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"passively" poems
If there was one word One word, isolated by itself That I cannot stand above all others It would have to be "Okay" I despise "Okay" "Okay" Is how your millionth day at work went "Okay" Is off-brand raisin bran "Okay" Is how you say life is going When you don't want to admit you spend Every second of it Wanting to die "Okay" Is packed to the brim with Hidden implications Like a treasure chest Filled with bottles With little subliminal hatreds Written on tiny slips of paper Passively aggressively pushed inside To discover later As I pull out a treasure map And try to decipher Where I went wrong "Okay" Is a one word dismissal That feels like an essay a thousand pages long "Okay" Is a poison dripping with disinterest When I dared to share with you Something I thought might make you smile "Okay" Is like trying to talk to a wall While watching the paint on it dry "Okay" Takes two seconds to write Yet I waited days For that dreaded word To grace my notifications "Okay" Should be used sparingly As if each time you send it You **** the receiver just a little bit "Okay" Should not be said so often that I know what you're about to say Like I saw it in a crystal ball "Okay" Is not looking up from your phone When I tell you about my day "Okay" Is not the proper response To "I love you" They say that the opposite of love isn't hatred It's indifference And I can't think of a response More indifferent to pouring out My heart into your hands Than "Okay" At least the last thing you said to me Before we parted ways Showed that you cared At least a little bit "I hate you" Stung less Than the thousands of times Over our countless conversations You responded "Okay" Okay?
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 12:09 PM UTC
Okay
If there was one word One word, isolated by itself That I cannot stand above all others It would have to be "Okay" I despise "Okay" "Okay" Is how your millionth day at work went "Okay" Is off-brand raisin bran "Okay" Is how you say life is going When you don't want to admit you spend Every second of it Wanting to die "Okay" Is packed to the brim with Hidden implications Like a treasure chest Filled with bottles With little subliminal hatreds Written on tiny slips of paper Passively aggressively pushed inside To discover later As I pull out a treasure map And try to decipher Where I went wrong "Okay" Is a one word dismissal That feels like an essay a thousand pages long "Okay" Is a poison dripping with disinterest When I dared to share with you Something I thought might make you smile "Okay" Is like trying to talk to a wall While watching the paint on it dry "Okay" Takes two seconds to write Yet I waited days For that dreaded word To grace my notifications "Okay" Should be used sparingly As if each time you send it You **** the receiver just a little bit "Okay" Should not be said so often that I know what you're about to say Like I saw it in a crystal ball "Okay" Is not looking up from your phone When I tell you about my day "Okay" Is not the proper response To "I love you" They say that the opposite of love isn't hatred It's indifference And I can't think of a response More indifferent to pouring out My heart into your hands Than "Okay" At least the last thing you said to me Before we parted ways Showed that you cared At least a little bit "I hate you" Stung less Than the thousands of times Over our countless conversations You responded "Okay" Okay?
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When did things change so much? When did I get so encapsulated Into the world of technology? When did I stop listening To myself and my own thoughts And instead add another view To some article or YouTube video Just to reach some spoon-fed "opinion"? When did we stop engaging In life and with ourselves? When did playing video games turn to Watching other people play them online Numbing our brains to the world And "filling" our social needs digitally? When did watching television turn into Binge-watching an entire series in one sitting? With this much constant stimulation It's no wonder we're bored so easily And that no one goes outside anymore And that I don't feel alive anymore Because one of the first things I do When I get home from work or the gym Is turn on the smart tv so it can warm up Because the apps on it take time to load And I already know that my free time Will be spent in front of that screen Lately I've been nervous about Eventually moving in with new people Primarily because I spend a lot of my time Passively using the television I was concerned with how we'd balance our usage Instead of considering changing the way I spend my time When did I start placing my use of technology Above my own self-care? When I spend hours watching YouTube But still forget to take a shower sometimes And I truly wonder if my recent urges To leave the state to work on a farm for a month Are more indicative of some deep desire To unplug and reset my energy and priorities Than my interest in agriculture or Learning to live off of the land When did I start to feel the need To take such drastic measures To change something so simple Something I could choose to disengage with At the simple touch of a button?
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Feb 27, 2019
Feb 27, 2019 at 10:51 PM UTC
Trapped in the Media Matrix
When did things change so much? When did I get so encapsulated Into the world of technology? When did I stop listening To myself and my own thoughts And instead add another view To some article or YouTube video Just to reach some spoon-fed "opinion"? When did we stop engaging In life and with ourselves? When did playing video games turn to Watching other people play them online Numbing our brains to the world And "filling" our social needs digitally? When did watching television turn into Binge-watching an entire series in one sitting? With this much constant stimulation It's no wonder we're bored so easily And that no one goes outside anymore And that I don't feel alive anymore Because one of the first things I do When I get home from work or the gym Is turn on the smart tv so it can warm up Because the apps on it take time to load And I already know that my free time Will be spent in front of that screen Lately I've been nervous about Eventually moving in with new people Primarily because I spend a lot of my time Passively using the television I was concerned with how we'd balance our usage Instead of considering changing the way I spend my time When did I start placing my use of technology Above my own self-care? When I spend hours watching YouTube But still forget to take a shower sometimes And I truly wonder if my recent urges To leave the state to work on a farm for a month Are more indicative of some deep desire To unplug and reset my energy and priorities Than my interest in agriculture or Learning to live off of the land When did I start to feel the need To take such drastic measures To change something so simple Something I could choose to disengage with At the simple touch of a button?
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When your mind is shattered Your eyes are blinded There is pain everywhere you go Don't give up and Don't give in When the wheel of fortune is stuck at 6 No hope remains Don't give up Don't give in Noon will be coming around again When loneliness is your only friend and it keeps calling you names Don't give up and Don't give in There are times when life is ablaze with horrors but Don't give up and Don't give in Those that survive are those that find meaning those that passively take to their bed are bound to perish Don't give up Don't give in When the law's got your name and no payment can be made and you have to go along with their plans that have been laid, Inside, where you hide Don't give up and Don't give in. Time only stops once Don't give up Don't give in.
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May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015 at 10:36 AM UTC
Don't Give Up/Don't Give In
Often times people say go to the gym, “It’ll make you happy, and you’ll feel energized!” These are some of the things I’ve experienced or thoughts I’ve manifested over my teenage years. Ahh yes great ol’ puberty! Onto adulthood, yikes! Go to the gym and lose that extra weight that your family and so called “friends” have been passively judging you for. Go to the gym, but don’t lift weights because you’ll get bulky, and no one will ever love you if you look like a female Hulk. Go to the gym. Go to the gym. I hear this left and right. But I fear that I’ll embarrass myself and that everyone is watching me. Anxiety and panic attacks hold me back. And what happens when that clinically depressed person is told time and time again to “just work out” and “get out of bed; it’ll make you feel great?” What if they just came down from a manic episode and crashed? What will people say then? Well I know what I want to say: This isn’t as simple as the morning blues or that feeling you have after listening to a sad song that reminds you of your past. (Not to disqualify those emotions whatsoever.) Depression is the ruminating thoughts that no one loves you or ever will. It is feeling so empty that your appetite is nonexistent and your motivation to do what you once loved is gone. Anxiety is holding your breath and forgetting to breathe, so you just sit there in pain until finally someone or something reminds you to release. Release all that you’ve built up. Stop the isolation, and share what’s on your mind. It’s not easy. Trust me I know. Two days ago I went to the gym, and yesterday I went to the gym. Can you guess what I did today? I went to the gym despite every fiber in my being telling me I couldn’t. I had the support of my mom and sister. Find a gym buddy. Start small because all the machines and strong people can look intimidating. But they all started somewhere and now you can too. Make a goal. Something that is not too small or too large. For me, I’m training for a 5K that’s in the beginning of May. It will be challenging yet doable. Sometimes none of us knows what we’re doing, and that’s the beauty and challenges of life. Don’t quit after one try. Your journey is now starting its new chapter. Stay in the present moment, and keep going. I believe in you.
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Mar 13, 2020
Mar 13, 2020 at 1:14 AM UTC
Today I Went to the Gym...
Often times people say go to the gym, “It’ll make you happy, and you’ll feel energized!” These are some of the things I’ve experienced or thoughts I’ve manifested over my teenage years. Ahh yes great ol’ puberty! Onto adulthood, yikes! Go to the gym and lose that extra weight that your family and so called “friends” have been passively judging you for. Go to the gym, but don’t lift weights because you’ll get bulky, and no one will ever love you if you look like a female Hulk. Go to the gym. Go to the gym. I hear this left and right. But I fear that I’ll embarrass myself and that everyone is watching me. Anxiety and panic attacks hold me back. And what happens when that clinically depressed person is told time and time again to “just work out” and “get out of bed; it’ll make you feel great?” What if they just came down from a manic episode and crashed? What will people say then? Well I know what I want to say: This isn’t as simple as the morning blues or that feeling you have after listening to a sad song that reminds you of your past. (Not to disqualify those emotions whatsoever.) Depression is the ruminating thoughts that no one loves you or ever will. It is feeling so empty that your appetite is nonexistent and your motivation to do what you once loved is gone. Anxiety is holding your breath and forgetting to breathe, so you just sit there in pain until finally someone or something reminds you to release. Release all that you’ve built up. Stop the isolation, and share what’s on your mind. It’s not easy. Trust me I know. Two days ago I went to the gym, and yesterday I went to the gym. Can you guess what I did today? I went to the gym despite every fiber in my being telling me I couldn’t. I had the support of my mom and sister. Find a gym buddy. Start small because all the machines and strong people can look intimidating. But they all started somewhere and now you can too. Make a goal. Something that is not too small or too large. For me, I’m training for a 5K that’s in the beginning of May. It will be challenging yet doable. Sometimes none of us knows what we’re doing, and that’s the beauty and challenges of life. Don’t quit after one try. Your journey is now starting its new chapter. Stay in the present moment, and keep going. I believe in you.
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Both latter and former, contrary and congruent Neither gas nor solid, the river moves fluid. No end and no beginning, just water moving… swimming… A formless former that is a powerful latter Contradiction through symmetry and space within matter Passively energetic as potential becomes kinetic Transparently reflective and silently phonetic Thermally dynamic and fluidly frantic The waters maintain a static chaos through mathematical mechanics. Mechanically architected and architecturally mechanic Water seems the perfect medium for analysis of a dynamic. Dynamic existence and persistent resistance Statically chaotic seems the architect’s insistence. Equilibriomatic, with addition subtractive Empirical measures fail to analyze the passive. What simply is, simply is… Invincible to mimicry or microcosmic reenactment. Experimental methods seek to unify the synonymous Attempting to prove the objective with a subjective hypothesis. Learn from the water, let its metaphor be imminent…. For the divine externality lies not without, but within it.
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Mar 5, 2015
Mar 5, 2015 at 3:53 PM UTC
Potential Kinetics and Silent Phonetics
In the turbulence of a Storm My heart rests upon a Rock In a place where the grass is long Swaying  passively to a breeze In a place where the earth is warm Lit eternally by a furnace In a place where a  stoic Rock Submits to its desires for me In a place where the frozen rain Melts away in an instant Dissolving the hovering myths of pain To free my lonely heart yet again This is a place for love to grow Forever, together and more
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 7:39 AM UTC
ROCK
But you're untouchable, and though your eyes speak differently; the invitation is imagined, the closeness; mere proximity. I had no instruction, and no intention to adhere. You prodded, pulled and pushed my precautions aside, passively dealing every blow. But I couldn't even wound your pride; You are untouchable.
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 4:16 PM UTC
Untouchable
if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 11:21 PM UTC
a glimpse of my mind
if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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your skin and my eyes, losing sight, cross paths once more. the salty waters flow for you in rivers and collect between your shoulder blades. pools of unrequited love sit passively until shaken, not stirred, by your body. and my mind is elsewhere but my body is next to yours so for now we **** and we cry knowing that soon everything will be gone
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Jun 12, 2012
Jun 12, 2012 at 7:50 PM UTC
insecurity
A phrase that people treat like a joke, and that people have failed to recognize the significance of. Black is beautiful. Brown is beautiful. Over breakfast foods I tried to discuss how saying, "I prefer white people/ I find white people attractive" is subtle racism. It was a difficult dialogue that left me sick and empty. The feeling of being more radical than everyone around you. Meeting a black girl who wants to be white, hearing from all your friends, "I just prefer white people", I see, I see a dominant ideology that places whiteness above everything else, especially blackness. It is also a lie. It is definitely racist. It says that despite all other qualities a person may have, their skin color holds them back in your eyes. Instead I am told my ideas exist in a "box". The reality of what I say is intensely real to me. If you can't see the racism in yourself, I'm not holding you to a quality where you can point it out in others. If you can openly pinpoint attractiveness to skin color and just try to cop it out as "preference" I am going to call you racist. Black is beautiful. Brown is beautiful. You are not "naturally" attracted to white people. In that phrase, you tell me it is unnatural for you to be attracted to black people, or any person of color. It is not natural. You have adopted the dominant ideology. It is a subtle and now inherent racism. I am tired of feeling sick because I'm the radical, however it is a feeling I understand I will never escape. It will follow me my entire life, I hope. I'm sick of feeling marginalized because I recognize sexism exists, and racism exists, and subtlety does not ******* hide it from me, I'm sick sick sick sick sick of it. **** it though, I'd rather be sick my entire life, and see the racism in me and others than not see it, and just passively swallow that ideology. I'll carry that weight in my guts, not because I'm a martyr, because I ******* hate everyone; because I love myself just that much. I don't deserve to be that person anymore. Black is beautiful. Brown is beautiful.
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM UTC
"Black is Beautiful."
A phrase that people treat like a joke, and that people have failed to recognize the significance of. Black is beautiful. Brown is beautiful. Over breakfast foods I tried to discuss how saying, "I prefer white people/ I find white people attractive" is subtle racism. It was a difficult dialogue that left me sick and empty. The feeling of being more radical than everyone around you. Meeting a black girl who wants to be white, hearing from all your friends, "I just prefer white people", I see, I see a dominant ideology that places whiteness above everything else, especially blackness. It is also a lie. It is definitely racist. It says that despite all other qualities a person may have, their skin color holds them back in your eyes. Instead I am told my ideas exist in a "box". The reality of what I say is intensely real to me. If you can't see the racism in yourself, I'm not holding you to a quality where you can point it out in others. If you can openly pinpoint attractiveness to skin color and just try to cop it out as "preference" I am going to call you racist. Black is beautiful. Brown is beautiful. You are not "naturally" attracted to white people. In that phrase, you tell me it is unnatural for you to be attracted to black people, or any person of color. It is not natural. You have adopted the dominant ideology. It is a subtle and now inherent racism. I am tired of feeling sick because I'm the radical, however it is a feeling I understand I will never escape. It will follow me my entire life, I hope. I'm sick of feeling marginalized because I recognize sexism exists, and racism exists, and subtlety does not ******* hide it from me, I'm sick sick sick sick sick of it. **** it though, I'd rather be sick my entire life, and see the racism in me and others than not see it, and just passively swallow that ideology. I'll carry that weight in my guts, not because I'm a martyr, because I ******* hate everyone; because I love myself just that much. I don't deserve to be that person anymore. Black is beautiful. Brown is beautiful.
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Their lies are prompted from teleprompters and executed flaw-fully from taxpayer's helicopters. They say we're protecting foreign daughters while filtering profits to desert clad marauders. Blank faced public fear conversing religion and politics while passively electing lunatics with trigger switches. Arm the rebels they bite the hand that feeds the middle east burns while America ******* bleeds. The white, blue and red camo helmets on their heads farm fed frat boys equipped with jackets of lead. We watched Saddam crumble his statue beaten with shoes but the same war we already fought the puppets now will choose. Fight the good fight support the troops. Drone strikes by twilight **** the troops. An Army of one Sempter Fi Do or Die I won't shed a single tear when you come back in a casket covered in a flag you valued more than your life. Our heroes are our welfare stop blaming single mothers plastic bags tied around throats water boarding dissent, it smothers. **** the Medal of Honor I'm tearing up your portrait Obama. How many can benefit from free tuition? But we give it to those trained to slaughter. Our priority is the police state Nazis pretending to tote freedom. We sip our Americanos And retain nothing from the newspaper we are reading. **By Evan Ponter @evanponter**
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 11:34 PM UTC
The Senate Takes A Vote
From the moment your born, roll on death. Alcoholics Unsatisfied sit round in a circle, soft acquitting eyes passively flow in direction left and right, never direct nor convicting always looking out but focused on the void inside. The moment you step, doomed to fall Your childhood you say, you weren’t breastfed Daddy used to drink, its in the blood the ****** horror that shook the house down now stands at the door, dormant and waiting From the moment you speak, its already over. The excuses rolled out like sludge about you And your running on empty, just fumes, exhale Breathe in shame, disgust and self-loathing These places always polluted with that smell From the moment you kiss, you know you've lost something Sit, relax, help yourself to a drink Plastic cups, plastic chairs, plastic coffee your marrow may be exposed but rest assured we, the faceless, nameless few, are here to help. From the moment you drink, your released.
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May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 at 3:26 AM UTC
Alcoholics Unsatisfied
I fear that my insight will be interpreted as "deep" and in a sense it may be true since I can feel the loose dirt being shoveled over my head by critics and hypocrites who passively preach while staring down: that to be a normal person, one must close their mind and rather than retaining creative ideas, they should bury them.
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Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 1:28 AM UTC
"Deep"
The moth’s kiss, first! Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up; so, here and there You brush it, till I grow aware Who wants me, and wide open I burst. The bee’s kiss, now! Kiss me as if you enter’d gay My heart at some noonday, A bud that dares not disallow The claim, so all is rendered up, And passively its shattered cup Over your head to sleep I bow.
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3.2k
In A Gondola
“It's all about consistency” I said one year ago As I walked into the same room And put my suitcase on the same bed As the last time the two of us Had visited that Remnant of childhood My best friend from forever ago Gave a silent nod And followed my direction Returning passively To the bed opposite me Now that bed Is empty Because he gave up trying To make the past present; Gave up trying To be friends But I still sit In the same bed anyway Because “It's all about consistency”
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Jul 24, 2013
Jul 24, 2013 at 6:04 PM UTC
Consistency
If I wanted to talk about the hyper-spiritually-"honest" hippie roommate who wears his heart on his sleeve and kangols when he's working at his cumbersome office corrupting and invading the minds of the masses to promote glasses, salad dressing and laundry detergent, it would take too much time out of my day to point out all the hypocritical ******** this meditation obsessed wannabe "writer" tries to passively fling on others. He means well, but let' be honest, all that dope he smokes probably turned his brain to ashes as the pile blew away some time ago. Besides, I'd prefer not to talk about myself.
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 11:13 AM UTC
The Roommate (pt. 2)
What a ridiculous thing to avoid what makes you hurt. A refusal to acknowledge the prickers on the cactus or the shattered glass gleaming. But I'm attracted to the green, to the glitter of the deathly dirt, calling me unfairly close-- "just look at me." Like the sharp blades of grass looking for a whistle, grip a piece and pull-- I'll slice your palm passively. I yearn so much, I cannot stop from pressing a finger into my bruises to make them stay put.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 12:52 AM UTC
Green
Oh, I got that feeling again. I’ve been staring at the ceiling again. Letting my heart take flight, as the music reaches its height, taking my thoughts out of minds’ sight. But this feeling I now fight, cannot be controlled. Cannot be moved, overcome, or even forced to fold. Gripping my ever-changing soul and forcing my hands. As my breath leaves my body and my feet forget to stand. Hands pushed to speak through the letters they find. Putting feelings to words that cant seem to speak my mind. Frustrated by my inaction, that passively takes form. In the words I now force to unwilling conform. To these one-inch margins that box in my thoughts, constricting my deepest feelings and simplify life’s plot. All perpetuated by the rhythm, of the ever-spinning fan. Mounted just above my bed, that seems to hypnotize what’s in my head. Threading image to feeling, and my feelings to my words. As the tapestry of us, now resembles fleeing birds. Each winged reminisce that has forever taken flight, a moment in time that will always hold spite. Towards cliffs edge that stands between what the heart seeks. And a mans inability to step beyond its daunting peak. So with time ticking down and our future running by, I stand at a distance and continue our little lie. One living in the shadows of nights eternally pasted on, when passions ignited without though of our coming dawn. Only of the connection made with courage in hand, liquefied to motivate beyond what history had banned. What allies once forbid and witnesses cheered on, inhibition finding wind and politics forgone. Now forced to be nothing more then memories in the sand, as our hourglass approaches empty and my thoughts continue to be fanned. Continue to find rhythm as the blades spin madly by, ticking down to a day when I cannot take the lie. Cannot take this falsehood that pushes me from behind, as I approach that daunting edge of my own terrified mind. So with time in short supply along with my pride, I put black to white and our segregation aside. In the hopes that time stands still for just a moment more, to help you understand that it is you I adore.
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Apr 18, 2013
Apr 18, 2013 at 12:59 AM UTC
Revolving Certainty (April 17th, 2013)
Oh, I got that feeling again. I’ve been staring at the ceiling again. Letting my heart take flight, as the music reaches its height, taking my thoughts out of minds’ sight. But this feeling I now fight, cannot be controlled. Cannot be moved, overcome, or even forced to fold. Gripping my ever-changing soul and forcing my hands. As my breath leaves my body and my feet forget to stand. Hands pushed to speak through the letters they find. Putting feelings to words that cant seem to speak my mind. Frustrated by my inaction, that passively takes form. In the words I now force to unwilling conform. To these one-inch margins that box in my thoughts, constricting my deepest feelings and simplify life’s plot. All perpetuated by the rhythm, of the ever-spinning fan. Mounted just above my bed, that seems to hypnotize what’s in my head. Threading image to feeling, and my feelings to my words. As the tapestry of us, now resembles fleeing birds. Each winged reminisce that has forever taken flight, a moment in time that will always hold spite. Towards cliffs edge that stands between what the heart seeks. And a mans inability to step beyond its daunting peak. So with time ticking down and our future running by, I stand at a distance and continue our little lie. One living in the shadows of nights eternally pasted on, when passions ignited without though of our coming dawn. Only of the connection made with courage in hand, liquefied to motivate beyond what history had banned. What allies once forbid and witnesses cheered on, inhibition finding wind and politics forgone. Now forced to be nothing more then memories in the sand, as our hourglass approaches empty and my thoughts continue to be fanned. Continue to find rhythm as the blades spin madly by, ticking down to a day when I cannot take the lie. Cannot take this falsehood that pushes me from behind, as I approach that daunting edge of my own terrified mind. So with time in short supply along with my pride, I put black to white and our segregation aside. In the hopes that time stands still for just a moment more, to help you understand that it is you I adore.
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If I could ride a white stallion, wearing burnished armour of gold. I would cross the high mountains for my eyes on your smile to behold. Across land scorched by suns fire, droughts parched burning sand, all this I could defeat and endure, for a mere touch from your hand. You have me captivated, enthralled by means of your charm and your grace. Entranced and passively subdued, by beauties smile on your face. How sad has become this world. where poetry for a beauty is not news. I behold the wonder and the beauty, of my goddess, my passions true muse.
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Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022 at 11:55 AM UTC
Captive
He's always with my friends, And I'm always with them, And I kind of see him every single day. The funny thing is this, That I have a secret wish To see how long—if—he can stay away. One Sunday he slept late And boy, I felt great Knowing he'd miss church with us together But smiling with chagrin I saw him back again When everyone meet up to eat our dinner. I mentioned it that night Before he I left his sight, And he suggested—with us laughing together— That someday, both of us Should, without a fuss, For fun, passively avoid each other. Today has not been long But so far I've been strong And haven't sought him out, or told him so But I know that tonight We'll meet again, alright And once again the count shall be zero.
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Dec 8, 2015
Dec 8, 2015 at 3:54 PM UTC
Passive Avoidance
for every action defined there are infinite that remain utterly unnamed and are vitally spoken in whispers on the pieces never lived. these incalculably splintering, passively accumulating, terrifyingly ungrasped possibilities compile and cache and compress and comeback in the saddest seconds, where one can merely conject their meaningfulness, realizing that there is infinity in everything and therefore potential even in the kinetic.
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Apr 10, 2013
Apr 10, 2013 at 2:52 AM UTC
Potential in the Kinetic
The grown-ups have lied Your pillow fort can't save you because the Boogeyman is real No use jumping under the covers and counting to ten as you wait for the hand to rise up and pull you under the bed The bed is no longer a raft adrift at sea There is no current There is no rescue party Just me And I'm here to tell you that the grown-ups have lied They'll tell you "Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you" but they won't tell you that the Boogeyman is real He'll come to your room with words "Nothing" and ****** and ****** and ****** sharpened like arrows in his quiver He'll stretch the bow of upper and lower lip and take aim at your Achilles Heel because he knows how your mother held you as she baptized you in hope **** doesn't bruise your arm or push you down the stairs or tangle its fingers in your scalp and yank your hair but it'll slump your shoulders make a mumble out of your laughter "Freak" never gave anyone a black eye but it's hung bodies from the rafters The grown-ups don't want you to know that the Boogeyman is real because they're the ones who invented the weapons he wields They don't want you to know that you're defenseless if all you've got is a cold-shoulder shield They don't want to have to tell you that you might have to yield to a monster they created You are both so much like me I can't watch them feed you half-truths and sit here passively You deserve to know what it is that will haunt you What it is that haunts me My bed is not safe either I still check my closets for words I have suppressed The grown-ups check theirs too but they're protecting you They just hide it best See, you and I We bleed crayola because we haven't forgotten what it's like to be a kid We remember popsicles in summertime and all the naughty things we did We remember how to cheat at hide-and-seek and all the corners in which we hid I know that there will be days when the Boogeyman will call you Nothing Just remind him that Nothing is Something that Something could be Anything and therefore you are important. Smile in his face and pretend you cannot hear, cannot understand, cannot be hurt When the arrows take to the air walk so far away and don't stop until your toes are dangling over the edge of the ocean and all that lies beneath you is a tunnel of stars When he finds your Achilles Heel, tell someone No use dying in battle Forgive the grown-ups, for they know not their mistakes Show them how to handle it Sleep with the light on Check your closet Be prepared He will come but if you know your enemy there's no way you can lose
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Sep 5, 2012
Sep 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM UTC
For The Sisters Up The Street, When They Try To Break Your Soul
The grown-ups have lied Your pillow fort can't save you because the Boogeyman is real No use jumping under the covers and counting to ten as you wait for the hand to rise up and pull you under the bed The bed is no longer a raft adrift at sea There is no current There is no rescue party Just me And I'm here to tell you that the grown-ups have lied They'll tell you "Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you" but they won't tell you that the Boogeyman is real He'll come to your room with words "Nothing" and ****** and ****** and ****** sharpened like arrows in his quiver He'll stretch the bow of upper and lower lip and take aim at your Achilles Heel because he knows how your mother held you as she baptized you in hope **** doesn't bruise your arm or push you down the stairs or tangle its fingers in your scalp and yank your hair but it'll slump your shoulders make a mumble out of your laughter "Freak" never gave anyone a black eye but it's hung bodies from the rafters The grown-ups don't want you to know that the Boogeyman is real because they're the ones who invented the weapons he wields They don't want you to know that you're defenseless if all you've got is a cold-shoulder shield They don't want to have to tell you that you might have to yield to a monster they created You are both so much like me I can't watch them feed you half-truths and sit here passively You deserve to know what it is that will haunt you What it is that haunts me My bed is not safe either I still check my closets for words I have suppressed The grown-ups check theirs too but they're protecting you They just hide it best See, you and I We bleed crayola because we haven't forgotten what it's like to be a kid We remember popsicles in summertime and all the naughty things we did We remember how to cheat at hide-and-seek and all the corners in which we hid I know that there will be days when the Boogeyman will call you Nothing Just remind him that Nothing is Something that Something could be Anything and therefore you are important. Smile in his face and pretend you cannot hear, cannot understand, cannot be hurt When the arrows take to the air walk so far away and don't stop until your toes are dangling over the edge of the ocean and all that lies beneath you is a tunnel of stars When he finds your Achilles Heel, tell someone No use dying in battle Forgive the grown-ups, for they know not their mistakes Show them how to handle it Sleep with the light on Check your closet Be prepared He will come but if you know your enemy there's no way you can lose
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Melancholy. A pretty word with such a sad heart. Makes you wonder what made it so. Melancholy. The way it's said so passively, inattentively, ignorantly, makes me want to scream. Melancholy. The word is reverent and should be treated so. A beautiful expression to be used with care, if you please. Melancholy. It's not sickly sweet like some of the others, yet not too sour either. A little bit salty, like tears. But really, who hasn't tasted their own? Melancholy. The word flows like a river of tears down a cheek. One filled with regret, sorrow, loneliness. Melancholy. The more I say it the more I like it. The way it drifts, and takes my thoughts with it. Not to a happy place, but a place of quiet, sad thoughts. Melancholy. Even the word itself draws me to it. I think it is, in part, because I relate. Sometimes, it seems, we are all melancholy. And I am but one in a million who feels it too.
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 5:29 PM UTC
Melancholy
Social relations.      Fading, dissipating.            Regenerated and rebuilding. Everything held deep spills out over past memories and future broken promises.      Talking of brighter days with different time lines. Watching, talking, passively dissecting minds of those like mine.           All investigating our inner workings and imagined surroundings.                      It's in the waking hours of the dawn. It's when time is irrelevant.         When the new day brings nothing but revelations and unfiltered ramblings.                Anything to fill this  void.    The morning air feels stale compared to renewed awakenings. Constantly picking at the scab.           Digging for one last laugh.                                         A final smile.                        The perfect ending for the night we might forget.       We forge new mental pathways and plan play dates. Evolutionary socialization.             Cigarettes serve as reality checks and mirrored reflections.                          Open eyes burning for something tangible.                  Awake and unaware.        Filtering through the nonsense and intellectual genius. Trying to read the dusted lessons buried between advice and elaborate fairy tales.    We speak of ideas.      We speak of all the things that rest on the ledge of our understanding.         We dream of what it is and what it could be. All seeking growth.       All staying just within the caution tape. Ponderous wondering of connections and false enlightenment.                                                I remain skeptical even though I've felt it.   My mind has always held an untrusting grudge against my intuition.      In the end it's just another day.                               Contributions minimal.                  Lessons learned... Still settling their sediments.         They're Remnants.
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Jul 17, 2013
Jul 17, 2013 at 2:29 AM UTC
RamblingDawn
Social relations.      Fading, dissipating.            Regenerated and rebuilding. Everything held deep spills out over past memories and future broken promises.      Talking of brighter days with different time lines. Watching, talking, passively dissecting minds of those like mine.           All investigating our inner workings and imagined surroundings.                      It's in the waking hours of the dawn. It's when time is irrelevant.         When the new day brings nothing but revelations and unfiltered ramblings.                Anything to fill this  void.    The morning air feels stale compared to renewed awakenings. Constantly picking at the scab.           Digging for one last laugh.                                         A final smile.                        The perfect ending for the night we might forget.       We forge new mental pathways and plan play dates. Evolutionary socialization.             Cigarettes serve as reality checks and mirrored reflections.                          Open eyes burning for something tangible.                  Awake and unaware.        Filtering through the nonsense and intellectual genius. Trying to read the dusted lessons buried between advice and elaborate fairy tales.    We speak of ideas.      We speak of all the things that rest on the ledge of our understanding.         We dream of what it is and what it could be. All seeking growth.       All staying just within the caution tape. Ponderous wondering of connections and false enlightenment.                                                I remain skeptical even though I've felt it.   My mind has always held an untrusting grudge against my intuition.      In the end it's just another day.                               Contributions minimal.                  Lessons learned... Still settling their sediments.         They're Remnants.
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I'm in Love with a man whose love for me it seems is wired to a switch. And without warning something last night caused it once again to flip. It used to lead me to question, if he gives a **** at all- But now I just passively wonder how I go about getting one installed. For solitude is  less intimidating, than insecurity and fear. And laying awake alone is better than company that's adjacent but ultimately insincere. Even though I should leave I will place my troubled questions in boxes to forget about tonight. Endure the deep breaths and eye rolls and stay if only out of sheer stubbornness, exhaustion, or maybe out of spite.
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Mar 15, 2013
Mar 15, 2013 at 11:29 PM UTC
Fickle.