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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 11m

you may have made me, but i have destroyed you.

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 1h

the day is coming when i look into that man's eyes, my doctor, and he won't have the faintest idea who i am. and i think it's going to kill me

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 2h

“i am not leaving him. no fucking way.”

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 3h

so you can stick your words of comfort
and you can take your well wishes too

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 4h

he's not my boyfriend. this man is more to me than you can dream. he's the moon when i'm lost in darkness and warmth when i shiver in cold. and his kiss still thrills me, even after a millenia.

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 5h

to be trans is to be your own pallbearer,
to carry the weight of a dead person around with you

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 6h

so i will wait for the next time you want me
like a dog with a bird at your door

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 7h

“christ, how do you do that?”
“do what?”
“believe in me.”
“the same way you believe in me, probably. it's what we do.”

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 8h

my dad believed in you. i'm not gonna make the same mistake.

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 10h

i know that you mean so well
but i am not a vessel for your good intent

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 11h

“i need you.”
“where are we going?”
“into darkness.”

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 12h

there used to be a little girl. there used to be curiosity, and innocence, and there wasn’t anymore.

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 13h

“thank you for saving my life.”
“it's what my dad would've done.”

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 13h

and if i were someplace else
and if i were someone else
and if i were not myself
would this be easier?

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 14h

i ask you how you're doing and i let you lie

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 15h

come on, it can't end like this. you and me, all the things we've done.

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 15h

with tears in my eyes, i begged you to stay, you said ‘hey man, i love you, but no fucking way.’

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 16h

i will only break your pretty things
i will only wring you dry of everything
and if you’re fine with that, you can be mine like that

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 17h

look at you, with your eyes and your never giving up. and your anger, your kindness. and one day, the memory of that will hurt so much that i won't be able to breathe.

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 19h

“i was gonna be with you forever.”
“i know.”
“rest of my life.”

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 20h

i thought brokeback mountain might be around where he grew up. knowing jack, it was probably some pretend place, where bluebirds sing and there's a whiskey spring…

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 20h

why so sad? i'm here and i'm alive
stop making up death wishes,
just take my lifeline

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 20h

i will drown for you
sink to black from blue
and let the water win

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 20h

“let me live vicariously through you?”

lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 1d

the navy needs maverick. the kid needs maverick. that's why i fought for you. that's why you're still here.