Angst Self Poems

I wish I wouldn't try to be perfect
When I know it can never come to fruition
Perhaps I do it for the self respect
Maybe I do...

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I was aware I may have lost my mind,
pinpointing on the time,
circular reasoning,
whether in front or behind.

Are thoughts a linear path like the heart?
Regarding sight,...

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Within Me

Trapped within, a tempest roars,
Where demons dance and anguish pours,
In the haunted halls of my soul's estate,
Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate...

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i’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing

inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before

repetition becomes habit 
take me back to simpler times

an early childhood memory
just...

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In depths of solitude, I stand forlorn,
With shadow as my sole and steadfast friend.
By society shunned, from kinship torn,
I ponder on life's edge, its bitter...

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 You 
You squeeze my organs until they're ponds of drying mud
You steal my sight and leave me helpless without
You gnaw at my lips with...

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last night 
i sensed its presence 


the walls were slowly closing in
and soon 
i know
i'll feel like I can't breathe


it's clenching down on my heart
the...

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In the webbed corners of my brain 
There blooms a sinister flower 
Its petals dripping with venom 
 And thick roots entwined with despair 

Begins...

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gilt
but of intricacy
of a mirror’s frame
guilt
shown an ember in me
am I not the reflection’s heel
am I not intrinsic
   asked, though eschewed
you judge me...

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I wish the smoking would hurry up and kill me.
Too much of a coward to hold the revolver to my head and pull.
I wish the...

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There is an art to reading minds.

As their thoughts eclipse mine.

I have trouble with my own memories…

My own…

Kindness,

My own…

Selfishness,

My own…

Personality.

I am shaking and overwhelmed.

There is...

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I can see it in your eyes from across the room, 
makes my heart ache, it’s a mistake - why do you 
compare the self-view,...

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Fighting against external enemies is natural.
Isn't my fight against myself a Herculean task?
Desires and drives that decrease me into an animal
In my predicament, my consciousness...

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I'm something I'm not proud to be,
but what if this something has always been me?
What if the monster that crawls in me is just my...

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We'd opened ourselves up to fascist beliefs 
we'd catered to the raw findings of mental angst 
an yet we knew going under cover would somehow...

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