buttonpoetry:

Doc Luben, from “14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes”. Support the artist, watch the full poem here.

drowningpoetry:

{5 things I’ve learned by myself:
1.) don’t even bother stitching yourself back together because when 2am rolls around you’re just going to rip and spill open again, it’s just going to hurt you even more, let yourself be open and hurt. you have to expose yourself to open air to heal anyways.
2.) slow and steady is key. if you pick yourself up too fast all you’re going do is just get dizzy and topple over. allow yourself to be weak. no one is strong 24/7. not even the best of us.
3.) you can cry and scream if you need to. there’s nothing wrong with collapsing. even the brightest stars go cold and burn out.
4.) don’t text him. I know you want to, I know you miss seeing his name but it’s just gonna hurt you even more. (I know your fingers are aching but it’s just gonna hurt you even more.)
5.) and please, let him go when you are ready. holding on is slowly going to rip you apart and before you know it you’re going to be in pieces. so, let go when you must. you are okay. // ig writingmyself }

buttonpoetry:

Arati Warrier, from her poem, “Alive”. Support the artist, check out the full poem here.

" I like long walks on the beach, directly into the bottom of the ocean "
—

My romantic life (by 

Jamie Mortara)

" I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map,
but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave.
See, when I’m up I don’t kill myself because, holy shit, there’s so much left to do!
When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new, the sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder. 
I’d still be me without it,
but I’d be so boring! "
—Neil Hilborn, excerpt from The Future x (via allloversbetray)

thugilly:

Denice Frohman - “Dear Straight People”

" It’s just not that much fun having fun when you don’t want to have fun, mom. "
—Sabrina Benaim - “Explaining My Depression to My Mother.” (via quaemutatio)
" I have thoughts in my head that would be better left unsaid.
But they creep out and bleed on to paper.
And here I am pouring my heart out in a room alone with no one to listen.
How long will it be before I let somebody in? "
—Tired Eyes // Endlesssky (via relapselandlrepeat)
" Don’t you dare try and figure me out. Too many people have claimed they can read me like a book and then they went and put me on shelf. "
—

Jamie Mortara - “Some Things You Need to Know Before Dating Me”

Performing during the Button Poetry/YesYes Books showcase at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!

(via buttonpoetry)

life-ruiners:

“Bultaoreune!“

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