NV - Hello Poetry

NV Jun 2014

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I giggled my way out of every bad memory.

I pretended nothing hurt.

Until it didn't.

NV May 2014

are you there?

are you there, god?
or are you having nightmares
about the echoes of children's prayers you couldn't answer?

NV May 2014

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Drunk texts.
compiling of
"I love you."
And
"please miss me back."

NV May 2014

pain.

Pain.

In the form of the way father
clenched his fists in anger,
and mother's grip around the red wine bottle at 3 am in the morning.

NV May 2014

DESTROY.

"Destroy what destroys you." -they said.

**NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I'M IN RUINS.

NV May 2014

told God.

Told God.
How I sometimes preferred to die on my feet.
Than live on my kness.

He never replied.

NV May 2014

plastic cups.

And I sort of fell in love with plastic cups.
The ability to fall, and never break apart.
Because, as for me.
I'm just a glass positioned a little to close to the edge of the table.