It was the middle of the night. High in chocolate's sugar rush, eyes wide with worry, mind buzzing with regret. Is this all there is? Nights spent awake, days spent tired and irate, all because somewhere at some point two people decided to give you life… Look, everything isn’t so bad. Sometimes sleep comes, and despite it all you get a break. But then the morning comes. The morning comes, it’s bright and crisp air fills you with promise, hope and aspirations that appear to be just out of your reach. Maybe if you stretched just a little bit further, worked that little bit harder, smiled that little bit wider. Maybe, maybe you could... But no, as great a promise as the sunshine had made for you- the night came and took it away. Night, oh ruthless night. Let me sleep, and let me dream, dream of a brighter tomorrow.
Unconscious made conscious by newkidwithoutbraces, literature
Literature
Unconscious made conscious
I feel like dying Fading Disappearing The walking dead are gone long before they are buried. I am one of them now. Corporate crushed my soul. And now I do not know where to go. I am scared. My spirit is clawing at my body to get out. It lacks direction but it has a purpose. It wants to be anywhere but here. But here it remains. Stuck Stuck Stuck In the Muck Muck Muck Of bad decisions and circumstances. My body needs to save my spirit. It is its vessel, but it will not move. It’s stuck in the muck with concrete blocks of indecision. It screams and cries but there is no-one. No screech of precision can break the concrete Break the muck Break the spirit that is stuck. Undone by the weight of being stuck stuck stuck, in the muck muck muck.
Your words, once kind and sweet
Turned bitter and mean.
My thoughts, once so careless and free
Turned clouded and blue.
The smile ever present on your face, is nowhere to be seen.
My laugh, once constant now a distant memory.
Not sudden- it’s gradual.
Like the trickle of sand in an hourglass.
It turned on its head
Leaving us both torn
The dread.
The inevitable silence.
It ends.
So badly wanting to be seen that you spend your life hiding.
For what is more terrifying than being seen for everything that you are,
And everything that you could be,
Just to be pushed away.
You are a walking contradiction, as an ex of yours once put it.
You are at a standstill.
Bored and restless, but too afraid to move.
Spiders crawling over me
Climbing out my throat.
I'm infested.
I dare not speak
Breathing only multiplies them.
Soiders climbing over me
Crawling out my throat.
What I hear I cannot see
What I see is worse.
Spiders tearing into me
Eating up my flesh.
They made webs inside my throat
I cannot scream for help.
Spiders climbing over me
Eating up my flesh.
Spiders- all the eye can see
Spiders laid to rest.
I hate how everything you say is so calculated.
Your manipulative, painstakingly precise speech-
Is turning heads, making waves.
You sound like a man outside himself,
Like a recording played over a loop.
To accompany a wax figure,
So real and lifelike.
They fall like putty in your hands,
Succumbing to your words.
Your moderate analogies,
Your lyrical inaccuracies,
Have got me feeling so absurd.
You sweat, like vegetables in a frying pan,
The guilty, under a high voltage lamp.
So convenient for you, to have the moral high ground.
Relying on the support of the lowbrow.
Your grandiose statements and feigned cheer,
Are moving them closer,
A
Help Me Darling by newkidwithoutbraces, literature
Literature
Help Me Darling
Help me darlin’, I am ready to give in.
Take me with you, take me toward’ the light.
I’ll be with you, please don’t say goodnight.
You’re too strong to say goodbye.
And I will be strong too.
I will go with you.
You will not be alone.
Help me darlin’, I’m ready to give in.
The days are endless without you.
Each one feeling heavier than the last.
I understand why you left.
You made me promise not to let life pass.
But I can’t keep your promise.
Help me darlin’, I am ready to give in.
You have taken my sleep.
A silly accusation, as
I’m sure you’d say I’ve never had it.
Yo
There is a hole in my heart.
I keep trying to fill it.
With food.
With art.
With friends.
Nothing works.
I am empty.
It’s been three years.
But the moments we shared
Still bring me to tears.
I am so sorry.
For not being old enough
Mature enough
Together enough.
I am so
Wholeheartedly
Disappointed
For letting you go.
Fate had given me a chance
And I had chosen wrong.
I thought that I had been honorable
But I was stupid.
Oh so stupid.
I miss you.
More than any words
Or any songs
I write for you
Will ever say.
My heart aches.
I will always love you.
It was the middle of the night. High in chocolate's sugar rush, eyes wide with worry, mind buzzing with regret. Is this all there is? Nights spent awake, days spent tired and irate, all because somewhere at some point two people decided to give you life… Look, everything isn’t so bad. Sometimes sleep comes, and despite it all you get a break. But then the morning comes. The morning comes, it’s bright and crisp air fills you with promise, hope and aspirations that appear to be just out of your reach. Maybe if you stretched just a little bit further, worked that little bit harder, smiled that little bit wider. Maybe, maybe you could... But no, as great a promise as the sunshine had made for you- the night came and took it away. Night, oh ruthless night. Let me sleep, and let me dream, dream of a brighter tomorrow.
Unconscious made conscious by newkidwithoutbraces, literature
Literature
Unconscious made conscious
I feel like dying Fading Disappearing The walking dead are gone long before they are buried. I am one of them now. Corporate crushed my soul. And now I do not know where to go. I am scared. My spirit is clawing at my body to get out. It lacks direction but it has a purpose. It wants to be anywhere but here. But here it remains. Stuck Stuck Stuck In the Muck Muck Muck Of bad decisions and circumstances. My body needs to save my spirit. It is its vessel, but it will not move. It’s stuck in the muck with concrete blocks of indecision. It screams and cries but there is no-one. No screech of precision can break the concrete Break the muck Break the spirit that is stuck. Undone by the weight of being stuck stuck stuck, in the muck muck muck.
Your words, once kind and sweet
Turned bitter and mean.
My thoughts, once so careless and free
Turned clouded and blue.
The smile ever present on your face, is nowhere to be seen.
My laugh, once constant now a distant memory.
Not sudden- it’s gradual.
Like the trickle of sand in an hourglass.
It turned on its head
Leaving us both torn
The dread.
The inevitable silence.
It ends.
So badly wanting to be seen that you spend your life hiding.
For what is more terrifying than being seen for everything that you are,
And everything that you could be,
Just to be pushed away.
You are a walking contradiction, as an ex of yours once put it.
You are at a standstill.
Bored and restless, but too afraid to move.
Spiders crawling over me
Climbing out my throat.
I'm infested.
I dare not speak
Breathing only multiplies them.
Soiders climbing over me
Crawling out my throat.
What I hear I cannot see
What I see is worse.
Spiders tearing into me
Eating up my flesh.
They made webs inside my throat
I cannot scream for help.
Spiders climbing over me
Eating up my flesh.
Spiders- all the eye can see
Spiders laid to rest.
I hate how everything you say is so calculated.
Your manipulative, painstakingly precise speech-
Is turning heads, making waves.
You sound like a man outside himself,
Like a recording played over a loop.
To accompany a wax figure,
So real and lifelike.
They fall like putty in your hands,
Succumbing to your words.
Your moderate analogies,
Your lyrical inaccuracies,
Have got me feeling so absurd.
You sweat, like vegetables in a frying pan,
The guilty, under a high voltage lamp.
So convenient for you, to have the moral high ground.
Relying on the support of the lowbrow.
Your grandiose statements and feigned cheer,
Are moving them closer,
A
Help Me Darling by newkidwithoutbraces, literature
Literature
Help Me Darling
Help me darlin’, I am ready to give in.
Take me with you, take me toward’ the light.
I’ll be with you, please don’t say goodnight.
You’re too strong to say goodbye.
And I will be strong too.
I will go with you.
You will not be alone.
Help me darlin’, I’m ready to give in.
The days are endless without you.
Each one feeling heavier than the last.
I understand why you left.
You made me promise not to let life pass.
But I can’t keep your promise.
Help me darlin’, I am ready to give in.
You have taken my sleep.
A silly accusation, as
I’m sure you’d say I’ve never had it.
Yo
There is a hole in my heart.
I keep trying to fill it.
With food.
With art.
With friends.
Nothing works.
I am empty.
It’s been three years.
But the moments we shared
Still bring me to tears.
I am so sorry.
For not being old enough
Mature enough
Together enough.
I am so
Wholeheartedly
Disappointed
For letting you go.
Fate had given me a chance
And I had chosen wrong.
I thought that I had been honorable
But I was stupid.
Oh so stupid.
I miss you.
More than any words
Or any songs
I write for you
Will ever say.
My heart aches.
I will always love you.
My spirals are intertwined.
The circles, the cycles,
The all-consuming nightmares.
My thoughts do not evade me,
As much as my hope fails me.
I’m told that it’s ok, to feel this way,
It’s “normal”.
But if it were up to me.
I’d count to three.
And skip, fast forward.
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