Survivor 💞
Your edges dull, your voice thins,
and you become background noise
to louder, younger, hungrier lives.
You learn the weight of transparency:
how a body can still breathe
while the world walks through it.
Your edges dull, your voice thins,
and you become background noise
to louder, younger, hungrier lives.
You learn the weight of transparency:
how a body can still breathe
while the world walks through it.
I never am allowed to understand
a shudder where aching fails to ebb
and my bones yearn for silence
#Emoetry
I never am allowed to understand
a shudder where aching fails to ebb
and my bones yearn for silence
#Emoetry
of warnings I ignored
it stains everything
lips you kissed with promises
hands you held like lifelines
red flares and consumes
leaves nothing behind
but ash pretending to be warmth
I see it in the silence
and when I close my eyes
how it hangs there
metallic,
like blood in my mouth
of warnings I ignored
it stains everything
lips you kissed with promises
hands you held like lifelines
red flares and consumes
leaves nothing behind
but ash pretending to be warmth
I see it in the silence
and when I close my eyes
how it hangs there
metallic,
like blood in my mouth
while holding my dad’s hand
as he slipped away
sold my childhood home
worked full-time while grief
gnawed at my ribs
I did it all
didn’t break
didn’t flinch
and yet you, with your empty words
and half-hearted presence
you’re the one who unravels me?
fuck that, and fuck you.
while holding my dad’s hand
as he slipped away
sold my childhood home
worked full-time while grief
gnawed at my ribs
I did it all
didn’t break
didn’t flinch
and yet you, with your empty words
and half-hearted presence
you’re the one who unravels me?
fuck that, and fuck you.
as if ice runs through my veins
but your actions
this discard,
silent and sharp
have gutted me
like a blade that knows exactly
where the softness lives
and I will never understand how
you could be so cruel
as if ice runs through my veins
but your actions
this discard,
silent and sharp
have gutted me
like a blade that knows exactly
where the softness lives
and I will never understand how
you could be so cruel
The freedom
Showing off
Not knowing
That I exist
The freedom
Showing off
Not knowing
That I exist