i am a phoenix who has spent every year of my life burning to ashes and being painfully reborn you knew this and threw me into the fire anyways
2. i didn’t just fall in love with you i crashed into it like a drunk driver who couldn’t wait for the light to turn green and i didn’t have any insurance
3. i was always competing with the ghost of your ex-girlfriend and you saw her reflection in my eyes it wasn’t a fair match from the start, was it?
4. you said i was the most lovable person you had ever met but you couldn’t be the one to love me i think the word you meant to use to describe me was unlovable
5. you treated my affection like ******* currency to help you sleep at night
6. i always had to butcher the truth out of your mouth
7. i wrote you my first love poem it was called “putting you into words” because i couldn’t ever find one word to accurately describe you but i found it now:
…*******
8. you taught me what lonely people do how they can’t touch anything without leaving their fingerprints behind without painting your skin in midnight when the sun comes up you will both be on the ground again with stomach aches and dry mouths this is what lonely people do they stay the night and wake up thirsty and their only cure is drying out your canteen heart
9. ask me how many times i’ve trusted the men with twisted fingers and crooked smiles how many times i’ve cut my hands on their jagged edges sharpened like a knife by pain ask me how many times i’ve let men say my name like they’ve created me
…i will tell you i’ve lost count
10. i am a giver who surrenders my softness to sharp teeth and sandpaper hands i am giver who falls in love with far too many takers and never learned how to be both
11. i am made of forgiveness and you broke my bones like they were empty promises i will always be walking on someone else’s ending and crawling over the ruins
12. if pain makes craters then my heart is the moon
13. every poem i ever wrote for you is now a testament of how you wasted my time
14. you were the final shipwreck that sent me reeling out into the water with my mouth wide open i taste like seawater because there is so much inside of me that is trying to drown
15. love is the worst illusion man ever created
16. i am 19 years old and i am entirely too young to believe it doesn’t exist anymore (k.w)