http://slow.writerscafe.org/Poet4Life The original writings of author Tori Jones en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776021499 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Sleep deprived and weary-eyedThoughts of death and suicideHiding the pain and imperfectionsTrying to exceed all expectationsCutting and burning away insecuritiesSaying, "I'm fine," and ignoring my feelingsEvery day the same as beforeLiving and breathing becoming a choreWaiting for something I know w.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/2085634/ The dripping of blood stolen by the bladeTears streaming down her cheeks and rolling off her faceFlesh splitting open with just one slice"Next time," she cries, "next time will be the last time."But the truth is she doesn't really want to dieShe just can't stand to live with the pain that she's inTh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/2085551/ You call me shyAnd mock my every moveYou make me fight Just to prove myself to you...ThoughtsYou tell me liesAnd trap me insideYou make me cryLeaving me sleep deprived...IsolationYou tell me I'm not wantedAnd pierce my flesh with your impuritiesUntil I've gone too farKilling me along with my in.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1887965/ I'm not happyI never amI have nothing of my ownAnd myself to blameNot having a reason to liveNot having a reason to stayLocked inside a world of painTrying not to go insaneLiving aloneNothing left to fight forWithout a homeI'm laying on the cold floorWithout parentsBeing abandoned long agoMy hope dy.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1854233/ Depressed and abusedBeaten and usedThough these years have been longIt hasn't always seemed so wrongYou used me as a toolAnd stepped on me like a stoolAnd although you broke my soulI shall live on to showThat I'm not the weakling you thought me to beI remember the things you said the day I was born".. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1853858/ For lordofmadmen... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1845387/ Without water we wiltWithout light we shrivel upFor we were never builtTo go through life all aloneBut were createdTo strive for hope When people speak lifeWe grow in faithWhen people criticizeWe are discouragedAnd waste our livesThinking we aren't valuableAnd feel like we need to changeOur way.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1844339/ He’d seen her sittingalone, and wanted to know who she was. So, walking up, he said hello. When sheheard him, she looked up in surprise.Who is he? What if he sees past my disguise?He looked back with awarm smile that made her melt all over inside.Why is he smiling? Should I s.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1843961/ She was the girlWho never spokeShe hid in the shadowAfraid and aloneBecause she'd rather hide Than be seenFor she had many problemsAnd was afraid of talkingTo other peopleAnd afraid of walkingOn the road that was knownTo be full of joyFor she was stripped of hopeAnd only wanted to be knownBut n.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1843920/ Time is something we must hold dearIt's something one cannot seeNor even hearSomething precious and valuableNot something to be careless aboutSo I warn you to never waste timeBut to hold your loved ones closeAnd your enemies even closerFor you cannot predict or supposeWhat is going to happenFor only.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1839213/ I'm cast out.From my little worldFrom where once I blacked outIn my sphere of things no one caresWhat I am thinking aboutLove is overratedAnd I'm unprivilegedAs love is like a privilegeHence most of us abuse it,And I do not deserve itFor I have been fallaciousTo be forgiven and forgottenI'd like to .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1838494/ You said you loved meSo why did you leaveYou said you'd alwaysBe there for meNow that you're goneI finally seeThe reason you loved meWas so you could have Advantage over meAnd leave me emptyAlone in my griefFor you never really caredYou just wanted me to beCaught in the illusion That you t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1838013/ I wish I weren't so shyMaybe then I could tell you whyI have reason to hideThe way I feel insideBut I can't, because I'm shy...I wish I could tell youHow much I love your smileAnd how your existence Makes life more worthwhileBut I can't, because I'm shyWithout you I am incompleteI feel an empti.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1836754/ When this world has taken controlI sit down and thinkHow blessed I am to beStill livingAnd breathingWhich keeps me from thinkingI am a lost cause and a waste of timeI can be who I wannabeAnd need to stopBasing things off Depression and griefFor love is so much moreThan pain and sorrowFor it nev.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1835895/ I am suffering from depression every secondStill trying to accept the factThat I can be mendedAnd do not have to actLike someone I'm notFor I am lovedAnd I do have meaningAnd my existence must beOf importanceOtherwise I wouldn't still beStanding here breathingI will overcome depressionAnd when I doI.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1835762/ Animals are loving and kindThey know what you're thinkingInside your drifting mindThey understand the pain you feelAll the timeThey comfort you Like no one else canThey sit in your lapAnd lick your handThey look into your eyesAnd see the hurt deep withinThen move into actionTo give you peace ag.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1835566/ When I wake upI have to yawnAnd stop to think"What am I doing wrong?"Everything in life is so hardAnd I'm struggling to surviveJust taking the time to yawn At the crack of dawnIsn't as easy as you would thinkEverything is goneThe second I blinkLeft all aloneI yawnTrying to clear my mindBut it n.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1835302/ Revision done by: The Exiled Wolf.... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1835293/ People don't understated The way I feelFor I am in painAnd need to be healedFor I am depressedAnd cannot comprehendThe faults and mistakesI have committedFor I am cracked in twoAnd running further from hopeBut also loveBecause I have faultsAnd I have hurtsI tried to have loveBut it was destroye.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1835054/ When you insult meAnd mock meI feel ill strickenAnd defeatedFor everything I doIs to help youAnd keep you safeSo why do you treat me like this...Why do I deserve to sufferFor your faults and mistakesWhy do I get beatenFor you sakeI give you my all And put my life at risk for youSo why do you tr.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1833294/ I felt you looking at meWanting to say somethingBut you got scaredAnd turned awayWhy won't you talk to meI want to discuss thingsBetween you and IWon't you talkAnd stop being so shyI think of youAll the timeBut you won't talk to me And I can't understand whyDon't you love meOr is that a lieBeca.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1833117/ We see and hear thingsThat one cannot explainWe hide it and secret itBut still feel the painAnd regret forevermoreFor we ourselves Are afraid of what may happenIf we let our secret slipAnd that secret we hid for so longBecomes knownAnd others are shownWhat we didAnd refuse to forgiveThe secrets.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1832987/ I'm trappedIn a boxWith no way outSomeone help meI don't want to beAlone in my box anymorePlease get me outI want to talkAnd have funI want to go outsideAnd lay in the sunBut life is so hardAnd dullAnd I don't want to fallAny longer For I am in the darkAnd need to find the lightSo I can escape .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1832415/ If I told you what I've doneWould you forgive meAnd move onOr would you hate meAnd be goneI need to know how you feelAm I important to youOr am I just a tool you useAm I a light to youOr a sea of darknessI need to knowWon't you tell meSo I can know for sureThat I am not aloneAnd that I can trust you.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1832157/ When I wake upRealization strikesMy fear and painPour down on me like rainStirring up my failuresAnd bringing me to say"Why did it have to turn out this way?I never meant for this to happen, I am sorry. Please forgive me..."But it isn't that easyBecause even thoughthey might forgive meI can't c.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1831965/ Why is the world full of sinWe do so much wrongWhy do we let it winUs over until we've goneToo far to take it backOr to even hide What we've doneWe know we sinBut whyWhy is it doneWhy can't it beSomething elseSomeing beautifulBut instead we chooseTo be hatefulAnd sinfulAnd I am ashamed to sayI .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1831730/ If only youknew…You say I deservejoyBut it isnot trueFor I havedone too much wrong If only youknew…Every day Ilook backAnd see mypastFull ofterrible sinsFor darknessalways winsYou call meinnocent But I’m the completeop.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1831519/ I was madeto riseSo why am IfallingI feel soempty and brokenWhy can’tyou fix meFor I amcallingOut to you Why do youignore me soWhen I needyou the most I’m feelingso lonelyPlease don’tleave meI need helpto be happyFor I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1831517/ I'm tired of being treatedAs if I am worthless,And have no one in this world.I want to have friendsWho make me feel important,But I have quite the opposite in fact.They make me feel less special,And as if I need to actTo even compare to their importance.For I am worthless and aloneRunning farther, a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1831372/ Being alone is hard and sadYou feel like nothing compared to othersIf you weren't alive everyone would be gladAnd you thinkAm I really that badThat I deserve to be aloneBeing alone is painfulIt makes you depressed and weakFears hidden behind your fake smile People think you're happyBut really y.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1831366/ Why is the world so harshThat it makes me alone and sadAnd feel as if I am merely trashWhy can't it be full of love and kindnessInstead of all of this painAnd blindnessI'm sure if I weren't aliveEverything would be fineAnd not drenching rainFull of regrets and failuresFrom past experiences For .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830867/ Like a tree loses its leavesI lose my hopeLike an ocean rolls with rageI cry out in painLike a flower that wiltsI am slowly fading from the lightWith every step I takeSoon there will be nothing else...If I pass out of sightWho would care, unless they are blindAnd unable to see all of my flaws A.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830782/ I am but a hopeless soulDrifting in the seaOf all my tearsFrom heartacheAnd painful momentsWhy does this have to beI want to know what love feels like I want to find a man I trustWhile he also trusts meFor I am but a hopeless soulDrifting in the sea... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830779/ What do you see when you look at meAm I beautiful Am I nice to seeWhat do you see when you look at meAm I smartAm I brightSuch as a light would beWhat I see when I look at meIs a painful soulAlone and without any hopeAnd a girl who has never been boldSo...What do you see when you look at me...? http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830777/ I'm sick to my stomache From being aloneRejection and heartache Breaking every boneFor I was laughed atAnd made fun ofThirteen years straightFeeling as if I was locked behind a gateEvery day is always the sameSadness, depression and a whole new painBeing alone forever is my fate... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830613/ Can't you see I'm broken on the insideDon't you ever wonder whyI am always alone and crying at night Don't you care, or are you really that blindThat I'm invisible to your sightBut maybe I am better off aloneAnd going about completely unknownFor even if you spoke to me I would never replyBecaus.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830585/ I'm aloneAnd with nothing leftMy heart is brokenAll of my joy stolen From all mishapsAnd theftsThe past storesBecause I'm not perfectFor no one isBut all of me poursTears of pain and heartache For the want to be lovedTo have a peace insideBut I will never be lovedBecause I am meant to hide.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830401/ I once fell in love,I was the olive branchHe was the dove...I thought it was trueThat he loved me for meFor I never knewIt wasn't to beThe two of us togetherFor eternity... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830268/ I haven't a place in this worldI have no one to trustI have a need to hideI have a want to trustI have a want to loveAnd to be loved for in returnI have a need to gloveMy feelings and my hurtSo no one will every knowHow much I feel like dirt... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1830010/ Alone, the girl cries tonightToo broke to even put up a fightHer heart broken by a guy she'd metWho made fun of every word she saidWhy did she have to be so different from all the restWhy couldn't she just be cool and fit in  All she ever wanted in life was to be noticedTo have friends lik.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829801/ What if I could go back,And erase all my painful memoriesSo dark and blackWhat if...?What if I wasn't alone,And haunted by my pastAfraid to look backWhat if...?What if I was loved,And had lots of friendsThat didn't kick and shoveWhat if...?What if I was known,And not unknownWhat if...? http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829772/ Oh, the pain I feel inside...When I'm sitting all aloneOh, the pain I feel inside...When I know I'm unknownOh, the pain I feel inside...When you cast that first stoneOh, the pain I feel inside...The pain I know I can't hide... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829767/ Alone once againOr so I thought Alone with no gainBut a lot of loss Alone again with broken piecesAlone again with no good reasonsTo move on in life Or even try to collectAll of the broken piecesAnd try again to find new reasonsAs to why I am alone and fighting for attentionAnd why I am so.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829567/ My heart broke and cracked in twoWhen you were taken away...The clouds parted, and up you flewWhen you were taken awayI cried and cried, feeling so blueWhen you were taken away...Why, I haven't a clueAs to why you were taken away...Although I may not have gone up with you that dayMy heart has gone a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829498/ They rejected me and mocked me,And threw me away.I remember their insults to this very day,But I learned to forgive and forget all they'd said, Even though I cry at night in bed.For they know not of what they've done,Now I don't hide, instead I runUntil I escape and get far away.Then I can fina.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829487/ At first I was hopeless,And ready to quit.Then I met you,And was given a gift.A gift of courage, Of love and kindness.Now I'm no longer blockedBy all of my blindness.You believed in me,And trusted me.Now I'm no longer hopeless,But ready to bePart of God's wonderful world, For you have plac.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829484/ I'm standing hereCan't you see?Can't you hear?Won't you be?The one I've been searching, And crying for to come.The one and only I'll every truly love. . . http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829477/  Alone in my griefAlone in my painAlone in my sorrowAlone in the rainThrough all of these tearsAnd all of these yearsAlone http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Poet4Life/1829373/