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We used to be close
You were like my best friend
But sadly that came to an end.
You said let's play
You locked the door,
To hide us away,
You were younger than me
But we were the same age,
You made me feel gross
You think I don't remember
But what you don't know
Is that I will live with this pain forever
On my body I make cuts
Cuts to carve away at parts that feel
This body that no longer feels safe
With a heart that carries great ache
Your dirty hands make me sick
The thought makes me shake
This body no longer feels mine
My body dirty and disgusting
It’s different than a period
Dripping down your thigh -
That’s from me: that’s mine.
Not the boy at the party who
Let you feel safe -
Two Minutes
Every year, there are more and more damaged humans,
from every age, race, gender, and places.
Those predators are shameless and ruined
Dear Mother,
There are a lot of things in this life that you didn’t teach me.
I never learned how to match a foundation to my skin,
Dear You,
I remember the night so clearly.
Regardless of the tiny little pill you dropped in my drink
I cannot seem to forget.
I see the scared adolescent girl,
It's not the same, he says.
It's not worth the same fight,
it doesn't mean the same thing,
it doesn't hurt the same way.
Except every now and again I hear
a man yelling after me, I'm a bitch,
am I dead to you yet
you almost killed me that last time
when my eyes glazed over and you fucked me anyway
This poem is about breaking
Because you loved me.
this body is riddled with breaks
"I've made it, I guess
I've made it through the mess
But yet I still hold its debris
I open my eyes to nothing.
I do not see anything because my face is against my pillow.
But I do feel something.
Hands, hands exploring my body like I'm some kind of unique jungle.
you ask me if I am okay
I tell you I do not know, I do not know, I do not know
but soon you stop asking
and I start realizing
that I do know, that I do know, that I do know
Men are supposed to love you.Hold your hand and tell you that you are pretty. He said I was beautiful when he held me by the throat and tried to slip my innocence into his back pocket.The words rolling off his tongue caught my skin like a zipper a
You crept insideLike a deer in head lightsI was before you. And thenCrushed slowlyJerking aboutTo the beat of making loveI was fucked. How incredibly lucid this dream continues to be.
For a girl from a small town
She wanted a lot from a big world.
Tears and sorrow filled too much space,
She had to do something, it had to be erased.