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I am not a stereotype

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Slide the blade across your wrist.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Stop.
"Doesn't it hurt?"
I can't feel anything.
"A little."

Punch your own stomach.
Harder.
Harder.
Does it hurt yet?
Yes.
Keep going.
"Why do you do that?"
The pain makes me feel alive.
"I don't know."

Stare.
Cry.
Scream.
Stop.
Keep staring.
"What's wrong with you?"
I'm dead inside.
"Nothing."

"Emotional freak."
I'm just depressed.
"Sorry."

Stare at your arms.
Your stomach.
Your waist.
Your thighs.
"What are you doing?"
I'm ugly.
"Never mind."

"Attention seeker."
I just have low self esteem.
"I'm sorry."

Cuts.
Scars.
Tears.
Emotions.

"Emo."
"Scene girl."
"Psycho."

I'm just human.

I'm just me.
reposting an old poem of mine. posted it a while back and decided to do it again, this time with over 100 more watchers. :)
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DoomWinter's avatar

It is December in the year of 2021,

And I am in my 20's;

Haven't given up my love of the Gothic - Emo aesthetic yet! >u<

Just finished listening to a really good covering of Evanescence's Going Under, too.


Now then with the chat about myself outta the way...

This is what I wanna say:


At the time when Emo n Gothic was having its day

In the Moonlight

Instead of the Sun,


I can see how with too much of the same

(Kinda like what's happening with Anime now,

Much as I love it)

This would've gotten overlooked

And scoffed at

By adults

Who seem too afraid and snobbish

To see Teens and Children for what they are:


Human.


Young Humans who don't have the skills

We adults are either Blessed or Cursed with

Yet


"Cursed"

If that's given any adults the idea

That they have a free-card now,

To heaping Snobbery Upon the Young,

Suggesting other up-and-coming adults

Need to do the same

Cuz that's just what adults do,

Providing children and teens with an inevitable nightmare,


Lest ye youngsters be getting

"Too much attention"

For just expressing what you have been feeling inside

In all honesty.


At the beginning of reading your poem myself tonight,

I was wary,

Due to the self-harm involved.


But when I got to the end,

I felt this is a nice li'l poem

Unique in its own right

To show what Suffering with Depression

And Emptiness / Deadness inside

May look like


For those under 18

And having to process alot

Just by being on the cusp

Between Childhood and Adulthood

With no easy way to get thru it

And without a supportive adult there to just say,

"Hey, I get it"

Instead of

"Get Over It".


So,

I like this poem in its simplicity;

This in itself could serve as a clue

To us adults

For how to help the youths

Who may or may not be struggling with this


Right now

In 2021 still.


"There are better ways to cope than that (self-harm)!"

Okay,

But does the person using that method right now

Know that yet?

That applies to the adults using it as well;


Not just "moody teenagers"

Who have it hard enough

Without us adults dissing them for it.


Long comment due to poetry-style concluding now;

Thank you for giving me something to think about tonight. ^w^