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the disease of overthinking.



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Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:14 pm
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April 19:

Poem was inspired by @alliyah who introduced me to this format!

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”Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards (so you might as well do Duolingo ).”


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Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:58 am
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18 is slipping away from me.

In three hours, she will be gone.
Sometimes I worry that she is dying,
But maybe she is finally getting her chance to live.
Really live.

I like to imagine that the girl I am right now
will soon be with her friends,
17 and 15 and 13 and 8 and 4.

Free at last, from every chain the future has
shackled her in and every
worry she cannot control.

Free from pain, finally.
Free from loneliness.
Free from stress.
Free from the past.
Free from whatever the next year holds.
Because sometimes, forgetting
avoiding, hiding, and leaving
is easier.

So I like to think, 18 isn't dying,
she is being born into freedom.

She can finally go back to being the girl she was, a year ago.
She can return to her relationship with God
and forgiveness
and hope
and health
and everything I gave away,
to become 19.

I love you, 18.
I am so sorry for every way I have hurt you.
I hope you can forgive me.
I'll love you and remember you,
Always and forever.

(ps: Tell 17 I miss her.)
”Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards (so you might as well do Duolingo ).”


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Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:48 pm
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hey ellie! i love all your poetry so far; you have such a beautiful way of writing and expressing emotions. i especially love 18 is slipping away from me. getting older and leaving past versions of yourself behind is something i think about a lot, and you capture the sentimental and bittersweet feeling very well. amazing job so far, good luck with the last few days of napo! <3
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Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:52 pm
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hey ellie!! ahh, 19 is so beautiful!! and the contradictions "who will never always love you"!! i always love your poetry and this napo is no exception!
nothing is forever but everything was infinite

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Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:49 am
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ELLIE OOSDJODSFJLSDFJD YOUR POETRY IS SO BEAUTIFUL WHAT IN THE WORLD AHHHHHH
Okay sorry for the all-caps, but I actually can't express how much I love your poetry.
and maybe my poetry sucks but at least when i write
i am not alone like every other moment of my life.

<3333 Your poetry does not suck! You are actually my favorite poet on YWS ever. This poem was beautiful and the way you write emotions is actually breath-taking.

The one on April 12th about lemons was one of my favorites
Edit: Another favorite is 18 is slipping away from me. but honestly so many others I have absolutly loved these are only a few that I wanted to mention!
You are trying to rescue the little girl you never saved.
You are trying to show me that you are changed.
You are trying to make me forget, or move on,
Or understand, that the monster in my closet is finally dead.

To this day you are one of the only poets ever that has made me cry, and are the only one that has been able to do it multiple times. Thank you so much for sharing everything here, you are so talented and so kind and you are actually amazing. <3333
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Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:17 pm
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Ahhh, Ellie >.> Your poem 18 is slipping away from me is so good!! It's deeply relatable as someone who just turned 19 and has always hated getting older >.> I hope you find nineteen to suit you well <33 Amazing job with NaPo this month!!
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Wed May 01, 2024 1:11 am
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Oops totally fell behind on updating my poems here xD Thank you everyone for your incredibly kind comments!! :D
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April 21

Yearly birthday poem:

I love the fact that every year,
For the rest of my life,
My birthday will be on the 21st day of NaPo.
And every year, I can remember who I was,
Every battle i fought to win,
Every beast i did not slay,
Every chicken i befriended,
And every capybara i swam with.
”Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards (so you might as well do Duolingo ).”


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April 22:

To capybara,
Or not to capybara?
That is the question.

Spoiler! :
This one is very short xD
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April 23:

On a spectrum of distortion to reality

Everything feels like a spectrum of
Distortion to reality.
I thought that God was freedom,
The ultimate lens of reality,
The all encompassing, embracing hug
Of knowledge.
But now, the unapologetically sinful
Life I live,
Feels like freedom,
for the first time in my entire existence.
My pendulum swings between
Polar opposites, that cannot coincide.
I am stuck on the spectrum
Of distortion and reality.
”Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards (so you might as well do Duolingo ).”


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Thu May 09, 2024 4:25 pm
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Spearmint says...



Awesome job this NaPo, Ellie!! :D Love the range of poems you have, from capybaras to heartfelt, slightly heartbreaking but also heartwarming birthday poems ^-^
Did you end up writing poems for the rest of April? >.>
Can't wait to see your thread next year too!! =D
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Thu May 09, 2024 10:32 pm
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Thank you Mint :D Yes, I am so sorry I totally fell behind on updating this. Let me post these today!!
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Thu May 09, 2024 10:37 pm
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So late XD But there is no such this as TOO late haha

April 24:

The apple that rests on my windowsill,
Reminds me of birds flying against the wind, in summer.
Bare trees to floral dresses, which act as skin
To the summer brides.
An apple without a core, a seed without a sprout,
A winter without you,
And everything i forgot to do, since i changed.
The apple that rests on my windowsill,
The owls, the fallen leaves, the cherry blossoms,
The birds, and the photos i hate to see, but refuse to take down.
They remind me of everything.
”Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards (so you might as well do Duolingo ).”


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Thu May 09, 2024 10:43 pm
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April 25:

Is it a question of if, or a question of how?
Sometimes (this is something I realized when I was about 15. Sure, I was aware of it then, but I guess, well, it really set an impression on my mind when I was about 17.) it isn't if.
The if is a result of every how I contemplate, every how I overthink.

Overthinking is every piece of freedom I ever ever dreamed to have.
But it is also the reason I feel so trapped (in my own mind. A fictional paradise that seems to yield repercussions that gnaw at the back of my head, the way a dog chews on a bone.)

If does not always equal how.

But maybe how is only true because I considered if a possibility.

(Time for bed.)
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April 26:

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