Borderline Poems

No Borderline

You're wonderfully made
A seat of my obsessions
Oh my brain!
You're marvellously created
To steer my well-being
Oh my cognition!

You brighten my esteem and deepen my ties
With acceptance and a sense of belonging 
So I avoid the lure of substance 
It enriches my focus and nurtures my joy
Through diligence and problem-solving 
Then I find purpose

You become phobic if threatened
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Categories: borderline, anti bullying, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Borderline Personality Disorder

The river breaks its mirror with a scream,
Moods whip the trees — calm, then storm — then gone.
In love, I drown; in fear, I flay the dream.
A thousand selves pull knives inside one dawn.

The eyes of others turn my skin to glass,
Every slight — a spear, each kindness — pain.
Abandonment’s cold breath will never pass;
I
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Categories: borderline, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse


I love you much you should go to hell

I love you my dear
especially when you're near
you always seem to make my head feel clear

I hate you, you traitor
you left me in fear
you were gone so long that I drank five cases of beer

I'm so in love with you
please don't leave
truly I'll do anything to make you stay 
I beg of you please

I wish
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Categories: borderline, 11th grade, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBorderline

I have done so many things to end who I used to be,
But the truth is I only want to die to be set free,
'Cause I feel as though I may never ever truly be happy.
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Categories: borderline, addiction, depression, drug, mental
Form: Sijo

Premium MemberThe Borderline Moon

the borderline moon
half glass of optimism
emptied out dark side
a man and woman in smile
its crescent lullaby psalm
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Categories: borderline, metaphor, moon,
Form: Tanka


borderline

borderline 
border of the line
is it left or right
forwards or backwards
should i stay should you go
is it me is it you or is it us?
maybe its noting
maybe im going to hurt you 
before you can hurt me 
should i go?
no you should stay.
go away
no stay i need you
your my solitude but your going to hurt
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Categories: borderline, absence, abuse, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse

bpd relationships

I don’t want my love to be violent. 

  

But when I love, I rip my organs out of my chest, I take my knitting needles and make you a scarf out of my intestines to keep you warm while I bleed out freezing. 

  

When I love, I see your trail of
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Categories: borderline, angst, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

How do I explain

How do I explain
That my emotions are painful
That happiness is euphoria
That anger is blinded rage
That love borders obsession
How do I explain
That my emotions are my enemy
That sadness is suicidal thoughts
That pain is an agonizing fire that consumes me
That emotions are a hurricane
That merged with a tornado and tear away at my body from the inside
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Categories: borderline, anxiety, humanity, identity, mental
Form: Free verse

Does Your Significant Other Have Borderline Personality Disorder

In shadows cast by fractured minds, a dance,
Borderline whispers, a tumultuous trance.
Emotions veer, a rollercoaster ride,
For those who stand close, by love's sweet side.

A storm within, tempests of the mind,
Identity fractures, elusive to find.
From highs to lows, a relentless ride,
BPD's grip, where emotions collide.

Intense connections, yet fears of abandon,
Chaotic relationships, a heart's wild abandon.
Impulsive acts,
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Categories: borderline, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBorderline

("In the Beginning There Was the Word and the Word Was Good", 2019, original pen and ink)

Borderline

I’m only borderline
Dabbling in 
Mental instability
A fan at first
Opening a portal
Eventually possessed
In my own way
To create 
And create and create
But on the border
Is only mediocre

(11/18/23)
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Categories: borderline, art, mental illness, perspective,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberBorderline Personality Dodoitsu

We Are All the Same
Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
Hear them speak of lost friends.
At birth, you were cut from your bed,
Crying and grasping in separation.
Everyone listens, knowing your song.
You yearn for others who know your name,
And the words to your lament.
We are all the same, all the same,
Longing to find our way
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Categories: borderline, love, mental health, relationship,
Form: Dodoitsu

Borderline

borderline
between what may i ask?
floating whilst the clock ticks by
tears on the night of your life
pain in pleasure
pleasure in pain
doors closed 
the slams still echo in your brain
in-prisoned by your own name
dust scatters over where you lay
an endless impossible escape you planned at 5
imprints of those who held you tight
just to leave you in the
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Categories: borderline, anxiety, depression, loneliness, mental
Form: Free verse

Grey Lines Borderline

Between happiness and depression
My age and it's regression,
The signs of borderline
The grey lines between emotions
Inaudible anger, hidden sadness, with a hint of secret regression, 
Filled with shame that has me stressing,
Who am I and what is my name,
What if everything bad I was to blame,
The faceless, and nameless things to be said,
Grey Lines between the
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Categories: borderline, addiction, anger, emotions, mental
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBorderline

She loved tempting fate,
Testing everyone's own love,
Drawing out their hate,
Using their words against them:
Hearts now filled with her contempt.
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Categories: borderline, heartbreak, mental illness,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberCatfishing

 
I've never had a one-night stand,
with me it always was the family plan;
I thought I found Mr. Right 
seems I only saw him with blind eyes.

Faithful till the day I die
Yet he has a wandering eye
Pay for things he never does
Wonder why I bear a grudge

Craigslist is his favorite repast
He is forever chasing *Bass
See
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Categories: borderline, betrayal, cat, dedication, fishing,
Form: Rhyme

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