Saturday, December 20, 2008

Mint

If chocolate is the best thing in the world, what’s the opposite of chocolate?

When I was little, I loved too much. I sulked too, all the time, threw the worst tantrums where the only thing I said was BUT WHYYY in this increasingly shrill soprano. I can sing but only when no one’s watching. I hate not being the centre of attention, I think it has something to do with being the middle child though ironically enough, the chicken is always the best part of the sandwitch. Always always. I cry when I’m angry, did you know that? I can stand in front of the mirror for hours, pouting, smiling, talking to my reflection. Sanity has never been my strong point. I need to bleed out my emotions into my writing. I’m a drama queen, always have been. I think I was 5 when I realized that the best way to get the worlds attention was to make people laugh. I run alot. Whether Away from or Into, I’m still not sure. I get distracted easily..all I have to do it breathe and that’s it, my minds already racing through yesterday or tomorrow. I only do things because I want to and even then I have a million questions. I’m very stubborn. Sometimes, I fight for what I don’t want just to prove that I can. I go through phases. I wore black n pink for 3 months when I was 16, don’t ask me why. I go through people phases sometimes too. People bore me easily. Or maybe I’m scared I’ll bore them so I like to think they bore me, and then I run. I’m an escapist. I have an answer for everything I didn’t do. I like to think I’m smart, different, special but if you ask me to prove it, I wouldn’t know how. I talk a lot. I do it to cover up what I’m really feeling, so you don’t see through me, you just look at the façade and laugh and think ‘so cute, she doesn’t make sense’. I don’t blame you. I’m a psycho babbler. But I see more than you think. I have lots of walls, protective shields..they keep me safe. I’m very selective about the people I let in. I’m not saying I hurt easily, I’m just saying I hurt myself. I almost always get way too emotionally involved even though I know I shouldn’t. It’s stupid really. You’d think experience would teach me some better sort of defense mechanism than glass walls. They shatter, you know. I have big feet. People have called me beautiful often enough but I’m still insecure about my appearance. I obsess over a lot of things. I love playing football in the rain. I read alot. It’s my addiction. I love silver hoops, bangles, studs. I used to be comfortably numb but then the world kept interrupting me and it became uncomfortable. My favourite Disney movie is Aladdin, I think it’s because all my friends say I look like Jasmine. Big hands turn me on. Bad grammar and spellings annoy the life out of me. Boys in shirts look sexy. I get stress headaches often where my temples hurt like hell and all I want to do is curl up into a ball and cry. I used to think I didn’t feel., but I do. My pain threshold is practically negative..I don’t know how I’m ever going to have kids. I have scars, lots of them. I care about people, like genuinely. I can’t see anyone hurt or unhappy. Sometimes, I like myself, sometimes I don’t. There are days when I can almost see myself from a distance, doing and saying things I hate and I want to yell at me to shut the fuck up. I have friends, lots of them. Maybe too many. The boys in my class say that I’m the hottest girl in class. I don’t like it. People I know are scarily protective of me, do I look like I need protecting? When I’m hurt, I shut down completely. I would never cry in public. I hate pity. I’m scared of a lot of things—cockroaches, people,the dark, fire, emotion. Someone once told me that I’m like water, I take the shape of the container I’m placed in. But what if there’s no container? Does the water evaporate?
Random, I know. This is..Me. You don’t know Me, not really. I don’t know Me very well either. So we’re sorted. You asked me if I trusted you, the truth is, I don’t trust myself. I twist words and feelings in my head and turn them into something I no longer recognize. It’s a very masochistic tendency. But I don’t want that to happen with you, ever.
This may have totally freaked you out, made you contemplate even liking me, and made you think I’m completely psychotic, but I don’t care, because I wanted you to know. Why? Because I want to share. Because..umm..I like you :)

Heartbreak. The opposite of chocolate is heartbreak.

You read through this? Didn’t think so.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Ambulance Chasing

Your colour has inked itself across my skin, swirling into indifferent intricate tattoos and slashing into painful angry scars.
I try to dab at the colour but the fabric bleeds red and the sting sends shivers of life down my spine.
I’m only human.
You’re bleeding yourself dry and I’m soaking it in until all that is left of you is a shadow.
I’m glowing.
I’m growing,
Guilty.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Do you lie like I lie?

You don’t fit into my frame. Hell! I don’t fucking fit into my frame. It’s too..big, too ornate, heavy, in-your-face, unattainable.
But it’s..pretty. Pretty ugly.
Something I’d hang on my wall of glory just to prove that I can. And then there’s you-you’d probably bang your head against the frame, feeling your way through the dark.
Perfection has never been such a Utopian concept.
Your flaws settle themselves under my skin, a layer under the layer, so you don’t hurt me, but I’d hurt myself anyway. Your ‘protection’ doesn’t stand a chance.
What’s the point of being an escapist if I can’t escape myself?
Fight or flight?
Float.