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Emma B May 2018
The ****** broke, I bleed again you tell me to hold on, you say you can feel everything, but so do I. I feel, I  feel the abraisons, the scars but who the **** cares when my feelings are drowned out by the lingering smell of cigarettes on your breath. Do you remember when you told me about your son, who you never see, but ***** lies about a future family bore from me. My ****** ripped  and streched, bleeding and bruised.  You assume we'll have children, yet never ask me what my favorite names are. I love David, Matthew, Katherine & Audrey. But why would you care, if you don't stop to care about the words "NO", some of the first words we learn as a tot. When you cry and complain about missing your sons milestones but don't do **** to be a father to him and fight for him, that speaks measures. Thus next time, I will buy a bigger ****** and perhaps, I won't have to think about whether or not you know all these things?
  May 2016 Emma B
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Depression has crept his way into my bones
And made a home
For rent he pays me in tears and self-loathing
(This is the richest I’ve been in months)
Each morning he sips coffee and reads sad poetry like it’s the daily news
He makes a mess of my body
He’s such a terrible guest
And I’m getting tired of his shenanigans
But he has nowhere else to go
Maybe soon, he will pack up a few things and take a vacation to some faraway place
But even if he does, he’ll be back shortly
Because I am his permanent residence,
And he is far too comfortable here
To ever move out.
Emma B May 2016
I still crinkle my nose when I smell your potent cinnamon scent waft my way even if you are not here. My stomach turns, my heart races and my eyes burn like that moment when you’re so cold and frostbitten you get an unpleasant tingly warm sensation in your toes. The night mama burned a cinnamon candle while I slept next to her, I had cinnamon nightmares. I woke up in sweaty sheets and with a beating heart. I will stand in a front of a pack of thousands of angry,hungry wolves as long if that means I don’t have cinnamon nightmares. Remembering the way you would pretend to be so sweet in visible light, but when the candle light lost its flame your true colors were so apparent. Tonight when the moon and stars come out, in my tank-top and shorts, I will be ready for you, with lavender on my wrists and my heart on my sleeve ready to have peaceful lavender dreams.

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