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tw: this poem talks about negative thoughts.

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they ask me how i’m doing

i respond and say i’m just

tired.

but it’s far more than that.

you see,

my brain is full of thoughts.

they keep pestering and mocking me.

what do i do with all these thoughts in my mind?

sometimes i want to bury them

deep, deep inside.

but the longer i hide them,

the more they hurt me.

i’m way more than tired inside.

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these thoughts

are like ink

seeping slowly into my head.

but once they’re there,

they’re hard to get out.

tumbling and running

over and over again.

it’s like a broken record

playing the same old song.

i want something different.

please make it stop.

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some ink might be permanent,

but others are not.

luckily for me,

these thoughts are just thoughts.

sometimes they stain

the crevices in my mind.

if i work hard enough

i might clean them up

and leave them behind.

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as long as the ink

stays on the outside of my skin

i can heal from it

and learn how to grin.

for the inkling of thoughts

that leave tattoos on my heart —

i’ll learn to tame them

maybe someday

these thoughts will just stop.

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