Heat

Rising to my face as it screams into my skin

Needles pinching my veins to keep me stable

Crashing into tile floors just to feel an embrace

Limping towards pills

Feeding into the addiction that was warned in schools

Needing more and more

Grains of melted poison puff out of me

Flushing those thoughts out of me knowing my happiness would spread on the floor

Creeping on all fours earning my worth in simple papers

Degrees hanged with the knowledge of a healthy living liars

Milking my bare self in order for them to show their work

Burning all curls rushing to be in such perfect frame

Tasting bitterness

Examining each imperfection under false eyes and mechanical lenses

Pulsing fears linger 

Sleepless nights of coughing cries and desert waves

Airless lungs documented loss