Do you see her? Her beauty radiates off of her It breaks through every window It shines like the brightest star She is vibrant and bold She is beautiful Do you feel her? She is as smooth as silk Fragile and gentle Soft and vulnerable Silent yet staggering She is beautiful Do you catch her […]
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It ends here, in a parking lot with neon streetlights painting our skin, and her hands twisted in my jacket, and her breath ragged as her words curl and crush themselves into my ear. “You were my friend” is what she whispers, but the words are too heavy to be just that. They’re carrying everything […]
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I gambled, and I’m still trying to decide Whether I won, or Lost. I lost a decaying cadaver. Let the flies and maggots Thrive on its putrid flesh. I thought we would last forever. But our descent to madness Snowballed faster than We could stop it. So we fell Further and further into ourselves, Away […]
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I lived that life on the other end of your father’s cigarette it was too many years and too many steps along the lines of the manicured grass who knew every fog could blacken my body with the lines of a train track ? will we ever forget the feeling of being seventeen going onto […]
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He had a way with words that made you feel like clouds, and not pretty fluffy clouds, but dark, angry, unstable clouds. He could tear you apart with a single touch, though it was never in his intentions. But making you cry was never in his intentions either, but it seemed to happen every […]
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It wasn’t so long ago that a close friend of mine rolled up my sleeve to count the freckles on my arm, but gave up shortly after. “I can’t tell which ones are freckles and which ones are scars,” she told me. I have keratosis pilaris. It is a common skin condition often known as […]
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“Hurry, Emma! We’re running out of time!” Sharon shrieked at the young girl, no older than six years old. Her light blue dress hung too loosely, and one strap kept slipping off of her shoulder. Sharon shifted one of the shopping bags from her left hand to her right, but she still looked like a […]
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Broken bird on a chain. Unfree Unclean Stretching Reaching Straining veins he can’t keep you Don’t let him beat you You can be free broken bird Your cries are heard Don’t dwell in your cage of fear and rage Be untamed, break the chains he’ll feel pain Secrets kept are souls kept clenched he can’t […]
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