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Fear keeps me breathing

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she should gouge them out she should scar them permanently she should paint them white all over then they won't have to see the pain inflicted but that means she'd have to hear she can pour acid down her ears she can drive a pen too far down the hole she can play sound till her eardrums shatter then she wont have to hear the words that tear her apart each day but then she would have to feel freeze her heart ice cold drown my soul endlessly become the master of numbing emotions but all that is impossible there's no way to escape this misery or maybe, just maybe, this life has to end but she is afraid, afraid of the unknown afraid of what might not be there afraid of not feeling despite hating it so much she is afraid and thus doomed to an eternity of misery
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M. Hollow

I write poetry about memory, grief, and the quiet spaces between surviving and becoming. My work lingers on abandoned houses and the version of ourselves we leave behind. I believe that the things we cannot say aloud often make the best poems.

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Explores abstract philosophical suffering and existential paralysis through personal anguish

SparseMeasureDense

Dense cascade of interconnected ideas: sensory destruction, emotional numbing, existential dread packed tightly

DarkSentimentBright

Deeply negative throughout: self-harm, suffering, misery, death ideation, hopelessness dominate

StillEnergyExplosive

Violent, aggressive language: gouge, scar, acid, shatter, drown. Intense kinetic force and desperation

MicroLengthEpic

31 lines; falls within 31-60 range

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Heavy metaphor and personification: freeze heart, drown soul, master of numbing. Vivid sensory imagery

LyricVoiceDramatic

Pure lyric internal monologue; introspective first-person exploring internal states without narrative or dramatic distance

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