Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
Victoria May 20
Sometimes her skeleton doesn’t sit right
Before the sunrise and since midnight
The room filled with haze, her chest is too tight
And with every yawn, eyes open in spite
Victoria May 19
I’ll take this panic attack
And drive her car right off the road
Off the bridge, that sinking feeling
About to sleep and not explode
Victoria May 19
I burn my hands washing dishes at home.
Alone, it is lukewarm, cold at best --
So I will eat cake until I am sick.
Victoria Sep 2024
Stagnant water sits still in a silent spring
How suffocating
Victoria Sep 2024
Leave my heart in the fall
And my head in the spring
Let me sink in the earth
Till I’m part of everything
Victoria Sep 2024
I am dressed in a gown
A blue paper gown
With the ribbons tied at the front

A crepe paper gown
Open at the front
The kind you scrunch and fist into gift bags
Crepe paper, but thicker, like asking the deli man for a bigger slice

But the white deli paper is folded over my lap
A big paper towel, a napkin
doctor health hospital body
Victoria Jun 2024
I stepped in the footprints of a great shadow,
Looming over me in a sunlight halo,
A protective cast that wound my life in shade,
A little life of sand and dirt, a life of which we’d made

But I as asked to look what lies ahead, beyond your frame,
You left me behind, and I carried all the blame,
I only asked to look what lies ahead, beyond your frame,
But you left me behind, and my world isn't the same

We were so happy in those moments before
With promises of visiting the long winding shore

We were supposed to go to the beach
Next page