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Brooke May 2021
Looking into the mirror, I do not recognize the girl before me
But I do see a girl seeking to find herself and for that, I'm hopeful

-o.d.
  Mar 2021 Brooke
misha
your name is
forbidden in
my mouth
or in my heart
because when
i think about
you;

i'll cry a little more,
hurt a little stronger
love a little softer
because you no longer
make me feel sober

i'm drunk on the
memory of you
if only i could chase you with pizza but shots don't work like that
Brooke Mar 2019
I'm sorry that I doubted you, I'm sorry that I was wrong.
I'm sorry that I left you when you needed someone strong

RIP Joshua W.
Brooke Mar 2019
Becoming a teenager was the hardest thing I’ve accomplished.
I stopped playing with Barbie dolls, instead I tried to become one.
Thousands spent on makeup, hair, nails, and clothes.

And for what?
Because I actually believed society’s opinion of me mattered.
13 years old, waking up an hour earlier than I used to, to apply layers of makeup and hairspray on top of the person I wanted to be.
I loved the person I was until the age of 13.

There are bullies wherever you go.
There are going to be people that don’t like you, no matter what.
I wish I would’ve known that running away wasn’t the answer.

I thought being pulled out of public school would be better for me and everyone else but boy was I wrong.
Being alone all the time never made me lonely.
I was stuck inside my own head stuck with the bullies I’ve created, clones of the people I’ve come across from before.
The people who hurt me and degraded me.

Depression, anxiety, PTSD, Bipolar, Insomnia.
At the age of 14, I thought a noose would suit my neck better than any kind of necklace.
Pills upon pills turned into pain
Pain turned into shutting everyone out.

Being a teenager was the hardest thing I’ve ever accomplished.
  Oct 2015 Brooke
Katherine Laslie
Tears
Fall down my face
Burning
Like acid rain
Into the wounds
You gave

I can't move my arm
My hand

I've been shaking
For so long
I wonder
If I'll ever be still again

My heart
Slams against my ribcage
With every beat
It beats
And beats,
Beats
'Till there's nothing left
Of me

You said you loved me
Said you cared
When I was in trouble
You'd be there
But now you're my pain
And I'm a victim

Hoping I could
Find the courage
To escape
But there's nowhere
Else to go
Nowhere that I can
Feel safe

I've never been so afraid
Never felt this way
I'm so afraid
You might return
Afraid of the things
You think I deserve
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