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My body jitters like a cage full of trapped sparrows. My bones vibrate with a thin metallic ringing, as if someone struck my skeleton like a bell and forgot to stop the echo. My heart is not just beating, it is everywhere, ricocheting through my wrists, my knees, my teeth, a frantic percussion stitched into marrow. I do not know what happened. One moment the world was steady glass, the next it warped like heat above asphalt. I zoned out and when I came back the room had grown strange, tilted slightly, like gravity had been tampered with. It has been hours. The clock crawls, stubborn and slow, but my body refuses to settle. The air feels electric, prickling against my skin like invisible static. I lie in the dark with my eyes open, watching the ceiling ripple into unfamiliar shapes. Sleep stands somewhere distant and unreachable, a pale animal at the edge of a frozen lake, watching but never approaching. It is three in the morning and the night feels enormous. My nerves spark like frayed wires. Frustration burns under my ribs, a hot coal that refuses to dim. Anger coils through my chest like a storm serpent searching for a place to strike. Confusion spreads through my mind like spilled ink, blotting everything into strange, indistinct shapes. My thoughts race in circles, frantic comets trapped in orbit. I want to scream. I want to tear the silence open and let something out of me, something loud and violent and bright. My body feels like it might burst into a thousand startled birds. But nothing happens. The room stays quiet. The night stays still. And I sit here trembling, a vessel filled with too much thunder.
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Mar 7
Mar 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM UTC
Fever in My Bones
My body jitters like a cage full of trapped sparrows. My bones vibrate with a thin metallic ringing, as if someone struck my skeleton like a bell and forgot to stop the echo. My heart is not just beating, it is everywhere, ricocheting through my wrists, my knees, my teeth, a frantic percussion stitched into marrow. I do not know what happened. One moment the world was steady glass, the next it warped like heat above asphalt. I zoned out and when I came back the room had grown strange, tilted slightly, like gravity had been tampered with. It has been hours. The clock crawls, stubborn and slow, but my body refuses to settle. The air feels electric, prickling against my skin like invisible static. I lie in the dark with my eyes open, watching the ceiling ripple into unfamiliar shapes. Sleep stands somewhere distant and unreachable, a pale animal at the edge of a frozen lake, watching but never approaching. It is three in the morning and the night feels enormous. My nerves spark like frayed wires. Frustration burns under my ribs, a hot coal that refuses to dim. Anger coils through my chest like a storm serpent searching for a place to strike. Confusion spreads through my mind like spilled ink, blotting everything into strange, indistinct shapes. My thoughts race in circles, frantic comets trapped in orbit. I want to scream. I want to tear the silence open and let something out of me, something loud and violent and bright. My body feels like it might burst into a thousand startled birds. But nothing happens. The room stays quiet. The night stays still. And I sit here trembling, a vessel filled with too much thunder.
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Abuse is a vicious cycle that defiles and murders love. It is a game that only breeds hatred. It uses shame as a weapon. In this vicious cycle; hearts no longer beat, they get replaced by fists. In this vicious cycle; the tattoos that were meant for affection become nothing but scars on the wrists of those who were once lovers. It awakens a bloodlust and makes monsters out of strong people. No, not monsters. It makes recidivists out of strong people. The strong abusing the weak, a norm that continues to contribute to the cycle of abuse It is a cycle that forces us to make love to our doubts. It keeps on violating us until our self-doubts have consumed us and we've evolved to hate ourselves.
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Jul 24, 2020
Jul 24, 2020 at 11:24 AM UTC
Love and abuse
My loneliness is killing me And like Britney sang; I still believe But I lose my mind when I’m with you And think clearly without you But I’m not waiting for a sign Because I still have bruises from when you hit me... baby one more time
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 2:04 PM UTC
...Baby
I told myself not to fall back into you're arms that you were out to get me even though you were the only person I had I told myself that your words were lies that you were just lying to me I told myself not to get to comfortable because it will all be gone soon I told myself not to fall in love with  you because you are sick and insane But I guess I loved it like the cigarettes I smoke you were my drug that kept me so high for so long.
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Aug 22, 2015
Aug 22, 2015 at 7:07 PM UTC
My drug