I’m trapped inside of this glass filled with bleach and ammonia. A breath of poison is less painful than thinking over those words that float like a curse spiraling around my bedroom. Inhale a little more air and hope that this all ends soon. If you want the truth then here it is: you trained me to be a pessimist. All I have become to you is a bad outcome, you still remain aloof. I’ve been missing out on sleep, missing opportunities. Disappearing through the cracks of my mind that was once intact. Now it’s fragmented in shards that I’m stepping down on hard, cutting up my blistered feet that barely even carry me. Your masking tape covers accidents, but it doesn’t ever redress the rips. Those holes you left, I could never fix, so don’t blame me for changing in your absence. I’m disconnected, you’re unaffected. I’m such a mess and I get so stressed when...
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