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A Year Has Passed

One year ago to the DAY.
My best friend..my only friend...my Mom passed AWAY.

It doesn't feel like a year has passed, yet it also feels like lifetimes AGO.
The day my Mom passed...will forever be my deepest, my darkest LOW.

Seems like forever since I was at HOME.
Losing my Mom has given new meaning to feeling ALONE!

No one to talk to.
No one to take care of me!
No one UNDERSTANDS!
Im just taking care of everyone else's DEMANDS!

I lost my soul!
I lost my WAY!
I'm lost.
You can't care about tomorrow if you don't care about TODAY

Copyright © Carly Steelberg | Year Posted 2015



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Will I Ever Be the Same

Will I ever be the same?
It seems everything RELATES!
I'm stuck in a memory of what 
was, and I don't know if I will 
ever ESCAPE?

How can I replace the only 
person that ever 
UNDERSTOOD!?
How do I accept someone 
else... hoping that maybe they 
COULD!

There are so many memories 
that I want to forget, and even 
more that I choose to KEEP!
I wish that I could choose the 
memories that stayed as well 
as the ones that I bury down 
DEEP!

As you say love is a battlefield, 
and yes we earned our SCARS!
Its ironic that you taught me 
self defense, how to box and 
SPAR!

I never thought you were the 
one that I should FEAR, but 
you were the one that had to 
leave when all I wanted was for 
you to stay HERE!

How will I ever RECOVER?
How will I ever love 
ANOTHER?!
You changed my life in ways 
tragic and MIRACULOUS. 
The love we had I thought was 
FABULOUS.
Did I not UNDERSTAND? 
Did I just  fall for what you had 
actually PRE-PLANNED?

How do I feel again that 
INTENSITY?
How do I believe that someone 
else is truthful in what appears 
to be their SENSITIVITY? 

These questions I ask knowing 
you cannot ANSWER!
"You are dead to me."
No, that is not an ANALOGY! 
You and I are not allowed to 
TALK! You may be gone but 
your not FORGOT! 
The last petal I picked was he 
loves me NOT!

Copyright © Carly Steelberg | Year Posted 2014

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Panic attack!
I heard a noise and just freaked the **** OUT! 
I immediately thought it was you, and I started to SHOUT!

Tortured and stalked! 
Tormented and brain washed!
Yes that is my PAST. 
But I swear it will be me who laughs LAST!

An empty SHELL.
That's where I feel safe to DWELL.
It feels like heaven because it reminds me of my HELL!

Born a blank canvas.
I want to be a beautiful work of art.
Will I die never being PAINTED?
All I keep getting is confirmation that I'm TAINTED!

Born alone.
They say you die alone too.
What If you live alone all your LIFE?
Do you exist if no one has ever validated you with their own SIGHT?

Invisible I FEEL.
They couldn't see me because the reality of my existence made their own reality too REAL!

Copyright © Carly Steelberg | Year Posted 2014

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Broken Love

Courtrooms and CAGES
Arrests, scared...scarred from 
the RAGES!

Broken hearts from broken 
doors.
Glass SHATTERED!
The consequences didn't seem 
to MATTER!

Built me new!
Tore me down.
Never built me BACK!
I don't know which hurt worse  
the first... or the last ATTACK!

It was me and you.
Then US!
Now it's you and ME 
SEPARATELY-
No TRUST!

Epiphanies, metaphors, 
moments of CONNECTIONS
We had it all through deep 
INTROSPECTION. 

I may have been your mirror 
but you were mine as WELL,
In your reflection I saw 
heaven...
in my reflection, you saw HELL!

Copyright © Carly Steelberg | Year Posted 2014

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Disorders Galore

BIPOLAR BIPOLAR  send Carly 
right OVER!
Disorders GALORE. 
Wait something's different...
This diagnosis I was given is no 
MORE! 
He thinks I seem to have this 
figured out, or this is an 
amazing ACT!
Because he thinks I'm cured, 
and  he's never wrong. 
His motives are always EXACT!

Maybe his eyes were set on the 
wrong TARGET? 
He thought he MARKED IT
But he was wrong.
Cuz I'm not BLEEDING!
Instead I have figured it out. 
His opinion is no longer 
NEEDED!

You can keep doing speed, but 
your not going to get there any 
FASTER.
Our love was crazy!
A beautiful DISASTER!
If I don't want to continue to 
be 
your slave.
Maybe I should stop calling you 
my MASTER! 

I do miss your passion for ME!
But I'll never miss your 
rage...HONESTLY!
I was the one dumbing myself 
DOWN. 
No, it wasn't the other way 
AROUND!

You lie to free yourself from 
your truth, but that will never 
work.
The truth will always rise from 
the ASHES.
No matter how many 
breakdowns you have or car 
CRASHES. 
No matter how much glass you 
BREAK or scars you MAKE.
You'll always end up at the 
same place!
Alone and confined, trapped in 
a CELL! 
With no other ears to listen to 
the bull shit you TELL!

Copyright © Carly Steelberg | Year Posted 2014



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36

36 years OLD.
Never done what I was TOLD.
I never learned what I was 
supposed to KNOW.
I'm a seed looked over, so I 
don't GROW!

36 years old. I try to be who I 
want, but never CAN!
They keep saying you can't get 
all your needs met from your 
MAN!

36 years lived.
Growing closer to DEMISE.
I am even more jaded than I 
was at 35.

I can't give another 36...
not to THIS.
It must get better because this 
life I wouldn't MISS

I know I have been ignorant, 
but to know all this sadness 
makes me feel STRANGE.
I'm trying very hard, but I need 
to be given time to CHANGE.

I've made many wrong choices, 
and I have no true FRIENDS 
I might be happier if my past 
and I could make AMENDS. 

I'll keep pushing on with 
intentions that are PURE.
If I'm lucky maybe I will find 
love's CURE.

Copyright © Carly Steelberg | Year Posted 2014

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Tell It

Loving!
I have never been so FULL.
Now I'm empty!
My heart strings you no longer PULL!

Hating!
So much RAGE!
Your love for me...
I used your violence to GAGE!

Hurting!
I'm BLEEDING!
Your demons have given you enough REASON to feel righteous in your TREASON! 

Praying!
On my KNEES!
Scarred arms covered with SLEEVES!

Sinning!
Good vs EVIL!
All my attempts are made FEEBLE!

Burning!
On FIRE!
All these head games! 
I have grown TIRED!

Shaking! 
So AFRAID!
I have nothing left to give!
Please stop! 
I want to LIVE!

Living!
Every breath I took for YOU!
Now I'm just existing! 
Breathing because I'm supposed TOO!

Dying!
Every moment felt like the END! 
I'm still here!
Missing my FRIEND!

Copyright © Carly Steelberg | Year Posted 2014


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