“Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.”
— Robert Brault (via perrfectly)
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There is nothing poetic
about the ways in which
this year
has tried to
drown me
smother me
and
devour me whole.But
there is something
so beautiful to be said
of the ways
I have
survived.
This is not meant to be a sob story.
This is a poem to make you understand.In the past year alone,
I have attempted suicide 4 times.
In the past year,
the police have come to my house 2 times.
In the past year I ran out of resources
and had to check myself into a treatment center.In the treatment center,
there was a girl who had
welts on her arm deeper than mine.
It looked like she had
punched her fist through
a glass window
the way life had punched
the life out of her.In the treatment center
there was a girl who had hallucinations
about a man standing in the corner
that terrified her so much
that she couldn’t stand still.In the year before the last one,
I had two suicide attempts.
I was checked into an ER for my overdose
then a psychiatric hospital.This is a poem about all the people
who have been bounced back to a hospital
every time they thought they got their life back together
only to let their mental illness catch them off guard again.This is a poem for all the people
who are so weak that they
cannot stand on their own.This is a poem for the people
whose eating disorders are so strong
that they will refuse food
even when they weigh 70 pounds
and are forced by hospital staff
to be fed by a tube.This is a poem for the people
who have more hospital bracelets
than they do friends.This is a poem about
how I have to take 8 pills a day
to function somewhat normally.This is a poem about how I had
to drop out of public school
because my mental illness
has interfered with my eating,
my breathing, my sleeping,
and my ability to live.This is a poem about
how I cannot count the number of people
who have told me they wanted to die
on two hands.This is a poem about the 400,000
emergency room visits
for self inflicted injury in 2001.This is a poem for the 30,622
people who committed suicide in 2001.This is a poem for everybody with a mental illness
who is more scared of being judged
than they are of death.This is a poem for everybody who
has wanted to bleed away their pain.
This is a poem for everyone
that wanted to disappear,
hoping that if they shot themselves,
if they crashed their car,
that if they jumped off the roof of a building,
that they might shatter.This is a poem for everyone
who has tried to choke the pain
out of their life.
This is a poem for everyone who hoped
that an overdose would be a peaceful death.This is a fuck you to every hallucination,
every manic episode, every depressive episode,
every flashback, every panic attack, every nightmare,
every suicide attempt, every hospital visit,
every purge, every laxative, every crash diet,
every single doctor that told you you were doing it for attention,
every single bully that didn’t know what they were driving you to,
every family member that ever looked at you like you were a freak,
everybody that ever told you to “get over it”,
everybody who told you that you were faking it.
Everybody who ever told you that it wasn’t a big deal.Would you still be saying the same thing at our funerals?
Do us all a favor and tell us how beautiful
we “were” while we’re still alive.
How beautiful we are .This is a poem for everyone who ever thought
the world would be better off without them.
This is poem for everyone who ever needed
somebody to just listen without judging.
This is a poem for everyone who just needs someone
to care or believe in them.This is not meant to be a sad poem.
This is not a poem about overexaggeration.
It is a poem about reality.
It is a poem to finally make you understand.We are more than statistics.
We are stories.
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A letter to my ex’s new lover
Dear girl,
Although I don’t know you all too well I must admit you have to be very foolish. When I loved the man you are with I was in the same position as you. I thought his golden-brown eyes were more astonishing than the sun, his frail body a temple that would keep me safe and warm for years to come, and his words deep enough to drown in. Little did I know how it was all a mistake.
I’d like to take the time to warn you about him. He comes off as a beautiful soul who seems simple. But he is much more. He is a disaster waiting to hit again. He gets you in his clutches and drags you deep into Hell without your knowing, and by the time you realize where he took you it’s too late.
I just want you to know how torturous he can be. I want you to be safe from him. I want you to still be alive when you two are over. I want you to know that he doesn’t apologize, no matter how terrible he’s been. I want you to know that just like his hands his heart is cold. I want you to know that although he acts like he’s in love and tells you over and over that he is and even when it’s over he repeats it to you that he’s not capable of loving another human being.
Please be safe, dear.
Love,
The girl he broke x
“You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.”
— Iain Thomas, The City Rises and Falls
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“Every person I’ve ever loved has some how become toxic to me. A living, breathing reminder of why I was always better off alone. I love too hard, too quickly and then sometimes I don’t love enough. I guess I’m just bad at love.”
—
Kristie Betts
“We want someone that we can be at our weakest with, and not feel so. That our vulnerability isn’t taken advantage of, but taken care of.”
— Dae D. Lee
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