thefrey809

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i used to be bad at articulating my negative feelings, until i become a journalist now nobody wants to talk to me.

  June 2023     4 months ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

Make something with your free time

Make something with your free time
And even if you don’t, it’s always worth it to try
Turn away from your screen
Even if it makes you wanna scream

Make something with your free time
You don’t have to write down every time someone talks to you...

– by Petra Starr

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Plastic knife // Missing person 3

“i complain about being a background character a lot,”
i write as i wrote you off
But i thought a bit too much last night
i didn’t think letting go of your throat would kill you faster

i must have forgot, ‘cause what a start we all had
In...

– by Petra Starr

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added 6 months ago
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My own broken glass

cut my feet on shards of glass
That i left shattered on the floor
Of a shitty chapter in my life
That i don’t want to see anymore
i only existed when convenient
i know what i mean to you
i walk across the broken glass
Because i want you to...

– by Petra Starr

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i don’t question God’s existence

only prayed in earnest once
as a freshman, when Nick taught me how
But Deanna didn’t come back
And in a would-be memory’s place, my father’s angry screams echo

i was never a good student
i was never into therapy
i was unheeded, crying out...

– by Petra Starr

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the song i would have written // chapter 1

was going to write a song for you
but the passion didn’t come
the words and the melody lost me
and soon enough, so did i

i wrote half a love letter
that i was never going to send
because i always had the feeling
that you wouldn’t...

– by Petra Starr

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added 6 months ago
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