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sophie May 2016
you tell me
my touch burns
and hurts
good thing, because
i whisper
*i am a wildfire
sophie May 2016
when i get
accidentally
next to you
i can
catch your heartbeat
thudding along
in your chest
i'm almost shocked
that it isn't
hollow.
  May 2016 sophie
Megan Butters
The pain of a heartbreak affects us in different ways.
She’ll erase you completely, never speak to you again, and have you questioning whether it truly was you who decided to end things.
But the next girl won’t be able to ease the ache until she drives past your house in different cars that you won’t recognize to see if anybody else is leaving tire marks in your drive.
You won’t be lucky enough to escape without the insane red eyed ex who you term “******” because she just loved you too much when you still couldn’t love at all.

The only tire marks in your yard are from the friends who are tired of trying to bring you back from the corner you’ve crawled into since the intrepid spirit you never could quite tame spiraled through you and blew even the most intact parts of you into places you are too hurt to reach. But her destruction isn’t one sided, she erases you in every word she writes and every tear she cries, hoping that your green eyes and the dimple in the left cheek fade from her memory as the pen fades on the paper.

Red eyes search for a reason in the cold of the night while black ink words spill onto a piece of paper under the candlelight. Our emotions bleed and our madness can be deranged, but it can also be elegantly beautiful.
sophie May 2016
this is my body
and it is a grandiose palace
with crumbling architecture.

this is my body
and i do not live in it yet
but i am moving in.
sophie May 2016
shh
you are hardwood, girl
and every crack in you is filled up
you wrap your rosary fast around your wrists
and you eat your disproportionate parts
and then you throw them up.
you do not let yourself yell
because the sound of your voice out loud
scares you more than anything else in the world.
you whisper prayers with your eyelashes tight
against your cheeks
because no one told you that you are not
the product of everyone who hurt you.
for every girl who speaks a little too quietly for comfort. you are a goddess. athena is holding you.
sophie Apr 2016
we will weave garlands
out of the flowers that flow from our wounds
and we will apologize
for the way the bruises you left
are too prominent
on our glittery skin
to all my magical fellow females
sophie Dec 2015
my lungs are full of water
i know I'm drowning but I'm trying not to be an inconvenience
my throat is stuck and i can't sleep at night
my anxiety is yanking my hair out
and my headaches are breaking my bones
and i am trying not to be an inconvenience
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