i.
because who are you to tell me how to feel
pain
what it is to feel
absolutely nothing?
who the fuck are you to stay by my side
all night
crying
asking god for forgiveness
asking him to show himself and quit being such a fucking coward?
who were you to ever lay a hand on me?
ii.
because you never stayed up like you said you did
not until 6 am
not tearing your own heart out
for me.
you lied about beauty
and how much you admired the way i carried it.
you know what?
it was all bullshit
and you were only angry because i knew the truth.
iii.
because i was never what you wanted -
what we
wanted.
i was never what you dreamed of and you
you were
Bedridden:
Here I lie, motionless,
A prisoner within my own body.
Yet there lies a subtle clarity;
A moment of understanding, achieved by infirmity.
And though my body is racked with pain,
My conscious mind delves ever deeper into the pool of the soul.
...Falling...faintly...
My mind is flooded with a racket of noise.
I am cast into the swirling rip-tide of forbidden knowledge,
Clinging to the flotsam of sanity as a Leviathan roars below.
It swallows me into an acidic whirlpool.
Drowning me deep beneath the bubbling surface of the past.
And there, in the murky depths where my very self begins to rot,
A grinning maw of tongues an
I've Changed (Yeah right) by WordOfChen, literature
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I've Changed (Yeah right)
I've Changed (Yeah right):
You know, I tell myself everday,
That I'm going to change - that I'll be different.
'This isn't the same; I'm not the same,' that's what I tell myself...
As I sit in front of the computer, praying time doesn't move.
Coward, you're weak and you'll always be weak! You bloody disgrace...
I pick up some new magazine, get inspired,
'I want to be like that guy,' is what I think to myself.
I give it a try for two or three days - I quit.
Same old shit again...
Making up excuses? It's what you always do, you gutless wonder...
I try to reach out with my hands,
Seeking something, anything that I can find to help myself ho
One.
I met a boy who's scars matched mine. He was chivalrous and cynical and he had a heart that would swallow you whole. His skin was pale and he wore flannels and he didn't like his singing voice and he would dance like no one was around and he had a soft face with a strong personality and his veins climbed up his arms underneath his skin just like mine.
(But we were nothing alike.)
Two.
I met a child who was terrified of his own shadow. The way it would always stalk him but never speak and never help lead him in the right direction-he hated it. He was afraid of losing me and that made me feel like I mattered even when I didn't. He was afr
You Have No Right To Live by WordOfChen, literature
Literature
You Have No Right To Live
You Have No Right To Live:
Hey, what are you doing?
That's mine, now give it back.
You're stupid, you should just go die!
Okay, I'm sorry...
What, you failed again?
Just how much money do you think we're spending on this,
Do you think it just falls from the sky?
I can't believe you; and don't give me that look!
You better straighten up now you hear me
And if you keep looking like a dead fish,
I'm going to make you wish you were one.
I'm sorry...
Hey, being around you is driving me nuts,
You never want to do anything, you don't even care,
Why bother even breathing if you're going to act like you're dead!
I'm sorry!
You're
Pat
She was a renegade.
Because you pushed her away-
You reminded her
Of the ugly hearts
And the broken wishes.
She was fragile.
Because growing up,
That's what she was told she was.
Brittle bones
A heap of thin skin-
Hollow.
She was the color purple.
Because once you left
And once the blue and black faded
She was covered in tiny patches
Of softer skin
Where the color
Bloomed.
She was a fighter.
Pushing "fuck you"
And holding her spine straight
Like a flag pole
As she carried
All your burdens.
She was lonely.
Because you left her that way
You taught her to be that way
Within crowds
Or in empty rooms
Alone.
She was alive.
Suffering day to da