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 May 2017 Lote Do
Rae
Reap
 May 2017 Lote Do
Rae
I realized I was about to die
When
I sank, way over the point
which I thought was rock bottom

That old classic wish
To never have been born
Didn't even cross my mind
Because I had finally realized

I was about to die
the words jump out at me like the most obvious thing i've ever encountered
 May 2017 Lote Do
Rae
In life,
 May 2017 Lote Do
Rae
you are a prisoner
and everything beautiful
is missing.
everything is insanity
i don't believe beauty is missing. not in my life. but maybe in some people's lives it is.
 May 2017 Lote Do
Ryan Holden
Eating, away at your conscience,
Narrowing your vision,
Altering reality and fairytales,
But easily obtained,
Constant internal battle,
Nothing can make this mind,
As Beautiful as a butterfly.
A poem about insecurities.
 May 2017 Lote Do
Ryan O'Hara
No one could understand
The feelings trapped within
They say things
Only they don’t know the truth
And they never will
Because if they did
No one will ever let the subject be
And they will continue in their ignorance
Forever to ignore your sacred heart
Overlooking your pain
And pointing out the flaws they see
Leaving you even more damaged
Then when you decided to pick your shell out of the bed
They wait to watch you fall
Then to push you back down
Then finish you off with laughter
They can’t see the shattered being you are
Ignoring the pain they put you through
Making a joke of your pain
Saying that you’re looking for pity
Leaving you to breakdown
And to cry
Silently
And forever alone
With no one to care about
And to share your burden
They leave you in a prisoner to your pain
And you find that
Their ignorance cuts deep
 May 2017 Lote Do
Colm
Loud Mouth
 May 2017 Lote Do
Colm
You keep on spitting it out
From your couch "my friend"
Because you know where I'll be

Working furiously as ever before
Until all of the flaws are ironed out
And there's nothing left of you but your mouth

Just sit back and relax as you always have
And then comment on what THIS is really about

How I did what I said, and I said what I am
When I jumped up and stomped on the top of these clouds


Hopefully then you'll discover quite quietly how  
To have a sensible song tucked away in your mouth
There will always be doers and there will always be sayers. And that gap often frustrates one or the other. The speaking Vs. the action.
Slow down this elevator
I'm happy to get here
or there
a little later.

Just to wait a
moment longer
listen to
a song or
two
do
the things I like to do.

slow down the elevator
make the stairs
the only way to go.
 May 2017 Lote Do
Bjarke
It's easy to forget how I fell in love with you.
All I can remember is the things about you that haunt me.
I forget about what I fell for.
Who you were before I knew you.
You were a stranger but the most beautiful one to me.
Now I'll try to fall in love with other strangers
But I don't not know them like I didn't know you.
They'll never be you.
I wish I could forget you to meet you again.
In someone else.
 May 2017 Lote Do
Redshift
depressed
 May 2017 Lote Do
Redshift
"you're depressed"
they say.
"you won't go to class
you won't eat
all you do
is sleep
you're depressed"
they say.
"i'm surrounded by failures"
he says.
dad, it's not my fault
i don't want to go
"i'll have to think about this all day"
he says.
me too
dad.
"i have psychological stuff wrong with me
from trying to deal
with all of this
the least you could do
is go to school"
he says.
i can feel the slam of the door
in my ears
"you're disrespecting me"
he says.
i told my bestfriend
that i'm not eating
not sleeping
or maybe sleeping too much
i told her
i blacked out
lost all sense
of hearing
seeing
feeling
fell down
"you're depressed"
they say.
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