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Carissa Lee May 2014
She's a teenage tragedy
With scars that will never fade away
She's no longer in a cage
She has severed her life line
She wont need your shoulder anymore
Her tears have stopped falling
Your heart feels sore
She gave you all these fears,
The day her life ceased
Carissa Lee Apr 2014
Trust
It is something I have lost
But you ****** it upon me
At the cost of my pain

I see now that it wasn't worth risking
It was all in vain
The past has been unearthed
Because of you I fall
Carissa Lee Sep 2018
You are a good looking man
You pack me a lunch box every morning
but it is filled with poison
A kiss on the forehead keeps me coming back
You are too sweet, sugar in my veins
I am too tired to see
You are slowly killing me
This path I am traveling is already paved
When I come home too late
You are waiting by the door

one

      two

              at the count of three

this pregnant pause will birth

                  a bruise across my cheek
Carissa Lee Apr 2014
I tried to get back up off the ground
But I couldn’t get my footing right'
My knees were too weak
My ankles they cracked under the weight of the pain
I held my breath and you held my hand and that is when I realized that I never really had you
You never really loved me
Because you could only hold on for so long
At some point you had to let me fall
And I fell for centuries through the darkness
I never really saw that I could catch myself
I never really realized that I can save myself
The words they circled through my mind like vultures
They picked and pecked at my dead flesh
Carissa Lee Jun 2020
So if I want to burn,
Let me burn!
I am throwing it all away!
All Away!
All the scraps you ever gave me,
all the empty promises you made,
I will set it all aflame,
watch me rise from the ashes!
Birthed by Brimstone,
Birthed by Fire!
I am a phoenix without a name!
Flying Fast!
Flying Blind!
A new town,
a brand new start!
I dare not look back
upon the wreckage of my wake.
What's My Name!
What's my name!
  what's my name?
Won't anyone say my name?
What's my name?
Carissa Lee Jan 2020
Food in a box
Plastic wrapped
Safe
locked away
Salty
or
Sweet
or
Spicy

I tried to make a salad
what's hiding between the leaves
               Bugs?
Creeping and crawling
               Eggs?
waiting to hatch inside my stomach?
Something sinister is lurking behind the crevices
I dump the bowl into the garbage
I wrap the head in two plastic bags

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