I have a broken typewriter

The kind that’s hard to fix

The letters are there but the words don’t seem to fit

Everyone says my typewriter is the best

Because the keys are fine it’s the paper that’s a wreck

What’s worst about my typewriter

The fact that does exist

Is that it won’t exit from its spot, it stays right where it is

The ink bleeds through the stubborn page

Wishing it could escape this d...

“You’ve finished the bandaids”

My mom remarks

I tell her it’s bug bites

But bug bites don’t look like deep red lines

Like the ones you carved into yourself for no apartment reason

But bites don’t look like hiding you arm in a tube top so people don’t ask

And you don’t have to cry and tell the whole story

But bites don’t look like purple scars that don’t turn white anymore

Bug bites don’t feel like...

Congratulations you’re clean

But you never are, are you?

Never holding back from a though to cut

Or an urge to do it once more.

The longer you wait the faster the clock ticks

Ringing when you’ll relapse.

The fate of stopping never crosses your path

Just the image of being able to,

but not wanting to.

Being clean is just a mindset right?

Relapse until it’s right.

Relapse until you’re clean.

Relaps...

Can you take me back

I miss you

I miss you a lot more than I want to admit

I miss the way you held me

I miss the way we would giggle in the halls

I miss our jokes

I miss us

I miss when we would talk about how good friends we were

I miss when you would be so kind to me and care for me

I miss our Starbucks runs

I miss telling my dad how good friends we were

He still asks about you by the way

He wond...

Flowers don’t bloom in the arctic

But we both knew that

I knew it since you iced me out

I knew it since you tried to bloom in the winter

I knew it since you tried preserving the old

But you wanted the new so you let go

It feels like it’s been forever since the fall

Since I saw the beauty of your petals in the sun

But now they’ve frosted over

Your soft glances turned into aversion

You can’t look a...

You scare me out of myself.

You scare me into being someone who is hiding from people like you.

You scare me into not being able to reach out to talk about how I feel in fear of being in trouble or locked away for my emotions.

You scare me into hiding blades to collect dust for a decision I can make in a blur of emotions.

You scare me into watching how I look every day and every second so I can li...

I have the feeling you hate me

I know people say it’s not true

But whenever I come around you I feel it

I feel like you’re annoyed at me

That you hate me

And I hate that

I can’t ask you about it

Because you will deny it

But every part of me is screaming that you have me

I feel like I’ve messed up

And you hate me for that

Or that I’m annoying you

And you hate me for that reason

I won’t ask you if ...

Hi

I wish I could come up to you

And give you a hug

Tell you everything is going to be ok

That you will make it through

I’m sorry that on your first year at a new school

You were treated like that

And how you left the year with more issues than before

I’m sorry how she was your first friend

And I’m sorry that I didn’t prevent it

I wish that I could tell you to skip the event for your school

And...

Skin

I try to pretend it doesn’t get under my skin

That I don’t itch for it to go away

That I don’t let anything bother me

That I can hold my temperament

Saying that I don’t get angry or upset

But I lie

Everything goes under my skin

Like there’s a big gaping wound that everything goes into

Like there’s an entrance for issues

And words

And looks people give

That get to me

That carry spears to go ...

You attack my appearance

When after I say nothing about yours

In a silly battle of words

Your mind goes to my face

My hair

How I am presented

My body

When I never said anything of yours

You whisper curses behind my back

Thinking I’ll never hear

But I do

It hurts my feelings knowing you speak ill of me

Knowing someone I liked turned on me

To being out of ideas going for the easy target

How someone...