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Maryann I Apr 2
a story unwritten, a verse left untold,
a heart still beating, but always cold.
  Mar 31 Maryann I
Eve
Angel of anguish, take this from me.

your feathers brush away my sins,

but your talons carve my guilt into my chest.

sweet Angel, carry me to oblivion,

rest your head in the lake of inaction,

tasting wordless pleas.

eyes, eyes, they say they never lie.

but you have none, only an empty promise lay in your skull.
Maryann I Mar 31
No one owns your body.
No one has the right to take.
No one has the right to push.

It’s okay to say no.
Even when they say you’re leading them on.
Even when they say you owe them.
Even when they say you don’t mean it.

It’s okay to say no.
Even when your voice shakes.
Even when your hands tremble.
Even when you feel small.

It’s okay to say no.
Even when you’re afraid.
Even when you don’t know what will happen next.
Even when they won’t stop.

It’s your body.
It’s your choice.
It’s your right.
Do they have the right to take what’s not given?
No.
Maryann I Mar 31
Flicker.  
              Flicker.  
                            Flicker.

nothing,  
                  — pulse,
  
        there’s a hum,  
                    a crack in the air  
                           splitting sound.

Where am I?
  

     The sky is
   broken.
                 Can't remember  
                            what it looked like. 

Eyes?
  
           Are they mine?  
          Flickering too, 
                     shaking with  
         electric pulse 
              crackling through my teeth.  

I feel it 
         underneath my skin.  
Hands don’t  
          feel right,  
  touch doesn’t  
            make sense—

skin is not skin.

            What was I?  
                        Who was I?  
          Laughter—
  
no, screaming?  
        I—  
                      no, not me—

I’m here.  
                  I’m here.

                          I am.  

     The wires hum louder,  
                            closer,  
                 ­        louder. 

I’m part of it,  
             a piece,  
                 like a thread  
snapped  
       and rewound  
              in the wrong place.
  

but it feels good,  
        doesn’t it?  
               to belong,  
                           to dissolve,  
               to feel this twist  
         in my mind.
  

I feel it—  
                   this weight.  
                   It holds me.

        I’m home.
Maryann I Mar 30
They call her names,
send their curses through a screen.
She blocks them,
but the words slip through the cracks,
curl beneath her skin.

She scrubs her face,
but the insults don’t wash away.
She sleeps,
but the whispers slither through her dreams.

Years pass.
The usernames are gone.
The accounts are deleted.
The laughter has moved on.

But the words—
the words still stay.
This poem plays with the idea that words, once spoken (or typed), never truly go away.
Maryann I Mar 29
Drizzle me in honeyed gold,
let caramel ribbons lace my skin,
warm and slow as they trickle down—
a river of molten sugar, pooling in bliss.

The air is thick with vanilla hush,
soft as sifted powdered snow,
melting on my tongue like a whispered dream,
light as spun sugar caught in the breeze.

Bite into the velvet hush of chocolate—
dark as midnight, rich as sin,
a decadent flood that lingers and sighs,
coating lips in satin warmth.

Strawberries glisten, ruby-bright,
dipped in white chocolate sighs,
their **** kiss softened by cream’s embrace,
blushing beneath the moon’s silver glow.

Golden crusts crack beneath the fork,
pastry flaking into a buttery hush,
as custard spills in silken waves,
folding sweetly into waiting hands.

A swirl of cinnamon dances in air,
twisting in clouds of sugar and spice,
as soft dough blooms in golden spirals,
cradled in the warmth of the oven’s arms.

And in this feast of sugared dreams,
where every taste is a lullaby,
let me drown in the amber glow
of honeyed nights and caramel skies.

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