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mirror mirror

every me from 10 to now has been a shell of me
i try to find my insides
but they fell out long ago
and only recently i’ve been trying oh so hard to find them once again

i've been looking at only other people

boys

since i was young
trying desperately
for people to like me
to want me
for people to care

how did i not realize that something was lacking

my insides fell out long ago
when i was only 10
since then im just a mirror
looking back now and then
but i gave up on my reflection
because still nobody cared
i cried so hard i broke the mirror
now i'm picking up the pieces
from my broken bloody tear-stained mirror
that i can turn into a window

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overthought

now im overanalyzing again
playing out dumb scenarios
that would never happen in real life
thinking far too much about other people
people who dont think about me
it’s stupid wasting my energy on them
but i just cant stop
i just cant

now im filling my day
stuffing it full
so i dont have to think anymore
just so maybe someone will see me
but even i dont
i dont know how to be me

just because i tried that already
because it’s too much pressure
an obligation to reply
when i cant even feel safe with them
when i dont know if they do see me
and dont know if they ever would

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unseen

I’m a watcher
An observer
A fly on the wall
I’m big, but small

I see everything that happens outside of me, 
yet I see nothing
I experience everything everyone else does, 
yet I experience nothing

I notice things, 
the little things
The way that someone walks,
the way they flick their head to look away from me
Is it something I said?
Or didn’t? 
Do I look small from the outside? 
Would anyone ever notice me 
the way I notice everyone else? 
I see you, 
the other observers, 
the ones in the shadows. 
Would I ever get them to see me? 
To know me? 

When will someone take special notice 
for the way I walk, 
for the way I behave? 
It was never going to happen.

How can one experience so much but so little? 
I want to be known. 
To be watched. 
To be noticed. 
But that was never going to happen, 

for even when they know me, 
they pretend they don’t. 
Even when they see me, 
they wish they never had. 

Was it enough to live? 
Or did I have to feel 
like I was living?

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coaster

why is it so hard to be happy
and not just for a moment
that part’s easy

but to stay happy on a rollercoaster that seems to have no bottom
i hopped on my never-ending rollercoaster again.
buckle up.

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what was

i keep pondering
thinking about what was
but impossible to fathom what could've been
but i keep thinking about what was
because everything brings me back
to that couch
to those stairs
to his bed

they all could’ve been
and perhaps they even were
but everything disappeared

whether through betrayal or unreciprocated feelings
through uncertainty and broken trust
they were all gone

so why do i keep thinking
thinking about what was

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run

i tried to get away
i tried to roll right on but you ran right over me
and i tried to assure you that, yes, I’m okay
no, don’t worry about it, you did nothing wrong
I said you didn’t do anything wrong so why do you keep apologizing
over and over
over and over
a cycle that will surely end sometime, right?

right?? 



i tried to get away but you wouldn’t let me
i tried to punch it down
i knew what i needed but i couldnt leave

you wouldn’t let me
not till i assured you 
it was okay

but it wasn’t

finally i was bawling
i plotted my escape

but the tears were never-ending
just like they were that day

“you don’t have to be so strong”

but if im not, what am i?