Chew me up
And spit me out
As you digest
What I've said
Don't listen to me at all
Nor the voices in my head
Don't talk to me about
Trying harder
When you don't know
What it's like
Don't tell me to socialize
When you don't live my life
Funny how some paper
And a pen
Could do so much
Damage
And lift someone's heart
I can scrap my brain
For positive words
As my mind falls apart
Funny
How the absence
Of some people
Hits harder than most
And how someone
You know so well
Is yesterday's ghost
Make me believe
Life isn't all bad
When there's pain
All around
Sorry to say
Your pretty words
Are nothing profound
Make me see sunsets
And oceans unexplored
They're beautiful
For a minute
Then people destroy
Everything they adored
Funny
How people hurt the things
They love most
And how people
Never learn
How much they've got
Til it's lost
I'm writing goodbye
On pages
Meant for a selected few
And yet none of them
Will see these poems
Just for you
I write about them
And myself, everytime
Yet they don't bother
To look
And see what they'll find
They'll think to themselves
My, she was sad
Yet my screams were unheard
When I told them
I was getting bad
What could they have done?
To save a lonely girl
Blame yourself
Maybe
What'll that do?
She's still gone
And none of you knew
She tried to tell you
Words fell on deaf ears
You nodded your heads
Sent me off on some meds
Gave me someone to talk to
And suddenly I'm cured!
I spiral some more
Fluctuate in weight
Don't leave my room
I'm starting to wait
Wait it out
Til everything's checked off
Write some more
Tick tock
Tick tock
More days go by
Tears dry
Tick tock
Tick tock
Such a promising student
Now such a disgrace
Tick tock
Tick tock
Never leaves the house
Look at her face
Tick tock
Tick tock
You'd never know it
By how she acts
Tick tock
Tick tock
Listen closer
You've got all the facts
Tick tock
Tick tock
She told you
She doesn't want to be here
Tick tock
Tick tock
She's pushing you away
When she needs you near
Tick tock
Tick tock
You let it happen
Watch it go
Tick tock
Tick tock
She tried her best
Didn't you know?
.
.
.
.
.
Faded in a memory
You can fondly look back
But don't act
Like you didn't know-
Every panic attack
Every time she cried-
When she lied-
Every time
She tried.
Well
I guess you didn't
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
But you never asked.
~~RDP~~
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Living In The Mind's Cage
PoesiaThe poems start inexperienced, I was younger then. As you read further it shows my growth as a person and my fallbacks. Maturing slowly through each one. It's my mental journey. These are poems are my outlet and help me with my issues when I can't d...
