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Chasing Sunsets

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*Trigger Warning: Ce rtain words could be triggering to some.  Image Credits: Parade   To every quiet soul lost in the noise of the world— you are not forgotten. Slash marks traced your arm, Sketches of a life you couldn't show. You struggled with the image in the mirror, Yet you were never alone in this art. Behind the darkness, Lay a shattered soul. But the scars you carried, Weren't yours alone. What was it like inside your head? Did they tell you you weren’t enough? That your life didn’t matter? Were they so loud that you couldn't fight back? If only you could've seen you were more, If only you could've seen it through. I wish your mind hadn’t hurt you so, I wish you hadn’t hurt in every way. I know I can never do you justice, If we hadn’t been strangers to one another, I’d have told you a thousand times to stay, To walk away from that lonely place, To turn away from the noose that called you. Maybe your bad days outnumbered the good, And your s...

Round Two: Excerpts From a Diary

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Image Credit: OpenAI's DALL·E She's back in the ring folks!  On to another round, Broken ribs, bruised arms and bleeding jaws.  I'm not "Dear Diarying" stuff, Just knocking the lid off this airtight jar, Spilling over the contents onto this hardened plain. 

Round One: Excerpts From a Diary.

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Image Credit:  Mehrshad Rajabi  on Unsplash There is so much in my head,  But I'll just stay mum. I don't know my future, I want a good one. I need a good one.  I'm flattening dying roses in this book,  I'll give them an afterlife of sorts.  Listening to music,  Envisioning lead roles for myself. I gaze out the bedroom window, staring at the sky, A billion thoughts running around a bonfire.  I'm looking at the one who gave me life, scared.