Annie Horrigan

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I know I bother you
Constantly interrupting your life
Burdening you
When you already worry too much
...

They say what you don't know won't hurt you
Maybe so, maybe true

But what if it hurts me?
...

Falling.
No, not falling
Sinking,
Sinking into an ocean,
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I'm so blank
The puppet responds with a delay
Someone says something funny
I laugh
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I'm me but I'm not
I see what's happening around
I know the body exists
I know the name that belongs to it
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Rivers of red
Streak across the world
A world of black and grey
Offering minute relief
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Annie Horrigan Biography

I'm a teenage girl, still in high school and relatively inexperienced, but I've been writing poetry for years, and have experimented with prose. I hope to be publishing some of my work as part of a senior project, as well as independently, soon.)

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Interruption

I know I bother you
Constantly interrupting your life
Burdening you
When you already worry too much
I try to justify it to myself
I only say something
When I'm slipping off the edge
But you know what
Apparently that's pretty often
You say I don't bother you
But you have so many others
Who are so much better for you
I'm like your disease
But you're like my drug
I thought telling would help the pain
Really it just opened a different box
Full of different, new pains
That I have no idea how to deal with yet
And now I'm addicted
The sight of a message or email
Sometimes makes me cry
From happiness and relief
But it only lasts until you're gone again
I feel like I'm being too open
But I'm just telling the truth
It's what you all told me to do
I press them down as long as I can
That first two years of pressing
Still is being released
My life is fine
All of these problems
Are all in my head
But you say I don't bother you
And that's really sweet

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