trigger warning: suicide, eating disorders, depression
Category: Poem
breathe
it has been hard lately. and it feels as though it is getting heavier still. but always the pen is light. and just as I have done… Read more “breathe”
your light, my heart
of love and softness
not tonight
sometimes when I see you smile i imagine that it is me you smile for i like to see the small crease on the left side of… Read more “not tonight”
the heart’s letter
from my heart I wrote you this letter from this letter I wrote you my heart say you love me, love you and I are all tumescence… Read more “the heart’s letter”
the hard children
the world is a hard place so we raise children with fire and brimstone with grit We harden them to the embodied parts of themselves. prize reason,… Read more “the hard children”
-breaking apart
sometimes, it feels as though I’m melting spreading into lather-like substance losing firmness consistency breaking apart, slowly- irrevocably a withered fern losing its light other times, melting… Read more “-breaking apart”
the unfeeling
I thought I was better ‘til I put my fingers to the fire saw them burn but did not feel a thing -numb Featured Image: original… Read more “the unfeeling”
-the unsent letter
I hate when you say you love me or miss me I gave up on you after the countless times you pushed away my outstretched hands I… Read more “-the unsent letter”
vacillating self love
on body positivity- a critique of the notion of the totality of body-positivity.
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