Submissions by A_Failed_Artist
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Shell
Something is crawling inside of my turtle shell.
Roaming in my arms, in my legs, tense as a shiver.
It's me, I never met him before.
I can't sit down or else they'll hatch.
From my cracked skin, new live emerges.
Song birds or baby spiders.
He's coming to take control, for the weaker is losing it.
She'll be lost in the back of my mind as I forget how bad it was.
I need him, I want to be him, but I can't feel a thing.
Roaming in my arms, in my legs, tense as a shiver.
It's me, I never met him before.
I can't sit down or else they'll hatch.
From my cracked skin, new live emerges.
Song birds or baby spiders.
He's coming to take control, for the weaker is losing it.
She'll be lost in the back of my mind as I forget how bad it was.
I need him, I want to be him, but I can't feel a thing.
#dark
#identity
#myself #SelfReflection
#myself #SelfReflection
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STOP!
Fear has a sound and the sound is silence.
I've reached it's end and dug a tunnel, now I have mud on my psyche.
I thought I saw you in a dream dressed up like a politician.
Sorry I had to kill you, it's just business.
Now the blood is leaking out and you're standing above me.
Staring me down with neither life or death.
Oh kiss me, my lover, I want it to stop.
I've reached it's end and dug a tunnel, now I have mud on my psyche.
I thought I saw you in a dream dressed up like a politician.
Sorry I had to kill you, it's just business.
Now the blood is leaking out and you're standing above me.
Staring me down with neither life or death.
Oh kiss me, my lover, I want it to stop.
#love
#dark
#dreams
#death
#fear
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Poly
Madness is a game played by so few.
Hiding among family and strutting with strangers, the shaved feminine dances with the long haired male.
They'll see you two in the body of one, you'll give them something to talk about.
Like the gods, many of you exist, though some are prettier than others.
Show them you are Brigid and the Morrigan.
Hiding among family and strutting with strangers, the shaved feminine dances with the long haired male.
They'll see you two in the body of one, you'll give them something to talk about.
Like the gods, many of you exist, though some are prettier than others.
Show them you are Brigid and the Morrigan.
#courage
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfWorth
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Ten Word Story II
You see that throbbing pulse leaking because extreme sports pictures.
#funny
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Raised to be Sad
A smile doesn't come naturally to me.
I've never even seen one.
This house and it's taxpayers have a disease which they spread down on me.
The girl with a cake full of makeup, feels like a joke to the mirror.
And when they say cheese, she feels as ugly as forgery.
"Don't be so down," they try to tell me. I tell them, "It's human nature."
I've never even seen one.
This house and it's taxpayers have a disease which they spread down on me.
The girl with a cake full of makeup, feels like a joke to the mirror.
And when they say cheese, she feels as ugly as forgery.
"Don't be so down," they try to tell me. I tell them, "It's human nature."
#anxiety
#depression
#family
#beauty
#school
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Doing?
I don't want people to know I exist.
I don't want anyone to see me.
They don't need to know who I am.
They don't need to see where I've been.
I can give them something to look at.
A bed full of erect knives, how about that?
A good long list of things wrong with me.
A death threat, if you're lucky.
Aw, what's wrong?
You wanted to know how I've been doing.
I'm doing nothing and I'm fan fucking tastic!
Aren't you!?
I don't want anyone to see me.
They don't need to know who I am.
They don't need to see where I've been.
I can give them something to look at.
A bed full of erect knives, how about that?
A good long list of things wrong with me.
A death threat, if you're lucky.
Aw, what's wrong?
You wanted to know how I've been doing.
I'm doing nothing and I'm fan fucking tastic!
Aren't you!?
#depression
#dark
#LifeStruggles
#suicide
#despair
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Confessionals
I.
Dear Friend, I think,
We were thick as thieves from the playground to the last kiss of adolescence.
Where have you gone lately?
I can see your happy, but you never tell me.
Do we still think about each other?
friend, I think not.
II.
I'm never coming home, not all of me.
I don't really care if I never see your children again.
You like to use that as an excuse to bother me.
Understand that I understand you want a normal family.
I do, too.
III.
You were the world to me.
Was...
Dear Friend, I think,
We were thick as thieves from the playground to the last kiss of adolescence.
Where have you gone lately?
I can see your happy, but you never tell me.
Do we still think about each other?
friend, I think not.
II.
I'm never coming home, not all of me.
I don't really care if I never see your children again.
You like to use that as an excuse to bother me.
Understand that I understand you want a normal family.
I do, too.
III.
You were the world to me.
Was...
#jealousy
#breakup
#conflict #friendship
#conflict #friendship
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Anxiety Attack
Lost my mind for a second, can you help me?
The air was cold and covered in soot when the attacks happened.
I was unamused by the psycho ambush tearing down the ration wall.
I was unprepared for impatient do-not-cares as I ran for the stall.
Can it be true, that I don't want it anymore?
It can't be true, that I don't want it anymore.
The fear is good, the love is bad, for all I know, it's just a gas.
Come home to you, a broken man.
The air was cold and covered in soot when the attacks happened.
I was unamused by the psycho ambush tearing down the ration wall.
I was unprepared for impatient do-not-cares as I ran for the stall.
Can it be true, that I don't want it anymore?
It can't be true, that I don't want it anymore.
The fear is good, the love is bad, for all I know, it's just a gas.
Come home to you, a broken man.
#anxiety
#money
#confessional
#despair
#emptiness
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Reasons I Work
Have a reason to get paid again.
The reason to get up before your baby, making that drink to sustain you for hours.
The reason to be thankful for the misery.
The machines that break your back, don't let them break your spirit.
Have a reason to stay on your feet all day without mercy.
Still don't have one?
The reason to get up before your baby, making that drink to sustain you for hours.
The reason to be thankful for the misery.
The machines that break your back, don't let them break your spirit.
Have a reason to stay on your feet all day without mercy.
Still don't have one?
#hope
#motivational
#money
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A Day
Will that be enough?
A day to take your mind off?
You're taking it right now and you're miserable.
Maybe you just don't have anything to live for.
A day to take your mind off?
You're taking it right now and you're miserable.
Maybe you just don't have anything to live for.
#depression
#money
#SelfWorth
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Emergency!
Emergency!
Employees,
Equality epiphany,
Earthly ecstasy!
Employees,
Equality epiphany,
Earthly ecstasy!
#money
#greed
#inequality
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Ten Word Story
Blanket is wet because Obama spit blood all over it.
#funny
#ShortStory
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