My Divided Cycle



To breathe again. When will this end? I say as I lay in the tub enjoying this warm water falling

I’m sorry for acting so unappreciative. I understand I have the privilege of coming home again. Some don’t get to go to bed without fearing they’ll be dead when the morning comes. I hate how unhappy I’ve become

Oh, I long to smell the sweet pleasant scent of the lilacs I’m able to see beside me. These wondrous melodies can easily reach my eardrums but won’t fill the dopamine I’m severely lacking

I could touch and feel all my skin desires yet a smile couldn’t form when it’s acquired. The many tastes of sweet, savory, salty, and sour my tongue remembers then I forget to gracefully devour

My soul is such a coward

Laughters the best medicine. It’s not healing me though. Still, it’s something I experience before and after each tear flow

Oh, I love my mother. I didn’t have to grow up without a child’s rightful gain. So why do I suddenly wonder and hunger for some invisible trauma? Curiosity aims to kill when our thinking heart’s in vain. I don’t deserve a fairytale ending and neither to feel undeserving

I could go to the mall or play in a yard and drive a car while following directions on my phone waiting for some form of comfort and the known. It’s not the best but it’s also not the worst. Is it a blessing disguised as a curse or am I just a horrible person?

My soul remains sad and angry

One day I could wake up and live

Another I could die but today I’ll simply exist

How some survive is far beyond me

I cry and I panic uncontrollably

Life is a miracle and the worlds a gift
Almost everyone and everything in it
I’m a monster for not moving to clarity and exercising faith seems to escape me
I don’t know what to think, say, do, or feel, and how
I’m lost and confused, stuck behind the crowd
The answers are right in front of me but I don’t see anymore
I shouldn’t even be allowed to hear, feel, smell, and taste either
My brain; it hurts
My feelings are painful
My bones are intact and my health isn’t fateful

To breathe again. When will this end? I say as I lay in the tub enjoying this warm water falling…

About this poem

I randomly came up with a certain melody as I was laying under the running water of our shower head a little past midnight. I couldn’t get the ongoing rhythm out of my head so I took my phone and wrote while still in my tub. (Most of my poems were not only written at night but also “out of nowhere”…I call them all a collection of •Late Night Clarity• -the hours in which my subconscious comes out to play) I meant for this poem to be in the form of a song so it might not flow as well reading it directly especially since only I have an idea of what it sounds like but I hope it’s worthy enough anyways. My mind is a racing maze. I fight a battle each day at every twist and turn. I know trauma can take place in a bunch of different ways, small or big, but due to living a fairly stable lifestyle; I can’t seem to find the cause of these awfully “specific” thoughts and feelings. Here we go again… 

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Arianna Guzzi

Hello everyone, my name is Arianna and I am an 18-year-old female currently residing in Rhode Island. For as long as I can remember, I have been an extremely deep thinker and often embrace the emotions following my abstract thoughts. I see myself as very different from those which often makes it difficult to fit in. I enjoy writing and although I deal with low self-esteem, I find it one of my strongholds. For a while, I have been using poetry to cope and find a unique way to express my personality when my voice fails to do so. I am truly passionate about my finished work and hope you all like too! I wish everyone well. Thank you for this amazing opportunity. :) more…

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