Came and went with the springtime Before the blossoms even fell Filled the garden tub with my tears In my pastel toned personal hell Watching faces form in the leaves Blessing me and wishing me well But none of them were yours And I no longer have time to dwell #poetry #fernlavenderpoetry #writing #poem #spring #springtime #bellezobrienpoetry #pink #cherryblossom #flower #flowers #garden #nature #outdoors #home #shroompuppy #shroomdog #dog #dogs #dogsofinstagram #puppy #pitbullpuppy #pitbull #pittie #pets #animals #psycheknot #songwriting #songwriter #🌸 https://www.instagram.com/p/CVRD3_7PUw3/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Maladaptive Daydreaming II
I appreciate that somehow
There is something darkly amusing
About my current predicament
That I am trying to fix
I spent some time running
From a hometown that hurt me
From a name that never felt mine
From memories, sharp and raw
Soften the edges a little bit
Soft filter blurring what I recall
Til the shapes become fuzzy and unrecognisable
My hair is redder somehow, and my body is smaller
Smaller even than it was when I was younger
And in this idealized self I am
Treated kindly and fairly by those around me
In ways I would have begged for in where I originated
But these fuzzy daydreams are in stark contrast
To the conflict and chaos in my real day to day
My bedroom is scattered with rubbish and I haven't found time
To brush out the tangles in my fading red hair
Too busy building gentler spaces in my mind
Escapism, it seems, is my strongest addiction
Perhaps my only one, whatever form it may take
I used to wonder why dissociatives were popular at parties with my generation
When my mind is so broken it gives me that for free
But unlike ket wearing off, I can't control this dosage
It formed when I was too young to notice it was a problem
When I was seven I'd sing myself stories to sleep to
And whilst the plot lines are forgotten, the setting's the same
I think I'm dressed like Titania out in the woods
There used to be other characters but I am finding that I
Can no longer convince myself of their authenticity when in my reality
I've barely left my house for months
So I'm no longer sure how a person should work
My companions have been tv shows, Riker and Quark
But as much as I want a Star Trek future, I am trapped in the present
With no guarantee our species will ever overcome
The hurt that keeps so many of us jailed in our daydreams
Maybe less in the present, maybe more trapped in the past
I want to break free but I'm scared to acknowledge
How isolated and broken and worthless I feel
For if that were not the case, why am I so compelled to deny it
To create vast universes in my mind instead of
Recognising which people around me jut want to laugh at me
How can I escape escapism? Without being dead?
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Sticky Sickly Sweet
Poems are spells, in a way
In which one must be careful in their wording
Lest they be misinterpreted
Unintentionally to one’s own detriment
A recurrent theme before I learnt self control
Slowly digging myself out of that hole
I whisper words beneath my breath and the candles
For safety’s sake and also sweeter songs
Should hope to send you an ounce of comfort
Always my intention in conjuring closeness
Shadows in the woods may be the only company that keeps me
On a fading path I’d feared I’d never tread
But better this than those that kept me hostage
May neither you nor I again have to face that dread
Like a soda bottle filled with flies
Sticky sickly sweet and binds your feet
So is the softness of where familiarity lies
You could come find me, but only once you’re free
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To My Left
In BPD, there is this concept
A “favourite person”
To which we get overwhelmingly attached
Upon a pedestal to which they can never live up to
Maybe because I wish someone
Were as devoted to me as this
And then perhaps
They will never abandon me
So when I feel it creeping in again
I try to fight my very nature
I claw my way up from falling so deeply
I disconnect my logic from the emotion that tugs at my toes
Trying to turn me down the path of
Terrifying them with my
Frighteningly intense neediness
For who could find such passion attractive
Than another as charred as my sunburnt hands
Of which, I have learnt, only leads to destruction
I must castrate my emotions
For otherwise, I know how it always ends
For the cycle repeats, and they leave me again
And so I lock the door of my crumbling home
And smoke my way to another plane of reality altogether
And stay up to early hours watching films of magical men
Beautiful and fictional, to get my fix
Safer than forcing those that I love
From witnessing my latest mental breakdown
But lately, I’ve found, that isn’t enough
I cannot divorce myself from that which makes me more than machine
I look to my left, the empty side of my bed
And cannot help but yearn for another
The men that I do love are safely inaccessible
Whether through distance or death do they keep us apart
But it does not make this aching any less tangible
But I’m scared I’m too broken to even know where to start
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Beige breaking my brain to bits And I'm scared of the sepia sinking in I'm not trying to be your fantasy in vanilla lace I'm just trying to find my own peace of mind and survive #bellezobrienpoetry #writing #poetry #poem #poet #fernlavenderpoetry #selfie #sixtiesmakeup #vintage #vintagemakeup #redhead #redhair https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCHfJLJ4dl/?igshid=13duoh4r7jw4d
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Take Me To The River
Two fae, in a forest to where I flew
It's been so long waiting just to reach here with you
In old towers I crawl like the sun slips to the sea
Like golden hour rising where you lay here with me
So darling, take me to the river
Where the landscapes feel familiar
Wash me in your water
And make me feel at home
Darling, take me to the river
Where the moonlight makes you shiver
Where the water's soft and silver
And we'll no longer be alone
They take residence in your dreams
These old memories of yours
That I can translate to a bitter hate
That you came close to the source
They cannot reach us by the river
Of that I can be sure
So let it wash you clean of where you've been
We're both ready to take form
So darling, take me to the river
Where the landscapes feel familiar
Wash me in your water
And make me feel at home
Darling, take me to the river
Where the moonlight makes you shiver
Where the water's soft and silver
And we'll no longer be alone
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Vanilla Lace
Slipping, sleeping through the cracks
On the very edge of
Faded from dissociating
Like the rugs in my sunroom
Mold in the carpet
Best be bleached and maintained beyond
Trying to survive
Holes in your cardigan
Worms are writhing and begging to be
Barely allowed to survive
Dirt in the garden
Sweet and earthy, the place where she birthed me
But never breathed my life
I always knew, even in my youth
I'd find myself forgotten and fading into
A fictional forest only in my mind
Lock the door, blankets are warm, edge of alive
Beige breaking my brain into bits
And I'm scared of the sepia sinking in
I'm not trying to be your fantasy, in vanilla lace
I'm just trying to find my own peace of mind and survive
Mold in the carpet
Best be bleached and maintained beyond
Trying to survive
Holes in your cardigan
Worms are writhing and begging to be
Barely allowed to survive
Dirt in the garden
Sweet and earthy, the place where she birthed me
But never breathed my life
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Faux Fern
Plastic fronds and pink flamingos
Can’t wait around to see where this goes
Neon lights in a house of heathens
And you’re too scared to sink your teeth in
Rubber on my lips, hear it crack and hiss
Tugging on my collar for a moment of bliss
Until you’re chanting the name of a girl who don’t exist
Fire in my lungs till I’m burning out your kiss
Leopard faux fur coats
Faux fern is the name you wrote
You don’t know them, you don’t know them
You don’t know them at all
Visited by a ghost
Can’t admit it’s what you crave the most
When my deadname wants you
She’ll give you a call
Tacky tacky tacky
Like green lipstick down your neck
You’ve been kissed by the forest
You’ve been yelled at by your ex
Sticky sticky sticky
Like the bottles in your van
Kahlua, curdled milk, and
I’m outta here, man
Leopard faux fur coats
Faux fern is the name you wrote
You don’t know them, you don’t know them
You don’t know them at all
Visited by a ghost
Can’t admit it’s what you crave the most
When my deadname wants you
She’ll give you a call
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The Cursed
Maybe (I fear) I am a curse
For every time I’ve run away from acknowledging myself
That hurt seeps into those who I love
That hurt that only I deserve
I keep on my dresser a little wooden box
Chimes play forever a melody that fades in from childhood
And in it I keep a piece of pink foil
Crumpled and soft, like the skin on her hands
Like the way your layers gently devoured me
My grandmother, one Easter, when I was thirteen
Gifted me an egg, wrapped in this fuschia
“A Barbie, from a Barbie,” (for her name was Barbara)
She was kind and gentle and worked hard to maintain
A light for me when all those of my family went out
When she was diagnosed with bowel cancer
My grandfather grumbled and hardened his heart
He thought that she would be well if it were not for me
A black mark on the family tree, a demon to blame
And the day that I met you, you hinted at fears
That something in your body had gone horribly wrong
Though I wish we had longer, you were gone within two years
And my grandfather’s voice cried out the same song
“You can’t come to the funeral, it’s only for family”
I was crying in boarding school when Barbara passed
As isolated as I felt when I found out about you
I lived on my own. I grieved on my own. I’m scared I’ll die alone too.
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A Visitor
Like a scent I always had known
Deep inhale and take me back home
Hold my breath in a balloon
Not a moment too soon
A visitor and you
Raindrops fall, watercolour on roof
Your face is an artwork in colours I choose
Purple and green, hidden worlds unseen
Pure and obscene
Share this with me
Darling, have you seen the neon faces?
Faraway places I barely recall
Felt an old lover lay down beside me
Here, deep inside of me, seeking myself
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Been Meat
His hands are soft and so is his pillow
That I bury my face in so he does not have to see
How disconnected I feel from every sensation
This is not my body. This is not me.
But now I’ve been meat
Well how can you expect anything to compete
With the adrenaline rush, and the only way I feel complete
So I dissociate in their arms, better than trembling at their feet
I do not want to be this way
Repeating every memory as if I were there
Limping on my way home, feet aching like my face
I put these men first because I’m desperate for them to care
And he is not callous and he is not cruel
He kisses my forehead and strokes my hair
And calls me a good girl, but that I am not
It’s the one thing I asked for, but he got off already, so why should he care?
So after that, I’d rather be meat
Fresh cut from the butcher and dripping in need
Plastic wrapped, to hide what I bleed
Trimmed and consumed. The break is complete.
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1999
In a carpark, feet pulled up
Slowly burning in the sunshine
Minutes melting into hours and
Talkback radio in my mother's Subaru
A middle aged man incensed at having to change
The pronunciation of a hometown he's never gotten correct
I can almost feel his spit coming out of the car speakers
And I am only seven and bored beyond belief
I roll the window down just a crack
In the hope the sea breeze brings some relief
From a summer somewhere I feel I cannot escape
My legs are short and cannot carry me away
From a small town in the middle of nowhere, New Zealand
I gaze across the concrete
Surely no one could feel as lonely as I do now?
The radio fuzzes in and out
I imagine growing up somewhere like this
Somewhere too small to make contact
With anyone who feels like you
Now I wonder where you were that afternoon
As I melted like my ice cream that slipped from my fingers
I picture you at a relative's house, dissociating
As they tell your parents it was always pronounced that way
And thinking, surely this can't be the edge of the earth
Please let there be something more
Beyond your hometown
I hope when I returned there in decades to come
That you found that there was
Because to spend summer scorching in that car
Will never be enough for us
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Back In A Box
Whenever I think it would be easier to
Crawl back into a past where people would find me attractive
I think of my friend, who grew up in the country
Who came out as a teenager and couldn't be welcomed
As themselves
So they shaved off their hair and managed to be
Masculine enough by making fun of themselves (secretly)
Attention from girls and they told themselves
This is what happiness must be
And ignored that they were not at all
And when we thought the apocalypse hit
She told me that even if this was the end of the world
She was so thankful she'd left it behind
And even if she didn't spend much of it alive
She was proud of the eight months she'd been out as a girl
I am not a woman, nor will I be a wife
An expectation I narrowly managed to escape
I'm a fern in the forest and I feed in the light
I am not a man either, and I've chosen to stay
Here in the woods I feel most like myself
In the autumn I'd planned to leave them my body
But in the spring I took root and determined to grow
I cannot go back. And nor should I.
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I've always loved this time of year When mushrooms sprout out of nowhere overnight Like interstellar visitors And fantails flit through the ferns Because I like to believe they are some iteration of you Sent to see me at the season of your death, your birth To remind me that you're still here in less tangible ways #taurusseason #fernlavenderpoetry #forest #forestcore #fae #woods #outdoors #nature #autumn #fall #cloak #dunedin #nz #newzealand #wizard #wizardcore #mushrooms #toadstool #amanitamuscaria #flyagaric #redhead #🍄 #bellezobrienpoetry (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/COhjwmgJGWY/?igshid=1mfojtjeiioim
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I illustrated some poetry I've written recently #poem #poetry #writing #fernlavenderpoetry #illustration #illustrator #fineliners #sketchbook #drawing #bellezobrienpoetry #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #artstagram #fernlavenderart #cptsdcreative #waterlily #bellezobrienart https://www.instagram.com/p/CNmF2c_p0Cr/?igshid=1tjk01nci8oes
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Shadows in the woods may be the only company that keeps me On a fading path I'd feared I'd never tread But better this than those that kept me hostage May neither you nor I again have to face that dread #bellezobrienpoetry #writing #writer #poet #poem #poetry #fernlavenderpoetry #redhead #redhair #ginger #enby #nonbinary #queer https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1S4knJN_s/?igshid=1ialjvc9b220w
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