basil

basil Dec 2020

cig

i don't smoke as much as i write about smoking
a cigarette just paints a better picture than a pen
when you're too broken to do anything but pull out a lighter

#smoke

basil Dec 2020

mourning coffee

i found a poem at the bottom of
a cup of coffee
it looked an awful lot like you
and smelled like a promise

but my hands shook so bad
i never wrote it down

i
*******
miss
you.

****.

#******* #coffee #blue #eyes

basil Dec 2020

crhsitmas tiem

everthisng feelmss lkie a
typo

i need you to make sense of it for me

14.12.2020

#blue #eyes

basil Dec 2020

bracelet

i have a scar, on the inside of my wrist
not from a blade

it's from my own fingernail
that time i tried to peel my skin off
tired, so tired, of being a
person

i told everyone it was from the curling iron

it still hurts sometimes.

14.12.2020

#phantom #pains

basil Nov 2020

hamartia

i immortalized you
and you don't even know

to,, you. i guess. i miss you. and the idea of you. is it okay to miss both?

basil Nov 2020

flesh

i rip open my skin
not much different than i rip the band aids off of it
tossing it aside in much the same way

thirsty for the secrets my body is keeping from me

so disappointed that i have a Physical Form