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The Screaming Eagle

I visited you when I was younger. They said you stood the tallest. I didn’t believe them, but as I, … More

anxiety, dark, depression, dread, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, nihilism, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, stoicism, therapy, transcendentalism

The Serpent Without a Heart

I once met a serpent without a heart. She was quite the spectacle. Layer upon layer, I scathed away. Her … More

anxiety, blog, dark, depression, disease, distance, dread, emotion, existentialism, fear, feelings, grief, ideas, literature, masks, nature, nihilism, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, serpent, short story, snake, snakes, sorrow, therapy, thoughts, transcendentalism

syaS elcarO ehT

the most we can want is forever, the least we can get is now. but how do I judge what’s … More

anxiety, dark, depression, dread, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, religion, transcendentalism

the Roundabout

the altar and the seventh circle ignite the same story within us. who am I to uphold this truth? I … More

anxiety, dark, depression, dread, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, nihilism, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, short story, stoicism, therapy, transcendentalism

stagnancy

when I roll down the window or stroll through the park significant clutter which mind, and which part the only … More

anxiety, dark, depression, dread, emotion, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, therapy, transcendentalism

the masked maskman’s mask

floating around for a human with a soul, with intention to match my own my vanilla is melting, upside down, … More

anxiety, dark, death, depression, dread, emotion, existentialism, fear, feelings, grief, literature, nihilism, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, religion, short story, social anxiety, sorrow, stoicism, subjectivity, therapy, transcendentalism

the SLUMBER

keep me here, my subconscious says this feeling you’re feeling is better than walking around in the skin you own … More

anxiety, dark, depression, dread, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, religion, short story, stoicism, subjectivity, therapy, transcendentalism

perennial blunder

i feel like I’m in a cafeteria eyes jumping, i can’t find my seat they’re all looking at me i … More

anxiety, cafateria, confidence, dark, depression, dread, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, lunchroom, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, social anxiety, therapy, transcendentalism

Swelly

I yearn speaking in code sometimes; being so literal comes with costs. It demolishes opportunities, if you let it. Mindfulness … More

anxiety, blog, dark, depression, dread, emotion, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, sorrow, transcendentalism

Together

How is one supposed to feel when they’ve lost someone they’ve never met? Someone who, years later, would’ve been the … More

anxiety, blog, dark, death, depression, emotion, feelings, flyhigh, grief, health, heaven, ideas, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, sorrow, therapy, thoughts, transcendentalism, wind

Mr. Doubtwater

The whispers stopped; as did my elevated heartbeat. I had tricked myself; to where it always felt ‘right.’ Conjuring up … More

advice, anxiety, dark, depression, emotion, feelings, ideas, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, science, self discovery, therapy, thoughts, transcendentalism

The Circulant

Share your story with all of us We are all dying ..to hear it The blowback is simple; and elegant; … More

anxiety, blog, dark, disease, distance, emotion, feelings, ideas, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, religion, snakes, social, stoicism, subjectivity, therapy, thoughts, transcendentalism

A Man’s Best Friend

The sight is the night. For the light is not right. I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again. … More

anxiety, blog, dark, depression, emotion, feelings, grief, literature, nature, philosophy, poems, poetry, religion, self discovery

The selfish duckling

Splash… He said, He never did. He never did anything. Apathy ran his life. He was the duck that never … More

anxiety, apathy, blog, dark, depression, dread, emotion, fear, feelings, ideas, literature, poems, poetry, social anxiety, sorrow, thoughts

Christian

Where were you? I’ve searched everywhere Your awareness is bleak As is my despair Your calling was fate My understanding … More

anxiety, dark, depression, emotion, grief, literature, poems, poetry, psychology, sorrow
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