I can’t be your mother, you are mine
water too cold, biscuit too sweet tea won’t work I can’t drink or eat my stomach shrinks but grows…
Are you sure you need dessert?
Mommy was happy when I was good. I was good when I was quiet. I was good when I…
Law of Energy Transfer
Searching for love is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. The trick is– You can’t close the…
Open up, pour the gas, strike the match
Remember the big blue pills you would set on my tongue? Make me open up so you could inspect…
Grief as mass
I cried, I exhaled air moved slow it had viscous I weighed less it floated away My dad sat…
Murder in Stockholm
I dreamt his wickedness dead- no one knew until I solved the mystery of where when how and then…
Mislabeled Clown Makeup
Boxed up my trauma, needed to contain it Placed it in storage in the back of my head My…
You said you were worried & I held onto it like a treasure
I was not invisible You could see me in the wading crowd not another faceless mask ,floating into a…
Windshield
caved in, like glass cracks still hold, if tension does not let go- the pain; be the shield, even…
Declaration to Self
To my true self, I am sorry I abandoned you to become a version of myself more easily digestible…
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