men have never made my heart flutter
only twisting my lungs until something in
my chest drops painfully
men have never made me feel joy
only the reflection of a euphoria
built on the premise that
someone could actually
love me
a toxic affection
laced with anxious
attachment and
punishment
because i was
raised with love
that taught me
i am the problem
i deserve this
i am too much-
brought to know
love that is
unsureness and
self-doubt, the
unrelenting void
wide awake
thrashing
in its sleep
snug into the
center of my chest:
it
wants and needs
it
begs and grovels
it
pleads at the feet
of men that claim
to love me:
and the empty
space never
closes.
until it does. ☆ +
expanding . * ☀︎
from a dark
wound that * . +
bleeds the . ☆
universe:
stars dripping + * .
from my finger tips . +
and solar systems getting
caught in my hair + ° *
. ☆
a woman puts her hand *
at the base of my back as she +
follows me into the warming house .
( i realize in that moment i have been
craving safety and comfort: drinking
hastily from whoever would offer me
a cup, keeping it at my lips like it would
disappear at any moment: i loved until
i couldn't anymore and even then i kept
trying, as if forcing myself to weave false
threads was a punishment for my weary
hands that never have been very skilled
at mending tears: )
she gazes into my soul . +
unknowingly when we * .
sit on her bed, something ☆
other than a punishing euphoria . °
growing from the scars left behind +
by the world who had made me * .
its birth and its wonder. ๑
+ *
a sapphic truth . ☆
melts out of me .
and lays there between * .
us, mending the constellations ° +
into patterns of deserved splendor, *
glowing a gentle gold . .
astronomers have + ° *
never seen: . . ☆
* . ° +
draped in miasma *
the spectral form . ° .
takes my hand + *
and curls into me ☆ .
until we are fated . . +
transfusion. + *
* * .
☆ .
i taste air for the first time ° +
and i treasure to finally * . .
breathe. . + * .
. ° .
☆ + °
. ☆
.
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