i think im just traumadumping with poetry at this point
hmmmm... should I deprive myself of human interaction...?
wow okay, that felt strangely feminine why did I do that
I am really going to go crazy some day,
I am going to go fucking insane.
It feels like the whole world is against me,
when I know it is not in truth,
but I can't let go of truth nor lie and it all blends together.
What do I want? What the fuck do I even want?
Is it money? Convenience? Freedom? Ability?
Will I come to value material more than I value people?
Will I come to value society more than I value its parts?
Will I erase "myself" in search of a "successful" future?
What am I? What can I be?
Am I able to be more than the sum of my history?
More than trauma, coping, addiction, fear, anger, sadness?
Do I even want to be more? Will I lose "myself" in the process?
Am I even allowed to change?
"okay, so what do you say when someone says they're not worth anything"
"Who the hell says they're worthless I'll fight them" "Alright, now what should you think when you're the one that feels like you're worthless" "Well I'd be right, I am worthless" "no-"
Why should I care about him? C'mere. Just look at this train wreck.
Ugly face. UUUUUGLY fucking face. Cmon. Have you seen this guy? He looks like every single kind of criminal's face averaged into a final composite. A face only a mother could love, except not even that - his mother is trying to fix it as we speak! Hah!
Fatass belly. Musculature of a rat. Those arms you see? Maybe a twentieth is muscle, the rest is fat. Can barely handle 15 pound dumbbells, what a fucking weakling.
His terrible posture. Back hunched over like he's 90 years old and about to croak, reinforcing his own negative self-image. Eyes empty like his brain, completely numb to reality.
And what about the mind? Well, what about it? He's a fucking dolt. Can't do anything well, refuses to work hard, just escapes everything.
Why, I'd almost go so far as to say that he's the product of nothing but childhood trauma and bad coping mechanisms developed in response to that trauma, except he might also be dealing with some undiagnosed autism and ADHD and those two aren't really his fault.
And look at him even now. Hiding away, refusing to deal with his problems, just writing and yelling and wallowing in despair like a fucking sewer rat, afraid of even asking his time-tested friends for support or help. Instead he just screams into the meaningless void like it's gonna do anything. Newsflash, bub, it ain't doin shit!
He's even gotten himself stuck in a circular loop! He thinks he doesn't deserve good things, he thinks he doesn't deserve to be happy, or be loved, or be human, and this sort of thinking makes him undeserving of those things, and he knows that, and he keeps on thinking it because he wants to not deserve those things! This sort of negative circular reasoning is like getting hit by a parked car; just don't!
And he talks like he's the only one with these problems, like he's the only one who'll ever understand, as he looks right into the faces of everyone who's ever had worse, and tells them that he has it bad, like the whole world has been bullying him specifically instead of him choosing to dig further into the pit.
He thinks he's martyring himself! Like his own suffering makes anyone any happier! (Well, it evidently makes his father happier, but that's besides the point.) What a joke! Come around, everybody, look! An idiot! Let's all point and laugh!
He's not even doing it correctly! All that happens when he talks is he starts fucking venting and making everyone else upset at him and feel bad. If you're really martyring yourself, why even say anything if you don't have something positive to say? Just be a good person and die quietly in the ditch. Shut up about your problems, everyone else has it way worse and doesn't need you adding to it.
Anyways, as you can clearly see, this lil fucker is completely worthless. Waste of air and oxygen. I'd tell him to just jump, except he doesn't even know where his nearest bridge is and hasn't bothered to search it up. What a fucking failure. Tell me, seriously, why should I ever care about him?
Oh. Wait.
That's a mirror.
Let me be alone.
Let me be in suffering.
I have earned nothing less.
I have failed you.
I have failed them.
Throw me to the dogs.
Throw me on the fire.
Throw me like paper scraps.
Let me achieve penance.
Finally did it this time.
3rd time’s the charm.
today i am going to run on the treadmill until either my lungs or my legs give out
the pain will remind me to exist
I need to move.
I need to run.
I don’t know why.
Maybe to run from my past.
Maybe to run towards my future.
Maybe to run to beat my enemies, who are now old and weak.
I need to fight.
I don’t know why.
Maybe to assert my own superiority.
Maybe to assert my own self-defense capability.
Maybe to practice for when I am to fight my enemies on equal ground for the first and last time.
I need to move.
I don’t know why.
Maybe to run towards the future.
Maybe to fight the evils of my past.
Maybe to finally feel proud and confident of my body, of my self, for the first time.
I need to move.
How can I get you to care about people? How can I get you to be kind?
Why do you think love happens? Why do you think people are altruistic at all?
It's not because someone told them to be, I'll tell you that much.
It's because love and kindness are what the world thrives on.
Nobody wins by being angry all the time. No man is an island.
The world is not zero-sum. Kindness shared is kindness tripled.
But I'll assume this doesn't convince you, or you would've found the path by age five.
Let's consider the people who were solitary. The people who didn't love.
Evolution filtered them all out. Evolution championed kindness.
And if that's not a good enough reason to love, then I don't know what is.