absum

i have always wanted to caress every monster

[caesarsaladinn]

every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

[stlowens]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals [ID in alt text]

[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, from “Calling Things What They Are”, The Hurting Kind

[primulaceas]

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[anxietyproblem]

[anxietyproblem]

[stroebe2]

[6aint-deactivated20250716]

took it personally because I never would’ve done it to you

[archbudzar]

Mary Oliver (from In Blackwater Woods)

[weltenwellen]

Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost

[buddwyer]

i regret to inform you that it is happening again

[sleepy-bebby]

[dukeoflime]

'I cry the tears you claw from me now

with knowledge that they are my pre-emptive mourning;

my eyes, you say, cannot see—

but at least I am not blind to where our story is going.'

'pre-emptive mourning,' - Megan's Poetry #1270

[weltenwellen]

Mark Wolynn, It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

[kitttenteeth]

“i just like my alone time” i say as if loneliness hasn’t been all i’ve known since childhood

[polishlolita]

[diabolicjoy]