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Jun 12 star

Liana

How dare I let myself feel sad?

Have you every heard the someone say
"Someone always has it worse"?
They're trying to help you, but it always ends up making me feel terrible
If someone else has it so bad
My problems just seem silly
So how dare I feel sad?

If I'm mad that my dad is crazy
Someone's dad is dead

If school is stressful and I'm freaking out
Some don't get to go because they are working to be able to buy clothes

If I am crying because I can't stop picking my thumb and it hurts
Some people lost their hand in traumatic ways

If I got in to a fight with my mom
Some people would do anything just to see there's again

Someone always has it worse
And that thought is anything but comforting
Now I feel bad for feeling sad

Whenever I feel sad
I also feel guilty
And bad
Because others
See my difficult problems
And think
Pfft, easy
So how dare I let myself feel sad?

Jun 10 star

Untitled

Jun 10 star

bleedingink

Untitled

Eyes that burn with a quiet fire,
heart that shines like solid gold.
You are a light to my constant darkness,
the one I did not know I was looking for.

Jun 6 star

I want you

Jun 6 star

bleedingink

I want you

I want you,
to pull me close,
let me sink into your arms,
and let all my thoughts fade into nothing.

I want you,
to hold my hand,
trace patterns across it,
with the pad of your thumb.

I want you,
to lie with me on the grass,
looking at the stars,
talking about everything and nothing.

I want you,
to run your fingers through my hair,
to look into your eyes,
and see the stars inside them.

I want you,
to be my sunshine on a cloudy day,
to see all the darkness in me,
and love me for who I am.

I want you.

Jun 6 star

<3

Jun 6 star

Nobody

<3

so many words in the english language
but i can't even get close to finding the right ones
to describe how i feel about you

Jun 6 star

PRAYING

Jun 6 star

Lori Jones McCaffery

PRAYING

Dear Father
I’m alone in a very scary place
And I’m not certain how I got here.
I lost sight of the footprints I was following
And wandered off the pathway you laid out for me.

The wind is cold and the sky is dark.
I just heard screeches from the nearby woods
And this path ends in only brambles.
Kneeling on the rocky ground
I beseech the Lord to rescue me.
He either doesn’t hear my cry
Or this is where I need to be
To learn to never take my eyes
Away from the light that guides me.
ljm

Day 5 trying to post this. Feeling lost.

Jun 6 star

floating eyelashes

Jun 6 star

Bekah Halle

floating eyelashes

What is it about loose eyelashes
That prompts wofty wishes;
Are they heaven’s kisses
In disguise?

We all want to lift our eyes
Above the cloak of disguise
Even if it may compromise
The facade, and authenticity’s surprise.

This world is concrete;
In Western buildings and streets,
In the here-and-now, we can flee
And dismiss lofty things as absolute.

But we are meaning-makers,
We are constant risk-takers.
We are pursuers for magic’s sake,
And may our quest we foolheartedly take.

What do you do when you see free eyelashes? Anything? Nothing? It is curious our daily practices.

#eyelashes #meaning #rituals

Jun 5 star

dandelion

Jun 5 star

The Invisible Poet

dandelion

I want to be the dandelion
growing in between the cracks
in the sidewalk
living in spite
of everything trying to
**** it

#dandelion #survive #inspite #thrive

Jun 5 star

Battle Scars

Jun 5 star

eliana

Battle Scars

People don't realize what they're saying, they shout "wrist check!" And laugh, not understanding the feeling of unsticking their clothes from their body in the morning. They say "Let me scan your barcodes!" Not understanding the feeling of your skin breaking and knowing you did it to yourself. They'll never understand the guilt that comes with it, the feeling of failure, and the pain being the only thing you can feel. They won't understand why you did it, and neither can you. They won't understand. They will continue to shout these things not knowing what's underneath your shirt. They won't understand that you will have these reminders of your past on wedding day, they will be there forever. People don't realize what they're doing when they grab your wrists and turn them over and shout "what's that?" People don't get it. They will never.

um i wrote this a little while ago and uh its like a perspective of someone who cuts and people constantly bring them down for it. any tips please lmk <3

#selfharm #scars

Jun 5 star

lost/time

Jun 5 star

cleo

lost/time

turn back the clocks, rewind it
there's something else behind this
not that hard to find it
but hard enough to fight it

#time #loss #dissociation #multiple #plural #mentalhealth #trauma #system #did #osdd