Monday, October 28, 2013

I Hate You Journal (subtitle: the front of creeping rejection)

I hate you journal.  Because as much as I try to bury my thoughts, they pour out of me.  And you are the only one that cares.  And so I let you feed on me.  I pour my soul into you.  A rambling string of bullshit fed directly from my mind.  I want to write down these thoughts and burn them.  Instead I put them here.  I find them later.  And I wonder what the fuck is wrong with me.

I offered myself to you this morning.  And you passed.  It was awkward and hurtful.  Depression creeps in from everywhere.  Now, here I sit.  With a crushing pain in my chest.  Eyes swollen.  My brain castrated from the effects of the Depakote.

Sometimes I turn back on my thoughts and replay them in my head.  I read old shit that I wrote.  And it seems silly.  I want to believe that the feelings of rejection are not real.  That they are just a depressive episode where I am turning on myself.  I want to believe that I am being unfairly hard on myself.

But I know you very well now.  I know that you would rather have sex alone than with me.  And I can't fix that.  I have tried to create an environment where you can explore yourself sexually, and I can bask in it as an outsider.  But I just end up feeling excluded and strange.  And I can't help but think that you have your mind on other men.  That you think of other men while you are with me.  And I am just your friend with benefits.

I was never what you wanted.

Tonight I will scrub down the bathroom.  I will zip my my winter coat and work in the yard.  I will do my best to impress you.  To earn your attention.  And then I will bury my emotions until they come pouring out of me and run down the drain in another late night shower.

And then I will lay awake and watch you sleep.  And wonder what you dream about.

I sometimes put my arm around you at night, and you unconsciously shrug me off.

And I know that the rejection is real.

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