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I don't understand why I am so caught up
In wanting go be pretty
You can BUY pretty
It comes in pretty bottles
Scented cream-form
Sealable powder containers
And tube mixed with glitter
A beautiful soul
Cannot be bought
But a kind-of-ish guy friend
Told me I was pretty today
I think he was just being kind though
And I wouldn't be interested anyway
Then earlier today
Some random grade 2 kids
Yelled at me
As I was walking out the door:
You're hot
Great so five seven year old boys
Think I'm hot
I don't think that counts
In fact it probably means im extra ugly
'Cause you can't trust a grade 2's taste
But that's not my problem
My problem is
Beauty is aways
What girls are complimented on
When it is so common
It has a price tag.
What has our society descended to
When "pretty" is the goal
Idk, what do people think? Does a seven year old thinking I'm hot actually mean im extra ugly? Lol it was kinda funny though. Getting catcalled by someone who is up to my hips in height. Haha
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
saffronne
I wish I was kissing you,
instead of wishing I was kissing you.
~s
Ich bin nicht mehr,
Nicht mehr die Person die du kanntest.
Und nicht mehr, als diejenige die ich einmal war.
Denn als du gegangen bist,
Gehen wolltest.

Warst du nicht alleine,
Du hast ein Stück,
Ein Stück von mir,
mitgenommen.

Weggetragen.
Fort. Aus und vorbei.

Und das kommt nie wieder zurück,
Nie wieder zurück.
Zu mir.
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
Yuna
... it
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
Yuna
See it

Feel it

Be it

Heal it

Say it

Do it

Love it
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
Lily
Shower
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
Lily
My only comfort as my tears fall with the water
Is the fact that I'm scrubbing away his hands,
His touch,
His lips,
His skin.
Washcloth against skin,
Red erupts from my pores,
But I don't care because
I need to get his scent off of me.
Just a whiff, and I gag,
My tears congealing in my throat.
Why me?
What did I do?
His hands were so soft,
But so strong, and
I could not escape.
Washcloth against skin,
I don't even know where to begin,
For he stripped me down to the very bone
And lay my soul and body naked.
His fault? Yes.
My fault? They'll think so.
Red flows down my legs because of
Washcloth against skin.
I drown myself in cherry blossom body wash,
The off brand kind.
My last thought before I stop the water is
"But I'm not even pretty."
A poem for all of those who are victims of ****** assault, whether male or female.  You are all survivors <3
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
Annie
This pool is bottomless; stunningly blue,
I find that I’m tumbling towards it with you.

We’ve fallen, and now that the surface is breaking,
our dive, beyond words, will leave us both shaking.

I see now, a lifetime of love in the making.
28.5.19
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
Pax
poets
 May 2019 Sarah Larsen
Pax
most of us are lonely
often our pools are too deep and
no one seem to bother swimming in our depths
perhaps it takes a skilled diver to understand
our inner core.

and because we feel too much
we drown ourselves in the pool of
sorrows, dying in self pity.
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