journaling

  • Closest Distance

    Closest Distance

    Chastened chest Constricted congestion, Coughing up confessions Of fermented love For you. The contagious Brightness of your eyes Compete with The wildfires of mine Time and time Again We lose seconds When choosing our First choice last.

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  • Unpublished shit

    How you shatter through me Like the conversation piece Spoken of but not to How you believe I fade into The shadows of neglect Yet I shimmer violently Without meaning to And I have half a mind to ask for pardon… How these bruised knuckles Have hardened Into the softener of calloused hearts I weep…

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  • Petals + Leaves

    Hugs — To embrace space is to hug infinity What they don’t tell you about the expansion journey…They say that you can’t take items with you and that some people won’t be able to join you in where you’re going. What they fail to inform you is that some of those people includes all of…

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  • Hyphens

    what do you do when you’re caught between your In-betweens?

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  • Cardboard Mansions

    Mansions made of cardboard boxes, we are papier-mache prayers…

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  • Umbra

    Umbra transfusion, she glimmers brighter than my shadow self.

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  • Shimmering Lender

    Light shimmered on the Things I have shadowed… How can there be suchGlimmering, Glinting off of Hallowed gallows? Heavy hangs the head Whose mind Is light.Do I swallow regret Or Do I follow the trail Of Sorrows?Begging the Creator As if a “Lender” For tomorrow? From whom am I borrowing?

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  • And that’s okay baby,You’re on your path.You’re not ready to be seenWhile I’m ready to be felt. When riptides collide with undercurrentsThundering like torrential mercenaries…Nothing on you…However, this heart is not availableFor target practice. I’d rather be at peace with myselfVersus at war with the world.Than to be at peace with the worldAnd at war…

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  • Get Well Soon • Art: @ccireland_art

    I know you won’t see this letter because you’re off somewhere trying to get better… I hope you know you haven’t faded behind your demons’ shadows and that someone unconditionally loves you. I heard our song today, and was stung by jagged memories poisoned with nostalgia, I could taste your name in the corner of…

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  • Why Would I?

    The sea does not apologize for its depth. The mountains do not seek forgiveness for taking up space. And the sun does not ask permission to shine. So, why would I?

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  • Taking Shots

    How can I Give you the thing you Must take?

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  • Sinking Ovation

    She swears like a sailor And has a librarian’s mind A bibliophile lost at sea, Raised by a pack of alley cats. When she was without books, She read people. When she was isolated, She read messages in constellations. When the sun shone, She read between the lines Of singing bird’s beaks. When her eyes…

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  • Demolition

    I needed somewhere to hang my heart. Your shoulders took form Of a hat rack I used to enter Through the doorway Of your rib cage— You were “home” they say is where the heart is As though this flesh form Does not also require protection. The walls of your love Are caving in… The…

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  • Cadaver

    Cadaver

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  • Expiration Date

    Potential has no expiration date.

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  • Resourcefulness

    What you can do With what you haveWithout excuses.

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  • If you haven’t realized by now,Your SSN is your SKU number,Your serial code. In a country that tracks its overall wellnessBased off of imaginary arbitrary Numbers generated fromSome fuckass Street [Wall]Are you actually Feigning surprise?Have you not realized thatYou’re just inventory—A stock item. You are their product And you thank themFor giving you the opportunityTo…

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  • Rose Petals

    Rose Petals

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  • 🌈Rainbows

    🌈Rainbows

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  • Purging Insecurities Daily

    Purging Insecurities Daily

    Consuming the darkness consuming me

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  • Simulating Stimulations

    Simulating Stimulations

    Born on the cusp of millennia / analogue being in digital age / Can’t simulate stimulations / from be-ness vibrations…

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  • 🔔 Reminders

    🔔 Reminders

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  • Everything AND Nothing

    Everything AND Nothing

    I AM.

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  • Get Well Soon

    I could taste your name in the corner of my cracked lips/and the spaces between my fingers have eroded/down to valleys kissed by droughts—/Thirsty for your ghostlike touch./I’m still drifting away into the unknown space/And all the whiskey and cigarettes can’t fill your place

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  • Sullied & Sullen

    Sullied & Sullen

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  • Tombstones chiseled By broken promises Epitaphs echoing like sonnets Palm reading like Pslams Extended fingers, prayer palms Hoarse prayers transporting High hopes in low riding Hearses. Heralding heresy Impunitive immunity Ignatus ambiguity, Illuminous dimming Wistfully witting.

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  • Millennial Scream into the Void

    This is not the land of the free nor opportunity, this is the land of delusion. This is not the “American Dream” unless you are asleep and it is just that–a dream. We are living in a time where a growing populous of people’s retirement plan is suicide. We have higher rates of self inflicted…

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  • Only Nomads

    Only Nomads

    Unmarked back roads paved in fractured fate lines. exposed palms, like cracked asphalt leading down routes Only nomads travel on.

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  • Ink Love

    Ink Love

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  • Words Are Bonds

    Words Are Bonds

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  • Opalescent Eyes

    Opalescent Eyes

    Artist Credit/IG: @no_i.d.707 How people like you and I have gazed into the windows of black serpents with opalescent eyes. Few wonder how death is so beautiful, her form and her sound. The warmth felt in the release from holding onto things we never really wanted in the first place — and so one of…

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  • Neon Darkness

    Neon Darkness

    Don’t mistake control for interest. This manipulation does not Make you special… distractions fromKarmic lessons. Black eyes are the same huesOf dying starsNeon darkness — begotten blightIn denial, we proceed to nameUnborn children “Sunlight”How ironic it is to hear Your soundReminding me how I wound upIn this position to begin with. You had me upside…

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  • Murder

    Murder

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  • Covenant

    Covenant

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  • Crucifying Confliction

    Crucifying Confliction

    Lashing out at being lashed. Don’t need you to hurt, don’t need you to feel and heal. Know that your presence is a gift—honor that.

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  • Motivation

    Motivation

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  • Beware

    Beware

    I have been an Electrician…Constantly rewiring My neural pathwaysUnlearning Life lessonsThat were never explicitly taught. I learned how to read Braille subtextWith trembling fingertipsIn an environment Where I was forbidden To feel. I was taughtThat expressing my hurtWas not valid within itself—It was an act ofDefiance or Disobedience I used to resistBeing an active participant…

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  • All You Can Do is Laugh

    All You Can Do is Laugh

    Crazy what happens when you get off your clown shit and get promoted to ringleader. I take joy in being a traveling circus.

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  • Full of Yourself…as Opposed to Who?

    “You’re so full of yourself!” Like it’s a bad thing. Have they ever taken a moment to think about what the fuck that even means? I now love to respond with, “As opposed to who? Who else am I supposed to be full of? Beyoncé? I am proud and only wish to be full and…

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  • Introduction:

    Introduction:

    Fuck you. And also, fuck me too. We’re not in this life together but that doesn’t mean we can’t come together. Turn the petty to prosperous.

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