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Aug 2017 · 171
Perfection
Marika Aug 2017
You ask about
The woman in my mind
The embodiment of perfection
What I aim to be
Fragile, elegant, thin
Bones that could cut
Glass and a chin
Instead of many
Pink folds of flesh
Hanging from me
Size zero jeans
Arms that could
Snap in half
And collarbones
That collect water
When it rains
Jutting ribs
And hipbones that look
Like they will pierce
My very skin
That's what I aim to be
Aug 2017 · 173
Velvet and Silk
Marika Aug 2017
Your silky lips
Trace milky skin
Velvet fingertips
Hands that ****
They interwine
Around my neck
Sip rosé wine
Promise me
Not again
Aug 2017 · 246
Anorexic Lullabies
Marika Aug 2017
Her thighs rub
Against eachother
And her stomach hangs
Over her waistband
Look in the mirror
Pretty girl,
See what I see
Tears fall the the ground
Want it all to change?
Follow my command
Glue your lips together
Don't eat a single bite
You'll feel your stomach rumble
All throughout the night
Paint your nails bright pink
And keep your lips shut tight
See the numbera dropping?
You're doing this alright
I beg you not to listen
To the voice of reason
Hear me scream
"Ugly, fat, disappointment!"
Until your ears ring
Your cheeks are hollow
Your hip bones show
A disappearing act
The girl of skin and bones
Blowing away
In a gust of wind
Didn't you always say
"I just want to be thin!"
Jul 2017 · 187
Everyone Loves A Sex Object
Marika Jul 2017
Imagine me with no clothes on.
My bare ******* poking up and out, spilling out of my crisscrossed arms
Imagine what I do when no one's watching.
How my naughty little fingers move in the dark.
How my lips find my wrists and plant kisses along them.
But what if I told you that my naughty little fingers
Don't secretly stroke the insides of my thighs
But instead glide across the scarred skin with razor blades?
What if I told you that my ***** bitten lips
Don't leave lipstick marks along my arms
But instead mouth the words to a song playing only in my head?
What if I told you that when no one's watching
I don't touch myself beneath the covers
But instead I cover my mouth
Soaking the pillow case with empty cries?
Have you stopped smirking in the dark and started zipping up your pants?
Have you lost all interest and are skimming the last lines?
Jul 2017 · 271
Not good enough
Marika Jul 2017
I'm never good enough
Not for you
Not for me
Not for anyone
I'm not what anyone wants
What anyone needs
What I need
And I'm just so sick
Of being everyone's second choice
Of looking in the mirror
And hating every inch
Of my entire being
And I'm just so sick
I'm just so done
With being the one
No one ever chooses
Jul 2017 · 366
Bury me in a ballroom gown
Marika Jul 2017
Bury me in a ballroom gown
So I look pretty when you kiss me
And mutter your goodbyes
Reserve heavenly angels
For only a small fee
To accompany me into the underground
Have them sing my name in solemnity
Until my suicide note is found
Then cross out the word "tragedy"
From every song and hymn
Replace them with "a waste of life"
Stop calling me a prodigy
And start saying that it was me
Who held the deathly knife
Strip me of my silken gown
Just another worthless suicide
Jul 2017 · 178
Alcoholic
Marika Jul 2017
Her lips were red wine
And when their fingers intertwine
He sees her eyes are liquer
Her hair is golden beer
Her voice is smooth as *****
Sober pain will disappear
He got drunk on her
Rosy Rosè cheeks
Didn't dare to spare
A drop of her burning spirits
He was hungover on love
And she made him stay intoxicated
He was an alcoholic
And she was his choice of tonic
Jul 2017 · 152
Truest of Love
Marika Jul 2017
"I don't love you anymore."
The words disappeared as soon as they came
Evanescent words on a window pane
He pulled his fingers from her iron grip
And with a thumb traced the curve of her lip
"You're a *****."
The words pierced her pores like a thousand knives
Made her skin burst out in a thousand hives
"You were never more,"
He breathed, his lips grazing her porcelain skin, avoiding her grey-blue eyes
For it was painful to look at the broken mess he had created with his lies
"Than a pair of **** to me."

— The End —