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allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p>I want to hug you so tight</p><p>that all the dread is drained</p><p>between our arms</p><p>and blow away, like it never was.</p><p></p><p>I never knew it could be love</p><p>for now I wish for something more</p><p>and inhabit a place in you</p><p>forever as close as we are</p><p>however far</p><p>you&#8217;re the closest</p><p>like a part of my heart&lt;3</p><p></p><p>I thought it better unrequited</p><p>thought I suffered alone</p><p>unaware that I could as well be loved.</p><p></p><p>My darling, if you hear the air sing</p><p>be sure it&#8217;s the song of my heart,</p><p>all confessions, unsung and unspoken</p><p>that diffused into air.</p><p></p><p>All anguish and pain</p><p>of my forlorn love,</p><p>when hit the high notes</p><p>and pulled the strings of my heart,</p><p>beating onto my ribs</p><p>as it echoed through each chord</p><p>sang it&#8217;s fullest till relieved.</p><p>My dear love,</p><p>rewarded in return.</p><p></p><p>As we hug, your pain must traverse</p><p>transfer their way out of your heart</p><p>into me, they must be delivered.</p><p></p><p>My love, all your agony</p><p>all your pain, I&#8217;ll ease</p><p>till you say &#8216;oh to be loved&#8217;</p><p>cuz all my love is&#8230;</p><p>was all yours,</p><p>and will forever be&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AiXJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01e054d-f6a3-4bbe-9522-be961bc45290_676x361.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AiXJ!, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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but how can i? when i know that i am responsible for all, </p><p>she lectures me all the time, kindly, modestly, softly, but harsh when it needs,</p><p> but always the plain truth, she fears losing me.</p><p> she doesn&#8217;t want me get hurt, </p><p>she wants me to be strong, she made me a different person. </p><p>imma kid she says, she understands me the most, the best, she knows how miserable i am. </p><p>she knows my secrets, yet she loves me, she chooses, chooses to stay, no  matter what. even when i push her away;.</p><p> she understands&#8230;my avoidance, she hugs me back, she pulls me in. </p><p>all during those anxiety attacks, she held me close. i spoke so harsh, </p><p>i cried in regret, for how she still stayed, wiped my tears away, hugged me in and helped my heart relax.</p><p>is it me the monster? or the one innocent girl she calls me? i blame myself, i fall into regrets</p><p>she tell me to chill offf, but who am i if i dont cuss myself? </p><p>she tells me am crazy,</p><p> she blames me not for she knows my present, as well as my past. </p><p>she gives me time yet takes it away from me. </p><p>tells me to be strong yet comes to comfort and give shoulder every time i need. </p><p>why wont you lemme be weak or at least lemme suffer without feeling guilty? </p><p>for i hurt you ik, still you&#8217;re so sweet,</p><p> she speaks all the plain truth, she knows me the best, i hv let her far too in deep,</p><p> let her read my mind and blank heart. she&#8217;s my therapist. </p><p>but who am i to her? yes she pushed me away a countless time&#8230;the breakdowns and every time overwhelmed with her own identity, her own existence,</p><p> it hurt i cried all those nights&#8230;i blamed myself if it has all been a farce, </p><p>if there was no frndship at the first instance.</p><p>she tells me to leave her she&#8217;s so afraid of herself</p><p>says she&#8217;ll break me too so she must protect</p><p>and avoid me as if i&#8217;m one fragile little piece</p><p> i blamed the fate for making me this attached to my angel who thinks herself a devil just to protect herself. and her silly little full heart.</p><p>she says i cannot hold her intensity but owh darling they all left u know for the reason that they cannot hold ur energy&#8230; </p><p>but did i?</p><p> the over half a century times in less than half a year, all the hurt, all the breakdowns, </p><p>did i not hold u through the words? </p><p>she doubts me not yet i doubted the words that left the keyboard flashing through the screen,</p><p> that she won&#8217;t ever let out her own very lips.</p><p> i believed em all and cussed myself again oh how selfish can i be in this?</p><p> i knew her suffering i chose to suffer too, held her with time, </p><p>but when no news came&#8230; misunderstood. oh how dared i? </p><p>i trusted her far too much after every betrayal i had been through, </p><p>she taught me trust now i cannot let her go. </p><p>she&#8217;s insecure and so am i for neither of us want to leave neither get too close for this to end. neither stay too far that we forget neither too close that we collide, oh to hold back. suppress it all in. just so we don&#8217;t destroy ourselves, cuz we both are far too into this game, of attachments and obsession. </p><p>she cannot let go, neither can i. never had a person, she&#8217;s my depth and she calls me her light, she calls me hope, love and the undefiled. she&#8217;s the dark and deeper one, the one hopping soda bunny of mine. the intense one, who cannot take things casual, the strength that came from a past that left her too traumatized. she becomes an inspiration yet smthn i&#8217;ll never want to be like.</p><p>she&#8217;s soo much to me, she makes me so paranoid. her words make me cry, her actions overwhelm my heart to brink. i don&#8217;t wanna lose her, these ppl warn me to stay away but oh heavens&#8230;i far from care what anyone thinks. she says she&#8217;s obsessed and oh my darling i&#8217;m obsessed too, with how you think, i fell for you, and for everythn u do. ahh not the romantic kind, ur my bestie ik (tho u joke how often but that just keeps the vibe alive), for ur frndship is more than any love i could ever carry, but i love this thing u are, i wish i never lose u, my insecurity kills me. i hv promised soo much to u yet am afraid if one day i&#8217;ll hv to break them too, for everythn i hv wanted i hv always only watched them slip through my fingers. but ik ur paranoid too, and even more, u fear bout every hurt, everything u say, ur every word, you watch over and control. u fear ur own harshness but for all that&#8217;s the truth, however harsh, know, that i accept it all from you. for i&#8217;d hurt forever than&#8230;lose you.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@dilnajaneya/note/p-212249989&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" 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upright</p><p>drunk in pain</p><p>sans all shame</p><p>you cry out screams</p><p>that no one heard.</p><p>You whisper sounds </p><p>in slow but sharp anathemas</p><p>vengeance, endurance, Vain methods</p><p>blurry sunshine wakes you up</p><p>you draw your curtains</p><p>to covet your addictions.</p><p>You lack the strength</p><p>to hit back and fight</p><p>support less</p><p>no arm keeps you upright</p><p>deceptive dreams keep you alive.</p><p>&#8216;Let me go, let go of me,</p><p>I want to live, but it&#8217;s hard to survive&#8217;</p><p>hidden in dark, acting blind</p><p>howsoever safe in the dark</p><p>to hide everything you&#8217;ve lost.</p><p>Blurry vision, Vain addictions</p><p>smokes like clouds in elevation</p><p>like heavens came to pick you up</p><p>a comfort that is gone by day</p><p>so you wait for nights to renew them.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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isPermaLink="false">https://dilnajaneya.substack.com/p/walls-and-waves</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lily]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:11:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac42a2dc-c84a-4515-8660-3d3b271ce457_550x261.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>There are people who like the mountains and others who like the seas more.</span></p><p><span>I have liked both!</span></p><p><span>When the sun sets, I see the mountains hiding the sun behind their solid structure while I see the oceans not letting the sun hide by reflecting it into its water. </span></p><p><span>The mountains, hiding the sun, remind me to let go, to close my eyes from the scorch of these feelings. While the oceans remind me to face them because no matter how long I wait, the reflection of it remains, held. Hiding behind the mountains I see the sun disappearing just so easily, just so gone in almost an hour, while I see the oceans holding onto its reflection long after it has set.</span></p><p><span>Now I have to choose, the mountains? or the oceans?</span></p><p><span>I have always loved reflections more than reality but here&#8230;</span></p><p><span>I staggered before choosing the oceans. I excused its vastness. I questioned its infinite source. I favored the mountains for how solid it seemed, how easily it hid the blinding sunlight behind it. Protected me. I blamed the oceans for trying to drown me, I didn&#8217;t question the mountains when I fell off a cliff.</span></p><p>Should I keep the reflection this time? What should I choose? The mountains that feel safer or the oceans that keep reflecting the past? </p><p>The sun is disappearing either way, but do I hold onto its reflection or do I just let it hide behind the stone, abrupt and absolute? Or should I choose the vastness and depth of the ocean even if it keeps reminding me of what hurts altogether? Do I let all feelings pass abruptly or keep holding onto its reflections?</p><p><span>The relief of being allowed to close your eyes,</span><br><span>or the stubborn honesty of a surface that will not forget.</span></p><p><span>Which way should I hold on?</span></p><p><span>I don&#8217;t blame the altitude of the mountains for making me fall, yet I choose to blame the depth of oceans for drowning me. I maybe the hypocritical one here.</span></p><p><span>Avoidant! That I am. I chose the mountains, ignoring everything just so that I will not have to face these feelings again when I see their reflection in the ocean. I made myself distant from everything that reminded me of it, I blamed the oceans for everything. I made it the villain. But&#8230;.</span></p><p>The sun was disappearing either way. </p><p>I chose nothing but just the way it was acceptable to me to see it disappear. The abrupt one. Not the one that lingers in reflection. While the real threat lived inside me, inside my own damn mind, because the thing being avoided cannot actually be escaped by changing location or activity.</p><p>( Oh well the skies remain! they also reflect this sunlight but can I ever let go of these skies? they hover over my head all the freakin&#8217; time, how do I rid of them?)</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://dilnajaneya.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@dilnajaneya/note/p-208669696&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" 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closed,</p><p>but yet I see things far more than you could.</p><p>Now rain does not fall over my head,</p><p>and I need no umbrella for save,</p><p>now I willingly drown in this holy pristine feeling,</p><p>and not some idle mortal shame.</p><p>I let the rain pass through my coffin,</p><p>I smell the rain sodden mud,</p><p>oh how I love being dead,</p><p>I love my mother earth.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@dilnajaneya/note/p-203289436&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/substack.com/@dilnajaneya/note/p-203289436"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://dilnajaneya.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" 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And I&#8230;I just followed it&#8217;s lead, trusting it to guide me back.</p><p>It scared away the scavengers too, the ones who smelled flesh and blood and came looking for an easy prey. but the moment my shadow spread long and dark across the pavement before revealing me, they disappeared.</p><p>Uhh&#8230;yeah I say yes I do love this only reflection of me&#8230;not the one I see in mirrors always, never the ones that remains captured in cameras. I never liked clicking the damn pics of my very own human form but yet I pose for my shadows.</p><p> I love this hidden, kinda mysterious yet the most intimate and closest version of my reflection. Something I cannot even always see yet I love how it makes me feel a little more confident with myself because I know that I'm not forced to reveal my insecurities. the scars of my tainted face, this pale ghost like color, the devastated health, the cracks remain hidden in this long patch of shadow, all my insecurities disappears. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BYHG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc3ad0aa-876f-4f8a-903f-feddd046e328_676x814.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BYHG!, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/w_424, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/dilnajaneya.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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I catch myself staring at it and smiling. Yeah, it&#8217;s a little narcissistic, I know. But it doesn&#8217;t feel vain, like I&#8217;m finally seeing a version of myself I don&#8217;t want to criticize.</p><p>I&#8217;ve always loved the night. I love the quiet that comes with it. I love the darkness too  I always have. Yet  I never let it go completely dark ever&#8230;<em>I always burn my heart&#8230;set it in fire just<strong> so I can get a flicker of light for my shadow to take form</strong></em>. I rip into my chest of feelings and set it on fire from the inside. I drag up every painful memory, every lonely moment, every time I felt disgusting or worthless, and I let them burn, letting the hurt glow just enough so my shadow can form on the wall. </p><p>It hurts.</p><p>It really freakin hurts. </p><p>But I do it anyway.</p><p>Because I&#8217;d rather feel this raw, burning pain than sit in total blackness with a version of me that reveals my insecurities and makes it so hard for me to sit with myself.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://dilnajaneya.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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I am the vampire of my own heart. -Charles Baudelaire.]]></description><link>https://dilnajaneya.substack.com/p/my-heart-beats-to-break-me</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://dilnajaneya.substack.com/p/my-heart-beats-to-break-me</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lily]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 07:11:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1566931164640-4bf2c8569c80?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzM3x8c3RhcnMlMjBhbmQlMjBtb29ufGVufDB8fHx8MTc3OTAwMTM5Nnww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">Even if you are the moon and I nothing more than a falling star, still I will never touch the ground. </p></div><p>I will never wish my feelings to burden anyone but myself. My sentiments drift like a comet, blazing across the universe&#8230;a falling star, not broken, but destined to be wished upon. Never yearning, only seen as a star cast out by the heavens, descending toward the earth.</p><p>Lonely? No, that word is too small. I am shunned, like the star that falls from the sky, yet as I descend, I see people marvel at my fall, whispering wishes into the night, believing I can fulfill their dreams. And yes, I will, in their fantasies, for those who believe in me.</p><p>But my own wishes? They will remain buried, hidden deep within my heart, unspoken, unseen, a secret constellation that only I will ever know.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1566931164640-4bf2c8569c80?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzM3x8c3RhcnMlMjBhbmQlMjBtb29ufGVufDB8fHx8MTc3OTAwMTM5Nnww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1566931164640-4bf2c8569c80?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzM3x8c3RhcnMlMjBhbmQlMjBtb29ufGVufDB8fHx8MTc3OTAwMTM5Nnww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080 424w, 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Guilt sits heavy in my chest, yet I&#8217;m not lost or directionless. I know exactly where I need to go and what I want. But I&#8230; I simply cannot move.</p><p>I lie here, sprawled among soft cushions and every luxury, while my heart, molded into something impossibly tender and fragile, trembles at the thought of taking even one step. I fear that if I make a single move, it will shatter beyond repair, and I no longer have the strength to piece it back together. So I choose stillness. I choose delay.</p><p>I ignore its frantic screams, begging to escape the cage I&#8217;ve built around it with my own ribs. All I want is to protect it. Yet this heart would rather break my bones than remain contained.</p><p>How do I protect something so tender, so fragile, and yet so powerful it threatens to destroy me? How do I safeguard a heart that seems to BEAT ONLY TO BREAK ME?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://dilnajaneya.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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I don&#8217;t even know where to start anymore. My chest feels like it&#8217;s caving in, heavy with all this weight I can&#8217;t put down. I wanted something permanent, you know? Not this fleeting bullshit that slips through my fingers every single time. I wanted to trust what my heart believed so badly&#8212;the soft, hopeful part that still whispers maybe love is real, maybe people stay, maybe feelings aren&#8217;t just disposable. But the world keeps slamming the truth in my face, this harsh, cold reality that says nah, everything breaks. And I hate it. God, I hate it so much I can&#8217;t breathe sometimes.</p><p>I&#8217;m too much. That&#8217;s what it always comes down to. I love too ******* much, and it&#8217;s spilling out of me like I can&#8217;t hold it back even if I tried. My heart&#8217;s this overflowing mess, carrying emotions so big they crush me from the inside. I care about random people&#8212;strangers on the street, someone who smiled at me for two seconds in a store, a voice on a call that sounded tired. I feel their pain like it&#8217;s mine. Why am I built like this? I see someone hurting and it&#8217;s like a knife twisting in my gut. I wonder how people walk around so chill with their own hearts, scrolling on their phones, laughing at memes, while I&#8217;m over here drowning in feels for folks I barely know.</p><p>I&#8217;ve loved countless people, man. Countless. Some I met for just a few minutes&#8212;eyes meeting across a room, a quick conversation that hit different&#8212;and boom, my soul latched on. I felt everything for them. Their stories, their laughs, the way their shoulders slumped a little when life got heavy. It wasn&#8217;t fake. It was real to me, burning bright and deep. But they? They probably forgot my name by the next day. How does that happen? How do I pour my entire heart into moments that last seconds, and they just... move on?</p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;Cursed to bleed galaxies of love into the black void of hearts that never learned how to feel, forever drowning in my own unrequited fire&#8221;</p></div><p>I feel insane. Straight up losing it. The worst part is I can&#8217;t control it. These emotions hit me like waves, crashing harder every time, and I don&#8217;t have a damn anchor. I try to hold it in, but it leaks out anyway&#8212;in texts I send too fast, in the way I remember tiny details about people who never asked me to, in the love I give so openly it scares even me. And people see that. They spot the softness and they take advantage. They play with my feelings like it&#8217;s a game, testing how much I&#8217;ll bend before I break. &#8220;Oh, she&#8217;s always there, she&#8217;ll understand.&#8221; And maybe sometimes even &#8220; Oh, I can use this person for a little entertainment, let&#8217;s see what reaction am I getting from it Little tests, little jabs, little disappearances that leave me staring at my phone wondering what I did wrong.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1623303480471-181a3177e09f?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxOHx8bG9uZWx5JTIwZ2lybCUyMHNpdHRpbmclMjBhbG9uZSUyMGluJTIwdGhlJTIwZGFyayUyQyUyMGhlYWQlMjBkb3duJTJDJTIwZW1vdGlvbmFsJTIwcGFpbiUyQyUyMGRyYW1hdGljJTIwbGlnaHRpbmd8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzc4MDc1MjI2fDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Bone-deep, soul-crushed tired. I don&#8217;t want to believe in this cruelty anymore. This world where everyone&#8217;s learned to live like machines&#8212;cold, efficient, scrolling past pain without a second thought. No one feels anymore, not really. Not their own shit, and definitely not yours. Humans acting like robots who optimized feelings right out of their code. &#8220;Don&#8217;t catch feelings,&#8221; they say. &#8220;Protect your peace.&#8221; But what if my peace was loving hard? What if that&#8217;s the only way I know how to be human?</p><p>I feel so foolish. Every time I handed my heart over, wide open, no guardrails, believing this time it&#8217;d be different. This time someone would match my energy, see the depth, stay. But it&#8217;s always unrequited. Always one-sided. The memories won&#8217;t let me go&#8212;they replay at 3 AM when the house is quiet, every word I said, every vulnerable text, every moment I let myself hope. I can&#8217;t take any of it back. I can&#8217;t erase the hurt from the few people I actually trusted with pieces of me. Their ghosts live in my head, reminding me how stupid I was for believing. For thinking honesty still existed. For thinking someone could feel as deeply as I do without running scared.</p><p>I hate myself for it. For still hoping. For believing any of it could be true in a world full of inconsistencies and fake smiles. Why couldn&#8217;t I be normal? Why couldn&#8217;t I numb it out like everyone else seems to? They detach so easy. One day close, next day &#8220;wyd&#8221; texts turn into silence. And I&#8217;m left picking up the shards, wondering why my love always ends up feeling like a burden.</p><p>The pain... it&#8217;s immense. It sits on my chest like a boulder, making every breath hurt. The few times I let someone in, really in, they treated my heart like a toy&#8212;fun to play with until it wasn&#8217;t. Now the scars are there, ugly and raw, throbbing every time I try to move forward. I can&#8217;t forget. I wish I could scrub my brain clean, delete the files of all those feelings, but they&#8217;re burned in. Permanent ink on a soul that never asked for this much sensitivity.</p><p>I just want to disappear. For real. Not in a dramatic way, but quietly. Fade out for a few days, weeks, forever&#8212;whatever it takes to stop feeling everything so intensely. I wish I never existed sometimes. If I wasn&#8217;t here, I wouldn&#8217;t be carrying this ocean of unreturned love, this exhaustion that makes getting out of bed feel like climbing a mountain. No more caring too much for people who don&#8217;t care back. No more nights where my pillow is soaked because the weight of it all hits at once. Just... nothing. Peace. Silence from the constant roar in my heart.</p><p>I&#8217;m tired of being the one who feels it all. The one who remembers birthdays of people who forgot mine. The one who checks in, who loves without conditions, who gets called &#8220;too sensitive&#8221; or &#8220;intense&#8221; like it&#8217;s an insult. Maybe I am too much. Maybe this world isn&#8217;t built for hearts like mine anymore. Everyone&#8217;s guarding theirs behind walls and filters and &#8220;situationships,&#8221; while I&#8217;m out here raw and bleeding, hoping I wont break and prove myself weak.</p><p>I hate how I still believe that maybe they&#8217;ll feel a fraction of this ache and understand why I type these words with shaking hands. I just wanted permanence. A love that stayed. People who saw my depth and didn&#8217;t flinch. Instead, I&#8217;m here, shattered, wondering how much longer I can keep carrying emotions that weigh a thousand tons.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;A Torrent of Unwanted Light, Drowning in Eternal Night&#8221;</p></div><p>I love too hard. I care too deep. And it&#8217;s killing me slowly. 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