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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Chapel Hill chapter.

Content/trigger warning: this piece discusses issues on negative self-image and depression. If this triggers you, please click off this piece and feel free to browse other pieces on this chapter’s site. Please practice self-care, and never forget that you are not alone.

 

it breathes, it breathes, it’s alive!

oh, praise the lord, our bringer of misery!

as long as it’s alive, it can feel

it’ll spit in your face and make you its bitch.

tell me what i want to hear, oh, magnificent one!

tell me that i’m not worth it, that i’m a mess,

that i’ll never find love, that i’ll always be alone!

fuckyou, fuckyou, fuckyou, damnyoutohell!

damn you for breathing, damn you for sensing my emotions!

oh, praise the lord, our bringer of despair!

how dare you do this to me, you wretched being?!

i hope you shatter, i hope you shatter

i hope someone stomps on you like you did to me!

damn you for breathing, damn you for existing,

damn you for not being there for me,

damn you for draining me of so much happiness.

i would be better off without you, but i’m such a narcissist.

X. Ramos-Lara

Chapel Hill '23

Hello! My name is X. and I'm a senior at UNC-CH majoring in Gender Studies and English. When I'm not stressed out about doing research on non-white gender performance for my thesis I like to write queer poetry. Welcome to this little sliver of my mind!