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  • Sitting in Shit

    I’m sitting today in a pile of shit. I woke up in it. I opened my eyes, and I was drowning in it before I could even take a breath. Days on end of screaming and whining. A nightmare every parent knows. Oh, how we love our children, and yet we need a break from…

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  • Mind Shift

    Have you ever had a mind shift that left you wondering how you lived a lifetime any other way? That you lived for so many years lost in a mind that thought so differently than you do at this moment. My mind has shifted, and although it feels shockingly fast, it has happened gradually over…

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  • Fantasy

    A fantasy plays in my head. It tickles my ears and soothes my mind for a time. Breeding a false hope of things I desire to come true. Allowing me to live in a delusion that holds on and breads pain and not peace. These fantasies play and I get lost in them as if…

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  • Victim

    Have you ever argued with your own mind? I find myself doing it all the time now. I argue until it’s painful. I allow the thoughts to twist and turn and push up against each other. Allowing a battle in my brain that is more painful at times than the feelings that brought up the…

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  • Next

    My heart aches but I struggle to cry. I can’t fight against tears that refuse to stream down my face. Even my tears leave me alone and dry. I feel the pools well up at the bottom of my eyes and then nothing. Begging for a release that isn’t coming. Just another broken connection. In…

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