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My entire world is words

With NVLD, and a life so full of extremes, writing helps me make sense, find patterns and semi-absolutes while attempting to comprehend and celebrate the strangely organised chaos called life. Music helps me process emotions, jewelry making helps me find peace, while writing is my only way to unfold reality.

Don't read to avoid the topics of: mental illness, abuse, gender, romantic relationships and sex, family relationships, Israel and metaphysics (existential and perception.

  • Get on a Boat

    I want to get off this roller coaster

    I want to be at peace

    I want to be quiet and I also want to scream, is this is a reality or is that a daydream?

    I want to get off this roller coaster and get on a boat

    I'll reach my final destination when I do, if I even have one by the time it's true.

    I have enough fuel and belief in the water

    I may not trust the sea but I trust this campus and it belongs to me

    No one else can tell me my place.

    This world is too big for me mommy 

    I'm just trying to make them care 

    The water is too deep for me daddy

    I'm just gasping for air 

    I want to get off this train 

    I want to stop crying so that I can feel the rain 

    And I want to stop fighting so that I can start existing 

    I want to be quiet 

    And I want to scream

    So tell me brother 

    Is this a reality

    Or, is that a daydream?

  • between times

    I've been taking more showers

    I've been drinking more tea

    I've been doing my homework

    My lists, my workout, my boundaries

    And I've been keeping no secrets from my family

    I'm still struggling often

    I'm still figuring out

    But much is feeling different

    I'm on a different route

    No immediate results promised

    No expectations, no stress

    But I promise to be different

    Action, preparation and rest

    I'm not interested in hustling

    In running till I'm out of breath

    I walk fast, I walk slow

    As long as I'm walking, I'm winning my race

    I've been making good friends with some of my exes 

    I've been feeling detached and forgiving for the rest

    I've been making better art and better decisions

    I live in the now,

    and excited for the next

  • the casual barbecue with friends

    Watch the flames
    Too empathetic to say “I told you so”
    Too sad to cry, too hot to feel
    Watch the flames
    Knowing that you tried
    Knowing you probably could have done better
    Watch the wind, lifting houses
    Breathe the sand in
    That’s the purest air you can get
    Miss your family
    Some couldn’t survive
    Too hot to feel, too sad to cry
    Watch the flames, burning forests
    Say goodbye to your pets
    Watch the flames
    On your body
    Tearing down your clothes
    And the last commercial
    on a falling skyscraper saying:
    the future is now.

  • Stretch Marks

    I can feel it again
    The heart grows bigger
    And love grows deeper
    As I’m learning to love myself again
    More space opens up to love others
    And if I give it enough time
    The heart grows
    Full of stretch marks
    Like a growing teenager’s back
    Like the legs of a runner
    And a little like a butt getting bigger from squats
    Yeah, just like that
    Full of stretch marks and scars
    But it’s still a heart
    And stretch marks don’t mean nothing but good stories for pillow talks
    If I give it enough time to heal
    Because I allowed myself to find joy all by myself
    Now I’m almost free with somebody else
    So I’m learning to love myself again
    Enough time was spent on self hatred and pain, bleeding wounds that are starting to fade
    Now all I’m left with, are some cuddle-worthy pillow talks
    And clearer boundaries for myself
    Now some truly good people
    love me just the way I am
    With stretch marks

  • but

    I feel sick, but I’m healing
    I’m in pain, but I’m fine
    I thought I loved you.
    I thought I loved you.
    I feel weak, but I’m strong
    I feel empty, but I’m full of passion
    I can’t feel it now
    I’ll feel it later.
    I’ll feel it later.
    I want to stop, but I can’t I want to die, but there’s so much to live for
    I want it all to end, the traumas to be deleted off my brain
    I’ll be a new person.
    I’ll be a new person.
    I feel sick, but I’m healing
    I’m in pain, but I’m fine
    I do this all the time.
    I do this all the time.

  • I Want to Be Ignored

    I don't want to see their faces
    I don't want to know their pride
    I don't want to remember their passion, over something they don't truly mind
    I don't want to see their faces
    I don't want to play pretend
    I don't want to believe that I might not be safe hereI don't want to forget my own name
    I don't want their angry stares
    Running from the radar at Oxford Square, for seeming middle eastern yet different (oh so she musts me oh she is)I don't want to feel their suppressed aggressions
    Pouring out on a matter they know nothing of
    I don't want to feel unsafeIn the country I moved to because I felt unsafe before
    I don't want to protect I don't want to fight
    For once in my life
    I want to be ignored

  • The Rarest Flower

    Do you know what it’s like
    When you wake up one day
    And you realise that the universe gave you the rarest flower in the world to keep
    And it’s a lot of responsibility
    But it’s also the rarest flower in the world
    So you lie in bed looking at it
    Wondering
    Why me? Of all people
    What if I forget to water it?
    What if I just don’t want to
    But it’s the rarest flower in the world
    You stare at it
    And it stares back at you
    You water it
    And it blooms in all of its miraculous colours
    You feel unworthy
    Then all of a sudden
    It doesn’t matter what you deserve
    The whole concept of deserving becomes meaningless, empty
    Because reality is present
    Lively
    Breath taking
    This is the rarest flower in the world
    And it’s yours to keep
    So you better fucking water it

  • Moonflower

    You are a pure creature
    And I just wanted to say I love you
    I grow out of this pain andI make my own wings
    With the mind of a slow mathematician and a heart of a post traumatic artist
    I am trying my best to make sense out of thisI see you nowA beautiful creature
    With the mind of a successful Buddhist and the heart of a sea shellI love you wonderful creature
    You are the rarest moon flowerI’ve ever tasted
    The nicest fairy man I created love unintentionally with
    And the sweetest purple catHere on earth I broke your shell, my needle touched your wings and I cried over your fur
    But I’m becoming betterI’ll lick my wounds and support you
    You know I gave you stardust in a gift bag
    For you to make me disappear when you wish
    But if I stay
    Please say that you love me too
    And that I’m a wildflower
    Like you used to
    Because I’m lonely here on earth

  • My Art

    I took your pain

    And made it into songs

    Carefully curated 

    The messages I wanted to be heard

    My side of the story 

    You loved me so much

    But I have no love left for you

    I turned all of it into songs

    And as the time passed these songs stopped being songs about you

    And started being songs about me

    My healing, my art, my journey

    But then you showed up

    With that half smile and strange style that I helped you develop

    And I suddenly recalled

    That I spent years working on songs I wrote about you

    And they suddenly make me feel things I haven't felt for so long

    Because I did not allow myself to feel you

    And I can't wait for you to be gone again

    Far from my memory 

    For me to own those songs again in my heart

    And yet I enjoy the feeling 

    The masochistic memory 

    I'm so sorry It happened the way that it did

  • For her

    It's better this way

    Better that she doesn't know 

    That since I broke her heart I fell in love with her again

    Let her move to another country

    Live her life with her lovely boyfriend 

    Don't split her heart again 

    She's too sensitive 

    I'm too cold

    It's better this way

    Better that I don't take advantage of my natural passive aggressiveness 

    To manipulate someone I love to get high off of my inconsistencies 

    Better that she doesn't know that every time I look at her I want to kiss her

    Better that she doesn't notice the way my pupils dilate

    Blame it on the light

    Blame it on me

    It's better that she doesn't know that she sits across my stares of wonder and my feelings of regret 

    Better that we use purple heart emojis instead of red

    And better that she knows I'm her friend forever 

    And not a passing fling or a hurtful lover

    It's better this way

    Better for her.

  • Toxicity

    Poison - It burns down the throat like alcohol but the taste is different 

    This isn't a crazy night with friends, no

    This isn't a night of lovers

    Poison 

    The dissonance between what they expect you to be and what you are is unimaginable 

    Your Dad killed himself when you were just a boy with the same old - poison 

    Your mom was drunk ever since and tried to die on pills but you say you're not that bad

    You must be a strong man 

    You don't see the - poison 

    But it hurts all the same

    And all the women you ever loved told you that you are helpless 

    That you are - poison 

    That all men are bound to be - poison 

    It only takes love and therapy to suck out all of this 

    Until the last drop of this

    And you don't see how strong you are that you're not a criminal or dead already

    A I gave you tough love hoping that you see the, I told you that you have cPTSD because I,

    I know the taste of - poison 

    And I don't want this for you

  • Only a Reflection

    The night sky is only a reflection of your tears when you cry
    The universe changes its colours and textures into crystal clear water and salt
    The reality seen beyond your tears is stretched, twisted
    Nothing else matters when you cry
    Nothing is as real, as pure and powerfulI love youI can say that now with confidence
    Those heavy words lie softly, like feathers on your heavy heartI will never tell you not to cry
    Because I’ve learned that denial is the enemy of truth
    While truth can be perceived in many different ways or forms, it’s always there
    Always existing just like love
    But when you’ll stop cryingThen the universe can return to its original form
    Marvellous dark blue, shiny white colours and to the texture of many fluffy cloudsWhen you stop crying
    The pain will clear the space from your heart
    And you can finally let those words sink in your deep water: I love you
    And I can’t wait for you to feel it
    And see the beauty of the night sky
    Of you
    Bend the mirror
    See yourself
    It’s only a reflection

  • Emotional Responsibility

    You may not understand my gender expression but I feel like both a princess and a knight and it makes me happy
    I'm not broken nor confused and it makes you thirsty
    A bit different than what's acceptingly different and definitely not the norm
    But where I see charm in the mystery, you see danger in the unknown and that's why you envy me
    I may understand you when you don't want to be understood and that makes you feel weak
    But if my confidence threatens you, who is the one who needs to self reflect really?
    Don't bring up my personal history because you can't handle the present me
    It's sad you never knew there will come a person to make you face your emotional responsibility
    And you may not understand how to box me in a way that makes me smaller than you so you hate me instead
    It's as if something in me is flawed in its core
    But I worked and survived psychological slavery and physical abuse to get to me
    I'm just a person amongst many others that I celebrate
    I'm both a princess and a knight
    And that makes me happy

  • Becoming a Queen

    Become a person: look outside of this dungeon-like structure
    And break it down
    Become a person: use the same building blocks to build a castle
    Live in it alone with cats, and know that you are happier
    Even if you can't feel it yet
    Become a person: make stupid mistakes just to test boundaries set by society
    Like a teenager but not, you weren't allowed to it when you were young
    Make the inner design of the castle your own
    Start with what you know, and move with what you're curious about
    Become a person: one that validates their own thoughts and feelings
    One that takes responsibility on themselves and distantly cares for others
    Instead of the other way around, the only way you thought you could exist
    Be a person, living in an unbreakable castle with cats
    and guard dogs that only help when you need their help
    Otherwise, they cuddle
    Let people see the castle you've built all by yourself
    From blocks that used to be the dungeon you were abused in
    Let only those you trust inside, and have an amazing time
    Hide nothing, show off nothing
    You are a person. A valid person
    That you have built all by yourself
    And this is your castle:
    Do as the queen commands

  • a drug in your eyes

    I couldn't find you in your eyes and that was terrifying
    I didn't know who to blame, who took you away from you
    A drug in your eyes instead of a person it didn't open your mind but it let you run from it
    Those things aren't good or bad by default, but if you don't know how to use a tool it could turn into a weapon and you've hurt yourself
    You hurt me
    There's no guide book to illegal substances
    I remember the morning, you tried blaming it on me as you were saying sorry
    Showing vulnerability is so hard for someone who grew up like this
    You don't know how masculine I am
    And you don't know how powerful
    I showed you what you wanted to see because I didn't know the real me yet
    And showing vulnerability is hard for someone who grew up like I did
    Yesterday you visited me in my dream
    And all we did was kiss for hours
    I like you better as a fantasy
    It hurts me less

  • little Sociopath

    Care for her, little narcissist
    Care for the small sociopath
    Love her. Let her take your love and throw it to the floor
    Feel the explosion
    Care for her, little egotist
    She is just what her father sees in her, in fact she wasn't but she's finally become
    Care for her! little sociopath
    She gives herself validation through pain, in a world that glorifies workaholics
    Love her, little sociopath
    Give her all your heart, for she is a child, and you are her family
    And every time she ignores your love she gets a little bit colder
    But one day she'll look back and she will cry so, so hard
    Because you didn't know what she didn't tell
    Until it was too late and she already broke your heart multiple times
    And her own is shattered
    But she'll build again
    As this is growth for this little child
    Who's become a teen who's become an adult
    Who's tried so hard to be enough to everybody
    Just, anyone at all
    Even those who abused her
    Especially them
    Love the little narcissist
    She'll always remember your love
    And one day, she will tell you
    How much she always loved you
    And that your love
    Kept her alive

  • Give In

    Take all your human flaws, and give in. Accept that you are false by nature
    Accept that there is no way out. Death may be the ending of life but life may only be an aspect of existence
    There is no good reason to believe yes or no, so give in
    Life is precious if you make it valuable. Life is pain if you give up. Don’t give up - Give in
    Our brains have extraordinary abilities to do incredible things
    But some things are beyond our perception, so give in
    Your role if there is one is unknown, the rules if there are any are bound to physics, so give in
    Explore to make life better, ask to know more
    But accept that you will never know how things can be endless
    Because they may have started in the future, shaped like a circle, one leading to the other
    And you are forever trapped within existence, because existence isn’t life
    Death won’t free you from existence, only potentially from life
    But you were given the Niagara Falls and the northern lights
    And the ability to love and to shine
    So give in. Don’t fight, it’s a waste of your energy, that precious ingredient of life
    Swim with or against the tides
    But don’t try to escape the sea,
    so you don’t drown inside
    Drink and eat and thrive
    I prefer to be thankful for this fraction in time in which I’m alive
    I give in
    To survive

  • The Invention of Logic

    Paradoxes are the proof that logic doesn't exist
    Future influences the past and we know that theoretically
    But causation is much more complicated than this
    And anything too complicated is manipulated, it's a process on another processes
    Truth is simple
    As simple as this -  logic doesn't exist
    Just another coping mechanism of the human race
    Animals with minds that think far enough to disconnect one part from another
    Lose proportion, have no context
    It's another psychological complex
    We live in chaos with guidelines that if exist, are much different than what we can perceive
    It all comes down to elements, everything that there is
    But logic is an incomplete theory
    It's a thesis undone by it's creator
    The creator is human, incapable of perfection
    This is why I don't believe I'll ever experience absolute truth in my life
    Paradoxes are the proof that logic doesn't exist, not in its current form for the least. We lack dimensions that we can’t think from
    And it scares me, and I don't know why I care, as a creature all I want is to be happy, but as an awareness, joy is not a part of my existence
    Life is momentary, but existence is not. And it's moments like this, that I grieve my wisdom
    And I despise anything that ever slowed me down
    It's moments like this
    That I'm coming to know all that I can't understand
    And I feel truly
    Momentarily
    Alone

  • For you

    If you want me to be a shell
    I'll wear the colours of pearls and shiny shades of pink and white and I'll tell you stories of the sea and forbidden islands
    If you want me to be a blanket
    I'll be soft and warm and comfort you
    Soak your tears in and dry them upI'll be your favourite colour, and hold your favourite memories
    If you need me to be a shield
    I'll be strong and heavy and I'll protect you
    If you need a friend
    I'll hold your hand and say the words you need to hear
    I'll keep you close and ask of your wellbeing
    I'll give you all the space you ask for but insist you know where to find me when you need toIf you want me to be a lover
    I'll kiss your body top to bottom all way through
    And touch you where you like to be pleasured
    We can distract ourselves as we pretend that it's okay that I'm a shell that you collect and throw away
    Or a blanket that's left cold on the sopha
    We can pretend that it's okay that I'm a shield that takes bullets for you
    And without me you are vulnerable and weak
    I'll be left looking at the aftermath lying on the floor with pride and terror
    So that we can pretend that my pleasure is redundant and yours is holy
    And when we're done pretending I will ask
    If you know my heart or my enemies
    If you know how much it hurts
    For me to be a shield, or a blanket, or a shell
    And I can no longer be the girl you loved
    As I have changed for you

  • False Enemy

    You're my false enemy
    I see the darkness that surrounds you
    But this is false darkness
    Your darkness is unreal, it's a hallucination made by too much light
    Your desire, your mistakes
    You have so much light it creates the most blunt shadows
    They run after you
    All of the uncried tears

    All of the unloved touch
    You aren't useless, you aren't mean
    Your darkness is unreal
    And you are my false enemy
    Who could trade a smile for a kiss
    But you could never love me the way I want to be loved
    And I could never not bring drama to your life
    You fell because I pushed you to the edge
    But I'm your false enemy
    I could never mean you harm
    I wanted to fuck you but I couldn't
    Because I'd be looking for feelings that aren't there
    I'd be looking for your trust which I lost
    I wanted to play a game against a player as a first time's beginner and hope for beginners luck
    Or maybe I'm wrong
    And all I really wanted from my false enemy was freedom and passion
    But I begged for what I was used to
    I begged for reassurance
    and I stayed for the challenge
    I asked for forgiveness
    but I stayed for the limits put to me
    What I want from his lack of vulnerability and broken walls with sunlight passing through
    Is the warmth of the sun and the heat of simple fun
    But it's been a while since you left and I wish you knew how much clearer things are for me now
    And how real was that love for you
    And that hope to be close to you again
    The need for continuity or closure
    That's my true enemy

  • forever in a sea shell

    Some days I just want to cry forever
    I don't know how to forgive and that's a problem
    Problems I have learned I could fix
    Tonight I just want to cry forever
    Forever in a bed with no bed sheets on it, forever in a heart that's terrified of time

    Forever in a sea shell
    I feel too much empathy
    I take everything in and think I'm supposed to fix it
    Think I'm responsible for everyone's problems all of the time
    I wasn't taught boundaries
    I was taught contrast
    Some days I want to cuddle in your arms , be so small that I disappear completely, let you go on with your life as if I never have existed
    As if you never met me in the first place. It feels like a sin to want to take this joy from you
    But every day that I feel you wish I could have been different
    Yet you settle for me
    That scares me, that haunts me
    I want to be celebrated
    But you are grieving
    And there's nothing more hurtful than someone you love wanting more of you than you can give
    I took something from you
    I had to put myself first
    I see your sadness and I'm trying to attack it with joy
    but it's a sneaky little thing
    I'm tired, I want to be wanted
    I want to feel wanted when you tell how much you want me
    I guess you should be allowed to feel sad, and trying to fix it is the actual problem
    You're disappointed
    I'm not enough

  • a re y ou ok?

    I lift you up, with gloves made of silk
    Into a bag of raw cotton, it's all white, and soft.
    So I look at you, what I triggered by putting up my walls, the dare I had to have to ask for sensitivity
    To ask you to be careful with me because I'm a bit broken but I don't like showing it. What it did to you
    Telling you what I need you to do or not to do, what I couldn't accept
    Not because of my morals or logic
    You know those are too holy for me not to doubt. But because I'm not okay but I don't like saying it. What I caused you. You fell apart in my anaemic arms, in my process of healing I broke your walls down, so I lift you up, with gloves made of silk
    As if you're a fragile material and I'm a carrier on their first day of work and they really fucking need that money. There's a part of me that wants to break things, s part of me that wants to agree with you
    To tell you you should feel guilt
    You should feel hurt
    But I don't want this for you
    You gave me empathy
    (it's not a weapon, fuck, how does healthy work? fuck fuck fuck ahhhh!!!)
    This is a dangerous situation
    I lift you up. I carried you with the care I wish my loved ones had to give me when I was looping
    A part of it is empathetic, and a part of it is smart. A part of me made gloves made of silk, and a bag full with raw cotton, while another part was wanting to break things. Apart of me wants a wedding dress without a religion and without monogamy. It gave you gloves made of silk, the pure kind, and a bag full of raw cotton. It lift you up yet you are just about getting by, and then it asked you (I'm sorry sir but I think she's falling. I'm sorry lover I'm trying my best.She's not okay, She's not okay!
    She's not okay!)

    hey, i don't think i m fine now. lift me up ?
    a re yo u ok?

  • Traumaize

    How does it feel
    for a person to discover the harm they have done, unintentionally
    Denial, in their bones
    Doubt, in their head
    Acceptance, in their entire body
    Eventually, it's like grief
    They grieve the harm done to others. They grieve the harm they'd done to themselves. And I believe I'm strong, because I contain forgiveness. I am strong because I can speak with you and know how much you hurt me, and forgive
    But do I really forgive, if I still want you to recognize
    Can I forgive someone who won't say sorry, for what they can not remember. I contain no anger for their lack of memory, but deeply disrespect the reason for the lack of it. The insensitivity, the ease to traumatize. How can someone accept the extreme things they've done against their principles, their perception of their identity
    and understanding of reality
    without even having a memory?
    What they've done to me is written in my bones. I always hoped I'll never be a victim, but my innocence fooled me, and the false belief
    of that the person that made me the happiest, can not be the one to tear me a part. The lie that the one who saw the best in me, can not be the one to make me lose my self esteem, and treat me as if I'm an object. You always said you were a hypocrite, looked in the mirror and saying you're pretty sure you're a narcissist. But I just thought it was low self esteem. Never did I know that once I hurt your ego
    You so easily could take my everything, but now all I'm left with is the doubt in my sanity
    It's not fair that you still have this power on me. And I'm left with so much pity for you, because maybe one day you'll find that memory in your brain, and by that time you'll stay watching from a far
    Wondering how could you do this to the one you loved the most
    And I am far from you now
    I'm truly sad it made you cry
    I'm so sorry
    for nothing at all

  • Perfect Atheist

    I showed you the marks on my mind
    So you showed me the marks on your skin
    They say God is love but love isn’t perfect
    God isn’t perfect
    You wanted me to forgive my most harmful parts, as if you wished you could forgive yourself
    This familiar feeling from the futureI may not love you yet, but I bet I will
    Because all that I’m not meant to feel so soon, I already feel
    I sit there wondering how someone could hurt you so, and leave no traces to blame it on anyone else but you
    I thought I should leave so I don’t do something similar, thinking I’m too dangerous of a person, thinking too much of myself, but knowing my sins (but you said you liked me, so I stayed)
    God isn’t perfect, so it couldn’t be God in your eyes, no, you’re so much more than a person
    You’re an inspiration
    I showed you the marks on my mindSo you showed me the marks on your skin
    Asking are you allowed to be happy? while you were doing it anyway
    Stolen joy, guilt for every beautiful smile
    It’s not fair, it shouldn’t be this way
    Make it stop!
    I want to take it and put it all away
    So there’s a part of me that hates the universe for making you feel this pain
    And another part that loves it
    for letting me have you lie next to me
    I was so far but you brought me all the way
    And no one ever did that for meNo one knew how, they were too afraid to try – I was too weak to tell them why
    Too terrified not to terrify
    I’m lucky as the hell you think you deserve
    But hell would steam if it met the warmth of your heart, so you see why they made heaven in the first place you perfect atheist?
    And you may not love me yet but I know you will
    Because you already feel all that I’m not supposed to feelAnd I know you’re imperfect, but I love your flaws and the rest will heal
    All that I can do is to love you still
    And I may not love you yet
    but I know I will

  • Black Box

    I have resentment for you.
    It's put in a black little box.
    I stare at it for hours every day. 
    But I don't open it. You walk right past it. Sometimes you don't even notice it's there. So much that you can just step on it. And like a landmine, it explodes. I fall into a small person. I become little.
    I need help. You fall apart. You become a broken person. You need help. I become the bigger person.
    I am not there for myself anymore.
    I am not there. anymore. It hurts so much to feel your pain when I need more of you than you can give.
    I swear I'm doing my best to need less of you! Black box.
    I didn't put it there. It just showed up. And I latch onto it to validate my emotions. I'm keeping score. I'm testing you. I just want you to listen.
    Black little box.
    Broken black pieces on the floor.
    I just put the pieces together.
    And there it was. I never healed.
    You never gave me
    a chance
    to heal

  • Playful Death

    Death is always playing hide and seek with you. You call it then it calls you and it doesn't stop calling

    In a dream or in an after thought

    It's lurking in your shadow

    It's present in your jokes

    I see you with this aura 

    A dark bass that shines bright

    Magically, somehow

    You're weird to me, but normal is weirder. And I chose you

    Or the universe chose us to be put together in a box like this somehow

    You chose life. I am life in my essence

    Yet, death is playing with you

    Not in illness no it's different

    It's playful in how it comes

    Like a dark soul but a young soul

    Very, very young. Like it wants you but it can also sympathize. Like it wants you but it can not touch you because you have more to do in this life. And I'm seeing opportunities thrown at you. I'm seeing fairytales and a fabric made of never ending love. I'm seeing you, you see it's you, in purple, black and blue

    And death can keep playing

    I got no intent to tease

    Or disrespect. But this one has got a lot longer to play

    And I plan to live with them for every part of the way.

     

  • Sorry

    I've wanted to say sorry
    To my Mom, for the endless worry that I caused her
    For my inability to sleep, or to eat, or, to trust the truth of my own thoughts growing up
    I've wanted to say sorry
    To my Dad, for the powers he gave me that he really needed for himself
    I've wanted to say sorry to my brother, for the fear I caused, my desire to die and the actual consideration of it as a teenager
    And I am sorry, but I grow to realize that things are different than I thought. We hunt for reason, for accurate causation in our moments of grief and misery, but I was too weak to have had any control or true perception of reality
    Too young. I was abused and traumatized into denying my own memories and feelings and it hurt the people that I love the most
    The reality is that tragedies happen
    And they've happened to me
    And I caused pain to others who cared for me
    Tragedies happen just like miracles
    Unexpectedly sometimes
    And in strengths of emotions you could never have imagined your body was capable of feeling
    I am so sorry. It makes me sad
    But I am happy to let go
    It's my responsibility to heal
    But it's not my fault that I've been ill
    I love you

  • Soaked

    I've been asking people around
    Of different sizes, different shapes
    How to get to you? How can I, get to you? Far away, up a hill with his headphones in a box made of steel
    How to get to you? How can I, get to you? Making you less of a person, a challenge, a song. You hate being figured out. How to get to you? How can I, get to you? In the fight to keep myself feeling safe. Not to give up on who I am next to you
    How do I get to you? How can I, get to you? If only you would give up on your judgment towards me
    Which is judgment towards yourself Your reflection in me that you can't look at. Maybe you could get to me
    You want to be close to me, waving at me from up that hill. And I tried climbing and I tried digging. I lost the worth of all my skills. Sitting by a little flower down that hill. How I wish I could make you smile
    So much I want to keep you in my life. And I made myself a little less
    So now I'll make myself a little more
    I don't think I could get to you
    You're scared of me now I'm scared of you. Waving from down that hill
    Sending you a smile in the mail
    Don't read into it if the box is soaked
    I'm going back home
    So I can finally get to me.

  • Anxiety (playing with fish)

    You sit back, and you stare at this magnificent creature
    which you thought her whole being was a flame
    So you see the flame turning into fire
    And suddenly the whole room is up in flames. You’re reckless
    Trapped between her darkness and her light, and all is red
    But you’ve known her as a blue, a very hot little blue flame
    You look around, trying to trace blue traces, but the light is too bright, too powerful. Sometimes when she sleeps, you stare at her from a far
    And what you see, when she sleeps - it’s remarkable
    Her dreams start dancing in the room, and everything is blue
    She dances underwater, collecting shells and playing with fish
    This is the girl you knew, you think to yourself, crawling in nostalgia and fear back into your room and falling in exhaustion. You wish you could have stayed another moment, but the fire took everything
    Another scary moment arrives and you are reckless
    This tortured monster that’s eating your kid alive is uncontrollable
    You despise it, but as the days go by, you start to see this new life created. The water had started to communicate with the fire
    You never even thought of communicating, it was much easier to try to kill this monster,
    expect her doctors to solve her problems as if they knew anything at all . But for her -  it was death or freedom. You can finally listen
    As fire and water collide in her art
    This is everything you’ve ever wanted, but she takes her bag and leaves. Her need to connect is bigger than her room and yours too
    She wants to explore and become deeper water, deadlier fire, a better person, a clearer queer
    So you get back into your room and you wait, because some day
    you’ll be close to her again
    But for now

  • Sunset Flatmate

    And she had the sweetest sunsets, right where she livedWaiting outside her window. Hundreds of colors, dancing in slow motionIn shades of grey and pink. Flames of blue and yellow. But she never stopped to look at them. And in the nights I could hear her cryIn the mornings she blamed it all on me. She wanted to die, because she never lived. She wanted to die because she was tortured before I ever knew she existed. She’d do anything in her power to be unlike her mother, hurtful and mad. But little did she know how much she hurt me. Little did I show it. I was busy watching sunsets. And sunsets have this wonderful tint when you want to dieThey have this melody to them, they are suddenly worth more than just sunsets. But that’s if you assume that anything, could be worth more than a sunset. I loved her at start and I hated her at last. All that I wanted was to be a friend but a friend can be a reason to live and that was far too unfamiliar to her in her overly saturated state of emotion. She’s just the kind of narcissist who would lie to themselves that they are a good person to others. That’s why rarely she was good, not to break this image of herself. Not to be just like her mother, hurtful and mad. And she made me feel so harmful just by breathing by her door. She made me feel so guilty just because I was singing about sunsets. In her mind her panic attacks were caused by my lack of sensitivity. But in my room I knew my own panic attacks were caused by false faults and insecurity, and only one of which was in her fault. So I never yelled, I never screamed. How can you scream in front of a sunset? I was just counting my days to leave. And now that I’m gone I can’t help but hope that one day. Maybe one day she’ll look outside her window. And she’ll feel that warm feeling that kept me going without losing my mind completely. Maybe she’ll see a few colors, and they’ll become hundreds, and if she stares long enough she’ll see them dancing in slow motionIn shades of purple and lilac. Flames of orange and red. And maybe she’ll feel a little bit better And that’s all I ever want to believe