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Courtney Feb 2020
Unexpected and now I’m afraid
You said you’d never hurt me but guess that wasn’t true
One little fight spiralled Out of control and now we’re both alone
Wish I’d never said I love you, wish I’d never even met you

This is my first love, my first heartbreak, a puzzle that I just can’t solve. My chest is tight and my heart aches, I thought together that we’d grow old.

Trying to figure it out, but I just can’t. I’m confused and scared and all these questions keep rushing through my head. Was it me or my insecurities, was it something more or was it someone else. It wasn’t good enough but for me it was true love

This is my first love, my first heartbreak, a puzzle that I just can’t solve. My chest is tight and my heart aches, I thought together that we’d grow old.

All I feel is your touch across my body like an infection, they say I’ll get over it but I just want you near, you’re my addiction. The memory of your laugh and smile pulls me from sleep for a little while. Hold me in your arms and tell me you love me then next day push me from your arms and tell me you’re done with me.

This is my first love, my first heartbreak, a puzzle that I just can’t solve. My chest is tight and my heart aches, I thought together that we’d grow old.
Courtney Oct 2019
19 and held down by her shoulders
her shirt still on, he doesn’t try to remove it
it’s a hastily act that wakes her up abruptly as a penetrating pain spreads over a low section of her body
she feels like a ragdoll so out of control, like she can’t scream for help because she didn’t say no to the first or second time but now she’s asleep and surely that’s a sign
his hands on her neck and she thinks it’s just ***** but it’s to muffle her cries and make him seem less guilty
it’s the third man she’s been with and she’s confused about counting it, she didn’t say yes but she still has to guess whether she should remember this and try to grow or remember it and let it cover the glow
Courtney Mar 2019
Husband smiling down at his wife’s baby bump:
He wonders if it will be a boy or a girl
He wonders if it will be a man or a girl
He wonders if it will be his son or a girl,
A girl… a gender he disconnects from because they come with topics that people should keep away from
If it’s a boy he can congratulate him when he brings home a girl
But… if it’s a girl he’ll have to warn her about boys
Boys will be boys and girls should beware.

He wonders how he would cope if his little boy blue decided to wear pink
How he would cope if his son, this man sat crying in his room and was too afraid to say.

He looks down at his wife’s baby bump and wonders…
Courtney Jan 2019
She looks in the mirror and can’t bare what she sees.
He says that she’s perfect but she can’t see how that can be.
You see to her, her face is too round and her chest is too flat
When she looks at her hips all she can see is fat.

He sees her raven hair and blue ocean eyes that hold nothing but care
He sees her heart through her chest and her love for all things
He sees his person the one that is perfect.
Courtney Jan 2019
I feel your arms around me, but turn and you’re gone
I feel your breath on my neck, soon replaced with the cold draught
I see the scratches on your back but open my eyes and see the bruises on mine
They’re matched with the scratch running up my side from the night I made you mad
Your face burned red and your hand was raised as I cowered and feared and cried

He said things that broke me but now my mascara is too expensive to be ruined by his harsh words
I told them I was broken but they passed it off as a bad day and all they could say was
“you’re okay”
Courtney Sep 2018
July 4th 1776 a simple man’s holiday
December 6th 1865 a true man’s celebration
Unalienable rights became truly unalienable
“We the people” stopped meaning “we the white people”

or did it

August 10th 2017 a supremacist’s torch is lit
August 10th 2017 three people did get hit
March 8th 2018 a woman fights back

2018 maybe now they’ll understand
Courtney Sep 2018
Beware his smile that traps all the girls around him
Regret the feelings that you wish you could forget
Envy the girl with her arms around his neck
Never look back it’ll only break your heart more
Deny that you still love him, it’ll only cause you pain
Envy the girl with her arms around his neck
Never forget how it felt when he called you stunning even if it hurts
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