waste away | poetry & prose

By __numa

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ramblings of an overthinker More

INTRO
suicide of a wildflower | poem
alphabet soup | poem
the existensial crisis of an inkwell | poem
rotten | poem
sheepskin | poem
blue | poem
serendipity | poem
feather | poem
glass bottles | poem
bitter | poem
lavender | poem
hardly ripe | poem
consonants | poem
a letter from us | poem
backwards again | poem
ice | poem
part x | poem
curtains | poem
hush | poem
headache | poem
new years | poem
forever | poem
dirt | poem
mahogany | poem
calender | poem
lazy | poem
underneath the microscope | poem
quicksand | poem
five | poem
peaches | poem
absence | poem
silk | poem
stay | poem
finals | poetry
facade | prose
metamorphosis | prose
nineteen grains | poem
stolen | poem
the new religion | poem
brazen | poem
brick | poem
dear adelaide | poem
hunger | poem
rest | poem
dandelions | poem
the fixation of the unfixable | poem
price | poem
nocte | poem
alpha-beta-gamma | poem
shower | poem
so be it | poem
riddles for the mindless | poem
shadow friend | poem
pretend | poem
whiskey | poem
honey | poem
the good hand | poem
who's the genie ? | poem
withering | poem
i, dadelius | poem
3 o' clock blues | poem
one-way ticket | poem
flies & honey | poem
chrxme | poem
ink | poem
aging | poem
sunny lane | poem
a question | poem
boy | poem
in in in | poem
raw knuckles | poem
heartstrings | poem
sugar | poem
5000 m/h | poem
vodka & other bitter things | poem
lacking | poem
a predicament | poem
words words words | poem
white | poem
serotonin; dopamine | poem
CO2 | poem
the in | poem
puzzles | poem
particles | poem
vast | poem
murder | poem
itch | poem
to the twenty-sixth power | poems
fizz | poem
not you | poem
never again | poem
DIY heroine | poem
last time | poem
captor | poem
stupidity | poem
they havent made a vaccine yet | poem
flesh | poem
curious | poem
to the grave ! | poem
hyperbole | poem
mirrors | poem
bathtub | poem
sad gal | poem
efficiency | poem
NOT AN UPDATE
its in my genes | poem
maybe it's the hormones | poem
ugly | poem
who | poem
dotted i's & crossed t's | poem
vomit | poem
much | poem
the pick-me-up doesnt work forever | poem
benadryl | poem
aches | poem
fractures | poem
f___ | poem
ghosts from the nursery | poem
end of the alphabet | poem
neurons | poem
cold soup | poem
heal | poem
transparency | poem
asphyxiation | poem
moon | poem
clutter | poem
kiddo | poem
saved | poem
birds | poem
selena | poem
honey-scented dreams | poem
yellow | poem
lamp-post on a dark one way street | poem
l.w | poem
i will not be silenced | poem
spirit | poem
sweet | poem
count-down | poem
know your worth | poem
time | poem
a strangers body in a twin sized bed | poem
breakaway | poem
sunshine | poem
dry toast | poem
16 | prose
don't ask me why the sharpeners go missing | poem
peek-a-boo chronicles | poem
roadkill | poem
pipe dreams on the freeway | poem
cry me a river, iris | poem
3 a.m thoughts at 10:35 p.m | poem
pixelated and pretending | prose
i am | poem
phonetic curse | poem
passive | poem
pinkies | poem
razors | poem
why can't i bleed ? | poem
walgreens | poem
roll call | poem
split ends | poem
little hand; big hand | poem
silver lining | poem
apologies | poem
shards | poem
the art | poem
nuisance | poem
empty | poem
fine china | poem
sick of it | poem
well | poem
off lately | poem
the void | poem
hell under my flesh | poem
now i just wonder, | poem
no one | poem
sleep | poem
an analysis | prose
bad grills | poem
crushed | poem
pillow | poem
even my succulents die | poem
last wish | poem
i hate to break it to you, but i am dying | poem
n.l w.j | poem
what can you do, when there is nothing to be done? | poem
traffic | poem
beak | poem
s.i | poem
not an update
icecream | poem
spilled guts | poem
missense | poem
warmth | poem

victim of your own devices | poem

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By __numa


how dare you

still be able to

instill me with these

negative emotions

even after 

i cut you off

and yet you

still play 

the victim

and can't acknowledge where

you went 

wrong

-

instead you say

"Oh I know im pathetic "

"I'm an awful person"

"I deserve to die"

"I hate me too"

    which roughly 

translates into

Pity Me!

Pity Me!

Pity Me!

-

you tell them i was drunk

you forget to say you were high

-

you tell them i was cruel and unkind

you forget to tell them what you did and said

to warrant my 

mean words

sober thoughts

and a gut that didn't exist 

till it was full of liquor

screw you 

and not in the way you wish it was

- n.c

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