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Recobro Overflow (Recovery Overflow)

1 Heart it! Helen Zillah Satchwell 24
May 6, 2018
Helen Zillah Satchwell
1 Heart it! 24

raw
wretched
disgraced
indignada

palabras descriptivas
de las mentiras
that I’ve told myself since September

I went inside myself—
lejos de posts, de likes y patrones
of self-loathing and sadness

rendí
no soy ________
porque I am not
porque no existo
tú tampoco

these ideas y mentiras
are not real
these tears and fears,
el sufrimiento sin sentido—
none of it es verdad

the needle that played
la misma canción desesperada de siempre
punctured mi corazón
my soul went silent
y se fugó la gente ‘kin’

la soledad
te enseña
how to love the parts of yourself
que nadie más quiere—
las partes que
te definen—
if you let them…

espero que se puedan
forget those untruths que les mostré
que me vean como soy
(si soy)
and not as the
indignada insegura
that spilled out of me

I am collecting los pedazos rebosados
y deseo que me sirvan
para ser
stronger
bolder
ligera
cruda
y desenfadada

HzS

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