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227 · Jun 2017
To Baptize
erin walts Jun 2017
Cleanse me

Wash away these sins
Let them disintegrate into the cool water
As I float like a child cradled in the womb of a loving mother
Free from the dirt that never left my feet

Drown me

These sins were never mine.
226 · Jul 2017
Brushing teeth
erin walts Jul 2017
Maybe to disassociate
Is the only way
"Like maybe that's alright
Maybe it's okay"

But
Then it all hits you at once
Speeding bullet subway train

Your body has been void for years
Your organs have already melted, rotted, and withered
away

And when that happens
There's no going back

You wake up in the morning
Every morning
and
Instead of brusing your teeth
You look in the mirror and ask yourself

Who the **** am I?

And your brain goes empty

So.
utterly.
*******.
bleak.
226 · Jul 2017
Picky
erin walts Jul 2017
Peculiar and particular
Is how many describe my taste
For if you are not
Perfect
You are a ******* waste.
225 · Aug 2016
The lie
erin walts Aug 2016
You were created from
nothing

Born
Into a world
Where people believe you need
Something

To
Be
Happy.
225 · Jul 2017
Air
erin walts Jul 2017
Air
I miss
The taste of his neck
And the
sound of his smile

The lightness inside his breath
The smell of his sweat
The way the sunlight shone
Through
his hair

I miss him more than
Anything would ever miss
Air

Six years gone
Six years waiting


He still doesn't care.
225 · Jul 2015
porcelain
erin walts Jul 2015
Shatter that glitter
Dark blue glass
Christmas bulb
And I'll pray they all go out
All at once
Leaving eyes blind as they should be
Blind as you should be
Sitting there with your nothing
Muttering to yourself in the pitch
Saying something about how I don't understand
And
something about how I lie
If you were awake
at least half as awake as you say you are
It wouldn't take so long to pull the sleep out of your eye
It wouldn't take so long
even in the dark
to see
223 · Sep 2017
Recycle
erin walts Sep 2017
The sky and the trees
Are plastic

And so is my heart
And my mind

I keep trying to recycle them
Turn them into
Something better
Something new

The trees become my heart
And
The sky becomes my mind

But

They're still made of plastic

Hard and invaluable
220 · Jun 2017
Untitled
erin walts Jun 2017
Take me
Make me
Feel alive again
I have nothing left
But clichés
213 · Jun 2017
When she breathed or smiled
erin walts Jun 2017
Her body was made of frosted glass
You could see all of her muscles and tendons working inside in perfect unison like clock gears
when she breathed or
smiled

Somehow

This made you believe she was human
206 · Nov 2016
Modern art
erin walts Nov 2016
I don't have much of a picture to paint

You think I'll never be enough
Because I can't relate

Artists have been famous for much less

Because sometimes it's the simple ones that are the

Best
201 · Oct 2016
The end.
erin walts Oct 2016
My doctor asks me
"how are you feeling?"
From one to ten
"Are you depressed?"
"Are you happy?"
"Is this the end?"

I say
"I am not sure how I am feeling, but today the sky is a dark despondent stormy cloud gray and this could be the end or the beginning of something new."

I'm never sure how I feel anymore since I've fallen in love with you

They serve me cold liquid imitation eggs for breakfast
And my mattress is solid plastic
I am only allowed outside at certain times
There are no windows so patients cannot
escape
We're all on suicide watch
When the night gets late

The girl next to me asks me if I want a demon
To be my friend

I already have one.

And

This

is the end.
185 · May 2015
Night and Day
erin walts May 2015
You and I
Me and you
we all keep going
living our lives
believing everyone in the world are
like night and day
but believing this
I do suppose
makes us
same.
172 · Jun 2016
Simple
erin walts Jun 2016
You have never loved
me

You never will love
Me

Yet

I will always love
You

— The End —