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Kelly Mar 2021
you asked for every part of me
every story and small piece
my horrors and my tribulations
pulled from me in strict frustration
claiming I was bare to you
in moments fueled by ******* moves
thinking that's the only time
I'm shedding armor


for you.
vulnerability is not an invitation.
Kelly Mar 2021
I'm tired of this platter,
the pieces I've served and the lies I've heard



you don't want me.
sometimes I think you do
Kelly Mar 2021
I locked my heart away in a body
I swore did not exist

Still somehow handed her the tools
to push on, and persist
how do people get in without a key?
Kelly Mar 2021
I'm weak and scorched and slightly torched
but

                            didn't you do this?
look in the mirror.
Kelly Mar 2021
I've often thought I'm bad at love,
I love with fierce fervidity

but every soul within that field
I've lost with quiet
severity
my door is always open

2016
Kelly Mar 2021
you confirmed all of my horrors
when you said you can't touch me sober
march 2017
Kelly Mar 2021
you sped up my heart,
only he had since turned

when lying with you, I felt not steady  
                               hurt..

I forgot I was sick
I forgot I was his

or his
                      or his  
                                             or his

I'm so scared of this and these following words,
because now to that list, I might have to add

a "her"
scared to be her's
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