I ache in my bones, in my skin, in my brain. I ache for you, the pool of anguish reaching my mouth, flowing into my nose, suffocating my sanity with pain, with craving strong enough to burn me. My cinders will float on the waves of my agony, swim in this lava lake of desire, […]
Your voice presses down, shouldering its way into my mind. I can feel you dripping from me, leaving evidence for me to find when I think I’m rid of you. Your sticky words walk on my skin, burrow below, and live, feed on my time, on my need. You are my constant. My hovering familiar, […]
Pieces of you are stuck in me, jutting out in raw edges, steep falls, and you’re still such a mystery even though you’ve managed to lodge yourself in my insides. It seems like I should know all your parts since I feel them itching beneath, in each muscle, each move. You wake me with words. […]
I’ve lost something. Something important, fundamental even, but I’m not sure what it is or was. I just know it’s gone. I thought it was you or him or maybe someone else all together, but it’s not him and I’ll never know if it’s you, so maybe it’s not a person so much as a […]
Too complicated to explain, to understand. What happened to fidelity, to change? To being a better person? To honor and growing up? What about these is too complicated to explain? Has she done something? Have you? Do you miss the pieces you break from me, the ones I send you in tiny messages filled with […]
Not jealously. Not exactly. More like hurt. The insensitivity of it all. Like you said it because you knew it would hurt me. Pinch my fragile worth, and you like to hurt me, I think. Sometimes, I wonder if you’re cruel just to see how much I’ll endure. And I can’t help but suffer on, […]
Suffer, bleed, weep until sanity seems distant, fractured, beyond. Suffer, scream until it’s over, until I am no more. Arrows, wooden stakes made from splintered words, they gouge out my heart in inch-sized pieces until I am only shadows, miniature versions of those pictures you have in your room, hidden in boxes behind walls of […]
Sometimes, the tears want to come. So badly, they want to roll, plummet, crash, to fall into hope instead of desperation. They sit, dangling from the edges of my eyes, heat boiling at the corners, and I want to let them go, to release these feelings, this pain, but I’m usually in class with thirty […]
I told someone today that I’ve never really been happy, not in the complete sense, and I’m not sure what it would even look like to be in that place. I can maybe make a list of what I’ve heard happiness equates to, but isn’t that just a construct, a figment based on surveys and […]
Air, so much air, and breathing, the weight vanishing, its suddenness– a gasp, bright, ferocious, the freedom and peace, they descend, hover, collide, sweep me in blooms of oceans and vast forests of beautiful echoes. One word, no three, or four, but they released me, pegged me, folded me until I floated. Yes. I breathed […]
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