Perhaps the most
Difficult challenge
I've had to face
Is trying to believe
I could ever be
Remotely worthy
Of your love.

- p. winter

Trace your fingers down my arm
Make a stop at every scar
Kiss them kindly
Help remind me
Life is better where you are
- p. winter

I’m not easy to love
Don’t expect me to be
I’ve got bruises and baggage
And boundaries
And I might make you yell
Or I might make you smile
But if there’s one thing I’ll make:
I’ll make it worthwhile.

- p. winter

too afraid of lo_ing you

- p. winter

a thousand barren daisy heads
are strewn across the floor
each more gruesomely dismembered
than the one before
and so i sit
and so i cry
and so i watch them rot.
not e'en a thousand daisy heads
know why you loved me not.

- p. winter

i had a type
you didn't fit
so i moulded it
to you

- p. winter

I must be
Who everyone wants me to be.
I don’t know who I am anymore,
But I know it is not enough.

- p. winter