shewontsleep

no more words, please id like to glue my pupils to the center of your gaze so i wont turn and look away in the burning moment when you finally see me will you sit with me inside my grief? will you brush your hand against my cheek? will you join your hands with mine and weep? will you kill me like ive always dreamed?

no more words, please

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16.11.2025 01:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hand of god drag me down to heaven i thought I saw your face in a painting but it was just a pastel that bore your resemblance I fell to my knees and I kissed you regardless lips of Judas send me into thunder tried to act like i wasn't scandalized by your brokenness it drew me closer to you it made me think that I could be fixed too

a poem called "Judas"

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15.11.2025 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“The important thing is that you want to get better”, so says the Angel with the missing front tooth Eyes like tiny pearls, she saw the sickness in you And in that moment you perform an absence The same one that they cast on you And it really is cyclical, you think It really is the things we lose And in an instant you are six years old “C” screaming like a banshee “A” perching at the window “U” like a lonely widow “G” beckoning you to ”H“ Come a little closer. “T” the vision fades again And then you think it’s not about the things you lose It’s more about the things you give

“The important thing is that you want to get better” And you believe that you are kind Or kindness is a part of you Like smoke that covers the horizon For fear of what intruders do When they can see the whole of it In a clear and undiluted view “The important thing is that you want to get better” And you believe that you are thoughtful But thoughtfulness is what you use To balk at confrontation Of the very things that torment you “The important thing is that you want to get better” And in a vision you are 30, 40, 50 years old And the time passed like the shaking of sand And you still struggle with it every day And you wonder how you’re supposed to keep on living

this is a poem called "caught"

CW for trauma and self-harm imagery

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14.11.2025 01:27 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

spare me your pity i have no use for inverted triangles raised inside the darkness of the flesh of a cage then forced to wander "normal" when i made my escape i swallow my rage like the razor blades i used to gash away the lumber of an empty frame and now my body craves its slumber like the lightning craves the thunder but i remain steadfast in my limping on to nowhere

a short poem about pity

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11.11.2025 00:47 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

i have just completed recording the song "sorry" off of my debut album "i am god?"

these are the lyrics

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10.11.2025 02:15 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FORGIVE

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04.11.2025 01:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i am shewontsleep. this is a poem called "responsibility".

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31.10.2025 23:21 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

my poem "camels" is now available

you can read the full thing here:

shewontsleep.substack.com/p/camels

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28.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my debut album "i am god?" will be coming out this year

in the meantime, i will be posting new poems and updates here regularly

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27.10.2025 03:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my poem "graze" is now available

you can read the whole thing here:

shewontsleep.substack.com/p/graze

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27.10.2025 02:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0