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My Only Regret is Who I've Become
I wish I wasn’t so afraid.
I wish I wasn’t so afraid of love.
I wish that it could have been easy,
I wish that I could have let him in.
I wish that I didn’t have to hide.
I run,
But I wish that I didn’t.
‘Cause each time I do, I’m throwing away something worth keeping,
But I’m just too afraid.
I’m terrified of giving someone the power to hurt me.
I hate being so weak.
I wish I could stand up to myself-make sure that I won’t leave until I have to,
I wish I could make myself fall in love again.
I wish I knew how to trust again,
But it’s hard to do when everyone you’v
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I want nothing but death
After the three hundred and sixty fifth setting sun since everything became undone, maybe now I have gathered enough pieces of my ether and stationary paper to write you a true goodbye letter.
I would write you starting with the weather today, where the skies are caliginous and the clouds are heavy basins ready to tip over in tears, much like my eyelids. I dig my toes deeply in the damp terra firma as I remember you.
I would write you in snapshot sentences. I would go about how you've converted my vision into a chiaroscuro religion; shifting all light and attention around me to focus in on only you.
I would write you in portrait paragraphs
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do not tell me i am not broken
i need people to stop telling me
that i am not broken
that i am not cracked open and spilling
out of the shell they created for me
the shell that clings and suffocates me
i need them to stop saying that
they'll fix the splits
that they'll fill them in with concrete
and make it better
because i am drowning in people
who think that they are supportive
that think i am theirs to mold and shape
i am not a vase, i am broken china
smashing against the ground over and over
in frustration because i cannot be the kind
of beautiful that you want to be
you cannot paint over me and expect
the sharp tongue and the hard eyes
to go away
i am broken
i am spi
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another six-word story. hope you like it as much as the previous one! (they're not a sequence, obviously)
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It's very peaceful and serene, with that dark tint to it. It also is so very common. I know so many people who can relate to this.