feeling small and alone in a thunder storm waking up next to someone who said they love you but only after you said it first bruises and bite marks left by a boy who tries to **** himself every other week a flickering candle that illuminates the silhouettes of the flowers on the windowsill seeing your ex boyfriend at a show in the city seeing your ex boyfriend at a show in the city with another girl seeing your ex boyfriend at a show in the city with another girl while you are with another boy using human flesh and physical contact to fill the void left by years of abuse and traumas taking medication that makes you violently ill but keeps the darkness at bay making lists of things that keep me awake at night in hopes of gaining some kind of peace of mind -