Deviation Actions
Literature Text
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.
I was taught right from wrong
Therapists, I don't like their taste.
She always fell for boys who needed saving.
comments?
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^