“See all the effort,
see the attention and care,
then you’ll know my heart.”
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Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
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insanity
in 2010, i had such an intense and prophetically real dream
that i truly can’t believe that what i’m about to type
is related to it, because i am both high and drunk
h o w e v e r
have i ever truly invented anything?
has just one passing thought been originally
and organically mine??????????
has this been thought before?
what if there are multiple thoughts for the same
end all be all conclusion?
fuck.
i haven’t done this in a while.
i remember the vitriolic dread
of the songbirds.
When I hear them now,
they are tolerable.
Almost expected.
Is that what learned misery is?
Sometimes I’m scared to say
what I wanna say
because I’m scared
that nobody will understand me.
Sometimes I want to kill myself.
Just so I can know what’s real.
Tell me
am I rude or just realistic?
what’s the difference?
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Cigarettes
soulless fodder combustion engage
take my breath away
methodical tendrils of smoke
carry stale prayers beyond
feed me
kill me
masochism
why am i so wet right now?
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Making the Shadow Real
I am not perfect. I like to harm myself. Drinking myself into oblivion, spend the whole next day recovering and worthless. Chain smoke cigarette after cigarette so I can have an excuse for watching all of the moments I’m in pass me by. I’ve let my set backs begin to define me. I am ashamed I have a respectable degree and rely on stripping to pay my bills. I am angry that people don’t listen, that you have to lead by example. I am tired. I don’t have enough time. I’ve done enough.
I’m afraid of my boyfriend leaving me. I am afraid of the evil in my heart. I am afraid of wishing poor things to happen to others when they don’t take me into consideration the way i want them to. I am terrified of the short-tempered, grumpy woman I became when I had my cysts. I am afraid of falling more ill.
I am afraid of speaking up because I’m afraid I’ll be judged. I silence my voice because it seems easier... but what I get is just a messy implosion. I hate getting naked for men who don’t deserve to see my body and I hate the things they try to pressure me to do.
Everything seemed to be going great until last September. I had presented at three neuroscience conferences, finished a paper on its way to being published, had found an opportunity to perform at Imagine festival, was really falling for an amazing guy and we were learning how to love again for the first time, my patient was doing better.
When I get scared I get stuck. I stop moving. I don’t know what to do. I’m terrified of my future. I’m terrified of failing. I FAIL EVERYDAY WHEN I STOP.
It is time to own the darkness. It is time to face the shadow. I’m going to do things despite my fear. I’m going to voice my grievances. I am going to create more. I am not going to use substances as a crutch any longer. I AM NOT MY MISTAKES UNLESS I CONTINUE TO MAKE THEM EVERY DAY.
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this is phenomenal
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forever to ash
i sit on your side of the bed
but there isn’t a nightstand there.
we never promised each other forever
but i couldn’t help but wonder
when i met you.
i sit on your side of the bed
and i wait.
i forgot what it’s like to live
for myself.
i sit on your side of the bed
and i wait for you to come home.
i wait for your lips
crumbling from whiskey and cigarettes
to graze my neck
i sit on your side of the bed
but there isn’t a nightstand there.
there hasn’t been one
since the first time you tried to leave.
and i know in a few months time
you’ll be gone for good.
but i’ll still
sit on your side of the bed
even though there isn’t a night stand there.
waiting until you decide to come home.
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Samhain Prayer
my harvest is poisoned
by the own toxicity of my psyche.
let. it. all. die.
there is a silent grace
in the tree whose branches
so delicately,
one by one,
let go of their leaves
as they sashay
d
o
w
n
to the ground.
to crunch;
curl up and die
to become
nutrients
for next year.
there is an infinite strength
in turning around
and confronting your demons
head on.
What’s your battlecry?
It’s okay
if it’s more of a whimper
sometimes.
It’s okay
if it’s a wail of existential woe
sometimes.
there is a stalwart solidarity
in standing in solitude
in blazing your own trail
holding your breath
between every steady
heartbeat. “i am.”
like battle drums
ricocheting of the
peaks and valleys
of your corpse.
there is relentless freedom
when you tap into the
quantum potentiality
of your existence.
“what if i fail?”
falls heavy off the tongue
like obsidian syrup.
and i ask--
“what if i can?”
like the lone flame of a candle
casting darkness from
the entire room.
like a bud parting the
last bit of soil
to finally feel sunlight
for the first time.
like a lotus
finally blooming
in the muddy waters,
so defiantly vibrant.
again, i say
let. it. all. die.
so that i may finally live.
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Muistijälki
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I know it damn well.
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We can't have nice things because we don't know any better
bitchmuthafucka
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ONCE YOU’RE DONE WITH THE HANGOVER, YOU’RE BACK TO SQUARE FUCKING ONE.
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