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I don’t see the world the way I think I’m supposed to
I don’t think the way I see the rest of the world think.
I say the words I think are right, but they always feel wrong to me.
I say the wrong things at the wrong times and I can’t tell my left from my
right.
I dropped a penny on the floor yesterday and when I bent to pick it up
I saw everything upside down and I thought it a much better place,
to consider that gravity pulls all of us up and we’re pushing on the surface just
trying to break free and breathe air that’s not so stale that doesn’t
taste so much like other people and feel so much like sorry sorry sorry
again
I said that I wanted to start writing again because I had something to say but
I should have said something different I meant
I want to start writing again because I have something to feel to feel
to feel anything at all and I want you to feel that too or at least
to tell me you do so I don’t feel so alone.
To my friend buried deep or already too far gone,
to the poet pushing on the walls of the cage to the
man that picks up the penny I left behind and thinks he has good luck:
what was the first thing you thought when you woke up?
Was is this? was it everything you’ve ever felt beat like egg whites and left to dry and crack and
make a metaphor for me?
was it anything at all?
I didn't write the words I thought I was supposed to to mean what I meant to think.
I didn’t mean the words I thought I would write and I didn’t want you to know
anything but
now you do.
I don’t see the world the way I think I’m supposed to.
When I close my eyes, I don’t see anything at all.
I don’t think the way I see the rest of the world think.
I say the words I think are right, but they always feel wrong to me.
I say the wrong things at the wrong times and I can’t tell my left from my
right.
I dropped a penny on the floor yesterday and when I bent to pick it up
I saw everything upside down and I thought it a much better place,
to consider that gravity pulls all of us up and we’re pushing on the surface just
trying to break free and breathe air that’s not so stale that doesn’t
taste so much like other people and feel so much like sorry sorry sorry
again
I said that I wanted to start writing again because I had something to say but
I should have said something different I meant
I want to start writing again because I have something to feel to feel
to feel anything at all and I want you to feel that too or at least
to tell me you do so I don’t feel so alone.
To my friend buried deep or already too far gone,
to the poet pushing on the walls of the cage to the
man that picks up the penny I left behind and thinks he has good luck:
what was the first thing you thought when you woke up?
Was is this? was it everything you’ve ever felt beat like egg whites and left to dry and crack and
make a metaphor for me?
was it anything at all?
I didn't write the words I thought I was supposed to to mean what I meant to think.
I didn’t mean the words I thought I would write and I didn’t want you to know
anything but
now you do.
I don’t see the world the way I think I’m supposed to.
When I close my eyes, I don’t see anything at all.
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dear depression,
(master of the umbra)
i hate you.
broken whispers, lonely promises,
you are the worst of lovers, owning all, but
never seeming to be satisfied
even with your name branded scarlet into my wrists.
i am no longer the golden songbird as when you first met me,
but yet
you still hang onto me
your claws
raking across my heart like
my pen ripping across the bloodstained page, like
lightning across the skies, (vengeance
raining down from the gods i used to believe in)
"don't let them catch you,"
you breathed into my ears.
an ounce of life, in exchange for a cloak of darkness (i thought i'd only stay one night)
the fog was sluggish and deep.
so bl
Literature
butterflied
it is a snake
coiled in my stomach,
the urge to vomit
everything inside of me, to purge
all the toxic not-
good-enoughs. to retell
the same story and expect
a different ending is
the dysfunction that landed
us in here. I'm sorry
I don't follow you into
your dreams at night. I'm sorry
my smile is not the moon,
I'm sorry I did anything
to make you notice
me at all. no finger
down the throat could ever
take that
away.
Literature
to know that we are not alone
I swallow words like I swallow tea;
some part of my brain composed of every image
that has ever made me realise I'm alive (salt, flowers,
streetlights weeping in the rain, foam and lace and dust)
- this part is addicted and constantly craves a bitter, frothing
tapestry of language. It's an eternal burning desire
for new ways to put together letters and empty
space - I want that wine, that sweet and strong
and heady wine that tastes of everything on earth,
everything that humans can feel and do and love
and hate and touch and breathe; I want that song
whose drumbeat is humanity, whose melodies are
smudges of ink and dazzles of electrons, whose
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Though this needs a bunch of edits, the meaning is crystal clear and beautiful! Well done!