Don't fall in love with that somebody
He'll take you to parks, coffee shops, & to the ocean shore
He'll kiss you & lift you up with an embrace
At the most unexpected time in the most beautiful places
So you can never go back to those places without tasting a mouthful of him
He'll wreck you in the most lovely way possible
& now you'll know why storms were named after people

~

Darkness invades
The depths of your soul
You stare into nothing again

Tear stained illusions
Carved in the alley
Shadows foreboding descend

Labyrinth branches
Woven temptations
Blistering quick on the heel

Blind definitions
Of splintered emotions
Soiled the whispers you feel

Dance with the keeper
Slightly off balance
Break, never yearning to bend

Darkness invades
The depths of your soul
You stare into nothing again

Her back arched with insecurities
hips full of eve's sin.
Carved into her ******* are all the planets she has slept with: three.
Flesh purple
Lips puckered.
She was taught about the things that rotate solely around her,
About her power
About holding her mothers feet in her lap and listening to stories about home.
A home she knows only from yellowing photographs and broken proverbs and tales of freedom.
She has spent too long dancing with the heavy absence of hands on her waist;
With the bitter taste of men sitting on her tongue.
With the eyes that follow her like moths to light.
Every word she speaks is fire from her teeth,
Lighting her face
Burning the men who get so close she can smell the eager sweat from their backs.
She was taught to howl when the men tell her she is beautiful,
She is better than poor adjectives
She is endearing, dazzling, fulgurous.
but
she is not her mother,
no matter how hard she tries to be.
She is her father; dark, and cold, and drunk, drunk, drunk.

I'm ugly so I do ugly things.
2. I'm terrified of commitment, so when you asked me out I burst into tears.
3. You are scared of loving someone so scarred.
4. I flinched when you touched me
5. I find poetry in the way the sun hits my walls, you don't even like the way the birds sing.
6. You love ***.
- I am not ***.
7. Your mum turned up her face when she saw me.
8. You believe in me too much.
9. You laugh at the immigrants, as if the name on my uncles passport doesn't hiss with illegality.
10. I couldn't stop thinking about all the other girls who had heard your soft moan.
11. I was both clingy and nonchalant at the same time.
12. I am tired!
13. You stared into my black eyes and told me about the oceans in the face of the last girl you had slept with.
14. When you found me crying over poetry, you told me to cheer up.
15. You made my heart bleed.
16. You were already thinking about marriage and children and stability.
- I'm just trying to get myself out of bed in the morning.
17. You told me I was beautiful and went to sleep when all I wanted was your arms wrapped around me cradling my ugly.
18. You punched me like a father.
19. Mum told you a story and you yawned as if her magic bored you?!?
20. You sighed in reply to everything I said.
21. You called me when drunk and whispered obscene things you would do to me whilst I cried on the other end of the line.
22. 4am tasted like you and ****. And people aren't supposed to taste like guilt.
23 You were obsessed with naked pictures, I was obsessed with hating my body.
24. You chose to ignore the blood.

Everytime he hit my mother I swear my skin would be bruised for days.

I'm crazy, but I love you. And that is important.