i think i died that day. the light in my eyes became a dim purple like a flame that's bound to extinguish. it was only a matter of time before the wind took over and spilled wax all over my aching limbs. it still burns. it still hurts. but I don't cry anymore, or wince, or yelp. i died that day. everything in me that was able to cry and crawl is dead. my hair stinks of the flames and sometimes i c... » Continue Reading
is there a place where i belong? somewhere quiet but loud with wonder and people whose stories are farther than my own but still similiar in the way our bodies pump blood into our veins or how our breath hitches with excitement. people who understand and hold your hand when it's too hard to breathe or think without your leg jumping up and down to the beat of another person's uncaring heart. hold m... » Continue Reading
you moved on but i stayed. i stayed like you would open the shut wooden door that stinks of wine and old promises. old, old promises of something beyond that door. of something beyond you and beyond us. you were never in the mirror. i glanced upon myself without you there. the only thing i got to see was my two swollen red eyes in contrast to the white snow outside the window. i never wanted to le... » Continue Reading
tell me how good my fucking hair looks teased, brushed, curled, straightened, messy? blow dry it for hours and count it on your fingers painted nails that never chip away and hairspray you got off of the window sill how can't you help but bend your spine to fit the curvatures of my smile? slap eyeliner and guts on the pad of my eye the blood smears and i dig into it trying to get a deeper shade a... » Continue Reading
empty digital pixelated screens blood on your fingers slip into mine we stay silent, the blood drips that's the only thing we ever got to hear time passes and the pixels blur your limbs go limp your fingers go numb you're silent, but honey you're bleeding » Continue Reading
we could only bet on rocks shaped like stars and empty promises you were brave when you left like you mattered nothing to me i was brave enough to let you go i was brave enough to think you'd come back crawling in the mud i was brave to think you'd fix what you broke not knowing what you've done i was brave to think you're not like the rest now you're just a different poem, at best you were brave... » Continue Reading
blow a whistle and spew sweet nothings just to get a glimpse of a soft chest a cleavage that is painted by the hands you can't touch me with by the hands you can't harm me with by the hands you strangled me with be a good man for a day or two just so you can spit and curse under my dress when the sun sets you only wanted to open the blinds you only wanted to let the light in the sun is setting an... » Continue Reading