All those things that were never said…..

There’s one thing that i’ve kept private, one thing that was never read by anyone (save only a couple of close friends) and now i’m giving it to the world.  this is the epitome of pain, the summation of heartbreak, the composition of literal depression.  i created this for someone that never chose to read it.  she had it in her possession for an amount of time, and it merely stayed in the floor of her car untouched, only to be returned to me a short time later, unread and unrealized.  i can only hope that i never do this again, that i never spend so many long nights writing something so destructive, especially for it to haphazardly be tossed aside.  i’m not asking for favors, i’m not asking for sympathy, and i’m especially not asking to change the heart of anyone.  this was my release and my desperate attempt to bandage the wounded relationship that i never bothered fixing.  it’s always too late isn’t it?  a day sooner?  a week?  a month?  no, i don’t think it would have even mattered.  well, with no further ado, the infamous “breakup” letter that was written for the She-Hag, from April 2002.  Never before and never since have i poured such emotion onto paper.  I never expected it to fall on deaf ears, at least i’ve tried….and at least this way i’m not simply holding pages of regret for them to never see the light of day.  This time YOU can keep it.

(cut for length, my emotions weren’t listless enough to fit on only a couple of pages, sorry)

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and it ends…

so there it is…as quickly as it once started, it dies just as fast.  somehow i knew it would end this way, perhaps i deluded myself to believe it wouldn’t come to fruition.  but…it did…just as all things do.  as i’ve said so many times before, i’m the lesson.  i’m never the student.  i’m always going to be your teacher, take from me what you can, learn to apply it to your life…and move the fuck on.  i’m bad for you, i’m never what you need, i’m not the one to make you happy…i’m only the catalyst to fire you forward into the realm of what is supposed to happen.  i’ll be that person, for if i can aid in the happiness of only one person, at least i’ve helped something.  i’m done worrying about my happiness, time has shown me that i’ll falter as always, and it’s been proven again that i’m merely dangerous to have around you.   my ways are not your ways, and they never will be, and it’s much safer for you to turn and walk the other direction.  i can’t ask for you to understand, because you can’t.  not for lack of trying, simply for lack of ability.  i’ve felt the urge to apologize to certain parties again that i’ve wronged, and it’s probably time…i don’t enjoy carrying grudges.  my heart is too heavy to leave hatred inside, i’d rather it be gone so that i don’t even have to think about it.  hurt me as i’ve hurt so many others, it’s only fair, and i’m not the one that should judge you for doing it.  some things truly are better left unsaid, but it’s a mistake i’m going to make time and time again. 

you ask that i smile if i cross your path…but i’m not sure how i can….knowing that even being so far away i’ve caused strife, i’ve caused doubt…i’ve caused mistrust.  is that reason enough to consider?  probably not…for i’ll shake your foundation regardless of how far away you try to push me.  if you cross my path in public, it’s best you don’t even see me, for i don’t think you could handle it any more than i could.  maybe i’m just drunk and reveling in my own thoughts right now, or maybe i’m speaking the truth…but i don’t think either of us could admit it…and “either” applies to all of you, not just the one i’m speaking about right now.  if i’m not correct in anything i’ve said…then prove me wrong. 

perhaps you’re right, perhaps our paths will cross, but they never will until you’re ready.  i guess until then, keep dreaming of me in all the naked truths that you see in your mind’s eye, for no one has ever known me so well, even as far away as you’ve stayed.

i saw a new one

something woke me last night/this morning, and it’s something i’ve not seen before.  i felt my body go under, as usual…and the pain from my busted up ribs was keeping me awake.  i started losing touch with my physical self, i felt it slipping under, and then the tell-tale shaking hit me.  i felt my body start trembling and vibrating, but i kept my head clear and kept myself awake, and then i started to paralyze.  i felt something in the room, right behind my head and i couldn’t make it go away.  i finally rolled over (well, maybe not my body) and there it was, just floating slightly above my pillow.  it seemed to be half-in, half-out, as though it wasn’t fully materialized, and i saw part of the neck and head sort of, elongate as i was watching.  of course my mind was fearful, as always, seeing these things is never easy and never feels safe.  it was angled, like, almost an elbow shape.  from where it started, it sort of had a 90 degree bend in it and then the head started from there, but it was almost equine, very long with a horse-like snout i guess you could say.  it was dark, mostly black with a little brown, very small black eyes.  it had lips and teeth that i remember, very thin, no fangs.  just sortof grimaced a little, perhaps to scare me back, but i just kept looking, the fear was coming over me but i held my ground, i tried to turn away but i don’t think i could, so i started speaking to it since it wasn’t moving.  i was forceful at first, urging it to disappear and leave me alone, and then i raised my voice at it demanding it leave, but it wasn’t budging.  it wasn’t making an attempt to move at me or toward me at all, and as the image has ran through my head today, i had a very odd thought.  i think this thing was nervous.  i kept looking at it’s eyes, and from what i see in my head of it, i almost believe it was scared.  not scared of me, or fearful of anything, but scared like…it knew.  it wasn’t supposed to be seen, and i think because i was looking directly at it, the thing felt uncomfortable.  generally these things are more direct in their approach, they come at me or attempt to get near me, but this one stayed in it’s spot, almost as if it was waiting for me to close my eyes.  we just sat for a moment, staring at each other, me with fear in my heart and it too, possibly concerned that it was in a wrong place.  after a few minutes i would say, my mind started swirling and i think i was slipping back.  i remember opening my senses and “forcing” my energy toward it, mostly to encourage it to leave…not in a violent or detrimental way, but more of an opening of things.  i tried to create a surge around it, possibly to break the image and to break it away from me, but i think i just knocked myself back down to sleep, and shortly after i felt my body again and felt myself trembling, and i couldn’t open my eyes, and when i could move again it took all my effort to wake myself.  my heart was pounding as it typically does with these things and my eyes were hazy and i felt very empty, but i was able to relax myself enough to drop my heart rate back down and i slowly started feeling my muscles again. 

this face was unusual, i’ve never seen this type of reaction or emotion from one of these things, maybe only once and that was a different type of thing and a different type of dream, but typically they’re angry, selfish and purposeful.  this one almost seemed lost in a way, not quite as scared of me as i was of it, but i know something in it’s eyes was showing me something was wrong.  not sure what to make of it, because it didn’t seem to have intent of doing anything, maybe the whole thing was a mistake.  again after going over the experience in my head, i don’t think it was hostile, but it wasn’t quite enlightened.  i think it may have been a little higher vibration than i’m used to, so perhaps it was a little more neutral than the other ones i see.  i need more practice so i can stay longer and observe things more closely, but it’s so hard to fight the fear that i feel when it happens, even with knowing i’m in no danger, there’s just the whole sensation that it is very very wrong…and that those things are not supposed to be there, and it’s scary as hell.  but i’m getting better.

will you ever really know?

i’ll never fully organize the thoughts in my head….

how much should it hurt to leave words unsaid?  how much should we regret those last actions that we never took?  how much does it even matter?

my thoughts have returned to something so painful, so dangerous…and it scares me that i’ve thought of it so much…the one person that broke me and cracked the core of my heart has returned to my thoughts.  i wonder daily how she is, what she’s doing, why i haven’t heard from her…but is it worth it?  i keep thinking that i’m worrying about something so far out of reach that it’s meaningless to do so, that she never gives a thought to me.  i don’t know why it’s still her, still that one, even after all the pain and damage that was done, i keep returning to that central point.  i think of it and i smile…and i hurt…in such a magnificent way…which makes me wonder if i should stop.

i feel alive through the pain and worry, sometimes even thinking that if i’m consoled that i may simply long to feel that same pain again.  what if my words mattered?  what if all those things that have been said really DO mean something?  chances are they don’t, or i’d have heard some recourse from her.  no, most likely they fall on deaf ears, and i’m being ridiculous as always.  i see it in my head, meeting her again, accidentally running into her somewhere in public, and i see myself breaking down.  i don’t know if i could take it.  i think if i do, my heart will dissolve and i’ll probably feel my neck tighten…the telltale sign of emotion and tears, and my eyes will probably flow.  i see myself gasping, covering my mouth as if i’m seeing something so unreal and so unbelievable…and i can only wish that i won’t be alone in that reaction…but i doubt it’s true.

i don’t regret it…i wouldn’t be the person i am now if it never happened.  i question my last words, i question my last actions…even with the advice i give others as of late i see my own mistakes and shortcomings.  i have become a hypocrite…and i’ll never correct those things. 

if i saw you, would you even know it was me?  would i know it was you?  would my eyes meet yours in a random glance across a huge room…and would i feel that there are oceans between us?  the world would stop when we were first together…everything around me was silent and calm, things slowed to an instant where only she and i existed.

i wish for a fairy tale, one that i’ll never have.  i want to gaze into eyes and know that nothing else matters.  i want to feel something unreal.  i want to feel something devastating.  i want to have my breath taken away.  i want to fall to my knees in a fit of emotion.

i want another Romeon and Juliet moment…to see someone in a room and know automatically that our souls are dancing…to lust for our lips to touch in one blissful embrace…to feel weightless when our hands touch…

what if?

can i be satisfied and whole if it never happens again?  will i ever forget?  will you forever stay in the back of my mind, no matter how hard i try to force you out?

i’ve fought myself for months about uttering such words, and i truly don’t let you keep my heart in your hands…i don’t let you prevent me from loving anyone else…but your place in my heart won’t be filled no matter how hard i try.  it torments me that it won’t, but perhaps that’s what love is all about. 

i know that the pain i caused probably can’t be fixed and that it’s a futile endeavor to even fancy the thought that our paths may cross, and even moreso that our paths will cross at a time that i’ll hear your voice and know that you’re looking at me…i’ll probably receive a glance from you while your heart is in a far away distant place, never to come back to mine. 

you are the one person that can truly make me cry, the one that can cause me pain…and the sad thing is, i allow you to do it. 

“there is no you, there is only me”  “i just made you up to hurt myself”  -nin

i know how i am, and i know that i’d only fuck things up again in the way i always do…i’m so erratic and indecisive…i want the things that i’ve lost instead of the things i’ve found. 

i’ve hurt so many people….and hopefully i have their forgiveness….people have given me their devotion and attention and in the end i throw it back in their faces…i show you my soul and then i cover it up again…and i’m sorry…and you’ll never understand that my pain is always greater than what i’ve caused you.  i hope that those of you i’ve damaged will learn to respect me for doing it.  self-inflicted pain is so much faster and easier than waiting for you to hurt me…but i’m sure it’s not the solution to my problem.

after four years of medication i’ve begun to question my own emotions….have i been myself?  how robotic have i become?  was i something so vastly different that i’d become the monster i’d hated to be?  i shut you out because i was afraid…because i worried i’d only fuck it up…and by closing my heart, i became my own self-fulfilling prophecy…i feared so much that you’d leave me ruined, and my fear only drove you further away…and i gave you no other choice but to tear me apart.

i never liked what i’d become, but i didn’t know any better.  i watched you cry to me, i watched you cry FOR me, and i stayed stonelike and unmoved.  and afterwards i tried to tear you down as well, but have now realized that i was the worst thing that could have happened to you…you deserved better than what i was, no matter how high of regard i kept myself.  i wanted to believe that i was untouchable, that i was the best thing the world had to offer…but i wasn’t.  i was the worst thing you could have had, at least in the end.  somewhere i lost track of my motivation and my love, and i turned it against you and pushed you away in my own self-pity.  part of me so desperately wishes that these words will fall where they need to be, and yet i doubt myself so much that it’s hard to believe they truly will. 

i’m probably better off alone, because it’s safer that way.  i can’t hurt you if i push you away.  your heart is safe when it’s outside my grasp.  my touch is cold…i can pretend that i’m flesh but inside i feel so twisted…like i can’t truly open myself to anyone anymore without fear i’ll only make them believe something that isn’t true.  what if things never changed?  how far would it have gone?  how much would you have continued to deal with?

i said i love you….to all of you…and it was true.  don’t ever think or feel that my words were false, or that my emotions weren’t there, because they were.  i’ve tried to learn that what is good for me may not always be good for someone else, even if it means sacrificing something pure and honest. 

not a day goes by without wondering if i’ll get an email, get a comment, or even a random phone call to hear your voice, and again it’s almost stupid of me to think of such things…my friends would demean me for believing something could ever happen, especially after all the shit that has happened.  but does that mean i should stop believing?  should i stop thinking of it?  should i erase the thought so completely that i’d be cold and distant if it happened? 

“what if everything around you isn’t quite as it seems….what if all the world you used to know is an elaborate dream….and if you look at your reflection is it all you want to be?  what if you could look right through the cracks, would you find yourself afraid to see?”  -nin

i’ll show you love, i’ll show you hate…i’ll show you deeper emotion than you’ve ever believed…i’ll make you thankful you met me, and i’ll make you hate me for ever crossing your path….

what would it take for you to believe in me again?

Gospel of Judas

so, the new gospel…it’s interesting, very provocative…and it places Judas as the best friend of Jesus, not his angry betrayer as the Bible mostly describes.
Judas betrayed Jesus because he was asked and requested to do so, to fulfill Jesus’ time on earth, not because he wanted money.
thoughts?

Amalia Wilson Smith
I just want to know why is it that I never find anything old and cool? I mean, come on… People all over are finding books that are 100’s of years old, little glass figures that cost thousands of dollars, fossils, missing links… I saw these people that pulled a sword out of their basement that was from 1200 A.D. I mean, what the fuck? I just want to find one thing more than 50 years old.
Anyway, yeah, cool, great… I sure whoever found it is rich.
Alright, realistic, it’s interesting but I don’t think it checnges anything execpt we know Jesus created the whole story and wanted to be killed to prove a point not because it was destined 🙂
Yay, Jesus liked suicide!
Reply(1)5 years ago

Daniel Self
that’s REALLY interesting you mention that, the interview i heard talked about that idea too, that it really almost sounds suicidal with his intentions. but then again, how fine of a line is there between suicide and martyrdom?
5 years ago

~Proud Mama~
Personally, I think the Bible was probably mistranslated many times over. I mean think about it….the King James version is called that because historically he sat a bunch of priests down and told them to translate whatever books/scrolls they were given by a certain date or they would be killed. So, if you were in those priests’ shoes what would you do if you got a bit stumped on a translation? Or thought you were almost out of time to translate your portion?
But that’s just my two cents worth.
Reply5 years ago

fuck the moon.

sometimes i just hate nighttime…because it leads to daytime…and i can’t sleep…and i have to be at work in a short while…

The Dalai Mama
You big crybaby. ; )
Reply5 years ago

Mary
You have just described the thoughts that go through my mind every night. Being a night owl, I never could understand why I sometimes hated the night. Then it hit me…it inevitably leads to daytime and the rat race that follows. I’m really not sure what this means, though I have a few ideas.
Reply5 years ago

Kenneth
*hugs*
Reply5 years ago

Katy Cook
I am right there with you on the can’t sleep part. I’ve even taken a couple of Benedryl to help and it’s not working. Guess our brains are just on overload- although I can’t really think of why mine is! 🙂 Hope you get some rest before tomorrow (or should I say later today?).
Reply5 years ago

drunk and sleepy revisited

wtf…i went to sleep at like, 530am at least…and woke up at 830am….this literally sucks.  of course i had the taste of alcohol wanting to leave my throat…so maybe i woke up before i decided to get sick…so i fixed that problem.  gah, that’s not how i’d want to start today…staring into the god of flushing water as i spray easter colored body fluids from my mouth.

so i’ve realized over the past week since i’ve had time to myself to do absolutely nothing…that the whole world is screwed.  i think most people are so far lost into their own self-created beliefs of happiness that they’ve forgotten what it’s like to truly be happy.  i don’t mean…”omg i just got a million dollars” happy, but true, deep, intense happiness of just fucking being alive….

and a quote from KMFDM…  “…you’re only alive right now because someone has decided to let you live…”  just stop and think about that, and realize that there are millions of multitudes of opportunities that ANYONE in this world could have gotten rid of you at any moment…and also realize that you’ve had all the same opportunities to get rid of them…maybe you should start respecting the other people around you and start giving a shit about strangers instead of thinking that they have NO relation to you or any impact on your precious little world because they DO.

sure, it makes me hypocritical because i’ve resigned myself so deep in my own apathy that i don’t want to care about anyone but myself…but the ones that pay attention know that isn’t true.  you’ll say i hurt you because i’m an asshole and i toy with your emotions…but i’ll hurt you once instead of hurting you a million times over…and you’ll see that if you give it time.  i know myself better than that, and i refuse to put someone else through any perpetual bullshit that i might create.

and…

good morning and happy easter.

drunk and sleepy revisited

wtf…i went to sleep at like, 530am at least…and woke up at 830am….this literally sucks. of course i had the taste of alcohol wanting to leave my throat…so maybe i woke up before i decided to get sick…so i fixed that problem. gah, that’s not how i’d want to start today…staring into the god of flushing water as i spray easter colored body fluids from my mouth.
so i’ve realized over the past week since i’ve had time to myself to do absolutely nothing…that the whole world is screwed. i think most people are so far lost into their own self-created beliefs of happiness that they’ve forgotten what it’s like to truly be happy. i don’t mean…”omg i just got a million dollars” happy, but true, deep, intense happiness of just fucking being alive….
and a quote from KMFDM… “…you’re only alive right now because someone has decided to let you live…” just stop and think about that, and realize that there are millions of multitudes of opportunities that ANYONE in this world could have gotten rid of you at any moment…and also realize that you’ve had all the same opportunities to get rid of them…maybe you should start respecting the other people around you and start giving a shit about strangers instead of thinking that they have NO relation to you or any impact on your precious little world because they DO.
sure, it makes me hypocritical because i’ve resigned myself so deep in my own apathy that i don’t want to care about anyone but myself…but the ones that pay attention know that isn’t true. you’ll say i hurt you because i’m an asshole and i toy with your emotions…but i’ll hurt you once instead of hurting you a million times over…and you’ll see that if you give it time. i know myself better than that, and i refuse to put someone else through any perpetual bullshit that i might create.
and…
good morning and happy easter.

this is bad…my eyes don’t work…

i have a feeling i’m not going to sleep much at all this week…*sigh*
someone keep me entertained…keep me sane…

Rebecca Kerr
this week??
you hardly ever sleep…what makes this week any different?
Reply(1)5 years ago

Daniel Self
because i’m finally off on vacation, which means i have no obligation to sleep or wake up…
5 years ago

and i will…

i’m going to say things…i’m going to do things…i’m going to be things…that you don’t like…
i’ll say things that will hurt you, i’ll say things that will make you laugh…i’ll say things that will do nothing at all…
my hands typed what i wanted to say, though my lips would never utter those things for fear of being passed off as some simple joke…but i meant them. i don’t know why, i don’t know anything…just that i wasn’t simply babbling. it was bad of me to do, i’m sure, it seems a recurring pattern…but at times it’s difficult for me to find refrain.
and you said i’m shy….well, that’s only the half of it. there’s so many things people don’t know…and even more that they wouldn’t understand. most of it is better left unsaid…because you’d only try to use it against me if you knew about it…and the less you know the better.
i’m losing track of thought, maybe i wasn’t ready to write, i really don’t know what i’m going to say. maybe i don’t know what to say because i know it won’t be read, so am i writing for me or for an audience? who knows…who cares….
my eyes are dangerous…i realize i look at every pretty girl i see…and i want to see them smile, i want to watch their cheeks turn red with shyness and embarassment…i want to say things that they don’t expect…
i know i didn’t think this way with Shehag, i’m confused and just, i dunno…my eyes shouldn’t wander and my heart shouldn’t question things. it’s not fair if it does, i can’t pretend to be able to stop it, my heart controls me and where i go…
and sometimes i fear it IS her…although we never even speak…it could be the one thing that keeps my mind and heart doubtful…even to those who’ve done me no wrong…is it you? are you keeping me from disappearing? are you keeping me grounded? i’m not even sure i’d want you to let go…whether it’s for my own good or not…
…all alone i seem to break…

Jayme
It’s nice to see that you’re making good use of your time. Very nice.
Reply(1)5 years ago

Daniel Self
always! nothing like being melodramatic on an internet blog to pass the time.
5 years ago