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How unfortunate The bird flies yet sees no joy Falls down, falling down One hundred meters Its wings remain by its sides Goes down, going down Seventy meters The clouds and the ground too far Glides down, gliding down Just fifty meters Grass isn’t any greener Zings down, zinging down Only twenty left Eyes closed and body waiting Comes down, coming down Ten meters to go Each blade of grass countable Soars down, soaring down Only ten seconds Now only seven seconds Crash down, crashing down Five, four, three, two, one The bird colors the ground red Nothing but silence
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3d ago
May 31, 2026 at 5:10 AM UTC
A Stutter in Descent
i remember spinning spinning around, not caring if my head hit the tile walls not caring if the janitors would have to clean up blood or even brain matter i was spinning that fast now here i am remembering the sirens and the screaming and the widening of eyes as i struggled to cope
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Apr 30
Apr 30, 2026 at 9:05 PM UTC
why won't the voices stop?
I said no. Yet I have the consequences you get off free I have severe anxiety you lost your reputation I lost all trust in men you felt amazing for what you did almost 4 years later and I still have flashbacks 4 years and I still have panic attacks the trust will never fully be there for any man neither will the safe feeling you ruined its so unfair Im the one who said no I didn't want it yet I'm the one stuck stuck with the consequences stuck with this disgusting feeling that never goes away no matter how hard I scrub
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Apr 13
Apr 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC
unfairness
There is a night in my life that refuses to stay buried. I did not invite it back. I do not call its name. Yet it returns the way the ocean returns to a wound in the land--- patient, relentless, dragging the same salt across the same broken edge. I tell myself I am only remembering. But remembering is too gentle a word for the way my mind paces the perimeter of that hour like a prisoner measuring the walls of a cell that technically no longer exists. There was pain there. Not the tidy pain people write into stories so it can bloom into meaning later. This was the kind that fills the lungs with iron, the kind that makes the air feel like something borrowed that the world wants back. Thoughts colliding. Breath unraveling. The heart arguing with itself in a language made entirely of noise. I remember the weight of it--- how every second dragged behind it a long black train of seconds that refused to end. The mind becomes a courtroom in moments like that. One voice listing evidence of every fracture, every absence, every reason the world had already lost you. Another voice, hoarse, quiet, stubborn--- refusing to leave the witness stand. And between them the terrible silence where the verdict should have been. But then---something impossible happened. Not hope. Hope is bright and loud and declarative. What arrived was smaller than that. A hush. A strange, fragile clearing in the storm as if the universe had paused mid-breath and forgotten to exhale. For a moment the pain loosened its fingers. The world did not feel good---only still. Still enough that I could hear something beneath the chaos. Still enough that the mind stepped out of its own burning house and stood barefoot in the quiet street. It lasted no longer than a heartbeat deciding whether to continue. But in that instant there was a peace so thin and so pure it felt like the edge of another world. And then it was gone. The storm returned. The arguments resumed. The weight reclaimed its throne. But that moment, that impossible, trembling quiet never left me. Now my memory keeps circling it like a bird that cannot decide whether the light below is dawn or fire. Because the pain of that night was vast. A continent of it. But that brief silence was something else entirely. A door that opened only an inch before the wind slammed it shut. And I hate the truth that follows me: that part of my soul would walk through a thousand storms just to stand again in that single second of quiet. So I return to the shoreline of that hour again and again and again--- where the waves of memory keep arguing with themselves. Was that night a place I escaped? Or a place where, for one trembling moment, I almost understood what peace felt like. The tide never answers. It only keeps arriving.
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Apr 5
Apr 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM UTC
- The Shore I Was Not Meant to Remember -
There is a night in my life that refuses to stay buried. I did not invite it back. I do not call its name. Yet it returns the way the ocean returns to a wound in the land--- patient, relentless, dragging the same salt across the same broken edge. I tell myself I am only remembering. But remembering is too gentle a word for the way my mind paces the perimeter of that hour like a prisoner measuring the walls of a cell that technically no longer exists. There was pain there. Not the tidy pain people write into stories so it can bloom into meaning later. This was the kind that fills the lungs with iron, the kind that makes the air feel like something borrowed that the world wants back. Thoughts colliding. Breath unraveling. The heart arguing with itself in a language made entirely of noise. I remember the weight of it--- how every second dragged behind it a long black train of seconds that refused to end. The mind becomes a courtroom in moments like that. One voice listing evidence of every fracture, every absence, every reason the world had already lost you. Another voice, hoarse, quiet, stubborn--- refusing to leave the witness stand. And between them the terrible silence where the verdict should have been. But then---something impossible happened. Not hope. Hope is bright and loud and declarative. What arrived was smaller than that. A hush. A strange, fragile clearing in the storm as if the universe had paused mid-breath and forgotten to exhale. For a moment the pain loosened its fingers. The world did not feel good---only still. Still enough that I could hear something beneath the chaos. Still enough that the mind stepped out of its own burning house and stood barefoot in the quiet street. It lasted no longer than a heartbeat deciding whether to continue. But in that instant there was a peace so thin and so pure it felt like the edge of another world. And then it was gone. The storm returned. The arguments resumed. The weight reclaimed its throne. But that moment, that impossible, trembling quiet never left me. Now my memory keeps circling it like a bird that cannot decide whether the light below is dawn or fire. Because the pain of that night was vast. A continent of it. But that brief silence was something else entirely. A door that opened only an inch before the wind slammed it shut. And I hate the truth that follows me: that part of my soul would walk through a thousand storms just to stand again in that single second of quiet. So I return to the shoreline of that hour again and again and again--- where the waves of memory keep arguing with themselves. Was that night a place I escaped? Or a place where, for one trembling moment, I almost understood what peace felt like. The tide never answers. It only keeps arriving.
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No matter how hard I try, the monsters won't go away. While strangers just see the smile, and my friends see the pain, I see the ghost of 2 monsters I can never name, 2 monsters that gave me life, 2 monsters that ruined mine, 2 monsters that took the sky away, 2 monsters that still haunt me to this day. My friends tell me that the monsters are distant memories, distant nightmares that can't hurt me, but the monsters and the whispers just keep spreading through my brain, and the dark thoughts that tell me I'm the monsters I came from that I deserve to disappear keep spreading like a **** I feel like I'm drowning, hyper aware of everything, every look, every change in expression, the second I walk into a room. Do they see the monsters too? Or do they see the smile even tho they are pushing me so far past my breaking point? I'm so sick of this disguise, sick of smiling no matter how much I wanna break down, why do I smile? Why do I care if crying is overdramatic? They just told me they didn't mean it when they told me to go **** myself, they didn't mean it when they called me fat or ugly, or when they told me that I'll never see the sky again but that they know where it is, or when they told me I am the monsters I see in the mirror, like that's not triggering. All I can see is the darkness it's spreading. I feel like I'm drowning. All I wanna do is take the mirror and smash it, know it won't fix it, but I'm done pretending I'm fine when I'm not. I feel like I'm drowning. The monsters that made me are gone, but they took the most precious thing that I had known. I can't help but blame myself. I was supposed to protect it, but failed. Am I becoming the monster inside the mirror, the monsters that made me, the monsters that I keep trying to escape? all of these things that make me dangerous. I wanna scream, I wanna disappear, I wanna take my final stand and jump off the cliff, which is so high. I just wanna see the moon and the sky. I wanna be happy. I'm so sick and tired of being tired; my whole body hurts, and the monsters don't get the message. I've tried everything. I try starving them and carving them out with blades so sharp they could cut the sky itself, but all that happens is I start bleeding out.
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Mar 26
Mar 26, 2026 at 2:16 PM UTC
The Monster in the Mirror
No matter how hard I try, the monsters won't go away. While strangers just see the smile, and my friends see the pain, I see the ghost of 2 monsters I can never name, 2 monsters that gave me life, 2 monsters that ruined mine, 2 monsters that took the sky away, 2 monsters that still haunt me to this day. My friends tell me that the monsters are distant memories, distant nightmares that can't hurt me, but the monsters and the whispers just keep spreading through my brain, and the dark thoughts that tell me I'm the monsters I came from that I deserve to disappear keep spreading like a **** I feel like I'm drowning, hyper aware of everything, every look, every change in expression, the second I walk into a room. Do they see the monsters too? Or do they see the smile even tho they are pushing me so far past my breaking point? I'm so sick of this disguise, sick of smiling no matter how much I wanna break down, why do I smile? Why do I care if crying is overdramatic? They just told me they didn't mean it when they told me to go **** myself, they didn't mean it when they called me fat or ugly, or when they told me that I'll never see the sky again but that they know where it is, or when they told me I am the monsters I see in the mirror, like that's not triggering. All I can see is the darkness it's spreading. I feel like I'm drowning. All I wanna do is take the mirror and smash it, know it won't fix it, but I'm done pretending I'm fine when I'm not. I feel like I'm drowning. The monsters that made me are gone, but they took the most precious thing that I had known. I can't help but blame myself. I was supposed to protect it, but failed. Am I becoming the monster inside the mirror, the monsters that made me, the monsters that I keep trying to escape? all of these things that make me dangerous. I wanna scream, I wanna disappear, I wanna take my final stand and jump off the cliff, which is so high. I just wanna see the moon and the sky. I wanna be happy. I'm so sick and tired of being tired; my whole body hurts, and the monsters don't get the message. I've tried everything. I try starving them and carving them out with blades so sharp they could cut the sky itself, but all that happens is I start bleeding out.
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Why do I always make it about me, I try to relate but they would disagree, I don’t take my own advice why should they, I try so hard to help yet I always pay, I can’t get upset about anything because that’s attention seeking, But what am I to do when my castle towers are creaking, Should I hide it opposite to what I’ve been told, Should I burn my curtains and rugs of white and gold, All my carefully crafted furniture looking more like ghosts day by day, I’m seconds away from smashing each one, throwing them away, If there’s one true way to make this castle a home, I must have lost it to an ancient tome, It seems my walls of brick and stone, Will be all I’ll ever know, If only I could live in a house, Bustling with people, not only a mouse, Is there a way to get out of this alive, Or should I step to the castles ledge and take a dive?
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Mar 15
Mar 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM UTC
Castle of White & Gold
Hey. I wish I were dead. That's about all I can say. I'm not so romantic to say I'd really rather run away into the woods--disappear on a bed of dry pine needles and sap and crawling crimling isopods, catch meals with my bare hands, bore tubers with my incisors, dig in dark dirt, make friends with the local coyote. Mmm, nah. I'd really like to just be dead. The dead have the best stories. The dead have the best sleep. The dead have the best memories. The dead have the best keep. I want to eat I want to drink I want to stay where I am. I want to make my dog happy and I want to rhyme. Drive your kitchen knife into the soft spot below my jaw. Find a literal ******* sword and plunge it deep into my heart. But don't stop it all at once. Look at me, see me, know me, have me, while my blood stains your tennis shoes and clogs your nostrils with copper, iron. I wish I were dead. I want to die. And I want to be there to see what it's like.
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Feb 27
Feb 27, 2026 at 9:31 PM UTC
I wish I were dead. That's it.
When the bed makes you sore Sleep causes you pain Lying down makes you ache Tears break your heart Your thoughts **** your vibe Your emotions drain your energy Every act becomes a task Walking becomes a conference call Eating is like a funeral procession Dressing gets tougher everyday Showers feel like torture Your mind acts and sounds like a riot No peace , no silence Am tired and fed up No more energy left Let it end …..
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Feb 23
Feb 23, 2026 at 1:24 PM UTC
Quiet Riot
TW; childhood medical trauma/abuse it was blue, the upright table with straps was that scratchy leather, blue Blue sky window to my right drugged up so I couldn't fight red hot fire poker in my mouth, beautifully capped teeth but the branded red spot was still there and it had stung my mouth for weeks
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Feb 1
Feb 1, 2026 at 2:34 AM UTC
blue lightsaber toothbrush
Isn't lighting a cigarette better than lighting my skin?
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Dec 7, 2025
Dec 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM UTC
Lighting
Why shouldn’t I hurt myself? What is one drop to an ocean already overflowing?
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM UTC
One drop
Unbearable mental pain— try as I might, it won’t let me be. The only way out is to burn it clean from the inside.
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Nov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM UTC
The only way out
she stands there looking worried yet disappointed holding the small blade in between her slim fingers i look away trying not to cry and i consciously touch my wrist ‘Let me see’ she says i shake my head quickly ‘I just want to help you’ but i know that i’ve known that i just know she won’t be able to help she won’t understand my mind like i do she’ll think im gone she will think that im unwell the storm just has to past it will pass on it’s own all will be okay after but i tell myself that every time and it never gets better my head is a broken vase that doesn’t have it’s glue i need to fix my vase before my family finds it and yells at me later that night we talk about it more and i let her see my peach paper covered in red ink my poor stained peach paper she gasps a bit then gets up grabbing a medkit i start to let out what i’ve been feeling thinking i show her my vase and she promises to help me fix it i sob in relief and she cradles me to her chest as if i was her baby again - broken vase
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Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM UTC
broken vase
the voice is back it wont go away not until I give in they want me to grab my sharpened pencil find a good spot and scribble into the peach paper scribble harsh enough or they wont be satisfied then once they are satisfied they will stop they'll go quiet then I will be filled with regret I will hide my tainted pencil then take a shower cleaning the harshly done scribbles then hide my paper from anyone and everyone my parents will wonder 'Why are you wearing a sweater? It's over 90 degrees!' I'll act surprised and say that im really cold they wont notice how my eyes dart to the place where I scribbled my peach paper they wont notice how I tug my sleeves down quickly when I reach for a salad bowl they will never be able to notice my damaged peach paper if they do they will never understand they will call me selfish they will think i want attention they will never understand the voice i hear beckoning for me to scribble my poor poor peach paper
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Nov 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM UTC
poor peach paper
i wake and reach for you but your not there just a cold pillow i forgot that you left so i grab the pillow starting to cry into it your scent barely there i cry until i fall asleep i wake up again and finally build the courage to get up and finally shower but as i wash i start to cry again reliving through our good moments i remember it like it was yesterday when we would shower after intimacy when we would help each other wash when we would laugh when we saw the lingering marks when we would have intimacy again.. i finally finish crying dry off and build enough courage to wash away.. everything i throw away photos i wipe the videos and photos from my phone i get rid of your hoodies i start to wash my bedding except for that ****** pillow i have to move on or i'll never learn how to heal
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Nov 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM UTC
the healing (pt2 of work sorta)
ive been planning pills lined up blades sharpened rope ready take a step closer and closer to the edge fall and hit the pavement pills pills pills i hate taking pills what an awful way to go suffocating on drugs maybe draw a nice warm bath wear my favourite clothes cut deep and breathe out red into the water i hope i die coma or car crash i hope i die so i dont have to do it myself
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Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM UTC
i hope i die
If silence could echo, it would’ve been you; never much one to talk. I’d be the last one for you to go to but I would’ve listened as we sat or took a walk. You pose as granite, another lonely planet Orbiting all that glows, but ****** in a void. So sure that nobody knows, but slipping out your signs like Freud. Circling the world as a satellite, but you don’t want to man it. No one should ever lose their sight, it’s so easy to lose a lonely planet. I’ve been thinking of what you’d know and the places you wanted to go and all of the life that you’d grow, we already lost Pluto. It’s not like we planned it, another lonely planet. Spinning out of control, praying for gravity, you discovered a black hole no one else could see. With edges that reach such height, and no one to sand it. No one should ever lose their sight, it’s so easy to lose a lonely planet. No returning, fuel burning, I think we’ve lost a piston. You’re missing seasons, you’ve got your reasons so please list them; why you want to leave our solar system. Maybe you’re pushed but there’s still a pull you may lack the will to be sustainable. I wish your oxygen levels would stay at full. You don’t need to live in a lull. Orbiting all that glows, but ****** in a void. You were right; nobody knows, why you chose to stay forever a boy. Circling the world as a satellite, but you don’t want to man it. I can’t blame you for losing the fight but we blame ourselves for losing a lonely planet.
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Sep 20, 2025
Sep 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM UTC
Lonely Planet
If silence could echo, it would’ve been you; never much one to talk. I’d be the last one for you to go to but I would’ve listened as we sat or took a walk. You pose as granite, another lonely planet Orbiting all that glows, but ****** in a void. So sure that nobody knows, but slipping out your signs like Freud. Circling the world as a satellite, but you don’t want to man it. No one should ever lose their sight, it’s so easy to lose a lonely planet. I’ve been thinking of what you’d know and the places you wanted to go and all of the life that you’d grow, we already lost Pluto. It’s not like we planned it, another lonely planet. Spinning out of control, praying for gravity, you discovered a black hole no one else could see. With edges that reach such height, and no one to sand it. No one should ever lose their sight, it’s so easy to lose a lonely planet. No returning, fuel burning, I think we’ve lost a piston. You’re missing seasons, you’ve got your reasons so please list them; why you want to leave our solar system. Maybe you’re pushed but there’s still a pull you may lack the will to be sustainable. I wish your oxygen levels would stay at full. You don’t need to live in a lull. Orbiting all that glows, but ****** in a void. You were right; nobody knows, why you chose to stay forever a boy. Circling the world as a satellite, but you don’t want to man it. I can’t blame you for losing the fight but we blame ourselves for losing a lonely planet.
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Hold it against the skin Let it burn Scar the outside to match the inside
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Aug 16, 2025
Aug 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM UTC
Scar
War inside my head Should I or should I not? Hand inches towards it My brain eggs on I somehow stop myself this time But will be I able to next time?
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Aug 16, 2025
Aug 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM UTC
SH
Let the pen flow breaking the skin Ink and blood mix Stopping the pounding of my head and heart Oh, sweet sense of relief!
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Jul 10, 2025
Jul 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM UTC
Flow
theres a hum beneath my skin a pressure in my arm where pain once breathed and healed like snow i try to stay clean to hold the ache without letting it spill but sorrow gathers like a wave and crashes in the pit of my heart i miss the comfort of instant release— i just wish my favorite color wasn’t a wound
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Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM UTC
a wound
TW: DV When I was younger I used to try to decipher why my father made me feel like such an outsider, he was his happiest with me as an outlier separated by a barbed wire divider. He'd always say that I'm just a good liar, I say "no, I'm not"  I am my father's least favorite daughter. It was never a question if his blood flowed through my veins, he knew I was his, but still his disdain for me remained. He struggled to even find the desire to pick out my name. my mother says "during that time he felt a lot of shame and it was easier for him to hand you all the blame" but what baby has the strength to carry a man's shame with their ten tiny fingers and small frame? I wasn't even born yet and I was already losing at his game. I mourn for the life I could've lived one where I viewed the man who gave me life, as a gift. I mourn for the way I as a child had a perpetually clenched fist. I mourn for the way he forced us to take his teachings like he was a revered pastor, shouting from a pulpit... I mourn for the little boy he once was and how he couldn't help but tap on things and fidget, and how at nine he didn't know how to tell the teacher in English "I need my lunch ticket." He couldn't stand how I began to defy and resist, a fire inside me he spent my whole life trying to keep from being lit. He didn't understand how at fourteen I already knew he'd never be a loving enough father for me to want to submit, the way a daughter should want to in a family that's tight knit. He'd call me stupid and a coward but I realize now it's because he saw the strength and power that cascaded out of me like a gardenia tree blooming with flowers. The dominion he claimed over my life, it wasn't mine- it was "ours"- was immeasurable, reminding me I wasn't free, over and over again for hours. He treated me like a creature that felt no pain one that wasn't able to think for herself and didn't have a brain he viewed me as an enemy that he needed to slay I used to pray that maybe i'd live long enough to one day make my escape Fifteen years old with three days worth of clothes shoved into a bag in the middle of a night in August, I fled From all the horrors of this house and my childhood bed From all the nights and mornings I was left unfed From all the times he'd overpower me rather than being my father instead There was a time when I saw him again I was having breakfast as vile words were spoken to my mother so "don't talk to her like that" was said he told me I wasn't brave enough to stand up and before a second thought could pass through my head I rose to my feet to cross swords with my father, i don't even remember what I was eating, but I think it was toasted bread I fearlessly looked into the eyes of this man and remembered how many times I had bled and how even though that blood was scarlet, this time I was seeing bright red "i'll just call the officials." startled he said and he trembled as he pulled out his phone, like he had seen someone come back from the dead. Years have passed and tears have fallen and floated along in the wind with all the seeds and all the pollen and planted were those seeds and with my tears were they watered and I see now that my favorite person will always be my father's least favorite daughter
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Jun 18, 2025
Jun 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM UTC
my father's least favorite daughter
TW: DV When I was younger I used to try to decipher why my father made me feel like such an outsider, he was his happiest with me as an outlier separated by a barbed wire divider. He'd always say that I'm just a good liar, I say "no, I'm not"  I am my father's least favorite daughter. It was never a question if his blood flowed through my veins, he knew I was his, but still his disdain for me remained. He struggled to even find the desire to pick out my name. my mother says "during that time he felt a lot of shame and it was easier for him to hand you all the blame" but what baby has the strength to carry a man's shame with their ten tiny fingers and small frame? I wasn't even born yet and I was already losing at his game. I mourn for the life I could've lived one where I viewed the man who gave me life, as a gift. I mourn for the way I as a child had a perpetually clenched fist. I mourn for the way he forced us to take his teachings like he was a revered pastor, shouting from a pulpit... I mourn for the little boy he once was and how he couldn't help but tap on things and fidget, and how at nine he didn't know how to tell the teacher in English "I need my lunch ticket." He couldn't stand how I began to defy and resist, a fire inside me he spent my whole life trying to keep from being lit. He didn't understand how at fourteen I already knew he'd never be a loving enough father for me to want to submit, the way a daughter should want to in a family that's tight knit. He'd call me stupid and a coward but I realize now it's because he saw the strength and power that cascaded out of me like a gardenia tree blooming with flowers. The dominion he claimed over my life, it wasn't mine- it was "ours"- was immeasurable, reminding me I wasn't free, over and over again for hours. He treated me like a creature that felt no pain one that wasn't able to think for herself and didn't have a brain he viewed me as an enemy that he needed to slay I used to pray that maybe i'd live long enough to one day make my escape Fifteen years old with three days worth of clothes shoved into a bag in the middle of a night in August, I fled From all the horrors of this house and my childhood bed From all the nights and mornings I was left unfed From all the times he'd overpower me rather than being my father instead There was a time when I saw him again I was having breakfast as vile words were spoken to my mother so "don't talk to her like that" was said he told me I wasn't brave enough to stand up and before a second thought could pass through my head I rose to my feet to cross swords with my father, i don't even remember what I was eating, but I think it was toasted bread I fearlessly looked into the eyes of this man and remembered how many times I had bled and how even though that blood was scarlet, this time I was seeing bright red "i'll just call the officials." startled he said and he trembled as he pulled out his phone, like he had seen someone come back from the dead. Years have passed and tears have fallen and floated along in the wind with all the seeds and all the pollen and planted were those seeds and with my tears were they watered and I see now that my favorite person will always be my father's least favorite daughter
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like a fire on a cold winters day the warm blood seeps from my leg from my arm reminding me i am human i am alive the warmth is comfort when all is cold the blood is my own
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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM UTC
warmth
Suicide looks prettier at night it convinces you that The street lights Will die With you Whispers in your ear All the things you beg To not hear It reminds you of the things You can never forget Drills it into your skull Until it's all that's left It ties you up Keeps you alone Cuts off your fingers And smashes your phone It leaves you to sit by yourself in the dark To watch the stars Cry themselves to sleep It puts on some makeup to cover its tears And speaks with you about your fears You tell it everything How could you not? It's so pretty and calm the night sets the scene: a romantic night A knife on the table And pills in the drink A noose acts as our light As we chat about things You share your deepest secrets And it listens, never talks Let's you talk until your voice is lost at the end of the night It leaves with a kiss But your still tied up And you start to miss The company Of suicide
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Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM UTC
Suicide looks prettier at night