Submissions by A_Failed_Artist
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Complications
Where does it hurt?
Here in the head
There in the bladder
Everywhere in my body
I was sickened before and I'm sickened now
I should have listened
Now I'm in bed sipping cranberry juice
Here in the head
There in the bladder
Everywhere in my body
I was sickened before and I'm sickened now
I should have listened
Now I'm in bed sipping cranberry juice
#illness
#frustration
#healing
481 reads
1 Comment
Not Your Fault
I'm going away where no one can find me.
Sharing my grief without you.
It's not that I can go to you, this just ain't no way to live.
I can't drain you everytime you see me, so I'll get up and speak to myself.
It hurts to know I've been hurt, I know.
It was never your fault, okay?
Sharing my grief without you.
It's not that I can go to you, this just ain't no way to live.
I can't drain you everytime you see me, so I'll get up and speak to myself.
It hurts to know I've been hurt, I know.
It was never your fault, okay?
#anxiety
#love
#depression
#grief
#despair
258 reads
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Be a Man
How do you expect a girl to be innocent when she's been fucked over her whole life?
Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.
We all have that one friend who's the reason I have to carry pepper spray just to go to the store.
The one who says, "bitches like that," when a woman complains about being choked.
The one who thinks he's a nice guy.
If you can't tell which friend it is, it's probably you.
Your anatomy is not what upsets me, it's how you separate me from you just by my gender.
In strength, in smarts, and in domestic living.
Like...
Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.
We all have that one friend who's the reason I have to carry pepper spray just to go to the store.
The one who says, "bitches like that," when a woman complains about being choked.
The one who thinks he's a nice guy.
If you can't tell which friend it is, it's probably you.
Your anatomy is not what upsets me, it's how you separate me from you just by my gender.
In strength, in smarts, and in domestic living.
Like...
#women
#abuse
#MeToo
#frustration
#feminism
574 reads
3 Comments
In Me
A drop in the water
Turns clear into muddy red
And I'm so god damn blessed!
It's not that I'm happy
It's just that I'm logical
Because there's nothing in me!
Turns clear into muddy red
And I'm so god damn blessed!
It's not that I'm happy
It's just that I'm logical
Because there's nothing in me!
#women
#water
451 reads
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The Sun
The word would be pretentious.
Does anyone even know who you are?
There's no way this reader knows what I'm talking about.
A magazine, oh wow.
Haven't read one of those since...
Does anyone even know who you are?
There's no way this reader knows what I'm talking about.
A magazine, oh wow.
Haven't read one of those since...
#anger
#rejection
#LifeAsAWriter #reading
#LifeAsAWriter #reading
384 reads
3 Comments
I Don't Win
Effortless, that's how I function.
I don't remember what they taught me in school.
History is just old gossip.
Spanish is just English's neighbor.
Math and science...
I fear the name.
How do you do it again?
Again?
What's the definition?
PE is a contest of gods.
I'm not even a demigod.
Brain and body are my weaknesses.
I thought I'd be dead before I graduate.
I don't remember what they taught me in school.
History is just old gossip.
Spanish is just English's neighbor.
Math and science...
I fear the name.
How do you do it again?
Again?
What's the definition?
PE is a contest of gods.
I'm not even a demigod.
Brain and body are my weaknesses.
I thought I'd be dead before I graduate.
#school
#shame
#FeelingLost #SelfWorth
#FeelingLost #SelfWorth
248 reads
2 Comments
Jobs no one wants to do
Poor freezing angel by the bus stop, do you hate your job?
Little baby holding up a grown up mop, would you rather work your way to the top?
When are you going to recognize that it's time for you to get out and socialize?
Maybe you should not patronize because I'm making it alone, monopolize.
Little baby holding up a grown up mop, would you rather work your way to the top?
When are you going to recognize that it's time for you to get out and socialize?
Maybe you should not patronize because I'm making it alone, monopolize.
#money
#misunderstood
#freedom
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What It Truly Means To Be Free
I will strip myself of identification
Denounce my religion
Betray my politics
Separate my gender
Vanish my sexuality
Erase my name
Only then can I be free
Denounce my religion
Betray my politics
Separate my gender
Vanish my sexuality
Erase my name
Only then can I be free
#courage
#identity
#freedom
236 reads
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Wish I Was Dead
Everything I do to make it better blows up in my face.
I punish myself regularly.
All I ever wanted was to be good at something.
Babies, living room never come to me at all.
Disappointed all, those who say, "You have it all".
"I just want you to be happy," end quote.
Why does everyone say that?
Can they tell I'm buried deep?
I'm starting to think love isn't worth it.
If I can't be what they think I am, then what's the god damn point?
I wish I wasn't scared.
Scared to go through it.
I punish myself regularly.
All I ever wanted was to be good at something.
Babies, living room never come to me at all.
Disappointed all, those who say, "You have it all".
"I just want you to be happy," end quote.
Why does everyone say that?
Can they tell I'm buried deep?
I'm starting to think love isn't worth it.
If I can't be what they think I am, then what's the god damn point?
I wish I wasn't scared.
Scared to go through it.
#anxiety
#depression
#suicide
274 reads
2 Comments
Mister
He wanted it and that was the end.
If it was in his grasp, it was his.
If it spilled his blood, it was his.
If it talked back, he'd make it his.
If it was in his grasp, it was his.
If it spilled his blood, it was his.
If it talked back, he'd make it his.
#abuse
#DomesticViolence
314 reads
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Multi-Level Mental Breakdown
Mother, you fucked me
Kept me in a cage my whole life
You let me go the day you got him off
Sensitive... I'm not.
You've killed me.
You never made me do anything and now I can't help myself.
I can't believe in a future where I'm happy.
I can't stand to talk to you.
I want to forgive you but something's always gonna feel wrong.
You've fucked me every which way.
Socially, educationally, mentally.
You selfish fucking bitch.
Kept me in a cage my whole life
You let me go the day you got him off
Sensitive... I'm not.
You've killed me.
You never made me do anything and now I can't help myself.
I can't believe in a future where I'm happy.
I can't stand to talk to you.
I want to forgive you but something's always gonna feel wrong.
You've fucked me every which way.
Socially, educationally, mentally.
You selfish fucking bitch.
#anger
#anxiety
#hate
#dark
#frustration
312 reads
3 Comments
Tomorrow
I'm scared of tomorrow.
I could give up and disappoint everyone.
I could do nothing and be penniless.
I could try and still be penniless or better yet walk into oncoming traffic.
So fucking sick.
I could give up and disappoint everyone.
I could do nothing and be penniless.
I could try and still be penniless or better yet walk into oncoming traffic.
So fucking sick.
#anxiety
#money
#FeelingTrapped #fear
#FeelingTrapped #fear
245 reads
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