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The Buckets

The clouds are the same shade of purple as her bruises on her knees

From stumbling around

Drunk. Always drunk

The sky spits on the roof of her top floor apartment

Heavy rain leaking from little cracks and corners of the ceiling

There's a *** on the kitchen floor

A bucket on the bathroom counter

An old ice cream tub on the couch

All collecting the steady drip from the walls

Sometimes she kisses and feels nothing

Sometimes she kisses and feels her ribs crack open

Most days, she feels hollow

You can see her, a smoking *** of boiling water

Her blood bubbles boiling to the top

Rusting thrift store cookware flooding onto the floor

Even after you empty all those buckets

They will always fill back up

 

**** I wish it would stop raining.

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Written by
taylor-henry
Published
May 2, 2015
Lines·Words
18·136
Notes

Suicide awareness. Self-inflicting wounds.

For all the pretty things that left too soon to see themselves bloom.

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