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mamontgomery
F/US
so far there has been no greater pain than having my mother look at me with disgust to have her strip me of my humanity; of my dignity all because of her own issues all because of her own feelings all because dad’s dead all because sister dear wants to die all because there’s no money all because i have an opinion all because i want a voice i just want for one moment my mother to be proud of me to look at me and be genuinely kind to talk to me with the same respect she expects me to have for her but how can respect be reciprocated in a toxic environment? respect has to be earned. she thinks i have not yet and will not earn that respect maybe she’s right. maybe **** her. i don’t really care anymore
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Nov 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 at 10:05 PM UTC
that **** hurted
this is the relearning, or maybe it is the learning. i am learning how to love. i am learning how to enjoy life. i am learning how to respect life (and not in the annoying christian way) i am learning how to live without hating myself and i know it’s going to be hard but i know that i have the willpower to carry on.
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 5:48 PM UTC
(re)learning
remember: there is so much more to come. there are so many people sitting waiting hoping to find you you have not yet reached that place that place in your life you've been looking for but someday you will that person you are waiting for is coming no, not the one from your past, who haunts you and wishes they could hear you laugh again, or who tore you from inside-out, or the one who you wish would just say hello, but someone else that person you are waiting and wishing for is on their way for now it is okay to be lonely. you always have yourself
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Aug 1, 2018
Aug 1, 2018 at 12:01 AM UTC
notes to self
how is it that they still don't understand that we already ******* KnOw how to use Excel we already ******* KnOw how to pay the bills we already ******* KnOw and they're either too **** stupid to realize that we don't need coddling or saving or they're afraid to let us go they're afraid of losing their investments they're afraid of losing their power they're afraid to let us live
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:52 AM UTC
are you stupid?
isn't it amazing how one day you are just going to get up and never look back never looking back, hand in hand with someone who is never going to leave, without so much as a trace of the misunderstandings and hardships of your past is that too much to believe? am i being unrealistic? am i no longer an optimist, but a dreamer stuck in fantasies that may never happen i have to go on believing that, though otherwise, i'm not sure how i'll continue life i know after hours sitting at the table discussing the soul and the afterlife and /our true destiny/ with my drunk aunties that there has to be something i know of my own self-worth but there is more i know now how to live for myself and now i can love someone else but how's that going for me? i'm not entirely sure when i'm going to get up i'm not entirely sure when i'm going to take someone's hand and walk, carefree to whatever it is that is waiting for us i'm not sure, but a girl can dream, right? isn't that the one thing i cAn do? i sure hope so.
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 10:56 PM UTC
something extraordinary
there will never be a time you are not the Fat Sister there will never be a time you are not less than there will never be a time you are not disappointing your family no matter how your grades look or how much money you make it will never be enough you will never be enough even if you are taller than the redwoods with karli kloss's body and jennifer lopez's *** you will never be enough even if you are the president of the ******* united states you will never be enough you are always going to be that Fat Sister they love you almost as much as the other two but still less than, less than and they make sure you know that they make sure you know as if maybe if they love you less it will be your motivation to lose weight it will be your motivation to be what they want you to be, what they have expected you to be since birth but what grandma and mom and sister and auntie and everyone at the ******* dinner table don't know is that with a little bit of perseverance and goodwill anyone is beautiful what everyone in front of the ******* tv don't know is that you were never the Fat Sister but you sure as hell had a fat heart
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 10:03 PM UTC
it's okay
i don't know yet what is going to happen next but right now i would really love it if someone would hold my hand i would really love it if someone would - i daresay - 'complete' me i cringe at that and yet i am finally at a place where i do not hate everything about myself i am finally at a place where i do not look in the mirror and cry i don't know where i go from this place but it would be great if i could move forward beside someone who cares
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Jul 8, 2018
Jul 8, 2018 at 12:34 AM UTC
unforetold
my greatest fear is that you will always see me as a child my greatest fear is that you are too far away to ever be my peer my greatest fear is that i am a burden to you, nothing more than a mandatory activity my greatest fear is that all you see is my ******** like how i only see your ****** attitude my greatest fear is that the gap will never be closed my greatest fear is that -nine years is too long
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May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 at 10:34 PM UTC
my greatest fear
you have the nerve to say that women are squeamish when we see blood month after month you say we are too emotional to hold office, too fragile to be independent, too unpredictable, to be on our own but you forget we are bulletproof. you forget we have stamina and fire inside of us because we are fighting twice as hard to be recognized as the amazing, successful people we are. we are fighting to be seen as more than our appearance, to be valuable because of our brains instead of our ***** we are bulletproof.
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Apr 17, 2018
Apr 17, 2018 at 9:13 PM UTC
we are bulletproof pt. 1
i cry so much that by the time im done i forget why i even started crying is my body's way of telling me i am still alive but my existence is only making me cry even h a r d e r
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Feb 24, 2018
Feb 24, 2018 at 10:40 PM UTC
i am so ******* exhausted