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3.6k · May 2014
the art of self love
Jai Grier May 2014
I'm not the person I was a year ago. I won't **** in my stomach or crawl on my knees for you. I will sharpen silky sweet thighs with fragments of glass. I will tear down tuat flesh and conquer cities. I am my own being. I have constellations inside of me and I am not sorry.
3.4k · Apr 2014
Rape
Jai Grier Apr 2014
I still remember that night. I remember how I felt before it happened more vividly than how I felt after. I think I remember it so well because that was the last time I ever felt whole.
My shorts were short
my ******* were wet
my sweet little cherry had yet to be popped.

Your intentions filled the room as I admired the spit drool on the side of your lips. The uneasy smirk on your face. You wanted a lot more than to "just get laid." I was far too young to even begin to understand the parts of my body you knew not to touch.

As you kissed me down my neck and your manhood grew harder, my spine quivered and my fear shook. My mother always told me to follow my gut and when I did you grabbed me and you told me not to listen to it. You told me to ignore what I didn't want for the sake of your temporary pleasure. You disregarded my comfort and put your **** ahead of my feelings.

You yanked my legs open and your ripped me into two pieces, and till this day I have yet to find the other half you stolen from me, and I swear I almost see it everyday when I stand ahead of myself naked infront of my mirror but I can never stare at myself long enough to grab me in and make myself whole again.

Do you see what you have done to me? Was each stroke of stolen pleasure worth every jump I make when the man I love touches me with permission? Was your everlasting ******, sounds of moans and sighs escaping from your lips, echoing in my stomach and spilling out in my tears worth me cutting myself open every night since?

I guess it was because at least I'm giving myself permission opening myself up. At least the pain has consent. At least the blade dragging across my skin silenced the sound of your pleasure inside of me. At least the blood from my wrist dripping onto the bathroom floor isn't mixed with your ***.

At least I have the choice to put just a little more pressure in and I wont have to be reminded of you anymore.
2.1k · Apr 2014
Untitled
Jai Grier Apr 2014
The moon is turning into blood and im so anxious, I can barley catch my thoughts. And the only thing on my mind is you.
943 · Apr 2014
her mind not mines
Jai Grier Apr 2014
ears destined for rust and fallow fields
move smoothly in grime
for men in shirtsleeves
and women laughing in sunlight

silos line the horizon
stuffed to the brim
with pipe dreams and hops

children as shadow puppets
behind clotheslines
herald the bees and honey

thrusting pipes push earthen mounds
echoing coffins’ slumbers
men heave iron and wheat
on a forgotten country road
910 · May 2014
missing
Jai Grier May 2014
I am still in love
with the memory
of some version
of you;

even now that it
has been left out in
the rain and begun
to blur into the

paper I carved
it into. My skin is
so entirely covered
in running ink.
692 · May 2014
please dont turn to ash
Jai Grier May 2014
We don’t take our clothes off
when we have ***,
but we say we are in love.
We think we know what it means
because it’s supposed to be the opposite
of the way we feel about our selves.
I think about you all the time I swear some nights I smoke you.

I’m still learning how to care this much.
Jai Grier Apr 2014
get her out the hood and grow him a heart.
teach her how to love freedom and teach him how to love.
like a double ended sword pain caused by actions undone and words unspoken.

when words were spoken they were words that should have never left your lips. and for god sake you know good and well that you had a chance to fix it.

it was easy to say that she wasnt worth a home when you thought you had her forever. but now that your forced to face silence and bathe in the dark shes packing her bags and your realizing shes what made everywhere you lived a home in the first place.

and ******* for being the thunderstorm in all our lives.
******* for making me feel bad for saying that.
i shouldnt.

im only an outsider looking in theres not much i can do and you dont deserve the tears that falls down my cheeks when i feel sorry for you
and im so glad you got her name tattooed on your wrist.

its so ironic how its in the same place i drag my blade across every night.
554 · Apr 2014
Untitled
Jai Grier Apr 2014
Being truly exhausted is to feel empty.
like all of your organs and bones have dissolved
all the blood has drained from your veins.
do you understand how terrifying it is
to feel nothing and everything at the same time
all at the same time.
550 · Apr 2014
Untitled
Jai Grier Apr 2014
i am delicate and i am alive
im uneasy and im one of a kind
how dare i allow just anyone into my soul?
am i wrong for not feeling as though you or him arent worthy of me?
am i wrong to be so in love with myself
to respect myself enough to allow every hair on my body grow
and not get embarrassed when my voice cracks a little when i speak about something with passion?
am i wrong to not find a flaw when i admire myself in the mirror
am i wrong to rub the tips of my fingers along my stretch marks and self harm scars with awe?
we are told to love ourselves but to a certain extent
and i say this with love behind every word
**** what you told me i love me before i love what i am suppose to or what i am told to
505 · Apr 2014
letting in
Jai Grier Apr 2014
And tonight
with your tongue
doing a tango
with mine
and my nails
creating craters
of the moon
on your back,
I will know that
your mind only craves
to touch me
when I’m undressed
and you can care less
about the layers
I have stripped down
to let you in.
Jai Grier Apr 2014
I started a garden of you a year ago and I’ve been waiting for you to return and water it with me.. oh god, please dont make me **** all these flowers. I might have to go along with them.

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