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Angst.
Love is a Tragedy, Life is a phase.
What pain is hiding in that beautiful face?
What miracles do you wish would just be
when you're up in the dark and can't get to sleep?
When the music is silent and the storms getting wilder,
water leaks from your eyes while you're starting to sink.
The party is quiet. You feel like an island.
You're losing your mind, but they ask you to think.
You're a slave to your God. Your will is a wish.
Your boyfriend is gone. Your girlfriend's a b****.
The bottle is empty and so is your heart.
The party is over. You're alone in the dark.
Welcome to Calamity!
Scream a profanity and secretly wish that it was a prayer.
Call for your friends but know in the end
your demons are the only things there.
You hate running a maze but you're too scared to change.
You insist that you're special but want to be the same.
You think you're enlightended like it's some kind of game.
The truth is your soul could put hell to shame.
Drink it all in, the Vodka and sin.
Wait in agony for your life to begin.
What miracles do you wish would just be
when you're up in your bed and it's not even 3?
When you're a clown to a society hellbent on propriety,
the skin that you wear was never your own.
Is it wrong
that by day you feel like you belong
but then come night time you're completely alone?
The nightmares are frequent.
The pain is too much.
The people of this Earth eat kindness for lunch.
Do you feel you've got so many things to hide,
when your only secret is your life is a lie?
The people aren't here now, The monsters are real now
And frightended you wait up for the sun.
Then you start it again with your temporary friends
and choke down the overwhelming urge to run.
Your mind decays like it's made out of flesh.
Your heart's at its worst but the world wants your best.
This life is a torrent. Dreams are a haze.
Love is a Tragedy, Life is a phase.

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I am an 18 year old college student. I started this piece my Junior year in highschool, finished it my senior year and finally gathered the confidence to post it my first year in college. I have dealt with being bipolar for many years now, as well as going from the top of my class to barely passing. I've struggled with trying to be normal and following my heart, being myself or fitting in. I went through religious and moral struggles; feeling like I just wasn't in control and that people used religion to justify horrible actions. Many, Many, Many sleepless nights. I've dealt with enormous amounts of pressure from people who just didn't understand and when I came to college, I learned I wasn't alone. I think this poem sums up everything that went through my head as I went through friends, breakups, parties, family dysfunction, grades and everything in between and although this poem may be considered too dark or too morbid, I feel it strikes directly to the heart of what it felt like to be a dysfunctional teenager.