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Margaret

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

3 poems·Since August 2014
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Inner

August 28, 2014

           I'm screaming in here--within walls of flesh--within imperfection--

                                                                 drowning in self-imposed perfect standards.

          

                       I tore my wings to shreds, and now the feathers are scattered

                                          and my back is breaking as I reach down in attempt to pick them back up--

                 

                 because all I've ever wanted is to fly free,

                                                 and the only thing in my way is

 

                              

                                       me.

 

 

 

 

 
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