poetry, writing, and dreams

Trapped in an empty room with beige walls and stagnant air; I am okay, when my cheeks become pink and you lift them up and remind me to...

I have islands on my skin and volcanoes that rest on my face; I am a world with continental plates and sea ridges and the world is...

The shattered perfume bottle lies on the wooden floor and the vase has been cracked with dishes scattered around the dying flowers; a...

A loose sediment under the ocean waters, burnt by the salt but soothed by the mineral soaks so you refuse to float to the surface because...

Every day sounds blur into one another and colors and shapes become unrecognizable; the opposite of a high, the palpitations and the...

They tell me to stop obsessing but I know that something is off so my heart guides me down a path of understanding but my understanding...

I wish you spoke up, I wish you acted out; you were a mere child yet you wasted the time of your life that was supposed to be fun...

Once upon a time a girl was born and the stars wished her a silver-platter life yet a splatter of issues that cannot be described so she...

I look at you and all I see are the things that I was supposed to be; the darkness that surrounds me as a cloud, the darkness that...

I hide from the others not because I fear them but because they haunt like fresh ghosts; I have convinced them that I do not need them...

I see the other girls smiling and laughing and feeling understood- you do so much yet know so little, I tell you some things but the...

I hate you for who you were and I love you for who you are; just because they cannot recognize the pain and the trauma, just because you...

My head stung and the waters rushed but for years I never knew and now I still do not know so I fall asleep forever because it is too...

I suppose the tears of sensitivity and the cries of my perception have gone unheard but sometimes it grows unbearable; sometimes the...

Every object I touch seems to fall apart and every time I speak it seems to leave a scar; medicine can’t fix me and healing seems like a...

I float with the ones who glow and illuminate the darkness around them, the ones who sting like nothing else but who appreciate and...

If only the woman I am could meet the woman I’ll be and the child I was could meet the woman I am; these bittersweet moments, how far I...

It is almost never worse than I imagine- what I see projected through the visions that dance on my wall yet I know that I can never...

I feel the stares and I cannot lie but sometimes the way the blood flows is for the better and sometimes my bravery now will come in...

Glassy eyes and a blank stare make you wonder if she cares; lost in the world she created for herself after the one they placed her in...