Best I Can

Veins twist around muscle and bone, snake through me
my head connected to this thumping heart
one, two
one, two, one
one, two...
In my ears I hear each beat, it sounds like the bass in my stereo
I feel the demon stalking in the darkness of my mind
cause that is where I've wandered tonight
I face the world determined to be the mask of a strong women
...but I crumble with fear
I watch the mask drop from my hand, smash on the floor
backed into a corner is how this feels
I struggle just to get one breath into my lungs
My legs run, I've lost control...
but really this is not my weakness, this honesty is my strength
I may have looked as if I was returning to old behaviors
and isolating
but these words prove it's not my will I'm acting from
cause if I was...we all know where this would end
yet I'm still free
and my fears drive me to face the demon within
while you may judge the way I handle my reactions to life on life's terms...
I'm gonna keep on living and doing the best I can


freeflowpoet

Squish

My blood boils
I can't believe the judge denied me justice...again
As I had to put all the years of this rock spider's abuse on paper
then spend a day answering questions, through tears
I couldn't switch off the flashes of his actions and it was so hard not to gag
even my lawyer was sure I'd be compensated for the years of hell I endured
but no
Did I hear him right? Did the judge say he's not awarding me justice cause I won't press charges?
I don't know where the guy is, even if I wanted to have my day in court
He's probably in some single mother's daughter's bed or trying to bed em...
he never cared for discreetness but would brag and boast
And as I read reports of kiddie fiddlers breaching orders or getting off with
nothing more than a slap on the wrist, while scores of victims are locked up in a prison of memories and stench that stains the soul
my blood boils and I can't help but contradict my own morals...never lay judgement
here I can't help myself and just wanna torture these lower slugs in the garden of human beings
I entertain the images of what my self righteous justice would look and feel like...
one bullet to the head would be to easy, so give me the whole barrel to fire...
one shot to the left knee while I stare so intensely into the eyes
(oh GOD the power feels so good, I'm no better in this scenario cause I'm the one now holding the power over another)
one shot to the right knee, come on little spider crawl away...try to run
one shot to the tools of your crime, fuck that hurts hey? Oops did I just stomp down upon your hands as you beg forgiveness and cry pleadingly to me, music to my ears, what was that you said? You didn't hurt anyone...do you really believe your own bullshit?
If you lower forms of scum really never hurt anyone why the need for protection and identity suppression orders when your crimes come to light?
one shot to the left hand, wound you like Christ going on the cross
one shot to the right hand...revenge sounds so damn good, sounds so better than any sentence a judge could pass down
One last shot, right between the eyes as I stare right into them
then just to release pent up rage and disgust, I slam my foot right through your skull
crush it against the concrete then lay a few damn solid kicks into your shell
A life for a life...that is what every victim of abuse loses when that innocence is stolen away...
You're not worth wasting another day, I don't play with demons anymore
I win everyday I live my life doing my best
It sounds good what I just shared but it's just thoughts written down
I'm not your judge and jury, I don't live by a criminal code of unwritten ethics
You're nothing but a rock spider, but hear my courageous roar
"I will survive, I will rise up and reclaim my power, I will live with Godly principles to the best of my abilities and ask forgiveness when I do pass judgement in disgust and entertain 'street justice'"
I don't have faith in our justice system, I don't trust that judges have the interests of victims at heart...but I pray that may change one day, I pray for protection for all our children and I pray for...
Sorry Lord I can't lie, I can't keep a straight face and say I pray for salvation for these creatures...
I just wanna squish them all!


freeflowpoet

Justification of truth & lies

*Warning contains swearing, the topics of suicide, anger and drug references - please seek professional help if you are struggling with such issues, help is available and you are not alone.

I have a swag full of reasons
to justify using
to be the junkie I once was again
As my mind flashes images
and my body automatically reacts
my emotions boil away
in my melting pot
I once hung onto the lyrics 2pac
sang in "Baby keep your head up" #2
"they win when your soul dies"
I believed that enough
to climb down off the chair
and take down the noose
I had made
but it's years later and they've still won
their sins still stain my soul and crush my spirit
Who cares if I live my life...
take my power back?
What difference does it fucking make
when ghosts still haunt my mind
of every night rolled into one
and the blackness swallows me
hands and cocks all over me
my body aches and tenses
all over again
Fuck 2pac
what the fuck does he know
about gang rape
telling girls not to cry...
to keep your head up?
Yeah I can justify self pity,
I can let this and all the other shit
I've crawled through
bury me
overwhelm me
kill me
slowly with a syringe full of speedballs
chased down with a bottle
of Beam or Baileys
Slowly with the fumes from foil or a pipe
smack or speed...
Maybe this insanity will end
with me seeing orange spurts
from a handgun
pointed at me again...
but this time it may be bullets
not pellets
You know what
fuck everyone and everything
I'm expressing darkness
so I can see the beauty of my life,
reality...
Yeah I've been through so much
and I could choose to wash in the past
to slip under the pain
drown and choke on
the tears I keep within
There's days when I'm in real pain
when I don't fucking sleep very well for days,
when I feel bloody useless
Yet I know the truth
and as weak or pussy as it sounds
love saves me,
nurtures and nourishes my soul,
reminds me I'm not alone,
I'm worth more than 24/7 misery
All these thoughts
are just words on a page (or recited on stage)
I speak them,
share them
get up and walk away
leave them and go live my life
clean, free and higher within
connected to my higher power
(You know what, actually I do win)


freeflowpoet

The Real Truth

*WARNING- the following poem focuses on church and institutional sexual abuse

A gentle word here of encouragement
a planting of the seeds of trust and friendship
what changed and why must you cleanse me?
Why is the love you tell me I must learn
different to the safe
protective love I knew before
(now I only question what is it that you want,
or I can get)
You say you're assisting the casting out of my sin
how does shoving your penis down my throat
drive any demons out?
How does your hands reaching inside me
save my soul?
How does you entering inside me
above or behind me,
how does the dirtiness and shame
leave me,
if the only way I can unleash this rage
is actually to hurt you,
to commit another sin
out of wrath
I walk into Dente's favorite sin...
murder
of thyself or you
In purgatory cause my anger
could not die
in my eyes
You told me GOD hated what I made you do
that I twisted his love
that I seduced you
right under his watch!
But this is not the truth
is it "brother",
but this is not the truth is it "father"...
who does sweep it under the rug and closes guilty eyes
You repent by muttering 5 Hail Marys
and then give a weak excuse to move away
while another alter boy swings in the breeze
or wrestles with the disease of drugs and alcohol
too numb to feel
GOD's arms warped around 'em
and the angels of heaven
crying redeeming tears
over the corruption
forced into his children under false teachings of man
The evidence stacked up,
Lady justice's scales are unbalanced
and yet the pope hides his head
statements are released
"There is no sinners in here (insert religion's name)
There is no cover ups
and no hush monies paid"
The sin is repeated within,
memories never die
GOD is loving, it is these 'men' that sin!

freeflowpoet

Self Absorbed

I'm feeling so alone and broken inside
the very toughness I prided myself as being
blinded my vision and it hurts when I come crashing to the ground
It doesn't matter to anyone, when you realize how self absorbed you can be
when everyone has walked away, sick of trying to help you
when you've pushed them all away, cause your own fear of your inner truth crushes you
- with a breath taking fear
Everyone sees you in different lights, every room you walk into you just adapt
every time you let another in, is this really you, or just another mask?
I can't explain to every person in my life
that I see the devil inside this angelic face, that the harder I try to pretend he doesn't exist
the louder he talks inside my head, the tighter he grips the reins of everything I've worked so hard to keep innocent and pure in my life
I feel every drop of blood that he squeezes out my heart, the closer to my own innocence I move
I feel every tear that escapes from my eyes when another is driven from my life...
when my actions drive you away, when I drop the ball and show the cards in my hand
that the hardness I pride myself upon is more important than the niceness you try to bring about in me...
have you ever thought I don't need to change for every person who crosses my path?
Have you ever considered that there's a reason cracks appear in the girly image you tell me is really who I am?
That maybe I just might be the armor of man's sin for a reason
that this devil inside me feeds a drive to eradicate other's evilness and serves a greater good purpose being locked inside me...
Tell me why is it so important for me to be who you think is the ideal image of a gender?
Don't try and tell me I'm aggressive and self obsessed cause you're to afraid to be anymore than wounded by what's going on inside your own world...like I'm a mind reader, like I take notice of every little change on Facebook
Look I'm sorry shit's happening in your world as well but I'm not in sync with your importance...
guess we all get a little self absorbed sometimes


freeflowpoet

Integrated

I cast no reflection in mirrors
I cast another side of me, I hate
and yet there's days when I'm just consumed with a fire, hotter then hell itself
In it's wake I feel nothing but hate, full stop
I try to correct the lies that linger from my traumatic history but it's weaved amongst my very core
and so I am the wrath that protected me, while it also punished me
with harm to myself and those I'd professed to love and protect
I am all the guilt and shame I carried
and rears it's ugly head every now and then
and I whip myself, beat the softness out of myself
beat her black and blue, hold her up by the hair and scream "I am our truth, you are nothing but an illusion"...
This beast I switch to is built upon fear
fear of her taunting being false (OH AND IT IS)
fear of the hurt she inflicts on my innocence being exposed as hers (OH AND IT HAS BEEN)
fear of letting me become the person I know is my truth (and yet it overwhelms me when I attempt to reach my self-actualization...and I deserve to be the best i can be)
fear of being forgotten, left behind in the ashes of my past (I acknowledge the purpose my wrath served but it needs not be haunting me 24/7 anymore)
fear of the destructive force...I cannot turn off once kicked in
...
I am full of fear, I am afraid of myself
but I am who I am
not what happened to me yesterday

freeflowpoet

Words Left Unsaid

I know one day I'll have to face it
that you, my loved one
will be gone from this place
that day will be the saddest
like no other sad day
cause you're not a loved one
if you don't mean something special
to the one who professes it
But that is for another poem
this is about
how special and dear
you are to me
I used to think my greatest fear
was the wrath I know
simmers inside me
yet in a moment of life reflection
(thinking of what you mean to me)
I saw, I think for the first time
my true fear is not anger
it is love...
I worry about you not being around
I feel deep pain, in those memories
(we know those times)
I cannot stand to think...
I'm sorry for any hurt or pain
I have or even...will, may or may not
cause you
'I love you' sounds so corny
when coming from
one's truth
How can I protect you?
(I know it's not my job)
How many tears will I shed
when goodbye must be said?
I don't know angel
I just know I will always love you

One Hand, Two Sides

Somedays I struggle to believe I'm here
cause I can recall days when
everything I see
is empty, too dark
I've poured out my humanity
on sheets of littered paper
way before I could even read
or name the things I felt
name the things I saw
like a flashback of my sins
I see the glint of the knives
flung free in frenzy rage
held against the threats...
I see the red blood run
over my bare fists
and out from the face
I said I loved, I shared kisses
from those ghosts who tried to steal
not from my pockets
but from...well we all know
how this sentence ends
I've forgotten how refreshing it is
to repent, to cry real tears
I've forgotten how it feels
to be a girl
buried under all the stress
life on life's terms...all the dirt
I see all the empty bottles
dirty bongs and discarded
needles
While within I'm burning alive
in the beauty of another second
chance
And here I stand, full of life

I'm Sorry

I made a 101 mistakes,
had I not I would never of
learnt the lessons I know
of now
Forgive me for not seeing
the corruption doing full circles
Believe me when I say
I love you sweetness
trust me when I say
don't follow the footsteps I leave
(not those I've left)
I see the pain
looking out my own eyes
sweetness - I do understand
your silence
open your mouth and speak your anger...
I know I deserve it...child

I Am freeflowpoet

The ink upon the page is the blood from my heart
flowing through me, out the pen I hold
emotions laid bare, my baggage unpacked
Am I a cracked record, cause I think I've said all these feelings before
but that's why I call myself "freeflowpoet"
cause I don't think before I open my mouth
cause life has taught me
paper won't put me down
paper won't whip me black and blue
paper doesn't judge whatever I've got to say
paper doesn't pick everything apart
doesn't try to fix me
I just spew forth every emotion
every feeling, every word
I lay bare my honest truth
yep, I really hate myself within
yep, I really am wrath spinning inside
my head
my ego and self will
is years of rage denied
I'm my best client
Rip myself in three
the blackness of sin,
the grayness of reality, in the moment
the whiteness of purity and peace
Every waking moment
this is my life
behind the smile I flash you
behind the tears that rarely fall
I'm so tired of helping others
but it's so much easier than
helping myself
I've learnt to tell you so much
How many times have I heard
"You're such an inspiration"
"You're such a strong women"
When are you finally gonna open your eyes?
I'm hurting inside
and I see the white knuckles losing grip
a little more each day
Flashing back to the moment I lost control of my car
a metaphor for my truth right now
I'm coursing poison in these veins
maybe it's left over from the shit I used to stick in there
I'm reaching a point
I'm back squaring off with the devil
surrounded by his army of demons
God, my head is overwhelmed with anger
I see these fists swinging
I see me in the fight, stomping down upon everyones' head
I speak positivity day in day out
but on this tight rope
I'm feeling tempted to lay down
be consumed by the dark side
commit suicide (let my inner child be beat upon, just give in)
Walk amongst you all
helping to save you souls
before damnation
cause this conflict within is worse than hell
and yeah I know what that is!


freeflowpoet

Amends

I look into the eyes of my past

and all I see is wrath

One by one the tears roll

fresh

down my cheeks

I was not a babe in mother's arms

when my purity left, walked out

died...

ashes blowing in the winds

I was just a lonely child

afraid

and hate and harm surrounded

stripping the young flesh

from my bones

Then when I awoke I was

no color, no sex

just another lost soul

falling through crack

after crack

Oh God how can I undo all I've done?

Who will undo all that was done to me?

I used to say my wrath was justified

but who was I

to pass on all my blind lessons

to those I filled with hate

veiled to look like love

sold as loyalty

I didn't even believe in

Oh God in this reflection

I see all the evil

reaching out from within me

I can only tell those I touched

I'm sorry...

I made 101 mistakes,

had I not I would never of

learnt the lessons I know

of now

forgive me for not seeing

the corruption doing full circles

Believe me when I say

I love you sweetness

trust me when I say

don't follow the footsteps I leave

(not those I've left)

I see the pain

looking out my own eyes

Sweetness - I do understand

your silence

Open your mouth and speak your anger...

I know I deserve it...child

freeflowpoet

Stripper

My fingers linger upon your skin

shiny like a polished apple

so tempted to take just a taste

testing the air between us

You move like swirling mist around me

dancing, captivating me in those hypnotic eyes

Like a slave I follow your movements, drum beats in my ears

while my eyes drum over and around the image of art gyrating in front of me

I'm the brush and you're the canvas I express myself upon

and in one move you tip your hat, roll it down your arms

you're naked before me, I'm wishing my hands were cupping the hidden package

Ooh such lust...

I am human

after all

*sly smirk*

freeflowpoet

(Even my lover was) Raped

I close my eyes, remember the taste of your skin

as I laid kisses across your chest, up the side of your neck

I recall how you would smile seductively, when I gave a tiny playful pull

to your nipple ring

I recall all the nights, your words would make my heart flutter

there was no stuttering when I spoke loving talk...

It was such a long fall, slow motion it plays in my head

Oh how I wish I could pull you back, hold you in another embrace

just one more minute, one more time

I close my eyes, remember the very first tear

you caused to fall from the very depths of my heart

I hear it crack, over and over again

I reach out, try to tell you one more time "I'm sorry"

but nothing comes out, cause your fingers touch my lips

I want to stop both our tears from falling, I want to stop you from walking out

on us...

you're just a fading memory, a lesson of love from a gentleman

A part time soul mate, tendered only for loan

Oh how I miss you in my life, oh how I wish to bring you out of my mind

hold you once again

but, for some reason we weren't meant to be

I had to let you leave

and still those tears feel so fresh, still so real

You were another loss, another stolen piece of my happiness

ripped away by monsters, thieves of innocence

their hands once all over my body, now all over my senses

I still hear you whispering my name

I still feel your body hugging mine, you protecting my corpse...

once more they ripped my ability to trust in love

away

I let the picture fade, one last salty kiss for you

Goodbye

freeflowpoet

Stress, a cause for everything

Nights come without knowledge of sleep

leaving me with a temper ready to explode anytime

they say, all the doctors and wannabes that it's stress

I say it's memories of a past, like ghosts in my face

Tears fall, I'd rather be in silence to cry

I feel like breaking down right here, right now

not caring about the label of a whinging child

when you cry real tears, which come with my emotions

Please don't tell me I need not feel shame or guilt

because deep down I do, inside I feel stripped

ripped off of a child's world, cheated

Afraid to repeat, afraid of these visions that come

dealing by hiding doesn't work with time anymore

Tears fall when I'm reminded, it happens, the reminders

the feelings of helplessness, a lonely betrayal

no one but I sees the hauntings of my heart and head

The soul letting go, I didn't know how good it feels

to release the trapped tears I just hold back

I just can't feel comfortable with eyes that see them

falling

Feelings of a black hole sucking me in, void and scared

of a past I can't erase, encase me

My tears remove my barriers and I feel defenseless,

naked with my shields removed

feeling like that child/youth

I sense for some reason is to blame,

you keep telling me I'm not but the feelings still remain.

Anger mixed with a passion to allow myself the right

not to be afraid of darkness or closeness,

a door that shuts me off, out of your world -

taking me to a self made space of aloneness

no one reaching this place, to hear me in silence...

Why does it have to be that people pull you back

I want to lay these images, experiences,

this painful memory to rest

I want to hide myself cause the undead keep

coming home within

The pit of hell, the abyss I felt trapped in growing up

may have changed over the years

though the walls still feel unclimbable, inescapable

even though I know I'll find a way as I did yesterday

A battle with the devil in my face, as he was in the past

but it's some kind of test I guess, cause I've got no weapons

except strength, courage and will to look him straight in the eyes

Without the weapons of distortion I found to numb

the actions of all who harmed me

Guilt in a sense that I was there, I should've been within the place, safe

Then I wake to realize I knew of no such place,

even when alone

(and now my tears fall)

freeflowpoet 1999

Short Temper

Strip away my name

take away my clothes and skin,

the dirty feeling won't ever wash away

and I feel stupid crying over things

I can't change

The little girl is starting to get louder now,

in my face

telling me

she feels a disgrace

Everything I build up to protect myself and her

has gone or is going

and my open rage burns me inside

I don't want none of this no more...

I just want to feel whatever normal is

(whatever normal is)

freeflowpoet 1999

Torn

In a room with no doors in sight, i'm trapped

running from my fears, terrifying fears

slamming into walls without meaning to

this long narrow corridor of haunting terror closes in

suffocating the little air I have left in these panicking eyes

sweat dripping off my wracked body of pain

cramps got me up screaming in vane

vomit comes and goes again inside a stripped throat

I know where I am, but am I really there?

Wanting to imitate a death much deeper than sleep

a lot less than the act of death itself

So much sweat it masks all my tears

tears of need, a need so powerful it chokes me

tears of confusion, frustration and anger

I want to lose these chains of dreams that aren't

for I'm awake...

awake every fu**ing night

like a sink full of ice water I plunge face down

darkness reminds me of death embracing me

smothering the child that tries to escape

visions of pleasure when I know what's behind

the trick the devil pulls on my weakened state

The joker laughs in my face

I'm getting hostile towards those I love and those I hate

I'm getting scared facing the night alone like this

I'm admitting I'm scared of hurting a child that reminds me of myself...

it's me I'm afraid of hurting

freeflowpoet 1999

Something's Wrong

Something's not right in my life

I'm missing something deep inside

tonight I watch tears fall

in a busted mirror I study myself

pulling apart a lack of self esteem

I'm finding a lot of hatred, love and confusion

who are you to tell me I'm wrong

who are you to tell me I need to keep on

be strong when I'm weak

stand up when I fall

The heart always cries

when someone else walks out

I was born alone

that's where I am right now

Switchblade running down my wrist

but I'm not suicidal

tears falling from my eyes

tonight I actually see them

who are you to tell me I'm wrong

who are you to tell me I need to keep on

be strong when I'm weak

stand up as I fall?

(stand up as I fall)

freeflowpoet 1999

Negativity

I know I'm a drifter at heart

to afraid of staying in one place to long

to afraid of listening to new songs

I know only of yesterday and plans for today

tomorrow's to far away to think about

I've got a lot of things that could change plans made

at the snap of a finger click

Mostly it's the way I feel, I enjoy my time alone

a comfort space zone, ten miles square

It's not so easy to get hurt on your own or have others on your back

about issues you've been silent on for so long

Less people to hurt on your own. when you know a choice made

is a choice that affects everyone who says they love and care

Less people to make pressure when you're in the middle of

a moral/ethic fight within

that carries guilt and shame before the choice is or maybe made.

Maybe tomorrow I'll be somewhere else, maybe I already there

maybe I'll just stay a little longer, maybe right now I just don't care

I feel I'm a dreamer, doomed to never hold a secure dream

commitment scares me to much and a contract can be broken

who cares when you've already tasted loss?

And success comes to a stop soon after it begins

Negativity has its rewards as well as its downfalls

what a shame I think this way - a shame to who? You?

This is about my choices, my games, my wins,

my whims.

freeflowpoet 1999

Run Away

Show me the stars made of gold

you melt the ice in my eyes

now we're apart of ourselves

the dance of bitterness is this rage

we embrace the flames of our passion

and another fight starts somewhere,

somewhere we've been

These fists will snap when I command

the rage goes off whenever it tells me so

whirlwind energy of obscenities

hope to hell the child within don't hate

baseball's fun without the ball

and your knees will fall

will fail you

run boy run

run boy run

run boy run, fast as you can

the rage is out for you

i'm coming to hunt you

better run

run, child, run

run (away)

freeflowpoet 1999

Trauma

The metal is part of me, it's like I'm impaled

my skin, every fibre in me

is a crumpled, crushed chunk

I cannot breathe, nor can I bloody move

I have no movement, my limbs just don't respond

I ache, my mental anguish now takes on a physical hurt

My own chest is being crushed, I'm pinned down

by a fastened seatbelt, that isn't real

My mind screams "pull it together, you know this is not reality"

But I cannot, for I am a solid mass...I am the car I was trapped in

2 and a half years past

This is terrifying, I can't breathe on my own

I feel the machines doing that for me, I feel the tube down my throat

my jaw and teeth ache, and I can't pull it out

yet there is nothing there now

I can hear the calming voice, trying to bring me out of this meltdown

yet I sense the blackness of death...or unconsciousness maybe

and it is so enticing and peaceful

I see two glowing orbs of light, is it the hospital lights in the operating room...

or is it something other worldly

is this a memory of the drugs wearing off and being feed into me, while I was under?

I don't know but part of me wanted to stay there...and not breathe any longer

then it faded away and I struggle to draw in and push air out

I'm drowning in never ending tears and mucus

I just want them to stop, I want this to stop

And to those who speed, get impatient or hoon around on the roads

I bet will never see these words or dismiss them with an attitude of "it'll never happen to me"

I just made one mistake, one split second over correction

and the injuries and scars I can never undo

But the flashbacks and panic attacks

pull me back

and my face slams into the airbag over and over again, every time I close my eyes

I hear the impact of metal and concrete meeting each other, a huge slamming explosion

I feel like my stomach is metal

fuck, it hurts to breathe

I want people to stop trying to be helpful, "if you wanna talk call"

I don't wanna remember or relive it

but I can't shut it out

I feel like I'm losing my grip...but it's just normal with trauma

...

more fucking trauma

freeflowpoet

A Shimmer Of Softness

I'm not immortal, nor do I explode or sparkle in the sun

I don't drink blood and I've moved on from cutting skin

I'm not a monster but I know they exist amongst us

yeah, that's right - I've seen them

I've looked into the eyes of many, seen the emptiness of death within

these beings are devoid of remorse, they feed off the fear they cause

they have twisted and warped motives - they believe their own lies

there is no morals or ethics, their bodies hollow

their souls sucked out and vanished...

REDEMPTION

to me it doesn't matter if they mutter "I'm sorry"

so the man in the chair will go easy on them...

I'm only human - final judgement is not my card to play

and there are some crimes, one cannot come back from

My only role is one of two choices..

to give in and let madness overtake me, to hand in my soul

or

to live to the best of my abilities, to grow and let go

FORGIVE

myself for all the self blame, all the self hate

for all the anger and rage stuffed within

for all the hurt I inflicted while lost in confusion

for all the drugs and drink I attempted to block out not just feelings and things

but the love from those who really cared

For all the pain and worry I inflicted I own and if you can accept my apologies

then an amends I make...

You don't have to believe me, as I said before

It's alright

I trust that I'm trying to be the person I was meant to be

and my Higher Power

hears me

loves me

forgives me

and acknowledges my humanness and the things I've come back from

I accept the mistakes I've made

and I try to find the lessons from it all

Here...

I drop my guards

I let in and out love

I am not a heartless or harmful beast

I am not the negative wrath I once expressed through violence and hate

mistrust and coldness

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Sorry

How many times can one's world shatter from under them?

How many times do I have to hear "you're a strong girl"

and be expected to stand right up after a blindsided TKO?

Would it matter if I shared what was really eating me up

and killing me inside?

But if I told you the real reason behind my fears and all these tears...

it wouldn't matter, cause you've been along this roller coaster too

you've never left my side - I kind of think you'd be hurt either way

Yeah, that's right

My hurt, guilt and shame is compounded by the hurt I cause you

(haven't I caused enough and yet still I cause more)

I can't apologize enough, I'm trying to hold my head up

but when you're out of sight, it just drops and I feel like all my muscles are solid steel knots,

Weighting heavily on my chest

I feel like I cannot breathe, like I cannot go on fighting anymore

...but you give me hope, your love and support encourages and soothes me

you're faith in me nurtures and enriches

I see you cry and it tears me apart inside

cause I love you and I so want to protect you from pain

but you are right there by my side

Oh God, I feel so endebted to you...

I don't right now, feel like I'm deserving of any compassion or assistance getting back on my feet

in this dark place I'm sitting in

I'm only deserving of the beating I give myself

I'm only deserving of giving in, all I hear in my head

are the judgements I put in your mouth, that I believe you say behind my back...

Yeah I also hear the reassuring voice of sanity, telling me "that's all lies"

but this constant back and forth battle and physical journey

has me wanting to get down on my knees, has me wanting to pray for an escape

but once I get down - how will I get back up?

I cannot get that image of your tears streaming for my battles, out of my head

I've hurt you so many times

and sorry is just not enough, nothing I could ever do or buy will be

I just want to stop disappointing everyone and myself

I just want to give in

(but I haven't got that in me yet)

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Fluffy bunnies

When you see me for the first time

how will you choose to actually see me? Will you believe the automatic preception

or will you man up and try scaling my walls?

When you try, I swear you'll find a maze of darkness

a tunnel so long you'll lose sight of everything you came believing in

and at the center there'll be a final test...will you break through my graphite core

or will you run screaming how insane I am?

For those who stay, for those who see the cracks and hold their ground

I promise to be someone soft yet true to who I am

so harsh yet loving when we don't see eye to eye

I promise to listen and be the first to admit when I'm wrong

I have a heart, I am just human despite the battle scars and acid words

I'm consumed by fear...aren't most of us?

I'm not quite fluffy bunnies and chocolate...just yet

But you just may find that someday

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Though these fingers

Come cheer me up, bring back the smile upon my face

don't you see it's just make believe

You're just so used to the lies, you only wanna hear my positive psycho babble

but you don't see my head hung low

or me watching everything slip through my fingers

Why would anyone care if I did turn away?

Why would it surprise you, if I did just chuck it all in?

This is not just a complaint about a bad day...

I'm feeling the noose tighten

I'm losing time...

I see it all slip, slip through

these tired hands

And I still hear you telling me "it'll be alright"

though I don't see it being OK

tonight

One slit, drip

drip

drip...

Why amI still awake?

Why am I still feeling everything today?

I guess reality doesn't work either...

just like all the other shit I've tried

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Don't question, just look into these eyes

Would you mind if I caught your tears before they fell from your sweet eyes,

just held them in suspended animation for awhile?

I hear your fears for me, I hear you question why I keep getting up

each time I'm knocked down

believe me it gets hard to find the strength to go on somedays

yet I do cause I have found treasure that makes me so rich within

Each time I've been knocked down

It has been the richness I found within myself...

that flowed from the love you showed me

when you welcomed me home after I rebelled,

even after all I had done and said

you who gave me life, who gave me a heart to love with

and the strength to never give up when the chips fell short

It's in your eyes that I find the silent words that allow me to go on

You give me the grace to trust in my own higher power, to trust my feet will find

the right path I need to be on

Please don't shed tears over me while I still draw breath

cause having my family is the strength and richness that spurs my journey

on

2012 - for the family I love, who love me for who I am

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Define This...

I poured words out before I even knew half the words I penned

but I knew what toxins emptied out on the page, even before I used em to numb

the evils I had witnessed, survived, committed and would do later on

I've been called so many names and blurred so many labels

cause you can't define what hasn't even thought what it means to exist

fuck, I lived one second to the next just trying to crawl by unnoticed...

while seeking someone who would see me, the real me

not the masks that fit the situations I found myself in

I let the labels fit

I was a fat whimp, a welcome mat for anyone to wipe their feet on

I was a tomboy who hated girly girls...cause you said I was gay (so I had to be butch)

yet I was the sort after flavor of so many men, before I was 10

I wasn't gay, I just wanted to be a child...I hated everyone who wanted anything from me

I was the best friend, the one who could hear all your secrets and keep them

never mind the fact you never knew the secrets I already was holding onto

cause you never asked me why I never smiled

cause you never asked to read the scribbles on the paper littered around

All anyone had to do was read between the lines

All anyone had to do was believe the words I was screaming out

All anyone had to do was ask what the razor blade scars were for

All anyone had to do was ask why I was covered in bruises most days

All anyone had to do was give this child a hug, show real concern n love - not lust or one night sex

All anyone had to do was question why I was high all the time, why I was so angry night n day

Now I'm older and clean n sober

I still don't act like someone I'm not

yep, I'm not the women you'd think your mother would approve of

yet I'm more than you'd ever want, if only you'd take the time to get to know me

And now I've been where I've been

the ones who need to hear the things I never did

are still just like I was then...unknowing of something better inside their reach

CHOICE

but they don't think anyone hears them or will protect them from harm

they don't listen to my words like others didn't back when I was trying to find my place (myself)

What does an old timer have to say that counts?

As much as I wish to save others from making the same mistakes I made

no one can force anyone to change

all I can do is leave the porch light on (thanks mum)

and be there if they come around

cause I still won't be defined - I am who I am

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Just A Phase

I tell myself this will pass
but who am I fooling? These 'phases' feel like they're creeping upon me
more and more, dragging out and dragging me...
under
My eyes are stinging from lack of sleep
and my desire is screaming "get on, get on"
Who am I kidding? One day at a time I'm just prolonging misery
either road - the one I'm on or the one I've been down
feels the same in my head, it all feels like overwhelming dread
Fuck you, go on lay your judgements down upon me
tell me cause I'm not 12 stepping it like you suggest
that my recovery is a sham, that this obsession to score will bring me undone
Fuck you
If you'd only step inside my shoes this past few years
feel the loss of independence I have, feel the loss of self esteem I have
cried the amount of tears I don't let fall, I don't allow anyone to hear or see
feel the loss of all that empowered and supported my growth...
to have your whole world shatter from under you
and have to be pumped full of the very drugs you abused
but have to wield the self control to work with doctors caring for you
and say I need to cut back...to I don't need those no more
Lesser men have fallen and lapsed or relapsed over and over
I'm still counting (just...hear that, just) my 13 years clean
I don't want to tell anyone my fears, the nagging voice in my head
telling me "no one will be surprised, you're a fuck up anyway"
"you know it, they know it...fuck just use, once...come on, self medicate"
"USE, USE, USE...ice, ooh cocaine (remember that rush), a little bit of smack, just washed down with a Jimmy and coke...party with me like the old days"
Yep, the old days...nothing worked, I'd OD and still knew this swamping unhappiness
using...will not fix this and I know it'll not make me smile today
or make these tears quiet and dry
I need to voice my inner fears, please understand that
please let me say this shit
cause I need to let it go and work on fixing me...
THIS IS NOT A PASSING PHASE
this will be a reality
if I leave it unsaid


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Freedom Of Choice

Two hands either side the mirror, I'm trying to hold my own gaze

but I can't see anything pure or innocent

you tell me I'm an angel in human form

yet behind your back my true form morphs

breaking free of this taunt tight skin, the demons in my head come to form...

Words spit at speed, vemon from the very depths of hell

All the hate, torment, violence, all the wrongs youthful eyes saw

visions of the fires that this hateful world contains

spewed forth, regurtated

Go on feel all the hurt, all the pain, all the fears this once alive child felt before dying a human death

only to be recycled into the very sin that will now consume all who condemned

all who stabbed and kicked while she begged forgiveness

Tears of blood ran free in the streets, the heavens opened up

The war between good and evil halted upon that very second...

God found an angel in Satan's bed and she shed her feathers to make her child's bed

and from that moment the in laws feud rolled out

knocking every man, women and child to their knees

I am neither angel or demon

I am neither man or women

I am neither positive or negative

But

I am my own freak

my beauty is soulful and deep

I am neither saint or sin

I am whoever I choose to be...

Whoever I am in the mood to see when I lift my head

and gaze past all the grime this world pretends to be covered in

Can't they see

they are free to choose,

Can't they hear me scream?

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Lies In My Head/Lies In The Mirror

Lies, that is all my head tells me

I know that for I preach it everyday

But I'm just like you...different and unique

I feel like I'm judged every second, everyday

It's not you, yeah - it's me

I hear myself say all the positives in the world

yet inside I'm suffocating from ego

yeah that bastard self will, there ain't no spirituality within right now

It's the monkey on my back, screaming and laughing

"what you really think this bullshit will stop me...you think you'll win"

Fuck, lord help me

I'm helpless alone, my strength is gone right now...

I'm about ready to drown

I don't know who to believe, if I wanna believe...anything

I hear my own voice saying "one day at a time" and "you know you need to get out ya head - cause that's where the true BULLSHIT is"

While inside my head all I hear is

"go on go isolate, be alone"

"you know they think you're dumb and lazy"

"you know they think every time you say sorry or thank you, it's fake...you're fake"

"you're a freeloading excuse, a pain who's always in the way...it's really all about you"

"a little shot of H will take the edge off, especially washed down with alcohol ...and a dose or two of those PAIN pills, you wanna try this ice...the old speed freak in you craves, go on what harm will one more run do"?

God ( as I understand you) I pray please take this obsession away

I know my head lies and twists emotions when I'm lost within this beast

I know what is truth

and being alone won't serve to help anyone...

No matter what my head screams

I know the truth.

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