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Mar 2019 · 214
Circle
V Mar 2019
If you look at the people in your circle and don't get inspired, then you don't have a circle, you have a cage.
Mar 2019 · 294
Listen
V Mar 2019
Only those who truly care about you, will hear you when you are quiet.
:)
Mar 2019 · 2.1k
Overthinking
V Mar 2019
The art of creating problems that do not exist.
Been doing this a lot lately. ):
Mar 2019 · 182
Moving on
V Mar 2019
Even if you're not here to stay, I'm happy the universe allowed your soul to stop by.
Recently my 3 year relationship ended.
Though I do not feel any emotions yet, I am sure that one random night around 2AM will be there.
Here is to moving on to focus on more important things.
Mar 2019 · 355
Grow
V Mar 2019
Stop trying to shrink into places that you have already outgrown.
Feb 2019 · 386
Binge
V Feb 2019
Only then did I realize I was starving for something food could no longer satisfy.
Lately I have been battling Bulimia and this was just a random awareness I thought admist a declining health.
Feb 2019 · 288
Travel
V Feb 2019
Truth is, life is full of thunderstorms.
And we're all driving as fast as we can to escape the dark clouds overhead.
But every now and then, we pass under a bridge.
And for that split second,
There's quiet...
There's tranquility...
There's peace.
And in that brief moment, we forget the rain.
Feb 2019 · 156
Birth
V Feb 2019
Once upon a time,
Fact and fiction fell in love and gave birth to poetry.
:)
Feb 2019 · 418
Cost
V Feb 2019
I gave you $20 but you left me for someone who gave you $30.
They had $100, I had $20.
Based upon years of being left and forgotten in many areas.  
It's hard for me to trust and make any friends anymore.
I barely have established a stable relationship due to issues and past of being cheated on, abandonment, being ghosted, and always being that someone who was never someone's first choice or friend.
And yet, I still love and get too easily attached.
I can never be angry or hold resentment...
I just wish others who know this pain, didn't.
Feb 2019 · 168
Time
V Feb 2019
I wear a broken watch on my left wrist
To convey that,
Time is not always right.
Just something random and simple
Feb 2019 · 546
Drain
V Feb 2019
The pools of water in my eyes,
Blur my vision,
But for once,
I'm okay with not seeing.
Jan 2019 · 477
Stranger
V Jan 2019
I sought comfort in the arms of strangers and suddenly became a stranger to myself.
Be careful how much of yourself you give.
All my life I have prioritized others instead of myself every time.
Be it money, time, help, giving, and love.
I love humanity more than myself, and more than often...I have ignored the pain of being used or taken advantage of.
I hate admitting to myself that I need to take care of myself too, just because it feels selfish.
But after helping so many, there came a point where I looked around and asked myself, "Who am I?"

Helping others...
But I lost a lot of energy and used my years building other people instead of my own.

I really hope this doesn't sound arrogant.
Because it's literally the last thing I care to be.
Jan 2019 · 239
Deep Waters
V Jan 2019
Allow me to dive into your mind,
If I fail to **** the sharks, I'll learn how to swim with them.
Based upon my relationship in which over three years now, we have both learned to better care and understand each other's "deep waters".
It's been a joruney of tears, pain and lessons.
But we are now engaged and have grown and learned so much now!
Jan 2019 · 214
Reflection
V Jan 2019
Don't be at war with your reflection in the mirror,
A piece of glass cannot see how divine the spirit can be.
<3
Jan 2019 · 553
Coming out
V Jan 2019
And so I poured myself
Inside my fears,
And they had no power over me
Any longer.
Officially came out as Pansexual today!
Jan 2019 · 145
Ghosts
V Jan 2019
The thought of ghosts stopped scaring me,
When I realized,
I was more dead then they would ever be.
Relating to the numbness I get alongside Depression, it's god awful.
Jan 2019 · 1.6k
Self
V Jan 2019
As I was
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I came together
To the person
I had to become.
:)
Jan 2019 · 217
Judgemental
V Jan 2019
Everyone is full of opinions about
What I should do,
Where I should go,
Who I should be,
And who should I talk to;

When they can't even look inside their own bags to clean their dirt.
Frustration.
Old vent.
Jan 2019 · 369
Perception
V Jan 2019
It's difficult to remind yourself,
That you are not just a perception of what others make you,
But that you are more than that.

You are your laugh,
And all those times when you couldn't get up,
But found the strength within yourself to make it through.

Don't let others be the only source of reflection.
❤️
Jan 2019 · 1.6k
Pain
V Jan 2019
Hurt people,
Hurt people.
I often spend hours at night reflecting or having memories of past abuse and trauma. I am the type to see the level of pain in my abusers than evil. It makes me sad and often...
Has made me look crazy for giving them forgiveness and empathy from a lot of people.
No one is born evil, be it an illness, pain, or even trauma themselves...
I at least try to see some reality in it all.

I don't know, that's just me.
Dec 2018 · 149
Nightmares
V Dec 2018
There are many who don't wish to sleep for the fear of nightmares.
Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.
Dec 2018 · 140
Just a Note :)
V Dec 2018
Don't worry if you feel low; the sun has a sinking spell every night,
But rises again the next morning.
Dec 2018 · 748
Altruistic
V Dec 2018
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles,
It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
Dec 2018 · 134
What's left.
V Dec 2018
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what's left.
Dec 2018 · 312
Colors
V Dec 2018
If someone shows you their true colors, don't try to repaint them.
Dec 2018 · 186
Empathy
V Dec 2018
Often the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.
Dec 2018 · 203
Untitled
V Dec 2018
If I cut you off
Chances are,
You handed me the scissors.
Dec 2018 · 1.4k
Voices
V Dec 2018
I have two people living within me,
Two shadows, follow me home,
Two voices screaming inside,
I don't know which one to call my own.
Dec 2018 · 148
B r e a k
V Dec 2018
The people who break you
Are not the ones
Who are going to put you back together.
Nov 2018 · 721
2AM
V Nov 2018
2AM
All I want to do is cry,
Because all I can think about is wanting to die.
Simple vent.
I hate depression.
I don't know how I am here anymore.
Nov 2018 · 164
Block
V Nov 2018
Will you keep living the same way,
If death was not a distant concept,
But infact,
Just around the block?
Random.
Nov 2018 · 402
Bare
V Nov 2018
It takes courage
to lay yourself bare,
In a world
dressed up in lies.
<3
Nov 2018 · 151
Creation
V Nov 2018
If Earth
Is God's clenched fist,
What are we giving him to hold?

In the beginning,
From blazing flames,
How did we-
Get so cold?
Just thoughts.
Jul 2018 · 329
Chronic
V Jul 2018
A man asked me why I was more afraid of people than I was a hopsital.

With a heavy, yet numb heart, I replied:

"I have had more IVs than I ever had hugs."
Simple late night vent.
Dealing with multiple chronic illnesses my whole life has left me with such a severe depression, sometimes I wish I could die than live like this.
In the passed month, I had been in E.Rs 9 times and admitted as well. As much as you'd think I would be relieved in the end I have treatment, and found a diagnosis after this years start of flare ups, infections, etc...
I wish at times I would just go to sleep and never wake up.
I am not someone who was ever strong against even the most simplest of pain, held strong in times when something came up, and I have severe anxiety about my health even if it is a small cough, every moment is watching the clock, pill bottles and appointments.

I know others have it worse out there, and I know there is hope...
But in moments like now, I see nothing more than pain the rest of my life and being a failure to every single person around me.

To those of you out there who know or deal with something like this...
I am so truly sorry.
Things like this, I would wish on NO ONE, not even the Devil himself.
I wish-as taken for granted as people are towards health and what they can have-
I would give anything to cure your soul than mine.

(Sorry to rant. It's late, I am trying to keep "dark thoughts" at bay.)

God bless everyone of you, and to good health may you always find.
Jun 2018 · 306
Moth
V Jun 2018
Everything my heart desires is either too far for my arms to reach or too hot for my fingers to touch;
But like a moth to a flame, I move towards it even as it consumes me.
Jun 2018 · 183
Hope
V Jun 2018
Stop looking for the light in the dark and create it yourself-
Time waits for no one.
Random late night words.
Jun 2018 · 312
Soul
V Jun 2018
Be a window
Or
A curtain
The choice is yours.
May 2018 · 452
Beast
V May 2018
There was a man, who I found bleeding,
What were the odds, the chances of meeting?
He held his heart, said it was dying,
Frantic, I kneeled and helped this man- without even trying.
When I screamed for help, I was unbeknownst,
That I had grown...a little too close.
Without a second call, he grabbed me and clawed away at my soul,
The man who I found bleeding? Was a man no more.
Recollecting on trauma and distrust I have for people due to it. It's both a blessing and a curse to love and care so deeply, and sadly, such foolishness has lead me "devoured" before.
May 2018 · 377
For Mom...
V May 2018
A nother day.
C arelessly we go about.
C RASH!
I can only remember so much,
D ismayed, we all started to cry.
E verone will be O.K." They rushed.
N ightmares that leave me awake,
T hanking God, we are all alive.
This poem isn't all that good, but recently we (my mom, me, and my aunt) were all involved in a car accident and I am still having trouble getting through this. We are all okay, but not without our own injuries, although my mom suffered the worst in breaking her back.
I started a GoFundMe account for her to help her in anyways I can, since I am going through guilt, and bad depression for seeing her this way.
The link to her page is here: https://www.gofundme.com/s9d4qv-daughter-needs-help

Any donation helps and I am only doing this to help her with the support she deserves most. To anyone/if anyone donates, God bless you and a huge "thank you" from my heart miles away.
May 2018 · 230
Red
V May 2018
Red
I'm tired of painting my sky in shades of blue and grey,
Even if it leaves me dead,
Paint me in splendid red.
Apr 2018 · 308
Moondust
V Apr 2018
I am the moon.
I may not burn as bright as the sun-
But I glimmer enough to shed light on the things that crave to be seen in utter darkness.
Apr 2018 · 240
F l o w e r
V Apr 2018
You may be soft, fragile and delicate- like the petals of a flower;

But don't forget, you are also the stem, that keeps it all together.
:)
Apr 2018 · 182
T r a d e
V Apr 2018
It's sad to watch people trade their bodies in the night,

For temporary warmth in the morning.
Apr 2018 · 1.1k
P i e c e s
V Apr 2018
Even the planets aren't perfectly aligned,
How can you expect yourself to be?

Being in pieces doesn't make you any less beautiful.
2 AM thoughts.
Apr 2018 · 185
Vagabond
V Apr 2018
I am following my heart, but it doesn't seem like it knows the directions either.
Insomnia...
Apr 2018 · 310
Cosmetic
V Apr 2018
The only true cosmetic secret to ultimate beauty is this-
.
.
.
Happiness.
Based upon my love for people and seeing someone smile. <3
Apr 2018 · 175
Grey
V Apr 2018
Life could never be as simple as black and white; regardless you would still have all the grays to account for.
Apr 2018 · 323
Aura
V Apr 2018
Be careful how you share your light,
The glow can attract bugs that bite.
Apr 2018 · 281
Thoughts
V Apr 2018
My lungs are full of glass,
My skin is paper mache,
My eyes are withered and rusted,
Like an old forgotten machine.

My brain is lost at sea,
And it's been years without you,
But somehow, somehow,
You can still see me.
Apr 2018 · 327
Thoughts from an introvert.
V Apr 2018
The deeper inward you go, the more you expand into infinity. Eventually, you become one with all of existence.
Late night thoughts.
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