
I Hate Myself
Not loudly. Not dramatically. Quietly. Constantly.
It lives under my skin, humming like an old fluorescent light that never shuts off.
I hate the way I breathe through days I don’t want.
I hate how my body moves like a ghost inhabiting something that isn’t mine.
I hate the weight of existing — the endless cycle of pretending, collapsing, rebuilding, pretending again.
I’ve tried to love myself, but every time I get close, I pull away.
Maybe because love feels like a lie when you’ve learned to survive without it.
Maybe because hating myself feels safer — familiar, predictable.
I’ve carved apologies into my silence.
I’ve bled forgiveness that never came.
And still, the mirror waits — patient, cruel — asking who I am without the pain.
But I don’t know anymore.
Maybe there’s nothing left underneath it.
Maybe I’ve become the echo of every broken promise I ever made to myself.
And maybe that’s why it’s so quiet now.
Because even my soul is tired of screaming.