When things get bad, we run towards the airport in our dreams but wake up before we catch our flights. When things get bad, I start wearing pink to look less destroyed, I start sleeping with lights on but nightmares still don’t stop. I start wearing a darker shade of red and kissing more men […]
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1) I’m watching you get sick. The emptiness in your dark pupils, twitched irises, pale skin over your fragile body, the things you do that no one sees. The fresh cuts and old scars which you wear as your favorite accessory. The menu for your stomach is just green tea. 2) You’ve made homes out […]
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1) I still have to learn how to love without staining my hands from the blood of the people I loved, scarred from the broken edges of my skin. Smile. Until your cheekbones get stuck in your own lies. Smile. Until your lips curve on their own with every sorry. Smile. 2) It’s been sixteen […]
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She swallows the words as easy as the pills, the pills they hand out like candy, but still they don’t replace the void in her eyes. Her lips curl as she breaks into the smile that she’s so good at faking, that now doesn’t even take a thought, despite the sadness within her very soul […]
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“And nobody tells you what happens after they say happily ever after,” she blurts out. “Nobody tells you what happens after endearment starts to fade and adoration turns to boredom. When love turns out to be lust and forever just turns out to be a phase for numbered days, and nobody tells you that happily […]
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