scullySpark

Sort

Sort

writing to write.I want to write about what hurts because I think it will / Stop me from hurting. If I put these words on / A page then they will be easier to digest.

40

10.4k

synonyms for: missing someone you've never metlonging / 1. noun; a yearning desire / - i never used to be uncomfortable in my own bed. i knew your name before my rib cage started to sing it in my sleep. every night that has passed crosses itself off of a pocket-calendar that is stuck in the drawers of my chest. you move your favorite things into the empty spaces, you hang your worst fears up like clothes that are waiting to dry, you scratch how you love into the bedpost and put your handprints all over the walls. i can't take a deep breath without

36

5.8k

five "hail mary"syou feel like bursting through hospital doors. / repeating names, rushed hands all over my body looking for signs of distress. / you feel like dialated pupils,

31

3.7k

eveningsome evenings it's early / before anyone has a chance to notice / before any mouths can open for objections

35

2.9k

revise and resubmitYou don't have to remind me to listen to three AM school-night words that come out in the soft whispers you've been waiting to share with me in an attempt to shield it from the rest of the world / I'll remember the things you didn't say like engraved textbook lessons / when my skin starts to dampen and stick to my body like a raincoat

39

2.4k

the psychosis poemmy therapist says, *it's time you write about your psychosis* / I show her a journal full of names, and some dreams / That I may or may not have had.

27

2.3k

compulsory; involuntaryi've spent hours cramped over thesaurus pages and days ignoring warnings to write about the people who make me feel the things i am *supposed* to feel / i've spent sentences and words and enough knowledge to fill volumes like a life-time credit debt, pouring sentiments and metaphors over people who won't even bother to read how i venerate their actions, their touch, their reactions / how i analyze each detail like ive got a four year degree and student loans to last me until im ninety in *How to Make Yourself Sick With Overthinking*

35

1.6k

the prolific act of always being in love and never being anything elseand i am sorry, oh / god i am so sorry that / i cannot apologize for the

24

1.5k

childI've tried to record / The way your name falls out of my mouth / When I drop glass onto the floor

58

1.5k

durabilityi have survived / storms. / i have survived a father's voice like thunder;

54

1.5k

Hello PoetryVoting