Tag: personal-growth
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[nowhere to go]
Poke the bear, they said,until her claws carve truth into the air.Who’s afraid of little old me?Not them—not yet. Pain sharpened into punishment,lashing out at every shadow,every hand too close.Anger needed a home,and I gave it mine. I became the thing I feared,teeth bared,eyes burning with everything I couldn’t bury.Hurt has a way of growing…
amelia james poetry
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[scripted]
I carry the weight of a storyno one else remembers.It lingers in the marrow of my bones,echoing like a song I never asked to learn. You, the conductor of chaos,wove lies like silk,soft to the touch but unraveling me,strand by strand. I was the scapegoat,branded “crazy,”while you painted yourself in colorsonly I could see were…
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[gasoline]
They called me mad,But I was only tired—Tired of the lies that dripped like poisonInto my soul,Tired of the games they played,The ones where I was always the villain,Never the victim,Never the one who had the right to speak. I stood,Fury boiling beneath my skin,Not because I wanted to be angry,But because anger was the…
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[where darkness blooms]
Once, she was soft as meadow bloom,A girl who danced in dawn’s perfume.Her laughter wove with morning light,Unaware of fate’s quiet bite. He came like shadow draped in gold,A whispered storm, a grip too cold.The earth split wide beneath her feet—A love, they called it, bittersweet. But love should never wear a chainNor masquerade as…
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[underworld]
They told her darkness was a curse—A tomb where tender things grow worse.But when she sank beneath the ground,It wasn’t death that she had found. The quiet wrapped her like a song,A place where she could rest, belong.No prying sun to bare her pain—The dark became her soft refrain. She learned to love the velvet…
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[it will always be you]
It will always be you I fear Never have I given My heart more Than to you -Amelia James
amelia james poetry
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[the space between]
I gave you grace like sunlight—gentle, unwavering, though it burned me deep inside.I cradled my anger in open hands,offering it to you as a gift. And when it wasn’t returned,when my kindness met with silence,I wondered if it was ever mine to give. I longed for you to see the cracksI’d patched with threads of…
amelia james poetry
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[deadline]
They say time heals all wounds.But time alone doesn’t stitch the heart back together.It doesn’t silence the echoes of betrayal or stitch closed the seams of fractured trust.Healing is more than days passing—it’s waking up to the same ache,and choosing, again and again, not to let it consume you. Some wounds feel like they come…
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[never real]
I showed you who I was And you fell in love And I fell in love with you But the person I fell in love with Was never real -Amelia James
amelia james poetry
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[oceans deep]
You spoke in tides and whispered waves,Promises oceans deep, endless, vast—Yet fleeting as foam upon the shore.I stood, toes buried in the sand,Believing the horizon was ours to claim. I tried to hold onto the daysWhen you were mine,Clinging to the sunlight glinting on water,Ignoring the storm clouds rising in the distance.Your words, a siren’s…
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