This is just to say I will not #partake in your so-called adult life, especially not if it involves guns & violence. It's true, I also held a gun, but only ever aimed at the bull's eye to win my love a peacock feather or a plastic rose. #vss365

A meeting gaze across the dancefloor your incoming presence looms lips to my ear, you ask if I #partake an exchange of sly grins, a slight nod, the delicate placement onto my extended tongue; a love letter from you to me. Hand in hand to meet the night eagerly filled with curiosity. #vss365

#harmony lurks, hiding inside each day frolicking within the twisting tree branches as they compete for the sun resting inside the moment when the lapping ocean waves meet the steadfast shore or curling itself up in the sheets beside us as you hit snooze once more #vss365

The woman who visits me loves to brush my #bonny hair in the moonlight. Sometimes she brings me gifts in exchange for my make-believe stories. I must remember to cover all the mirrors, though, lest the face of my mother, petrified and screaming, stares back at me. #vss365

Our fingertips curl together as the storm rages outside. The rain pattering against our window is fitting, pathetic fallacy for the longing radiating from within. You draw me in close as #lightning flashes outside; our lips conjunct, heavy as the rolling thunder. #vss365

I stare into the pool at my feet, nostalgia threatens to take hold. Endeavouring to escape the past, my reflection breaks as I toss my stone. My beginning may not have been magical, but my ending will surely be #enchanted. Because I will mould it as I wish, to make it everything it should. #vss365

Today, I cannot write a poem about love, hope, or joy. Today, all I can think about are the women and girls who are hurt and murdered by those who are supposed to love them most. Today, there is a #lacuna deep in my heart, and I cannot imagine it will ever fill again. #vss365

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just sobbing while writing a poem about femicide and the treatment of women in the modern age :)

#vss365 #dark

A quick beginning messy, too but worth it all to be with you Held every flaw you saw it all gone are the days I swore I'd fall Hand in hand #touch to touch eternity with you will never be enough #vss365

Do not call me a #ghost. Speak, if you must, of my spectral complexion. Comment on the spirits dancing lethargically inside my pupils. Whisper about how the fire was extinguished inside me. But do not call me a ghost. For I am much more akin to a poltergeist and I must warn you: I do bite. #vss365

#pain deep in my chest breath caught a feeling I can't escape agony flaming over my skin words taste thick ash on my tongue tormenting memories, fleeting I have laboured myself for you, although you will claim you did not ask me to and so it grows, continually #pain #vss365

You speak with such loving conviction that your words get rubbed into my skin an ointment designed to #soothe the hypervigilance of my soul bringing with it intense longing to see in myself all of the beauty that you claim emanates from me. #vss365

I look at you through the windowpane open my mouth to speak, but in vain. Ears pricking at the #thrum of the rain heart thudding, fear takes over again. If you never meant to cause me pain, why did you make me feel so insane? In the end, I have nothing to gain there's only myself to blame. #vss365

#vss365 #obfuscate

The agony of self-control blooms within our breasts evading feelings like it's sport yet helplessly we stand together, every caress lingers incessantly until no more can we deny our breathing intertwines watching your lips #quiver our eyes meet and finally I can feel you forget her #vss365

dreamy beginnings of hyperfixation overcumbered swirling passions optimistic foundation the passage of time with no explanation a #wane of enthusiasm thrills left behind, hidden in impossible restoration desolation grows with procrastination kneeling defeat warm intimacy a lost sensation #vss365

#Wane what i want to say is: I used to think we just disagreed that you hated taxes and I thought maybe feeding the poor was a good idea what i mean is: when you looked for every excuse for murder something happened to my faith #vss365

I know you hate it here, trapped on the threshold, one foot stuck in the before, the other stuck in later, confined within your thoughts, no way out, your present frozen. Take a breath, my dear, allow yourself some peace and see that the #cusp truly is a beautiful place to be. #vss365

the small whispers of your brains' #ruse to make you believe you're so much less than you, because what it doesn't want you to know is that you are more than just your thoughts; but you breathe in tandem with the trees, my love, let that always be enough. #vss365

often I #slip inside the shadow of myself and here, where it is cosy and warm and safe, I can breathe cocooning in my memories germinated seeds bloom hope blossoms bright with the unity of being #vss365

#vss365 #loom

violet fizzles on my tongue rainbows dripped in sherbert cherry-filled lovebombs sickly sweet in my veins your sweet lies glaze my vision and with a sigh I breathe them in though I submit myself to you, secretly, I pray for freedom for me to #veer away from you and find my true completion #vss365

I will always feel deeply grateful for this sporadic life of mine. How could I not? It took years of violence, pain, and suffering to live a life this serene. No, I will never let myself forget how grateful I am to be living this #slapdash life of mine, because it is exactly that: Mine. #vss365

#Oddball. That word has always felt like violence to me, wielded by those who breathed rejection into my lungs like fresh air. It clings to my skin, damp and itchy, trickles of nervous sweat leaving salty trails, irritating my body long after they have left me behind. #vss365

The long year finally is coming to an end, it's a time to laugh and sing. To hold your dear loved ones close, and bring good fortune in. I hope the next one treats you well, and that it brings you cheer. I hope you see how special you are, and that your #dreams are always near. #vss365

it is such a wonderful exhilarating, terrifying, fresh and unfamiliar feeling to open my journal and realise that finally it seems almost too simple to think of all the things I have #gratitude for and to see that instead of contempt I feel only deep appreciation at the fact I'm alive #vss365

poisonous roots heavy in my chest they spread across my insides tugging incessantly at my skin sprouting roots digging into bone I cry out with no sound walls push in darkness surrounds too much for me to hold these #regrets it's all I can do to lie here weeping cradling my hollow chest #vss365

Triviality sticks within my memory warm water flowing down my bones melodies sweet within my ear glinting sunlight flashing eyes days I wished could last forever toes stubbing obdurate furniture strings of words that I #recall but can't repeat to innocent ears #vss365

If AI creates an LLM in the middle of the woods, does anyone need to hear it?

the #memory of your hands holding me your touch lingering on my skin you trapped me here within your sins take them back they're yours not mine no longer will I hold this inside I refuse to continue holding all the blame along the truth I'll speak your name #vss365

clasping at #boho ideals colours gleam and I can breathe trickle of water crunch beneath feet; doesn't take much to make me feel complete #vss365

you taste #illicit on my tongue I cry for something sweeter if staying here is a mistake let's make it together #vss365

melancholy sinks in when winter hits the days grow shorter instead of longer and the world begins to lie down and hide I feel at home inside my skin cloaked inside the dusk, I thrive for when darkness surrounds me my #vespertine luminescence shines and finally, I come alive #vss365

melting into your soft touch I lost myself in glances intertwined hot breath persecuting every action broken faith seeping inside the acts you thought so #chivalrous filled my weakened veins with poison I escaped with just my life but filled with gratitude to be alive #vss365

Today is the most Monday-esque Wednesday I have ever experienced

my #aphotic existence is not a source of shame but a temporary state that should cause pride If even a fraction of the world's politicians spent half the time that I have exhausted in this gloomy zone maybe the world would be filled with more kindness and compassion than we could dream of #vss365

From the first moment I saw you, I knew I would always remember you. Your demeanour, so captivating, and the way your voice danced quietly across the air, reaching for my ear. (1/2) #vss365

It's easy to feel that you've run out of #options like the only open door has shut, trapping you inside a world of locks. When you find yourself in a predicament such as this remember that doors are not the only things that open. Fling ajar that window, and crawl for your dear life. #vss365

the bedding shifts beneath our bodies our breath escapes in unison smiles tugging at our lips, we stretch our limbs conjointly inside our bubble we are safe curled up beside our memories and if this isn't true #reality then I pray to never wake #vss365

you are not some goal i set for myself but a fragile hope that today might be better #goal #vss365

whenever you try to get anywhere in life remind yourself of the fact that it is life's way of teaching you resilience to constantly move the #goal posts to combat this remind yourself to leave a mark at every new goalpost so you can look back and show yourself how far you've truly come #vss365

Right now, it seems that no matter how hard I try, I never can quite get it right. No matter what I say or do, it will never be enough for you. I know I'll never make you see who I am, and that we'll never agree, still I'll #measure my self-worth only on what you think of me. #vss365

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

lose yourself in #literature let the words unfurl into your whole being; messages of hope and comfort, spreading from one brain to another lose yourself in stories let the ebb and flow of the protagonists' adventure lull you into a half-awake peaceful slumber of content (1/2) #vss365

I was never made for the #deluxe a life of luxury never interested me instead, I'll be found led beneath the trees leaves in my hair and mud slicked on my cheeks I've always found the price of extravagance to be far too dear; never has nature asked too much of me #vss365

memories of you stick like the sap crawling through my veins subduing the blood as it desperately tries to push through your #undertone that somehow manages to soil every single thing that ever brought me joy #vss365

what do I gotta do to be one of them frogs chilling under a toadstool

#libertine: 'a person, especially a man who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principle' I always found the use of the word 'man' curious it had been my experience that the women I met had filled me with much more liberation than any man could dream of #vss365

set me alight reduce me to #ash tell me you’re nothing without me punish me as often as you believe you can tell yourself that you don’t think about me just never forget I held you as you cried and I’ve seen exactly what you are inside #vss365