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what a sick coincidence
some cruel ******* joke
crafted by the god
he so desperately believes in


why would he want me
when he has two daughters
one he’s molding into everything
i refuse to become


the other still clings to his shadow
like it’ll keep her warm
telling me to be more forgiving
as if he ever earned a single ounce of grace


where was he when i needed a father
not a ghost with loud opinions


he disappeared
then returned
acting like he deserved applause for showing up late
to a life he walked out on


you don’t get to pick which parts of me you accept
and still try and call it love


i’m done pretending this day holds any weight
that it means anything more
than a simple *******


i made it without you
and that is the only thing
worth celebrating
angrier take on my last poem
Falling Awake May 25
Here, I’m still waiting on the rising,
But again, I go fading out of sight.
I guess, to you, it must be surprising,
How I was gone before sparks ignite.

Blowing- free flowing- in your direction,
Cut short by a sudden change in wind,
Gusts trade vision with my projection.
Reversing in confusion- now I rescind.

For it’s you who holds my attention,
But by a selfish means of protection,
Had me leaving before a storm began.
I can see I was creating a rejection
But there really wasn’t even a plan.
My patterns of impulse and projection
Regrettably have led to your doubt,
And damage to a wholesome connection.
I admit- I reeled you in, I spit you out.

But I didn’t mean to be deceiving-
I’m just a little abandoned and abused
Was never good with people leaving,
Sorry I left you bruised and confused.
about abandonment issues that I may or may not have
Everly Rush May 23
They say I’m lucky
to be here.
Boarding school.
Safe.
Fed.
Books in my hands,
a roof that doesn’t leak.
But luck feels like a cruel joke
when you cry in a bed
no one tucked you into.

My stepmom’s voice doesn’t need to travel far—
it lives in me now.
“You’re too much.”
“You ruin everything.”
“No wonder your mother left.”
And I hate how fast I believe her.
How deep those words go.

Because my real mum did leave.
Not by accident.
Not by death.
She left because she didn’t want to be a mum.
Not my mum.
Not with me in the picture.
Fifteen years old
and I still wonder
what it was about me
that made her walk away.

Was I born too loud?
Too soft?
Too inconvenient to keep?

She sends postcards sometimes.
From places I’ve never been.
Smiling in sunglasses,
signing with love
like she remembers what that means.
But love doesn’t show up twice a year
and forget your birthday.

So I sit here,
in classrooms where no one knows
why I flinch at kindness,
why I don't raise my hand.
They don’t see the girl
who keeps herself small
so she won’t be sent away again.

I imagine the van sometimes—
that guy with the dog and the dust roads.
I imagine running,
not toward something,
but away.
From the house that wasn’t mine.
From the voice that broke me.
From the silence my mother left behind.

But what if I never run?
What if I just grow older
and colder,
wearing a mask that looks like success
but feels like surviving?

What if I stay here—
the girl left behind twice,
too scared to dream,
too used to being unwanted
to believe she could ever be more?

What if I don’t make it—
and no one notices
because they never expected me to
in the first place?
a part two sadder piece to Van Man by the girl who still asks to go to the bathroom & sometimes i wish i could attach photos to my poems
The uniVerse May 18
if you must go
then make it quick
I would rather not know
or else fall sick
with worry and grief
for all that's lost
the sadness at least
will be worth the cost
if you must go, then go
I will understand
that seeds will sow
wherever they land
and though my pain
may never pass
I know the rain
will grow our grass
Originally written May 30th 2022
What is faith? Something we all take until it all brakes? something we must use to compensate for the misunderstating of a disgrace or something that should be misplaced. Deep chills hit my stomach  until I ache forcing my hands to shake. Why does it feel like a mistake in this fake urban race filled with a hated faith that wont ever stop to take a break and realise until its too late. My body has the need to decompose in the fake damp empty space we dare to call home,Id wish I witness it like a haze instead of a slow ****** glaze. Fill up your tomorrows to see the beautiful sorrows, il try il try to be there before I die and affter I fly to see you and cry with the biggest smiles our hearts will hive . Let it pass by we only have one shot to try. make it something to remember it by. Dropping it with all the smiles and miss you good byes knowing deeply we couldn't stay intwine  .the first time I saw you I almost died you gave me this feeling I could never come by until I had you like a surprise. Feeling alive inside I should of been gone this time life cant calmly pass us by creating the beauties in our tides. Perhaps that's  density in its own surprise crashing down to our hidden eyes filled with dark prides and a fire that once felt alive some Faiths are better left behind for I am not going to join the common crime. Its better to see faith left behind until the heartbeats of all will  combined with common courtesy and no more MINES .
If only we had world peace.
CallMeVenus May 15
Honey its been a while but i know you exist between heartbeats — not quite joy not quite grief, just the long inhale before either arrives.
you lived in a house where silence carved the hallways out of not being chosen so i know that you wear sound like an armour,
for when the room goes quiet the ghosts start speaking in full sentances and you are left with no language to bury them.
you answer messages in your head, smile at texts you never send and mourn connections like you've buried them with your own hands — even tho they are still alive
just not with you.
you wage a war between
reach out
and
stay safe.
between
i miss you
and
don't look at me.
you stand still.
mid-sentance
mid-dream
mid-you.




your house is a mess- your head is worse
wondering if this is healing or you are just getting really good at pretending so you bolt the doors
and you don't dare let anyone come in.
your mother used to say that the cruelest is the hour when you must beg the stars to remember your name — you'd then say
that the pain is a fruit, bitten too soon
and yet so sweet, so knowing.
because you know you must remember everything
and overcome it.
for if you don’t overcome it, you will always be the child whose soul never grew, the woman who kept apologizing for needing too little, and loving too much.

Long are overdue the deeds you owe to yourself.

-V
Lance Remir May 15
I promised to always love you

Not realizing I doomed myself 

Because I still love you so much

Even when you stopped loving me
Eve May 14
you ran from every and any
person that loved you

which to be fair, it wasn't that many

but you had me.

had.
Why do you cry?
Isn't this what you wanted?
To be all by yourself again?
No?
Then why did you push everyone away?

Why didn't you ask them to stay?

Stupid rabbit.

He doesn't want you to cling anymore.

Let him love other people.

Let him go.
Lance Remir May 1
I've seen the care you give to animals
From the smallest rodents
To the biggest dogs
You gave them love and homes

I should have seen the signs
I was only a person to you
When you broke my home
When you took my love

You loved animals
More than your own person
Yet you left me
Like a wounded animal
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