“You can’t hurt me” Small sigh“I would never” Little lie “I trust you”Big mistake But one step is all it really takes “I love you” The words blur “And as do I” Yeah, for sure “I have never felt this way” Too bad he didn’t mean to stay.It was April when it all began The little pieces crumbleI felt it from the first “I’m tired” And his thoughts began to fumbleNo longer was it “I see us there” You...

you left and i was sad but even the sadness got boringtill i felt nothingthen you walk back in my life.all my memories, feelings, hopes and dreams of you, dissipated when i released you to the moon but then i see those eyes. pull me in with no escape like a black hole. it consumes me. electrifies me and all the memories, feelings, hope and dreams flood back to me, as i let you though the door. 

Breath in breath outI feel like my chest is going to cave inIn outI’m drowning in myselfDeep breathsThink of something elseI put a piece of gum in my mouthConcentrate on the feeling of it on my tongueI want to cryFeel the gumI want to scream but I can’tBreath in breath outI need to escape but where will I run I’m trappedDeep breathsIn outFeel the gumIt’s not workingI can’t stop it from comingAn...

I’ve suffered with depression and anxiety for years which along with family tragedies led me to alcoholism, close to losing everything I decided to turn it around, I asked for help and went through rehab. I then volunteered at the rehab centre until going through the training myself and becoming a qualified Peer Mentor to help other addicts of drugs and alcohol to get and stay clean and sober. ...

I stood on the ocean's edge: listening, smelling, watching. Waiting.Hearing the tides crash and roar as they destroyed great rocks that had been there for a thousand years and would have been there for a thousand more.Seeing the salty, stale, baron air that floated to me from across the glistening horizon.Watched the great stretches mass of ocean pull itself out and in and out and in. As it did...

First is lifeUntil you learn strife Until you learn nightUntil you learn lifeDarkness a scary sightFirst time to feel your alone at nightFighting yourselfAnd not any of that negative lightLosing yourself, you’ve haven’t beforeScary as plight against your own lifeFrom darkness to lightFrom daytime to nightRun from the first time you hated your lifeKnock on the door You’ve never done this before ...

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Another Day in Paradise With Wes was born of the boredom of routine life in quarantine is. However, it may be just what Wes needed...