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May 7 · 187
Torsion
jǫrð May 7
My ovaries twist inside
I never deserved them
Anyhow

Choose or else
Something will
Chose for you

I wish I
At least had
My baby to say goodbye to
Apr 29 · 257
Dreamer
jǫrð Apr 29
You always wanted to be something more.
John Wick, or John Snow,
Or John Doe who gets all the girls
Who dumps them off when you're done
Hacking them apart
The History: Weak, insignificant men playing games they'll never win. They dream of importance, of status, of fast cars.
Jan 29 · 548
Polarized
jǫrð Jan 29
They fear
What it is
That lies
Beyond
The scope
Of their
Understanding
And I wouldn't
Have been
Ready for
The path I
Have chosen
If not for being
Polarized once
Myself
The History: I was often called evil, and without conscience. They branded me with the scarlet A, and so I've returned to them the purple finger.
Jan 22 · 2.5k
Biblical Nonsense
jǫrð Jan 22
Inscribed with some biblical nonsense
The ring that you gave
I gave away
To a man I despised at the time
And forgot until recently
That you exist at all
You said you remembered
I had a kind heart
Did you mean instead
That I'm easy to bed
I have learned to read between the lines
The History: Hello, to you, incompetent child man who misses someone sweet. Where is your mommy? I thought she was supposed to be involved in everything?
Jan 7 · 441
Patroferno
jǫrð Jan 7
Cast me into
Your inferno
I want to go
Where you're
Going
I want to see
That flame, feel
It grow within
As a newborn
Would
The History: As if I could truly love any lesser man.
Dec 2023 · 772
Azure
jǫrð Dec 2023
I'd take your
Happiness if given
The chance again
That infected smile
A thin coward's lips
That sour expression
The eyes never lie
But they do fib
Enjoy your demise
You've earned it
The History: You don't know what you got, 'til it's gone.
Dec 2023 · 686
The Reaper
jǫrð Dec 2023
Death found me in 6
He knocked at my door
And when I opened it
He knew my agony
Inherently
And kissed me once
Between the eyes before
Moving on to number 5
I heard my neighbor
Let out a desperate
Wail and knew he had
Claimed another instead
The History: I have been extremely ill today. I've not slept a wink. My head is pounding and I am feeling so lost and confused. My neighbor in 5 let out a scream that I have projected before. The ambulance came shortly after and what looked like a small body was eventually removed.
Nov 2023 · 1.0k
Post Cessation Dig
jǫrð Nov 2023
I found the transcript,
All my transgressions
Sat heavy in the bottom
Of the ottoman you left out
On the porch when the hurricane came.

And next to that, a toy
Spot, as he was once called,
Risen once more to claim
The key of my death,
Of all that was once white and innocent.

I can read between the lines,
I've become an expert at that
And I know what she meant
When she placed these together
Like a time capsule of my fall from grace

She never wanted me anyway.
The History: My only crime, was that I thought I loved someone much older than myself. My brother came home from the military, and created unnecessary conflict. He coached my mother to have the man I was seemingly in love with arrested and I blamed myself for his lost years.  I always knew her actions were correct though my feelings were unwavering. That's what young love does. She always told me I, "Chose a man over my own family" all the while leaving me without proper medical treatment, or food or care to go out with men she was seeing. She was a bar fly that never married.
After abandoning me for a short while as a child to party here in Florida, she took me back and we moved here permanently. She took me from my father to spite him. She wanted me to take care of her when she was dying. Made me promise I would my whole life. I loved her through all of the abuse.
I wasn't there when she passed though. I never expected her to go so suddenly. And when I went to her home, I found the courtroom transcript of my greatest trauma placed with my very first toy from childhood. The one she placed in my crib at birth. One last dig from beyond the grave.
Nov 2023 · 1.5k
Stump
jǫrð Nov 2023
Speak
As though you've
Learned anything
You little stump
Of a man

When I confide
In you, just
Cut me off and
Talk about
The elements again

Listen
As though you've
Got any other
Motive but *******
Me someday

And I'll pretend
You're a friend
Until you do it
Again and then
I'm walking away
The History: I have been kind to others for far too long. They treat me like a therapist and then discard me unless their ego can be inflated. I'm tired of people listening to respond, and not listening to understand. I am going to walk away from you when I tell you, "I think I'm being followed home from work" and you go, "Ya, so I was getting water..." Not your therapist.
Nov 2023 · 662
Godhood
jǫrð Nov 2023
My inflection changed,
"Oh my God"
To "Oh," "My God,"
My sweet God.
The History: "It's is noteworthy that this Godhood thus extends only to your own Self, not to the selves of others (though a clever God may certainly influence them.)"
Nov 2023 · 943
Shame
jǫrð Nov 2023
Learned this lesson as a child
Don't say more than you have to
And never write it down
Unless you want someone to read it
I keep forgetting
For the sake of being myself
The History: People respond better when I don't have much to say.
Nov 2023 · 1.0k
Mad Hatter
jǫrð Nov 2023
Awake into the night
Paralysed before sleep took hold
Suffocated by my worries
As some stranger had foretold
Awake into the night
I dreamt of coffins and stars
Hopeful for a soft future
One that died out young
Awake into the night
I felt him lingering near
Tickling my occipital lobe
Reminding me for the first time, ever
I'm never really alone
The History: I was little once, with a lot of big dreams and sleep paralysis
Oct 2023 · 759
Vindicated
jǫrð Oct 2023
Your mother would be proud of you
That's what you told me

When I asked her, her opinion, she turned and said to me

One day he will be jailed, or my four will become three

When I pointed out your white lies
And each great or small misdeed

Objecting, you'd cry,  "I'll make
"Something" from my misery."

I cried, and I tried to tell you before it happened
What comes from this foolish pride

& You cocked your head, laughing back
While spitting in my eyes
The History: My ex boyfriend who painted me as heinous disgusting person was arrested in February. He is in jail for 3 years. I pity him, but I also tried to warn him. Another one bites the dust.
Oct 2023 · 503
Displacement
jǫrð Oct 2023
Treat me like a therapist
Until you feel embarrassed

Tell me you talk to me
Even more than your new wife

Act like it's a compliment
I know any good doctor would

Say that's unhealthy but
I am afraid of your reaction

So bite my tongue, and I listen
And then when you tell me

I remind you of your ex
You really mean I remind you

Of the one who got out from
Underneath your sweaty thumb

Unable to be controlled
And that just kills you
The History: He talks to me any which way he pleases. I have accepted the indiscretions, in addition to his displaced and covert professions of love. He is higher on the food chain and I am not afraid to point out his weakness. He is wholly unreliable and hates that I know, or so it seems. He is quick to anger, the closest external contact I've had with sociopathic tendencies. He lies for his own preservation, he ignores risk factors, he disregards others' experiences.
I struggle with some of the same issues. I identify them within me and work to change them. He has influenced me to be a better person so as not to end up alone as he has, comparing strangers to people of his past and allowing his bias to control every interaction. Sad from someone who's had such a long time to get it together. I sense, regret.
Oct 2023 · 891
Sunset
jǫrð Oct 2023
He died here
And his soul
Says, with the
Sky,
"Look away
Child, avert
Your eyes,
From these
Continuous
Atrocities
You are
Powerless to
Change.

Look to the
Colors ive
Painted high
Those who
Could, will
Never help"
We admire
The sunset
And search
The astral
Instead.
The History: I sat where he was hit for a while, they say I shouldn't be upset, I didn't watch him die, I was merely there for the precursors to the event. How is that any better? I look away from the crosswalk, to my left. I see the sky painted the most gorgeous sunset each time I miss him. I weep, because this was all entirely preventable and everyone just looked away when something could have been done months in advance, after I said something. Now nothing can bring him back, and they just don't think about it.
Oct 2023 · 1.7k
Domesticated
jǫrð Oct 2023
From our
Bed's stillness,
He scurries off
Softly into
The morning
Delicate and
Quiet as mice
We say goodbye
& yearn
For when we'll
Meet again.
The History: Come home.
Sep 2023 · 1.3k
B
jǫrð Sep 2023
B
Crimson rivers ran on my skin
And within, an ache
Resembled the itch of death
I had met in passing

Weeping in shadows
I locked the door and
When I called his name
He was delivered into my hands

He was the springtime
You felt inside of me
Born to autumn
His father's favorite season
History: Baldr and the Misteltoe
Aug 2023 · 682
Queen
jǫrð Aug 2023
She said
Women don't
sit at the head
of the table

At first I was
Taken aback
By the covert
Misogyny

To know that
She worked in
Human resources
Was laughable

I could have
Screamed or
Wept for her
Ignorance, instead

I sat glaring
At the fool
That she had
Placed there

And when his
Demise began
I realized the
Truth in her words

She was an incapable leader.
The History: Projection
Jul 2023 · 2.4k
Sleeping Dragon
jǫrð Jul 2023
How, I thought,
Had I ever dreamt
Alone

Once upon a time,
When I knew not his
Fire

Free from embrace,
Assimilated by
Solitude

To revel in
Egyptian cottons
Desolate

--

How he burns me
From the inside
Out

I crave him, so,
My sleeping
Dragon

The heat in his belly
And beneath his
Skin

And I wake him
When the need
Arises

To fill me once more
With his morning
Light
The History: I would always say I need to sleep alone or else I can't rest. It turns out, I just needed to feel safe. I never want to be alone again.
Jul 2023 · 560
Facing North
jǫrð Jul 2023
Those come before
Were training wheels
And those after
A lesson in purpose

And now, I can say
There is love, where
Only despair and
Disdain once grew

Soul mates can mean
Many things, perhaps,
And I'm sorry if
This applies to you:

We could have been
But you were never
Quite ready for
More than just yourself
The History: Better love by Hozier
Jul 2023 · 2.7k
Warmth
jǫrð Jul 2023
He was the rising sun
Left his warmth in our bed

Early in the morning

& When I returned
I lie on his side dreaming

Of golden rays
And orange sunrise
The History: Master Blake left his warmth in my bed when he rose up early this morning.
Jul 2023 · 881
Luchador Supreme
jǫrð Jul 2023
I do this to myself
Accept fights I could never win

Search for ways to disprove
What I've sought all of my days

Hurl myself into the ring
A luchador with something to prove

The fight rages on
And I lose my will

In fear and self doubt
I sabotage my win

Allowing the opponent that is my mind
To deliver that last fateful blow
The History: I stayed up late and compared myself to everything you could want in a woman. I break my own heart over and over again until you grow tired and leave.
Jul 2023 · 834
Comfort?
jǫrð Jul 2023
Burgundy walls
And bamboo
Light fixtures

A glass table
With two chairs
Just you and I

You brought me
Literature and
Coconut macarons

I'm not
Quite sure what it was
That I brought to you
The History: I wish I had known earlier, what love you bring. I should have tasted it in the pastries. Your love filled that place and I didn't even recognize it. I try so hard to make it up, but I feel I've missed a golden opportunity.
Jul 2023 · 611
Sacred Communion🌙
jǫrð Jul 2023
In sanguine devotion
I give this body
for your
consumption
until my river
runs dry
until my soil
grows barren
until my sky
turns ashen
until my blaze
fades to ember
The History: Praise be
Jun 2023 · 2.0k
Full
jǫrð Jun 2023
Your cologne
Like a tooth
Penetrates my
Softened skin
The History: Wake up and smell the cologne
Jun 2023 · 937
Emoto
jǫrð Jun 2023
Each tear,
One could,
Freeze them
& study the fractals
Created by these lies
I should have said less
The History: Tears speak when the heart cannot
May 2023 · 1.0k
The Tower
jǫrð May 2023
White orchids bloomed
On the left side of the bed
In the crimson afterglow
I bled
The History: Something wicked this way came.
May 2023 · 2.0k
Progeny
jǫrð May 2023
I think you want
To be hurt by me
As most often do
The History: Masochists disguised as normal people with personality disorders
May 2023 · 839
Lasagna
jǫrð May 2023
The flavor of your home
Baked into it,  I'm
Fortunate enough to taste
The four walls
Fortunate enough to house you
The History: You baked a lasagna, then brought me some,  and played around with me one day. You then became cold again the next, and I wondered what I had done, but this time I was too afraid to say it and so I let you go.
Mar 2023 · 169
Old flame
jǫrð Mar 2023
Is that bark
Still recovering

From a half
Decade's winter ago

When I hiked
To your barren lumber shed

And skinned that
Neighboring tree

For something dry
To turn to flame
The History: I loved a man in the Kentucky winter. That winter he left me alone for days. No food, a floridian in a mountain shack, with a wood burning stove and no kindling. I found myself in 10°, short shorts, with an open wound the size of a football between my *** cheeks, in calf high snow, stripping the bark from the trees for something to create warmth.
Oct 2022 · 148
Old words
jǫrð Oct 2022
I'd recorded all
My old words, I left unsaid
On to something new
The History: Old words above, written some time ago, in reference to the old words I'd left unpublished, then published at once. "A never ending chain of Mailmen"
Sep 2022 · 122
There
jǫrð Sep 2022
The folds in your boots
Ain't clean enough
I'd be hands and knees at peace

There.
The History: Christ
Sep 2022 · 115
Accidental eye contact
jǫrð Sep 2022
That look of innocence
Shines at me
If only until I
Take notice
The History: From across the rail, our eyes met
Sep 2022 · 383
But I could never prove it
jǫrð Sep 2022
I knew it was you
From the way you fidget,
Fantasize back behind the eyes
The History: I have become an amateur P.I. in the last 5 years.
Sep 2022 · 129
Invisible
jǫrð Sep 2022
Gesture
At the other
Girls
Wait for
Them to
Notice you
The way I
Do
The History: Scribbled on a piece of paper, which I took a photo of and threw in the trash.
Jul 2022 · 1.5k
Receiving in the Office
jǫrð Jul 2022
Beckoning to me
The door open
The room clean
All except for you and me

I lost my mind
There on the floor
You gave me some
I needed some more

Pushed my legs back
Sank in deep
I didn't make a peep
For you, I'm meek
The History: I dreamt of loving you. Dreamt of your tongue, dreamt of your eyes meeting mine in the room in which I'm seated as I write this. That dream never came true but I can use it to cope.
jǫrð Jul 2022
I felt the light die in my womb
& I wanted him more than I wanted you

Bled out on my side of the bed
Whilst you laid down your languorous head

You turned to me once, crying out and said,
"Stop" and at once I did.
The History: I wanted my baby. I wanted to be able to rely on you but you left me alone in every way.
Jul 2021 · 174
China doll
jǫrð Jul 2021
Veins blue in pallid
Porcelain skin like China
Stamped out 'neath the Bull
The History: Affection
Jul 2021 · 365
"Come home"
jǫrð Jul 2021
Unattainable
Goals that ask softly for me
To reach skyward, home.
The History: Calling
Jul 2021 · 113
Tunnel
jǫrð Jul 2021
Absent was the sun
Unseen to the deep anglers
Perception is all
The History: Visions
Jul 2021 · 170
The inlet midday
jǫrð Jul 2021
It was bright and blue
The sea below the beacon
On early dolphin days
The History: Beach day
jǫrð Jul 2021
Manifestation
Manipulation I can't
Distinguish between
The History: Is..a lot.
Jul 2021 · 143
I mean death
jǫrð Jul 2021
Optimism is
Hibiscus painted beyond
The fabric that binds
The History: I want to dead
Jul 2021 · 295
Do it
jǫrð Jul 2021
Calling was the void
Wondrous, fearful, cavernous
From within her mind
The History: Today, preferably.
Jul 2021 · 339
Pink bark
jǫrð Jul 2021
Found me out in the
Sycamore tree, swaying soft
On an evening breeze
The History: Pink and White Winters
Jul 2021 · 489
Selective
jǫrð Jul 2021
I couldn't bleed red
For just anybody, I
Hope you understand
The History: Uncanny Valley
Jul 2021 · 192
persephone
jǫrð Jul 2021
It is madness who's
Taught glands fill my mouth, I draw
Warmth from her *****
The History: Everything is born from chaos.
jǫrð Jul 2021
Hello, yes, I think
I got turned around somewhere
On my merry way
The History: Lost.
Jul 2021 · 135
That's what you said to do
jǫrð Jul 2021
Curtsy for the crowd
Stare into that spotlight and
Pretend they're bare too
The History: Performance
Jul 2021 · 571
Grazed
jǫrð Jul 2021
Fingers set to graze
Like starved cattle or silver
Raised my skin to peaks
The History: I am constantly questioning whether these are accidents or intentional acts. There are two realities now, the one in which I don't turn to call you out, and the one where I do and you make me feel crazy.
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