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by Downsyde

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I've got so many negative adjectives rolling around in my head  Worthless...Hopeless...Abandoned...Too much, not enough  I've got core pillars of who I've been left to dust around me  I've ...


6 days ago

I noticed you

I don't know if you've noticed anything different,  But I'm not there anymore, I don't know if you notice anything at all  I've gone quiet and I know it's the way you want it  But I fuc...


7 days ago

I'm no writer

I am bricked up...My words are stuck  If not gone... I need a new Muse  And if you're going to be new  I feel sorry for you  You won't measure up Just be the old one Because I was prolif...


7 days ago

Eyes open

Stop...Don't..Come back..It wasn't supposed to be like this...I didn't mean it..Just give me a second...It all happened so fast...I miss...I missed...Everything... Fuck.


So you're goneAnd I'm busy pickin up the piecesOf the mess you left behindIt's too bad you can't tell me where the pieces fitFrom the last time you came back, I was almost whole againThen you s...


April 06, 2026

Paath

I'm not a spiritual person. In fact, other than thinking we're all connected in some esoteric, cosmic way... like through star dust, I haven't really thought about spirituality in a long ...


April 05, 2026

Bukowski

"And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"


April 05, 2026

Repeating

What if you didn't leave, what if we worked through this shit? She leaned back against the wall and lit a cigarette. The silence sweat between them as he waited for her to answer. He reached ou...


April 05, 2026

Rinsing

I really like how easy we pick up how we leave off. Why's it like that, ya think? Because I care...because we both care Do we? Don't we? Then why do you always leave? ... Say it... Say...


Dear friend,  Actually, can I call you that? I know I've fucked off more times than I can count so maybe we're something more distant than that now. I'd apologize but at this point we are what...


April 02, 2026

Life and death

There is an elderly woman trying desperately to breathe in her bed. She's asleep but you can hear it in her lungs with each breath she takes. She doesn't have a long  A man and his mother loo...


April 01, 2026

Good Night

I know it  I got a bit of a fucked up, crooked soul  And it weighs me down when it doesn't need to  And I got a little bit of a black heart  But it's red where it needs to be  And I know y...


March 31, 2026

Saccharine Dreams

Citizen / Sleep I'm so tired, But I can't stop being in motionCuz it's in those quiet moments Like before the sun starts to burn the day away,Or when the moon cracks the dark sky in twoW...


March 28, 2026

Damn...

Today was...difficult and heavy.  I'm emotionally spent. 


March 27, 2026

High Fidelity (nsfw)

Just to expand on yesterdays thoughts on leaving a little and maybe I'm the only one but I doubt it...Nowhere, in any scenario, is she having better sex than the sex she is currently having i...


March 27, 2026

Leaving

A.F.I - The Leaving Song Pt.II People leave. They don’t do it on a schedule, and absence isn’t neat. They just fucking go sometimes, and you’re left scrambling to figure out what’s left behind...


March 25, 2026

I tried

Got the news this afternoon that my grandmother is riddled with cancer... She'll most likely go to palliative care. One minute she's alert, the next minute she's in a coma  My mom is a mess, na...


March 25, 2026

Well, damn...

We were supposed to watch new girl But we just ended up talking about suicide  And eating cake by the ocean The minutes tick by  And the pain in my brain I don't even notice  Wake me up, w...


March 24, 2026

Mene

What the fuck... I'm stuck somewhere between laughing my ass off and destroying my fucking home. "everybody knows, that's how it goes..." Fuck you, Leonard Cohen.  Not really, I love you So...


March 21, 2026

Bitter

Was it something I did?Was it something I said?Was it something I wrote? Say one thing, say another thing, say a third thingWhat's the true thing? Could you keep them all straightI think I know ...


March 21, 2026

False Idols

I found faith in the bottom of a bottle,In rooms filled with cigarette smoke,Cocaine warriors,And women for hire,I found comfort in the distance from emotionWhen the pain came back, I just ask...


March 21, 2026

Rusted

Makin' wishes in the darkDon't come for me, don't come for meYou aint a lion, you aint a threatMore fear than you can speak,Tongue is knotted and your lungs drownStay in the sunlight where you b...


March 19, 2026

God does not play dice

Man...School...I hate it thanks. I knew I wasn't going to be a big fan of marketing. Or deadlines really... But some of the material makes me want to poke my eyes out.  My grandmother's in the ...


I lead the brokenhearted,Don't be fooled, I'm just letting myself downI quit everything I start,Only I didn't start this game, I thought you said you wanted to play,I thought you said you wante...


March 16, 2026

Just Before I Start

I used to think the songs you'd post were for me,The words you couldn't or wouldn't say,They are so specific to what we experience, But the benefits of silence, of hindsightIt allows for contem...


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