ellie

a sleepy girl with a busy life who misses writing and reading her heart out

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

it is a joy to be hidden and a disaster not to be found.

– D.W. Winnicott

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

a new year, for me, has come

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

So how do you let go of the comfort person you have in your head? How do you accept the fact that it's only an idealized version of the person that did not, will not, and may not have existed in reality at all?

[William Shakespeare @Wwm_Shakespeare]

Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.

[the artidote @TheArtidote]

Manipulation is when they blame you for your reaction to their toxic behaviour, but never discuss their disrespect that triggered you. —@_Pammy_DS_ #ReadThatAgain

artwork by Elena Val

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

i think i'm addicted, 'cause a little bit of you always triggers a relapse

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

maybe i can't let go because the thought of holding on to nothing scares me more than the pain of holding on to something impossible

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

i dunno if everything's just so high-maintenance or i just can't be bothered to "maintain" 🤷‍♀️

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

Oh the 3am peace and silence is unlike any other. It is accompanied by the feeling of invincibility, as if you can be and do anything in that moment. A poet, a musician, a dancer... anything without worrying about the wandering eyes of others. Anything... including dead.

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

i wondered why i wanted him to kiss me, and how to know why you want to be with someone, how to entangle the messy knots of wanting

- john green, turtles all the way down

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

no more this year

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

i have fallen for the ghost of you, you of a different time,
different place,
the you of the would, could and should have been,
the you that love me back.
the you who exist only in fantasy and delusion, never real.

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

hey, i thought of you

[Oren Gottfried, MD @OGdukeneurosurg]

Start with knowing and differentiating Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia.

[ellie @wysiwyg___]

humans are funny beings they will keep throwing rocks at you, kick and burn you, then ask why did you break

[books 📖 @bookpoets]

is it wrong?

[Pádraig Ó Tuama @duanalla]

Friends, Poetry Unbound is back!

Season 5 starts this Monday.

Monday and Friday for eight weeks. Anchor your life with poetry.

[Poem Heaven @PoemHeaven]

somewhere between happiness and sadness.