Non-Fiction Prose Seeking Friendly Advice
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
16th Apr 2025 1:05am
16th Apr 2025 1:05am
Everyday
Everyday, it's wake up, walk, make breakfast, be at the whim of my drunk sister's every command (although I have to block her number because I can't fulfill all of them), talk to friends throughout the day, clean if my chronic fatigue allows for it, write or read if my brain isn't too fogged, etc.
I can't get myself to do much. I'm too drained from dealing with toxic family members. I'm lucky when I can get away from them, but other times, I'm not too lucky.
I'm still not sure of how I haven't fainted yet. Definitely don't have the Instagram worthy lifestyle although I'm...
I can't get myself to do much. I'm too drained from dealing with toxic family members. I'm lucky when I can get away from them, but other times, I'm not too lucky.
I'm still not sure of how I haven't fainted yet. Definitely don't have the Instagram worthy lifestyle although I'm...
#art
#freedom
#passion #reading
#passion #reading
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
7th Apr 2025 3:32pm
7th Apr 2025 3:32pm
Why I'm Glad My Parents Were Never Held Accountable
It's harrowing for me to even say this. I'm disassociated while I type.
Have nightmares that never sleep. That never go away. Of my mother so vile on that screen screaming at me in a way I never ever had heard before. Deafening. To reveal how she really felt about me all this time. How horrifying it is. The horror. God knows what she put me through. I feel like I'm becoming a mini version of her. But I'm facing it either way, and it's beyond what hell is. It's nothing and everything all at once.
I have always thought my mom was a serial killer, and I still have...
Have nightmares that never sleep. That never go away. Of my mother so vile on that screen screaming at me in a way I never ever had heard before. Deafening. To reveal how she really felt about me all this time. How horrifying it is. The horror. God knows what she put me through. I feel like I'm becoming a mini version of her. But I'm facing it either way, and it's beyond what hell is. It's nothing and everything all at once.
I have always thought my mom was a serial killer, and I still have...
#abuse
#FeelingTrapped
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
7th Apr 2025 2:47am
7th Apr 2025 2:47am
Still Processing So Much Pain
The problem with this world is that there's so much pressure to be positive, so much pressure to be a polished version of yourself. I really really love the fact that I'm bluntly negative, and I genuinely don't give a fuck.
Not here to give anyone false hope. It's amazing that I'm even still here. My body did so much to keep me safe, and it still is. And I read 3 chapters of The Hunger Games which is amazing considering the fact that I've used social media excessively to cope for several months now. I feel myself still in a fog, can't concentrate too well.
I know what...
Not here to give anyone false hope. It's amazing that I'm even still here. My body did so much to keep me safe, and it still is. And I read 3 chapters of The Hunger Games which is amazing considering the fact that I've used social media excessively to cope for several months now. I feel myself still in a fog, can't concentrate too well.
I know what...
#denial
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Ambjr
Poem Published
5th Apr 2025 4:42pm
5th Apr 2025 4:42pm
mornin ramble
funeral day. it’s rainin. i love that for her. she hated the rain. “ruins my day.” as if her day was the universe’s problem. now she’s gettin soaked on her way outa this world. i really can’t help but find bit of poetry in all of that. but somedays i still find myself thinkin like a vindictive drunk. old habits. but this moment in my day isn’t bout her or not completely anyway. i went to bed early last night. slept whole four hours. we call that success round here. then i laid there with nietzsche pickin at my brain. weirdest shit always slips in when i’m not sleepin at 1am. amor fati. love...
#StreamOfConsciousness
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Umm
Poem Published
4th Apr 2025 7:08pm
4th Apr 2025 7:08pm
04.0.4.2025
How do you handle sunsets
with the pink underbellies of birds
in flight and cotton candy skies
turning blue to gray to pink to purple
while you're laying in bed saying yes & no to the one you love
while his eyes;
you can't look at them
with the pink underbellies of birds
in flight and cotton candy skies
turning blue to gray to pink to purple
while you're laying in bed saying yes & no to the one you love
while his eyes;
you can't look at them
#nonfiction
#prose
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
28th Mar 2025 1:30am
28th Mar 2025 1:30am
No Longer Afraid To Be Me
Due to religious trauma, this has been complicated.
But now, I'm free.
No more church.
No more pretending to be a commercial version to avoid seeming sinful.
Shadow work has taught me to embrace it all.
Dark side and all.
It will never be wrong to be me again.
But now, I'm free.
No more church.
No more pretending to be a commercial version to avoid seeming sinful.
Shadow work has taught me to embrace it all.
Dark side and all.
It will never be wrong to be me again.
#PersonalGrowth
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 6:10pm
27th Mar 2025 6:10pm
Lack of Women Friends
Spent much of my morning looking at Instagram, seeing other influencers and their brands and of course, comparing their bodies to each other and to my own. That no longer comes from a place of shame anymore. But pure curiosity.
I thought of an influencer that I haven't thought of in a while. Her name is Alyssa Lynch. She was featured in the lyric video Closer by Chainsmokers many years ago. If there was a person who would make the perfect role for Diana Rose, my character, it would be her. Tan skin, dark chocolate hair, mesmerizing eyes, skinny figure.
Just makes me...
I thought of an influencer that I haven't thought of in a while. Her name is Alyssa Lynch. She was featured in the lyric video Closer by Chainsmokers many years ago. If there was a person who would make the perfect role for Diana Rose, my character, it would be her. Tan skin, dark chocolate hair, mesmerizing eyes, skinny figure.
Just makes me...
#friendship
#women
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Poetryman
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 5:39pm
27th Mar 2025 5:39pm
If anyone cares
I have my email posted in my profile, but I will post it here too al9ng with my youtube page. Feel free to say hello or listen to my poems.
Thanks jj Poetryman.
It has been a great pleasure to have shared my poems with all of you poets here on DUP for the past 14 years. It saddens me not only to lose that opportunity but also to read yours. And to know no longer share special friendships across the miles, like Jade Pandora who we lost to illness. One of the great friendships of my life, we had many hours long phone conversations before she passed. Now I will no longer be...
Thanks jj Poetryman.
It has been a great pleasure to have shared my poems with all of you poets here on DUP for the past 14 years. It saddens me not only to lose that opportunity but also to read yours. And to know no longer share special friendships across the miles, like Jade Pandora who we lost to illness. One of the great friendships of my life, we had many hours long phone conversations before she passed. Now I will no longer be...
#friendship
#LifeAsAWriter
#love
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 2:02am
27th Mar 2025 2:02am
Chronic Fatigue
On top of trying to have a healthy lifestyle, I also have chronic fatigue.
It's a condition that exercise can worsen the symptoms. Many people with chronic fatigue are perfectionists and have had trauma. It's like the brain is so exhausted from having to survive such a harsh environment that the brain shuts down.
I need more sleep than the average person. I have to sleep during the day, and this is not just due to my medication. It's due to the fact that I've always been this way since I was a kid. Always had to sleep and nap and everything else.
It doesn't...
It's a condition that exercise can worsen the symptoms. Many people with chronic fatigue are perfectionists and have had trauma. It's like the brain is so exhausted from having to survive such a harsh environment that the brain shuts down.
I need more sleep than the average person. I have to sleep during the day, and this is not just due to my medication. It's due to the fact that I've always been this way since I was a kid. Always had to sleep and nap and everything else.
It doesn't...
#illness
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 1:40am
27th Mar 2025 1:40am
Staying Healthy While Managing My Perfectionism
I haven't talked about this in a while. Honestly, it's always in the back of my mind.
As someone like me who's not going to live as long as someone without trauma, mental health issues, and so on, I'm honestly obsessed with my health. I have an orthorexia type brain. Can't say anything about anorexia because I don't starve myself at all yet I do have an obsession with thinness.
Naturally, when I eat a piece of cake (when I never do otherwise) or brownies at times or french toast, I feel that pang of guilt and shame. And it is intense.
I was bullied by a fat...
As someone like me who's not going to live as long as someone without trauma, mental health issues, and so on, I'm honestly obsessed with my health. I have an orthorexia type brain. Can't say anything about anorexia because I don't starve myself at all yet I do have an obsession with thinness.
Naturally, when I eat a piece of cake (when I never do otherwise) or brownies at times or french toast, I feel that pang of guilt and shame. And it is intense.
I was bullied by a fat...
#EatingDisorder
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 10:40pm
25th Mar 2025 10:40pm
Lazy People Doing More For The Environment
Funny comment I saw on that one Office clip about the character who says if he got a million dollars, he'd gladly do nothing. I think that's how many people feel when working in an office. They know they're working until they're nearly die. They want the escape button.
There was a comment in this thread, I think, that said the lazy people are doing more for the world than the motivated people. And one person asked why. And another answered with this (I'm paraphrasing): "Think about it. The motivated people are tearing down entire ecosystems to build shopping malls, and the...
There was a comment in this thread, I think, that said the lazy people are doing more for the world than the motivated people. And one person asked why. And another answered with this (I'm paraphrasing): "Think about it. The motivated people are tearing down entire ecosystems to build shopping malls, and the...
#responsibility
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