch of Hope 3 Kids (separated from me) 1/2 a Heart 1/4 cup Silence 6 cups Poetry Whisk together for 5 minutes Add 1 cup Solitude Stir until well blended Bake in a plastic bowl for 24 hours Do not remove for 3 months Throw remains in trash
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Jan 17, 2015
Jan 17, 2015 at 1:21 AM UTC
RECIPE (myself)
There's nothing I'd like more Than to just be happy
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Jan 17, 2015
Jan 17, 2015 at 12:34 AM UTC
IDK (10W)
Ravaging through me     is an untold destiny I cannot foresee       what's gonna happen But I know what I need        I need love It keeps escaping me             I'm lonely    I cry constantly I can't write anything Cause I can feel my soul breaking     I've lost everything       my heart keeps breaking I really don't want any pity    I'm truly not deserving but my God does this hurt like hell       I'd just like for one good thing to happen to me         SOMETHING ANYTHING cause I can't handle losing     One more thing    everything I care about has been stolen from me      a string of bad luck Doesn't even begin to describe    the agony that surrounds me I'm desperate for something       GOOD.... PLEASE I'm asking Fate     the Universe Karma         God Mother Nature      Anyone Please Whoever is making my life filled       with misery I'm begging you           PLEASE    I can't handle anymore You've officially brought me        to my knees I've cast my pride aside         all dignity has left I'm BEGGING       PLEADING         Please Just finally let me be happy I think I've forgotten      what happiness feels like
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Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 2:27 AM UTC
TooMuchToHandle
Why? How can I feel this way? I feel myself Losing you Pushing you away Purposely Like, just talking to you Is torturing me Yet, I need you **WHAT THE **** DO I DO?** I don't wanna hurt anymore I want the pain to go away I don't know what I'm living for I don't know how I got this way How do I say THIS IS TOO MUCH TO TAKE To handle To deal with Torn, ripped in directions I never thought existed Expectations Non granted wishes ALL FOR NOTHING Cause I'm still broken Not even worth fixing But you You're worth so much more None of the guilt None of the shame Is worth anything **** IT ALL** Just forget my name
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 11:35 PM UTC
A Condescending Crescendo