Sleepless still, Not much has changed since my girlhood: Late nights and longer sleeps That drag well into the next day. Lunch is breakfast, Dinner is lunch. Rush hour is 2AM, The hustle and bustle happening in my brain As I scramble about the house, Writing stanzas and washing dishes. Bothering the boys in the…
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8.31.18b
Gardening. Solace can be found in the mud, Your hands in the soil– Uprooting and rerooting– Pulling weeds can be like pulling teeth. Why are you so afraid to blossom?
8.31.18a
I can’t wait for school to start So I can dissolve into heaps of studying; So my brain can expand, Rather than caving in onto itself– Thinking and overthinking– Until ideas become mush And memories become clinical dissections.
8.9.2018
His heart opens with me Though, their hands pair perfectly: A love triangle.
8.7.2018
7.22.18
A baby monster: Young and naïve still—yet, wise— Rising like the moon.
7.6.18
Do inebriates simply bathe in the booze they drink? Is that why the Friday fog is so heavy around them? Or is their hand-eye coordination so altered by drink that they miss their mouth and mop spills up with their shirt? It’s funny, because despite those missed steps, slurred speech and leering eyes, the drunken…
6.18.18
A trio of strong women Lit candles in my honour And sang love to me. I sleep and dream And awake Anew.
5.31.18
“We all succumb to something,” I wrote, “Be it life, love Or heartache. Something consumes us in the end.”
