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41 · 2d
p.s. 8.0
Bree17 2d
i think i might just stop caring












it doesn't help anyways
oh but how could i stop loving you
you were everything
41 · Nov 18
ouch
Bree17 Nov 18
there's a pressure in my chest
a chill that spills through my body
my hands are damp and shaking
I can feel this pain throughout me

had another of those days
and last night was one of those nights
got home and went straight to my room
hiding from the sunlight

but now it's dim and cold outside
I can hear the rain and wind
the lights are off, my door is closed
my eyes now red and rimmed

I did a thing I said I wouldn't
yet somehow I don't care
people say they're here for me
but tell me, why aren't they there?

still it hurts, a slow and aching pain
a kind that I don't mind
it reminds me that I am alive
it reminds me to be kind

because the people whom I love
should never have to feel
the pain of being alone and lost
the pain of feeling real

there's a pressure in my chest
as I go about my day
not thinking of the night before
as I fake my fake "okay"
40 · Dec 10
Cancer
Bree17 Dec 10
i'm dying from the inside out

some die from the outside in
like by a car
or a train
but this is like caner
like cancer in my brain

silent until deadly, until silent once again
killing me slowly, trapped in my body
living within me
waiting me out, i'll be dead by first light

so on my tombstone
please don't write:
died by car or train

write:

died in vain
died by strain
died from me, killed by me
slain by my own brain
murdered by my own body
set free, freed solely by me

she died from the inside out, can't you see?
another interesting poem that was fermenting in an old journal covered in dew
Bree17 Nov 23
It's a different kind of pain
The type that grounds the soul
A release for your brain
It makes you feel more whole
Only lasts a second, gone so quick
Yet its enough, it must be
And yes, I know its sick
But it's the last way left to flee
It's disgusting, it's wrong
I know that, okay?
I'm trying to be strong
Taking it day-by-day
Just don't get how no one can see
The way I'm no longer me
38 · Oct 10
Read me
Bree17 Oct 10
Well hello
It’s nice to meet
Yes, you right there
Please take a seat

Now, I’ve heard things
And I don’t like what I hear
We have a few things to go over
So let me make myself clear

I know it’s hard
Believe me, I do
But I need you to listen
To just hear me through

So why don’t we start
With the scariest part
Because I hear those questions
That lie deep in your heart

Word is you’re done
That you’re letting go
You think no one loves you
It’s not true though

You are needed and loved
More than you can see
More than you’ll ever know
Even if you don’t agree

I see that you question
How much you are worth
But I need you to know
You’re more precious than Earth

Alright dear
Let’s skip the chit-chat
You do have a future
And I need you to know that

Be kind to yourself
Be your own lover
Live life to the fullest
There’s so much left to discover

Now I know that you’re trying
And that your fears are so loud
So, if no one’s told you today
Please know that I’m proud

I understand that you feel
Like you aren’t enough
But believe me you are
Hey, don’t you huff

Wait, don’t leave
We’re almost done
But listen close
This is an important one

I’ve seen what you think
And I know what you say
But there will be someone
Who loves you till the end of days

Now keep your head up
I’m cheering you on
And go live life for you
Go be that black swan

Know I’ll always be here
If you need a friend
But darling I’ll pray
We never have to speak again
life hope tryingagain love be-you
36 · Oct 3
Sleep
Bree17 Oct 3
To sleep is to relax
To let your body stop
To sleep is to leave yourself unprotected
And let your walls all drop

To sleep is to accept the end of today
And allow it to be morning
To sleep is to stop the day
Then wake without a warning

To sleep is to let time pass by
Without any hope of keeping track
To sleep is to give up control
An ability in which I lack
insomnia anxiety sleep
Bree17 3d
I think she’s gonna break, the girl to my left
I'm watching her warp and bend
While she sits and stares at nothing
Waiting for class to end

She's leaving next week
Don’t know when ill see her again.
I can't see a way out of this
She was my only friend
I think I'm going to start writing a back and forth between two girls about each other
kinda fictional but based off true situations
34 · Dec 13
Reality
Bree17 Dec 13
Stop trying to delay the inevitable, dear
it's called that for a reason.
if this is what reality feels like
i don't want to be real
34 · Dec 13
Her Hidden Guardian
Bree17 Dec 13
Solitude is where she lived.
Privacy is where she hid.
She always thought she was alone,
But was never truly on her own.
You see, it lived right by her side,
Promised to be there until she died.
She was lost, within her head.
Although so close, she wasn’t dead.
She thought she only needed love,
Or help from someone way above.
But what she required was herself,
And to work solely on her health.
To find her, and do it first.
With no one there to tell her that,
It screamed to her, and doused her thirst.
It took the stand, brought her home
It cried her name, it called her bluff
Saw her pain, declared enough
Knew her heart, and how she’d lack
The silence woke her, it brought her back
Wrote a poem using the phrase “the silence woke her” as a prompt.
33 · 3d
p.s. 5.0
Bree17 3d
I dreamt of you again last night
haven't done that in a few months
but **** does it hurt










I wonder if you ever dream of me
i don't think you do
33 · Nov 18
I'm an idiot
Bree17 Nov 18
why didn't you listen
to a single word I said
I finally told you what I'd been thinking
I allowed you within my head

I told you how you hurt me
I explained just how I felt
but you ignored my pain
and your bitter words left welts

I may not have been right
but neither were you
and I'm sure as hell
you're not mature enough to know its true

you didn't even see me
just wouldn't ever listened
I loved you as you broke my heart
and saw you while my eyes glistened

I hear your laugh in my mind
it hurts more than you'll ever know
I still need you here with me
more than I'm willing to show

I hate the way you don't care
and how you just moved on
I hate the way you don't need me,
and how our love is gone

but mostly I hate myself
for loving you so recklessly
and missing you so much
stupid me, thinking you'd always love me

I really am an idiot.
my wandering mind as I try to get my math work done lol
32 · Dec 9
Help is available
Bree17 Dec 9
"hi"

Thank you.. reaching out.. by.. agreeing to.. reply NEXT

To help.. support you.. please share.. reply.. A, B, C

Thank you.. on a scale.. to 5.. how.. you?

You've reached.. this is... can I help?

It's mandatory for.. to ask..

....

Would you.. a follow up

Always welcome


Goodbye


Thank you.. texting

Conversation.. ended.. if.. anytime

...

That's it? Wait no, I'm still here, don't-

Phone's dead, yet I'm still waiting, needing

Here I am once again, weird how life goes in circles

If I'm in the same place how do I know if I even moved?

But no, never-mind, I'm calm now don't worry, have a nice night :)

"bye"
what do I do if "help" doesn't help anymore?
Bree17 Dec 9
How is living so endlessly hard, like drinking and eating for this body I guard.
It feels like I'm always doing something to survive, while never truly feeling alive.
This burden called life is dragging me down, while I wear my agony like an elegant gown.
With the tiara atop my head made from my sorrow, but jeweled with peace from my friends that I borrow.
I am clothed with the things I have survived, and I lack the accessories in which I've been deprived.
My pain written across my body, all the loss and distain in which I embody.
Living like this is impossible tiring, so much I've now thought of promptly retiring.
found it amongst the cobwebs in my closet
31 · Dec 11
analgesic
Bree17 Dec 11
people keep on telling me:
life

                   gets

                                       easier,

                        but

                                  ­      oh

                                                       ­  no,

                                        no

                ­                                          it

                   ­                                                      does

                                                           ­                                   not      


it gets manageable.

so when people say:
"you

              get

                          used

                                           to

                                                        it,
 ­                                           
                     ­                    the
                                                      
      ­                                                people

         ­                                                              leaving,
                                                                ­                          
                                      ­                                                      the

                                                                ­                                           lies
                  
                                         ­                                                    and
                          
                                                                ­                grief",

                                        ­                            I
                            
                                   ­                  just
                              
                             ­       want
                      
                      to
                                      
scream.
because that's just not true.
I'm

         not

                used

                            to

                                    it
I'm

         just

                   numb...
it doesn't get easier.
no, what happens is the part of you that cared,
that hoped and dreamed, it gets killed..
and you don't even realize it
till its too
late
31 · Dec 4
Untitled
Bree17 Dec 4
am I invisible?
am I vermin?
am I that gross?
am I truly such a burden?

I'm trying my hardest
to disappear, within my mind
because I know none of you
really want me here
I know it's true

can you see me?
do you hate me now?
are you disgusted by me?
does my presence now feel wrong?

I've stopped talking, afraid
I hold my tongue, I fade away
I don't belong, you know it too
you don't want me here
I know it's true

why do you ignore me?
how are you just done?
what did I do wrong?
why do you hate me now?
Bree17 7d
I always sit in the back of the room, trying desperately to fade away. But as I sat in class one day, I realized it's not just my world that is so very gray.

To my right sat this girl with brown eyes, so sad, so wise. She laughed and joked, turning to me to smile. Her eyes pain ridden. All class we talked, sharing some things, others kept hidden. We were each other's life lines for sixty minutes.

That day she looked so lost, like she couldn't see the room. Her eyes were so glossed, glued to the oblivion in her mind. Her smile had shifted slightly, her laugh not quite right. All the while she gazed blindly to the front where this curly haired girl sat.  Her façade was breaking, but I think she no longer cared about that.

As I watched her watch the girl laugh and live, I think I saw something in her eyes die.

I found myself slowly watching them both, not understanding why I didn't see this before. Or how everyone could be oblivious to the tangible pain that connected the two girls. Everyday I saw more and more of the chain that was drowning the girl to my right.

Each day the happy girl talked to this person next to her, laughing and joking in every way the girl next to me tries to do every day. All the while the girl with brown eyes observed, and each day she slowly became more reserved.

I think she used to love the curly brown haired girl.

She turned to me today about half way through the class, looking about as breakable as glass. And she said with those brown eyes filled with dread:
"I would give the world to switch body's with them, even if in the end it were only pretend. I'd give my life to laugh with her for three seconds, even if I weren't actually me. I'd **** to talk to her, even if I were the one to end up dead."

But I guess she chose to solely watch instead.
holy yap fest
30 · Dec 11
happiness 1.0
Bree17 Dec 11
I'm here to write something happy
something true and dear to heart
preferably without exposing the agony
rattling in my chest and tearing me apart

I'm here to use my love for words
to express something I don't feel
happiness, where did you go
oh, were you ever real?

were you in the breeze that made me feel like flying
as I rode my bike with neighbor boys?
or were you in the ice cream dripping on my shirt
on the summer days that buzzed with lively noise?

oh happiness, what were you?
please just let me feel
but no, how could you penetrate a heart
that's made of steal?
i should really go to sleep
30 · Dec 6
highschool
Bree17 Dec 6
I'm not okay
I'm really not okay
I'm drowning
I'm sinking into myself
I can't pay attention
I can't remain in realty or within this mind whose only task in life is to suffocate me in thoughts and **** me before my body takes it's natural course.
I'm not okay
I'm really not okay
I'm dying
I'm falling down this hole again
I can't stay afloat
I can't live in a world where my body is constantly revolting, not letting me sleep nor eat nor breath properly.
I'm really not okay
How come no one ******* sees it
  How is everyone so blind
maybe it's a delusion only I can see
and maybe that's why I feel so alone
29 · 4d
tinted lens
Bree17 4d
I've been through worse
so much worse
and I survived
so I know I can now too

I can make it

but here's the thing,
its not one problem
or some huge thing
weighing me down

its the little things
the way I'm always alone
every time I see them happier without me
the way I don't sleep anymore
every mistake I make
the way I've given up on being clean
every person who leaves, one by one
the way I've lost all energy
every night I barely pull through
all of it

its wearing me down
little by little
it's drowning me

a small stream
slowly corroding my mind, body and soul
till I'm destroyed
a shell of who I once was
so utterly useless
that there's no point anymore

it's not that I cant survive
it's that I don't want to anymore
I really don't think anyone would notice or care
I'm literally so done
I don't even think this counts as a poem, I just literally have nowhere else to put this.
29 · 4d
i wish i hadn't
Bree17 4d
i think i think too much.
i was going through picture earlier,
photos of little me, happy me

and i got to thinking...

i think i was prettier when i was younger
when my hair was long and smooth
my eyes bright and clear
in fact, i felt pretty
i liked my face and body
never skipped a meal or hid behind concealer
i was pretty

and i thought some more...

i think i was smarter then too
my grades were definitely better
i could keep up in class with ease
in fact, i excelled
i was bumped up classes
grouped with the “smart kids”
i was smart

and i thought more...

i was kinder too, so very nice
when it wasn’t so hard to smile and laugh
where id meet new people, clicking instantly
in fact, i had so many friends
i was liked, i was welcomed
grouped with the rest
i was one of a whole

and i thought so much
that i reached the conclusion
that i will never
ever
be as good as i once was
and theres nothing i can do about it
and that all im doing
is falling up the stairs of life
and sinking into the oblivion
of reality
glow down frfr
28 · Nov 14
Insecurities
Bree17 Nov 14
I need to tell you something
I’ll whisper it to you
It’s about someone you know
But I can’t just tell you who

There’s someone around here
Who’s feeding your delusions
Turning you on yourself
Making false conclusions

The liar here is you
I know you wont believe me
But you don’t need to be perfect,
Self acceptance is what’s key
Wrote a poem based on the words “can you keep a secret?” as a prompt.
27 · Dec 6
again? seriously?
Bree17 Dec 6
there's bile in my throat
and a burning in my eyes
my chest is constricting
I feel as though I may die

I can't breath
my lungs are breaking
the world is blurry
my hands are quaking

there's this numbness now
it followed suit
so I know a panic attack
is painfully acute
the way I physically can't handle this
and yet I have no choice
26 · 2d
She's Fading
Bree17 2d
Oh the toll of a broken family
I see it in the way she sits
Curled into herself, disappearing
Pushed into expectations she'll never fit
Shards of her broken heart, ******
Piercing the lungs in which she needs
As I watch her **** her imperfections
Thinking that they were solely weeds
She's drifting to the world unknown
While I watch her fade away
So I pray for the girl to my left
Never knowing quite what to say
to the ******* the left
it's okay to not be perfect
imperfections aren't bad
it's what makes you human
and to anyone else who may be struggling
the same goes to you
just be yourself
that alone is
perfect
Bree17 Dec 12
the teacher is talking too loud
these clothes are holding me wrong
my peers are sitting too close
the smell in the room is too strong

I think I may leave the class
and hide in the bathroom, again
I can't focus on anyone's voice
and I can't find my favorite **** pen

the noise in the room is too much
I forgot my beloved headphones at home
my body's screaming at me to run
so instead I wrote this horrible poem
I literally got that black pen yesterday, how on Earth have I already lost it
it was such a good pennnnnnnnnnnnnn

(guys i found it it's okay)
(also I realized how that could sound, "pen", it's just a really smooth writing black pen)
26 · 3d
p.s. 3.0
Bree17 3d
i'd **** to talk to you again
but the thought of hearing your voice
it makes me feel dead inside
not that i'd even have the choice









but oh how i wish..
i think talking to you again would break me completely
but the longer i go without your laugh
the more dead i already feel
25 · Dec 6
my ragged war cry
Bree17 Dec 6
what is the point in being alive
if all I want is to die?
is happiness just a lie?
why can't children ask why?
is my purpose here to die,
and if so, why should I try?
and if all I want to do is lie
under the stars here tonight
and watch my life pass by
as my tears begin to dry.
Then could I just
bide the world
one final
goodbye.
is it a tragedy if no one will care?
did it truly happen if no one was there?
you'll never learn to fly if you never learn to dare
just don't be blinded by the glare
24 · 5d
power nap!
Bree17 5d
peering through half closed lids
as noises fade away
it's only morning, just begun
don't know how I'll get through today

I swear the word is broken
that time moves much too slow
the only thing that's good right now
is that sparkling, diamond snow

I feel as though I'm failing
can't keep myself awake
and as I sit and hear the teacher talk
I feel my façade break

so maybe I'll just give in
and let my heavy head fall
slipping through unconsciousness
and becoming blissfully unaware of it all
i swear im about to fall sleep
i can barely keep my eyes open

(ps about ten minutes after this i zonked hard and i just woke up lol)
21 · Dec 13
what is grief?
Bree17 Dec 13
grief isn't sadness
grief isn't pain
grief isn't something
that words can explain

grief is an ocean
grief is a flood
grief is like having
your feet stuck in mud

yet grief is a stronghold
grief is a rope
grief holds onto you
when life's lost all hope

grief means it happened
grief shows it was here
grief is the proof
that love's never fair
if i don't feel grief will i feel anything
or will i just go numb

sometimes i feel like if i don't grieve
then it never hurt me
like it never even happened
so i hold onto the pain like a life line
while letting it pull me under,
drowning me
but at least i know for sure
it hurt
Bree17 Dec 11
It's always the same thing:

“Hold on”

To what?

“Distract yourself”

For how long?

“Keep going”

But why?

“It’ll get better”

When?

“People love you”

Yeah, but who exactly?

“You’re not alone”

Yes I am. Yes I freaking am. You don’t understand. I am alone, that’s the problem. Because when I go home and sit down in my room, I have nothing. Yes, we say "hi" when we see each other in the halls, but where are you when my phone goes silent? Where are any of you when I’m begging and pleading for help. Where were you? Not there. No, I had to help myself. Pull myself out of the dark hole I’ve been living in for years. I have to save myself time after time. By myself. Alone.

And maybe I’ve started pushing people away, but don’t you dare put this on me. Maybe I pulled away from everyone, but lets be honest, were you ever really there?

No, you weren't

I only pulled away after realizing I was already on my own, that I was just lying to myself. And honestly I'd rather be by myself, by myself, than surrounded by people who aren't even there.
is it self destruction if it was already broken?
all I did was be truthful
19 · Dec 13
dang
Bree17 Dec 13
.          *******               *******         *******                  *******
           I was just            I just saw          I just heard            I was just
           ripped               your                                your                     torn
           back                 eyes                                    laugh                  ba­ck  
           into                 in                                                  in           ­      into
           my                my                                             ­      my               my
           past            reflection                                void mind            past


                                          ­            *******
                                                      that hurt
interesting
Bree17 Dec 11
I sat in first period that day
bathing in invisible pain
slowly rotting away
as the teacher chose a topic to explain

I sat alone that day
writing in black ink, hands shaking
but my eyes wouldn't betray
the agony of my heart breaking

I sat in advisory that day
writing a note, a letter
listing my reasons to stay
wishing they were better

I sat at lunch that day
spent the entire time writing
this was it, the only way
that night I went home to fighting

I sat on the bus that day
dreading the moment I'm on my own
I got off, stepping out of the way
and alone I walked home

I sat in my room that day
listening to music, hiding
trying desperately to keep my thoughts at bay
while unconsciously deciding

I sat in the bathroom that day
on it's unforgiving floor, door locked
while the note sat on display
but this time, no one knocked

I died a little that day
while I poured them out, hands still
as fear drifted out of the way
while I looked down at the innocent Advil

I survived somehow that day
my phone buzzed, alive
pausing me halfway
resurfacing my dive

I sat in bed that night
subdued but empty
bleeding out my little light
and no longer was I me

I went to school the next day
sat down in my cold seat
knowing it was solely a delay
of when my time here is complete

— The End —