List: Turning it Inward

About my struggles with Bipolar Disorder.

• Flight or Fight Responses

  if I slice my veins open
  will I bleed ink?

  20 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 22 11:10 PM 2007. In Angst, Pain, Personal, Sad, Dark, Weird, Thoughts
• Two Minutes to Self-Destruct

  I long to slice the silence
  

  28 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 22 10:46 PM 2007. In Angst, Pain, Personal, Dark, Thoughts, Self-Mutilation, Cutting
• My Cage

  This is my cage: / these are my blackened bars, / iron wrought with malignant jealousy, / constructed with cancerous greed. / I am shackled with contempt / and cuffed with envy - / your leaden weight crushes

  19 lines, 14 comments, on Jul 17 10:46 PM 2007. In Dark, Angst, Love, Life, Society, Sad, Thoughts, Weird
• [ I am such a ]

  I am such a / {dirtylittlesponge} / riddled with gaping pores / to leech all the negative neurosis / and pathetic psychosis / from the fles

  37 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 30 10:49 PM 2007. In Angst, Dark, Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Weird
• Headliner

  I have drifted
  into that red crevice

  23 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 17 9:54 AM 2007. In Dark, Angst, Pain, Thoughts, Weird
• Fragmented Perceptions

  the rivulets
  tear through the haze

  16 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 26 10:45 PM 2007. In Personal, Pain, Angst, Sad, Thoughts, Weird, Dark
• Schizo

  I chase the pulse to erase the chant:
  I am. I am. I am.

  26 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 26 11:27 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts, Weird, Angst, Pain, Dark, Life
• The Shaping of Me

  forcing the free flow again
  from wounds still fresh

  45 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 20 11:40 PM 2007. In Pain, Personal, Thoughts, Weird, Dark, Angst
• Imprints

  imprint
  virgin flesh

  27 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 18 10:17 PM 2007. In Society, Abuse, Angst, Pain, Thoughts, Weird, Dark
• Morning Despair

  I am crippled / crushed beneath / the bone-cracking weight, / the love and the hate / I carry with me / / I wake to morning light / and a haunting breeze / I can hardly breathe / I stumble in front of the m

  45 lines, 9 comments, on May 13 11:03 PM 2007. In Sad, Personal, Angst, Life, Pain
• Fast! Forward! Reverse!

  Mirror, / silver lake of lies / of dreams disturbed / by images / distorted / faces contorted / eyes glimmer - / a smile / a frown? / perha

  44 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 1 12:44 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Weird, Other, Life
• Demons Inside

  even with the demons howling at my door
  (yet the most dangerous ones live inside)

  12 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 3 6:15 PM 2007. In Sad, Society, Thoughts, Weird, Fantasy, Dark
• Wilted

  I am the center of the flower
  {dull and colorless}

  14 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 28 1:29 AM 2007. In Angst, Abuse, Sad, Nature, Life, Weird, Dark
• Placid

  a mortar to slip between
  the jagged openings

  42 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 6 6:44 PM 2007. In Angst, Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Weird, Life, Rough Draft
• Floor Accountant

  Ticker-tape thoughts
  rush out (clicking)

  35 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 22 5:07 PM 2007. In Personal, Weird, Abstract, Society, Rough Draft
• Diametrical

  You found the crash in the fuselage -
  metal twisted under extreme pressure.

  31 lines, 36 comments, on May 7 9:17 PM 2008. In Metaphorical
• Burned, From the Inside - Out

  Tempestuously I breathe
  fire, fervor, luminosity

  15 lines, 29 comments, on May 4 1:05 AM 2008. In Contest, Dark, Angst, Personal, Metaphorical
• Blood-Letting

  Madness inspiring hemophilia -
  wounds will close no more.

  21 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 21 9:42 PM 2008. In Angst, Dark, Pain, Personal, Sad, Thoughts, Weird
• Unhinged

  I have taken
  to careful examination

  17 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 5 8:34 PM 2008. In Angst, Sad, Society, Personal, Pain, Life, Weird, Dark
• Almost Deliberate

  It is as if
  I've forgotten how to breathe

  20 lines, 20 comments, on Feb 24 11:20 AM 2008. In Dark, Thoughts, Weird, Personal, Pain, Sad, Angst
• Breakdown

  no preview for you!

  19 lines, 16 comments, on Feb 2 11:07 PM 2008. In Angst, Life, Hope, Thoughts

• By me, right now

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by Auburn Sunrise

Categories: Dark, Depression, Pain, Personal

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