When I try and think about the mistakes I have made and the words I regret muttering and the things I am shameful about initiating all it ever gets back to is me overestimating my capability of change,
Thursday night on my couch with tears in my eyes and a kink in my neck I look up at my off-white ceiling,
there's some spots I cannot quite place, maybe mold or specks I missed when painting,
and all I say is that nothing I do is right, or good, or morally sound,
Maybe it is my insatiable need to be remembered, or my constant hunger for human interaction-
god I hate my deep-rooted deprivation for recognition, my sacrilegious desire for attention
Or maybe it is not about me at all and it is just my sense of self, again ruining the potential of any sort of connection,
When every corner I turn I do not know if the person I see is who I once was or who I am meant to be,
And all I can look at is my shoes with the same dirt sticking to it like bubblegum that I crawled out of my grave with,
I am tired of the endless running from my shadow, of running from the judgement of my own self worth, and giving up halfway through to do it over and over and over and over and over-
god I hate myself for my lingering thoughts, for feeling this aching pain in my chest, for grieving a loss I am not meant to feel
Who am I meant to be if I cannot meet my own eye in the reflection of my bathroom mirror,
If I am not me
god I hate my being, I despise what I long to become, and everything I will never be