it is static pulse in sober night.
your coffee's still hot, as if time forgot
a few things
at the end of the world
and espresso happened to be one of them.
i am electric on the radio.
these messages go amiss
and quite frankly i don't care;
short step warnings
only scare off the fools.
now,
look me in the eyes when i talk to you.
you've got something to prove
in the white noise rise,
but i'm afraid they'll eat you alive.
i walk with you through chewed up streets,
stoic.
ready to tear me down at the shot of a gun,
you suddenly falter --
your coffee begins to frost over
and i exhale;
guess who's nuclear now?
speak up before it's too late by Tangled-Tales, literature
Literature
speak up before it's too late
it saddens me deeply
how the difference
between making your life
and taking your life
is a single letter
remember the importance
of words-
speak up before it's too late
it's been a few years now, and though i still struggle with my demons we are mostly at peace. last week my suicidal thoughts and i went out to lunch and had a pleasant discussion about whether or not pluto should still be considered a planet. i say yes, they said no. it makes sense that we disagree, we never did really get along.
a month ago i took my history of self-harm to the movies. they noticed that my scars were healing and that most of them were hardly noticeable anymore. they didn't put up much of a fight on that front, they knew it wouldn't lead anywhere.
last night i wrestled with my demons. both mentally and physically. intertwin
I don't know how to tell you this.
You're going to think ill of me.
Don't deny, I know it's true.
But yet I don't feel like me.
When I'm around you.
I don't feel like it's home
because there's a fear of growing up
to be a failure when all secrets
are either drained to a hollow bottle
or left as a fermented parasite.
There's so much I feel you're missing,
So much you don't know.
I wish you knew,
Without me having to tell you....
I'm only human. There's
a side of me that I fear will
consume me if I don't let
it free. But I could feign a smile now,
just to fit in, at least for a bit.
Pretend half of me doesn't exist.
When I wish you could s