I no longer want your love. I want your dread. I want you shaking when you see me shopping for my daily bread. I want you whispering to saints and deities you don’t believe in for deliverance, covering your head from the fire and brimstone of my wrath. -Control #poetry #poem #anger #love

Your body may be a temple. Mine is a pyre. I burn & I mourn & I rage alive in the moonlight, only to die when I’m seen. #poetry #poems #poet #life #grief

I find myself uneasy without you #poetry

I really want to write a new poetry collection, but I'm just devoid of ideas right now 😢

I'll never ask for your ice now that I have my sunshine

Hell hath no fury like a me scorned

why was it too hard for you to love me

Days like these I freefall into memory

I washed my sheets & I wondered if there was even a single spec of your skin cells left on it -- with me for just a little longer

I am most like myself with your blood on my teeth and wrath under my fingernails

A bullet named Enigma - I don’t know where he comes from - maybe right under my nose; he was here the whole time & I never noticed. But it tears through my chest all the same. #vss365 #poetry

What world will my daughter know - one in which she whistles while on her morning walk or one where she darts from corner to corner, eye constantly over her shoulder? #poetry #fuckfascism

How many bridges must I cross to arrive at your doorstep? #poetry

I feel her growing in my chest, this Phoenix rising once again from embers that never quite extinguish

My fingertips have long since forgotten your phone number; it's forgetting the memory of typing your name; it was a slow forgetting, only coming after the #chase ended with a vision of your back, & your knife buried in my own. #poetry #vss365

Who did you think you were that enabled you to be this way And who did you think I was that I deserved it?

wrapped in #lace, doused in flame #vss365 #poetry

motherhood should be a space heater, a warm blanket, a good nights sleep; not a hollow song, a haunting chant, a radiating sting

where does my heart disappear to when you’re not around - With You/Without Me

how am I possibly expected to exist among all this decay

breathe me in I will beg for you to want me to drink me in to be a vapor against your skin, to be just a thought in your head #vsspoem #poetry

Every little bit of me is made of #lace; I’m see-through, a billboard of emotions, advertised to all those who spare me even the barest glance #vss365 #poetry

I NEED TO BE WRITING AHHHH

My brain wants to get up and write but my body wants to stay in bed

do not crumble do not break if you yield you’ll never be safe the #heat burns & also heals it can blend fears & strengths to make your next shield. #vsspoem #poetry

every hidden recess is a possible home for epiphany #poet #poetry #poem

i don’t like water – it’s deep & you can’t breath – but i’d rather dive into the ocean than spend a moment with you -Invasive Thoughts #poet #poetry #poem

every word today feels like trudging through mud & maybe I’ll stop trying, let the marsh have me, X-out the doc & just stop #poet #poetry #poem

I wish to be made of ceramics, shards of pottery in my veins like blood, but I worry I am butter, melting under the pressures of even the mildest #heat. #vsspoem #poetry

How does the relationship tango when I #quit trying, too? -Friendship Is a 2-Way Street #vss365 #poetry

I’ve never #quit anything a day in my life – never walked away because it was too hard, never felt I was better without a fight. I’ve paused, but my feet never stopped. Imagine my surprise when you quit me. #vss365 #poetry

I’m sick of living through Wikipedia entries.

in my alternative universe, i spoke my truth & there is no doubt in your mind that i hate you #poem #poetry

Breathe. breathe b r e a t h e -bated, waiting, baby cries #poem #poetry

do you remember what my blood tastes like? last I checked you had some on your teeth; wonder if your new person smells it, mistakes it for remnants of afternoon tea. -u hated tea; i don’t know why i wrote this #poem #poetry

do you live every #moment missing me? -You Should #vsspoem #poetry

I like to run hard enough that my brain is too focused on my burning lungs to daydream about the #moment you’ll beg me to forgive you & I get to respond with a swift no. -Doorslam #vsspoem #poetry

your footsteps don’t seem to know my love is #esoteric; rare, unknown in places you search; hidden right before your eyes; not bought with the coins you yearn for, but with devotion - something faded from your attentions of me & I don’t care if it’s not giving obsessed #vss365 #poetry

I lie in wait for an #esoteric acolyte, one who worships grains of sand as they slip through my fingers; -Building a Following / Goddess / Divine #vss365 #poetry

En #guard, touche, I’ve memorized all your favorite words in one place; they’re in a box labeled “fights, disputes, and claims” & every time I revisit them, I remember why I ran away. #vsspoem #poetry

By women, I have been called funny, I have been called charming, I have been called kind; Men have labeled me robotic, ice cold, all business. -The Difference is One Was Rejected #poetry #poem #poet

My stress stands #guard at the heels of rest, keeping me awake even while I’m tucked into bed; it alerts my brain even when deep in REM, & I shoot up with panting with shaky breaths. -i don’t sleep anymore #vsspoem #poetry

My #turning into this version of me was pockmarked with defeat, with bent knees, with retreat into craggy hollows, where I could hide away from eyes that never quite tried to find me. -The Invisible Child #vss365 #poetry

What is left of me without poetry? #poetry

To the woman I used to be, I’m sorry; I vow to treat your body with caresses you never got & kind words never afforded you. To the child within, I promise her I’ll play more, without a care to about weight or demons in her closet. To the woman I am now, I exist. Unapologetic. #poetry #poem #poet

how could my world possibly continue #turning without you in it? -Shell Shocked #vss365 #poetry

I’d beg if I thought it would make a difference. #poetry #poem #poet

I wish to forget forget forget about dentists and doctors and hospitals and bills and midnight visits and daydreams and pills and liars lying until they’ve had their fill and hopeless romantics whom optimism kills and adulthood and childhood and traumas that aren’t my fault and #poetry #poem #poet

I flip through tarot cards & revisit old inquiries; I ask about you & wish to see devils & dealings; I wish for a villain to be the subject of my vitriol & I come up empty because you were never even mine at all. -Ask & Receive #poetry #poem #poet

I am tired of this mirthless pursuit to fix an #imperfect system. #poetry #vsspoem