and the fact that I tried to warn you about it! multiple times! :D
So you’ve finally discovered that I’m a disappointment? Congratulations, I’ve known this fact for years! Hope this helps!
Is this all I’ll ever be?
Inconvenience
It's funny how ‘inconvenience’ starts with an ‘I’. I was born an inconvenience. Ever since I can remember, I've always been told how much I'm a bother to others. How much I cost to keep around.
I can't talk too loud, laugh too loud, talk in front of elders, or take up my own space. I’m not allowed to. Be. Human. I'm not a person, just an ornament for decoration.
You made me feel like I wasn't worth it. Wasn't enough. And like a fool, I believed it. Internalized it. Became it.
Now I'm afraid to talk to people. I'm afraid of being too loud, afraid of taking up too much space. You ask me why I'm always quiet, but you never even gave me a voice. I make myself as small as possible, but I still feel like an inconvenience.
You never allowed me to be myself. And now I don't even know who I am.
I can't laugh in front of others, so I just smile like a broken doll that's empty on the inside. People ask me why I'm always smiling. And maybe it's because I did become that showpiece on display.
I never asked for a lot, because maybe if I required less, I wouldn't be an inconvenience. Maybe if I settled for the bare minimum, people wouldn't have to go out of their way for me.
It didn't work.
You would rather I didn't exist than me become an inconvenience to you or anybody else. I was always the problem, the one to blame. The scapegoat.
And what did I ever do? I just existed. That too not of my own volition. You brought me here, but you made me pay for my existence.
But to be honest, I’m tired of this. Tired of playing your twisted game where you designed the rules to serve yourself. Tired of trying to make myself invisible. Tired of being an inconvenience to you and everyone around me.
I just hope my death isn't an inconvenience.
I think one of the worst symptoms of bpd is the lack of emotional permanence no matter how many good and loving people you have in your life the second you are alone it feels like you were never loved and it was all just a figment of your imagination
Your love is like a black hole
As I fall, time slows down
Until I reach the singularity
And it completely absorbs me
I'm sorry for not being talkative
you think I'm special? no honey, I'm special NEEDS
Curiosity
You always greeted me with a smile
Asked me how I was, how my day was going
I smiled back and told you I was fine
But I think you knew I was lying
Because my smile never quite reached my eyes
The way yours always seemed to do
And sometimes the words came out flat
Like I never really believed them
You were always the curious cat
You poked and prodded till I gave in
I resisted a lot, putting up walls
But you broke them right down
But curiosity has a heavy price
You couldn't handle what you saw
The expanse of my damage was unfathomable
Too much for you to stomach
You quickly tried to backpedal
But the damage was done
In your hurry you stepped on my heart
Which was already broken, and now crushed
The horrors of my soul were too much for you to bear
And I can understand why it was so
Because I've lived with them this long
And you never got a chance to get used to them like I did
You abandoned the shattered pieces of my heart
I tried to pick them up and mend them
But the jagged edges just cut me deeper
And left me bleeding once again
They say curiosity killed the cat
But it wasn't you who died
It was the endless possibilities that we could have had
And I was left with the ghost of what could have been
Maybe it's better this way
You'll be safe now, away from me
But the fact that hurts the most is that
Your curiosity was what led us to our demise
Paradox
I've always been told how I'm too quiet. But then people shush me when I talk.
I've always been told I'm too much of a doormat. A people pleaser. But some think I'm too bold and rude.
I've always been told how I'm so smart. But I'm the dumbest person I've ever met.
I've always been told I care too much about everything. But apparently I can't bring myself to care enough. I'm too selfish.
I've always been told that I don't use my full potential. That I don't give my best. But when I do, I'm a ‘try-hard’. Pretending to be something I'm not.
I've always been told I'm pretty. But those words ring hollow when I look at myself in the mirror and only see the ugliness. Nothing but flaws.
I've always been told I'm a good friend. But then people choose to leave me. I'm left alone.
“But you're never alone,” people say. “We will always be with you.” But the loneliest I feel is when I'm in a room full of people.
I've always been told “I love you”. I've stopped believing those words, because I feel like the most unlovable being on the planet. “Love” feels like a mockery.
I'm too much. Not enough. I'm a paradox.
People tell me I'm bursting with life. Too bad I'm dead inside.
damn that's a beautiful addition. might make another poem inspired by that lol
I know I'm just holding onto a wilting flower
The corpse of hope decaying before me
But I can't let go of it, and I won't
Not until just the skeleton remains
— Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; "The Fear" (via lunamonchtuna)
she/they | stupidity and clumsiness in human form lol. I love romanticizing everything (including my mental illness). dms open for anyone who needs someone to talk to or just vent
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