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By Anonymous

Hot tears of blood flow down my open wrist. A substitute for the tears I cannot cry. Numb, my body will make me feel. Help me understand the wild emotions seizing my petrified h...

#379952 Poetry
By Zarisa Austin BRONZE
Ormond Beach, Florida
Zarisa Austin BRONZE, Ormond Beach, Florida
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#379953 Poetry
clearlysecretive SILVER, Madison, Wisconsin
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Suspicion is trying to find out what you later wish you don't know

#379954 Poetry
By cmalcolm DIAMOND
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
cmalcolm DIAMOND, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
54 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Who you Finna Try"

#379955 Poetry
By Dymond BRONZE
Hueytown, Alabama
Dymond BRONZE, Hueytown, Alabama
3 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Why Should I Fit In, When I'm Born To Stand Out: Anyone can be ordinary, but it takes someone with faith in God to be extraordinary.

#379956 Poetry
By Opticalillusion DIAMOND
Edenton, North Carolina
Opticalillusion DIAMOND, Edenton, North Carolina
64 articles 13 photos 59 comments

Favorite Quote:
I am an artist bound only for the poet's glory....But only achieve half of the success that my dreams aspire to find, And to what do the whispers tell me of this failure...To what end to they haunt my nightmares...my eternal dark dreams...

#379957 Poetry
By nishadnaik12345 BRONZE
Cupertino, California
nishadnaik12345 BRONZE, Cupertino, California
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#379958 Poetry
By kirchnes17 SILVER
Port Jefferson, New York
kirchnes17 SILVER, Port Jefferson, New York
8 articles 1 photo 1 comment
#379959 Poetry
By nupurdave89 BRONZE
Sugar Land, Texas
nupurdave89 BRONZE, Sugar Land, Texas
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#379960 Poetry
EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
30 articles 1 photo 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.<br /> <br /> And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."<br /> -The Good Place