Sinking

i always get myself into this mess. i always let him tell me i am beautiful and half believe it. i always jump thinking he will catch me at the fall. i am hopelessly a lover and a dreamer and that will be the death of me” – Rupi Kaur

It is a fog. I can feel it nesting throughout my mind – heavy, grey.

It covers any sort of positive thought with its heavy grey mass, the positive and logical thoughts I have been trying to build in my mind since this last happened.

The guilt and anger of feeling like i’ve lost that progress, it just adds to how much of a faliure i already feel like.

My eyes feel heavy, but i have had about a 24 hour sleep.

i can feel it. it’s in my stomach. an empty void that is sucking all the life out of me. the black hole i have been desperatley tried not to let consume me.

it’s a constant ache.

every single beat of my heart is pumping this sadness through my body like it has replaced my blood.

the void that everyone keeps telling me to fight against. to do things that make me feel better.

there’s no point.

i feel paralyzed.

i am not enough. i have never been enough. people moving on to others and leaving me just proves that – it proves that i lack something.

it proves that i was not enough for them to stay. it proves that i was delusional for ever believing their words.

maybe i expect too much.

i am a bottle of emotions waiting to explode.

i see the scars on my body.

they have also seen the scars on my body.

i hate them. they make me more ugly.

i will never have a beautiful body.

this is no one’s fault but mine. i will never blame.

i feel like i can’t escape.

Broken Pieces

Day by day.

Night by night.

Trying to glue the shattered pieces of my body back together

But my hands shake

I crumble again and again

I need help

I keep screaming and no one seems to hear me

Shattering like this hurts like nothing else

I’m all cut up on the inside

And it forms scars on my skin

The purpose of life

Is ripped from my body

The thoughts of the people around me swim through my mind

They haunt me with their voices and opinions of me and what I am and what I’m not

I’m too much

This is too much

Mental illness is fucked

This is what it is right?

It feels like its become me

I am this illness

Coffee Shop

Sitting in a booth in a coffee shop

Early morning cup of coffee in my hand

Large soy latte, one sugar

Piano music is blessing the room

And my tongue is slightly burnt from the first sip of coffee

There are people walking outside

Places to go

Rushing

Postmen, workers, tradies

Places to be

I feel content with this morning

Things finally feel okay

And maybe its moments like these

That are the reason I kept living

To feel this

Contentment

With a coffee and coffee shop music, taking me back millions of miles away to the coffee shops in central London

The smell of breakfast cooking and people’s perfume

For me to be sitting in a booth waiting for shops to open so I can go clothes shopping for a night out tonight

The future