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Fractured

... But Still Whole

By Nocturnal MusingsPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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i never wanted this day, never asked to be this way. i hide behind the lies & feign surprise when my life falls apart before my very eyes, when all along it is i who wanted it to die. its my lot in life to suffer, this i believe. how can it hurt so much just to be? all this fucking pain they've all dumped on me & its all their fault that i'll never be free. but it all goes back to the age of four, when a pedophile crept through my bedroom door & he took from me something that can never be replaced & he makes me wish that i could be erased. but he was only the first, he wouldn't be the last. a little girls innocence shattered like glass. i tell myself the blame doesn't lie with me & that helps to keep my self loathing at a tolerable degree. but it seems to me that everything is always my fault, from my birth to my brain to my sexual assault(s). i don't know what it is in me that you all see & seem to fall in love with so quickly. you can say that you want me & even call me beautiful but that doesn't make your words ring true. the truth is i am ugly & fractured & scarred and to go on this way forever is surely too hard. i ache for release for healing for bliss, to cease to exist & be swallowed by the abyss. i wish not for death nor for life or for love, but for the lack of all thereof...

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Nocturnal Musings

A sister, a lover, a wife, a mother. A teller of tall tales & one-liners. A fan of beaches & small diners. I love trees & my furbabies. I love my life, though its a bit crazy. Won't trade it for the world. Here I am, unfurled.

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