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 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
brooke
sometimes i
can love my
body from
t w e n t y
feet away
sometimes i
strip outside
the bathroom
and avoid
the mirror.

(c) Brooke Otto 2014
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
Marie-Niege
my heart bleeds muddy water.
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
Amanda
Shower
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
Amanda
Fine, thin & wisps of baby hair.

Hair that ran the bathwater blue, red or some indescribable puddle of colour.

Then finally greys & whites criss-cross the now-yellowing tiles.
I am not sure what happened here.
I hope you, you and you had a wonderful day.
*hugs*
xo
i used to pace my room
in confusion of why i couldn't get over
the single month we spent together
sharing coffee, kisses, stories, bodies
i barely knew your middle name
but we talked again a few days ago
and i asked you, "do you think
if the people we are now were to
have met eachother before the
people we were then, we would've
had a chance?"

inthe moment it took
for you to reply
i finally figured it out
me and him, we are the
connection, as opposed
to the attraction i have
mistaken it for, he taught
me how to love softly, he
talks like he still knows me
and i still don't trust it but
i have never experienced
anything like this and
now i am pacing my room
again, caught on a simple
text message, sent 11:29am,
that reads "yes, i do."
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
brooke
inside there was a
spat b e t w e e n my
bones, a wrenching
in all the sockets
every single
curl in my
brain was unfurling
but all I could do was
pinch the calluses on
my palm with a calm
ferocity, he does not
want me to c o n d e m n
myself but i was already
******* in, concave and
ready to collapse.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
brooke
my mom tells me to
be encouraged and I
want to pry my ribs
apart and show her
my whitewashed
insides, how someone
went and took a matte
finish to my skin, I want
to show her the average
diary entry from 9:05 pm
and how I've stopped signing
my name because these letters
never get to God, I want her to
sit in on my conferences with
the empty chairs at work and
listen in on all the phone calls
I don't take, expect my showers
to be two hours long when really
i'm just filling the bathtub over
and over and      over and  
            over                  over
over



over
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
Amanda
0.7mm
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
Amanda
On some days, I write bolder, thicker & harder, just to prove not everything is empty and blank.

And that my words are just as heavy and all raw edges like *yours.
I tried very hard not to breath in the permanent marker fumes whilst I penned that nonsensicaly writing into my book.
How have you been doing?
xo
I've been reading Noah Barlerywater Runs Away by John Boyne.
It's quite brilliant.
ft. Leona Lewis's Spirit album
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
r l
Haiku
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
r l
Sometimes I forget
How to love everybody,
Everyone but you
More of a draft. I don't even know
 Dec 2014 Megan Grace
Marie-Niege
his soft doe eyes
curse poison
across my
melting
body
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