Soph 🖤

I'm off to bed 🥱

See you on the other side 👋🖤

🎶To the moon cave,
Where I bought my tears,
Lit the lantern,
On my childhood fears.
If you're leaving,
Don't make it harder than it is,
Just let me know,
So I can say goodbye🎶

I can't save the world. I can't take away the troubles of those dearest to me. I feel pretty hopeless.

But I can write 🖤

“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”

the cataclysm
the denouement
it remains a mystery
what actually set the charge

in an instant
my friend was gone

i still care about you
if you're even here to listen

#pennedreveries
#poetry

Anyway if that's something that interests anyone, I may turn it into a throwback reel 🖤

FB memories brought back to me the very first poetry reading I ever did. It was five years ago, around the time I had my poems published for the first time.

I look so much younger! And I sound younger! Only five years ago? Turning 30 hit me like a tonne of bricks 😂

A graphic for a daily music challenge, today's prompt is: a song by a band/artist whose name starts with I.

Day 9 🖤

Phantom of The Opera - Iron Maiden

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

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An e-reader held up in front of a bookcase. The title is Interesting Times: A Hopepunk Anthology, the editors are Suzanna Lundale and Marc Tizura. The cover is colourful and features graffiti on a building.

Now reading 🖤✨

Interesting Times, an anthology of hopepunk stories. And we all need some hope at the minute 🥰

we touch
the #lightning surges
a frisson of hope
and rightness
traversing my skin
feeding my soul

#vss365
#poetry

And once again, Monday graces us 🖤

I'm feeling a lot better today. I've been made to feel like I'm not so alone 🥰

Have a lovely day 😘

🥰🖤

I'm mentally exhausted, hopefully I'll feel better after some sleep 😴

See you on the other side 👋🖤

DARE by Gorillaz just came on the store radio and now I'm the happiest I've been all day 🥰

Okay it seems EVERYONE is sad today. The whole store seems miserable (stocktake will do that to you) and one of the code checkers is sat in the canteen in tears.

It's just one of those days 🖤

thought i saw you today
an executed attack
or a haphazard meeting
but it was someone else

received a message
but it wasn't you either

you haunt me still
and i chase your ghost

#pennedreveries
#poetry

Oh joy, the dreaded stocktake 🙃

We outsource it now but it's still a pain because hey, all these new people are here and in the way.

This shift will either fly by or drag, no in-between!

A graphic for a daily music challenge, today's prompt is: a song by a band/artist whose name starts with H.

Day 8 🖤

Giddy Up - (The) Hoosiers

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

after all these years
you still leave me #spellbound

#vss365
#poetry

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But even then, I could definitely engage more. Tell you that you look pretty. Comment on things you're doing.

I'll try working on myself 🖤

4/4

I have my partner and mostly it's enough, but it's not healthy to get everything from your partner. You need friends outside of your relationship.

Am I presuming too much to think that the people I interact with on here consider me a friend?

3/

it's not like I want to sabotage myself.

I say the wrong thing. I'm not there when I should be. I let them think there's something more and then make it weird. People include me but then I get scared away or lose energy so I go distant.

2/

Apologies, you've caught me in a state of vulnerability.

But I stand by what I said. I'm lonely and wish I had irl friends but I also can't keep ignoring the fact that I am the problem. Most of my friendships have ended, mostly because of something I did, even though it's never conscious..

1/

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Thank you! It'll be my first time seeing them 😁

I wish I had friends to meet up with in real life. I wish I had the energy to keep in contact and be present.

I'm so fucking lonely 🖤