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#unseenpain
The same date returns, and so do the tears, pouring quietly into my soul. I hate the days that remember me. Days that whisper pain like it never left. Sometimes I wish I was never born into this world, where emptiness settles inside a broken heart. This heaviness in my chest steals my breath, and I ask the same questions— why? Why do those around me notice me only when I falter, yet look away when I give them everything I am? People disappoint me. Family disappoints me. Friends disappoint me. And I disappoint myself— for staying kind, for caring too deeply, when love was never returned the same way.
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Jan 18
Jan 18, 2026 at 9:02 AM UTC
Same Date
Cross my tears, lose my eyes— these feelings fall as sadness starts to rise. I lose my space to lose my mind; I cross my hopes and pray they survive the night. My joy feels too old;  these skins want to die young—tired, stretched thin from wearing sorrow too long. I feel like a blade that’s forgotten how to shine. Rust gathers under my lips; I’ve spoken too much to the voices in my head— and all of them, _all of them_ just want me dead. Static feelings stuck in my sweater— crying, even when it’s warm; cos I don’t own a sweater, just a hoodie— Something to cover my soul when I feel like a ghost in daylight. In my reflection, an invisible hand gives me an invisible middle finger. Even my mirror won’t look me in the eye. These lips— they started off soft; now they’re triggers, eager to flip me off, shoot me down. I am the despised poet— too hideous even in my sweet dreams— this is the  real version of me: _unwritten, unwanted, unmoved._ My soul’s literature is tired— not of bleeding, but of no one noticing it still bleeds. And truth be told... I know the purest colour of feeling blue.
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Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM UTC
Ghost in Daylight