I came out of my mother carrying her disease
invisible all our lives and only gone to please
my teeth are rotting, and my nail beds are stuffed full of grease
the smell of her sticks to me, sticks to me, sticks to me
she does nothing, yet does everything
I also do nothing, complicit in my own deteriorating
green, a color now ruined and full of depravity
It's in everything, even my cavities
It's in my carpet, wiped snot and inside of me
It's in everything, everything, everything
the food I consume can hardly be called sustenance
but the oil tastes nice, and we function off convenience
bug carcasses thrive within our nest of trash
maggots squirm in the sink as dishes pile in mass
flies swarm my very heart
ripping my humanity apart, apart, apart
I am trapped in this life, and I will never escape
I have long since accepted my monstrous fate
even if my dead body was thrown carelessly down in a dump
It'd have no difference from my life in this slump
I will never be clean until the day that I die
someone please save me from this miserable life
someone please save me, save me, save me
poverty created and will be the end of me.
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Comments (11)
:clap: :clap: felt, i once read "poverty only teaches you how to be poor", and then there's people glamorizing it, be soo fr...
I hate so much when it's glamorized :sob: Being in poverty is not just living in a cute little shack it's literally learning to co-exist with bugs and grim, learning to perform so others don't notice how gross you are, learning how to function when you lack so much nutrition it's hard to stand. It's hell :weary:
first of all, i'm sending you a lot of strenght and good luck :four_leaf_clover: hope your situation gets way better, you and your family deserve it.
to me, the worst it's how inferior and abnormal you feel. there's people my age who can pay for college, eat out, travel to other countries which is like how, yet apparently that's the norm and what makes a human being worthy of respect? how can we even relate to that "normality"?
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Oh my god i understand so much. I go to a public school in a mostly wealthy area, and after every break it's always, "I went to Hawaii" "I went to Europe" Like how?? :sob: Especially when they take it for granted and find a way to complain. The disconnect feels humiliating. I wish you so much luck in life as well 🫂
YOU ATE THIS UP. how does it feel to be this talented!
Reply to: leafy#emmaursbff★
And at 16?! wow you'll go very far :)
Reply to: red
Wahh that's so sweet ☹ I read some of your works too and you have such a way with words. Hope you continue <3
Reply to: leafy#emmaursbff★
AWWW thank you, i don't think ill be stopping neither should you!
Oh my god. Literally this. Absolute fire :fire:
People couldn’t possibly understand this unless you’ve lived it.
No literally, you don't understand the emotional torture until you've really been through it. It makes you go insane. I feel so seen 🫶 thank you