Anne Sexton, Why I took My Own Life
I wore my mind like a corset—tight, laced, unseen—
while the world asked me to smile with lipstick teeth
and stir the soup without stirring the storm inside.
There were mornings I woke as if embalmed,
already dressed in the hush of death's silk slip,
no reason, no riot—just a fog that would not lift.
The walls of my room pulsed
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Categories:
my own life, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
guest in my own life
i have lived in houses
that kept me,
but never held me.
i was a guest in my own life—
told to give,
but never to take.
told to understand,
but never to be understood.
told to forgive,
but never to ask why.
they built my life like a cage
and called it safety.
locked the doors
and named it protection.
when their choices
crushed my ribs,
they asked why i
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Categories:
my own life, dark, depression, life, lonely,
Form: Free verse
The George Chronicles: Victim To My Own Life
When I die
I wish to be remembered with the life on how I lived.
Unfortunately, with my current state I possess very few to be spoken of.
In my life I have done plenty wrong.
At times with no ill intention.
I have also done some good.
With or without acknowledgment of others of course.
Convenient I'd say at best.
As I
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Categories:
my own life, beautiful, character, dedication, happy,
Form: Free verse
I'M Living My Own Life
Tell me you want me to go
But you can't do that, can you?
You just want me back now, don't you?
Just to hold me in your arms like
Everything's the way it was before
You just want me back with you
To be back in bed with you
You want to hold me down some more
And just pretend it's all
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Categories:
my own life, abuse, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Bio
A Captive of My Own Life
my life
its just a scrap of paper
traveling in the arms of the wind
i try to change the path
control my own life
but the wind holds me captive
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Categories:
my own life, life
Form: Free verse