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Echoes-of-the-Dead — Can't Stop Me
Published: 2005-04-18 11:07:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 3875; Favourites: 102; Downloads: 55
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I cut with a blade,You took it away,
You didn't know what you were getting into
I picked up a bottle,
Smashed it on the ground,
Carved with the shards of that instead.
When you found out,
You removed all the glass,
Gave me plastic instead.
So I tore at my skin,
With my fingernails,
Still drew blood,
Only harder now.
You didn't like this,
So you cut my nails right back.
I threw myself against the walls,
Punched them as hard as i could,
Breaking my fists and destroying the room.
You lined them with matressess,
To make them soft and useless.
So I tore out my hair,
Great chunks at a time.
You bought a straitjacket,
Made me wear it so I couldn't move.
You removed everything that i could use to hurt myself,
That's when,
I decided,
To stop eating.
You didn't like this idea of mine
So you forced a tube down my throat.
I tore it out but you put it back in.
I promised to eat
But i threw it up.
You watched me for hours
To stop that little trick
I drove my car off a cliff
In a final act of insanity.
You stopped everything i was using,
To control my pain,
But you never once asked,
If I was OK.
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Comments: 122
and if the control is taken away everything becomes so hopeless
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omg, i loved this. It's amazing and one of my new fave poems ever 
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i like this. too many people overreact at any signs of self harm and make them stop without finding out the why. figuring out why and removing it as a problem is the only thing that can end self harm
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wow i can realy relate to this tbh reminds me of my life :/
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thx im gonna need it
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you're wlcome ^^
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ugh. i hate it.
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Go to the name
UnknownRecords
It is my other name
read that poem I wrote that before I read yours. Kinda weird how they are sooo alike.
I still love it!
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heh wow. i spose it's a common theme - no matter what you take away, we'll find something to use.
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Indeed! I love it still though!
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Normally, prose-like poetry seems a little infantile, but this is a very jarring and very beautiful piece of literary work. I have gone through a lot of these experiences, so it touches me even moreso. Overall, great job. Very moving. You're very talented.
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*smiles, thankyou. i think i should come back and rewrite it now i have moer experience. but not sure.
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Ah man. this is exactly how I feel...This guy makes me promise to stop, but he's never said "I love you", or anything caring at all...
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*shrug guys suck at showing that sort of thing. the fact he wants you to stop shows he cares. cut him some slack
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Yeah, I know.
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WOW! I love it! That's how most of my work goes, but you say it so much better than I could ever say it...
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meh, it needs a rewrite, but i dont like it enough to bother. i thought i had deleted it actually.
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i like it... you should keep it on here...
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"You stopped everything i was using,
To control my pain,
But you never once asked,
If I was OK."
I loved that bit, because I can relate.
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hehe. yeah. the rest of it's crap, but that bit's cool. lol.
thankyou
also, your signature should be 'they're' not 'their', for both times.
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i love it ppl never stop to ask the right question first they just try to fix when they dont know the problem but you word what i cant sorry i ramble but it is great
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they treat the symptoms not the problem. typical bandaid solution generations that we are.
thankyou
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This is beautiful.. i can completely relate 
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heh...it needs work, but thankyou
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Noo it's perfect!!!!!
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hehe...if you say so....
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Thats so Beautiful
Pretty Much How Things Have been Recently
I was Thinking Of Leaving this on my screen when i went out or something so my mum'd see it.
But Suicide Isnt My Intention Today...
I Love It, There's A sad Truth in it, Sort of hammers home the message.
=] xxxxx
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heh....you should do it anyway....let her know how you're feeling....sort of.
let her know what's happenign in your life.
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I *LOVE* this. It really is a coping method, so when you take that away, you have to replace it with something else or it becomes too much. I stopped cutting for a while and my mom was supposed to get me a therapist. She didn't and I stopped eating. Still no therapist and now I've got both problems.
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yeah, i find that if i resist the urge or whatever, i end up getting extremely OCD and my eating becomes skrewed up, and i become very hostile to others. so i choose to give in to the urge instead.
you should go find a shrink yourself...you dont necessarily need parental input, and there are free services as well. atleast, there are here...
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I don't know of any place near me where I can go without parental input and by now, my mom has failed to get to somebody three times.
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look in the phone book, or talk to your GP about it...
you cant leave it all up to your mother, sometimes you gotta go out and help yourself...
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Yeah... I suppose it's time I step up and *do* something.
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*nods* cant expect other people to do it all. i wish you luck....
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i love the end, it shows exactly what people do, they try to stop the side effects, your cries out to the world, but they dont try to help the problem, the dont realise they need to..
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yeah, like,no matter what they do to stop it you'd still manage to selfharm, adn thy'd still miss the point completely.
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