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106 · Jun 2022
How I'd Like Me
C F Jun 2022
My heart is probably almost black
Who knows who to blame for that
Yet I still rised aboved it.

Scream my name
And little me couldn't imagine it.
She's pointing at a lose by 5
And then I won

I'm not as famous,
But still
I have nothing left to lose
And I'm not afraid like
She was.
105 · Nov 2019
What a Soul
C F Nov 2019
There is a hole
Where there ought to be more.
One huge fishbowl

I often relate to the glorified
punch-bowl

You can find me anywhere.
At your average party.
I'm just jungle-juice.

Everyone, hear hear.
Take a scoop of my soul
It's just liquid love

In fact, it's free for the taking
So please,
Give it a squeeze.

Try it.
You might even like it.

One huge alcofall
It's a bit of a saccharine
Taste.

It fades and the seconds we take
Are revolting.
But so rewarding.
105 · Mar 2020
Crazy Eyes
C F Mar 2020
Sometimes something will
Set off a memory
I'd buried deep inside of me.

It could be a random cologne
In the grocery store
Or a little noise that ticks me
The wrong way.

And when I start to consider it
Turning the memory
Over in my mind
The love of my life
Will break the spell

"You've got your crazy eyes"

And I blink once, no twice
Before I come back to reality

I smile at his Leery face
And shake my head
Burying the anger and frustration below

"Sorry, just remembered something."
I guess I have a special smile for this
One that he recognises
But I don't.

Because he just stares for a moment longer
Searching
Before he nods and holds my hand.
105 · Apr 2020
Dirty Eyes
C F Apr 2020
I have
Very rarely
Heard anything
Kind, sweet, or beautiful.

No.
Just dirt.

I have ***** eyes.
They are the colour of earth.
Hot chocolate, or a doe-if you're stretching.

My eyes are dirt.
Poets struggle with them.
They focus on a smile
Or skin
Or soft fingers.

They try to hide the impurity
Of brown eyes
Despite the fact that my eyes
Are the most common colour of all.

I suppose that isn't unique enough.
Dirt, after all, isn't special
Not even for it's life giving
Breaking
Qualities.

I have ***** eyes.
They're simply not special enough
To be cherished.
104 · Jan 2020
Do you know what's funny?
C F Jan 2020
I don't hate the way
He cuddles up to me
When he's asleep.

I don't even mind
When he wakes me up
From the slumber I so rarely get
To tell me some fantastical ramble
Within his own sleepy brain.

They never make any sense anyways.
But he let's me drag him into
Confusing conversations.

I'm so confused in my own skin
So I love my time alone.
Of course.

But I don't hate him within it

He brings me an odd
Odd sort of smile underneath
The doom and gloom in my core

I love my time alone.
It gives me time to think.
But do you know what's funny?

I don't hate him in it.

He's comforting.
He's confusing.

And I know he can't be
Responsible for my health
No one can.

But his presence
Makes me feel
Happily warm
And safe
In my own skin.
103 · Feb 2020
Anger Issues
C F Feb 2020
Did you know
I had anger issues
At first?

Hit me.

Did you know
Your actions would
Resonate so violently
With me?

I dare you.

When you were
Playing me like a
Shoddy verbal fiddle

Did you know I'd
Fight back?

I'd absolutely love it.

Did you realise
That I wouldn't simply
Roll over?

Your words are nothing
compared to the hits I've taken

Guess what,
I'm not your
Punching bag

Did you really think I'd submit?

Take a swing at me
Just once more
Just one more time.

I've got a whole lot of issues, bud
But, fighting back was never
One of them.

I've had black eyes
and broken bones

I'll knock you out,
Without a second thought.

I won't even blink
When your nose
Sprays blood
All over my clothes.

Did you think I'd give in?

I've seen worse than the likes of you.

The monsters in my brain
have said worse things

After all, how else would I have
These Anger Issues?
103 · Jan 2020
My eternity
C F Jan 2020
I'd say I found my place
Amongst the thousand
Breezes which blow.

Just don't weep
At a piece of stone
Which apparently belongs to me.

I do not know if
That it is me
Which tickled your cheek
With each and every blow

I do not
If I will carry your feet
With each step toward your
Own death.

But I really don't know.
I don't know if I'll become
An autumn breeze
Or glistening diamonds in the snow.

What I do know is that
I'll be free
Most likely, anyways.

As such.
I welcome my eternity.
103 · Nov 2020
Natural
C F Nov 2020
When I was little,
I was quiet and,
I towed the line.

But now I realise
a little too late
That I'm a natural.

I tow the line,
Ignoring what you've thrown
No matter how much it
Hurts or takes from me.

I'll tow the line.
It's what I was taught.
but I don't think this is what they meant

You can be high,
I'll be low.
I'll tow the line.

It's going to be finished,
The project will be completed.
perfectly.

Because no matter what it takes,
I will tow the line.

I can't
Seem to settle
For less.
99 · Jun 2020
I Will Rain Down
C F Jun 2020
I'd decided about a decade ago
That if a person elected
That is choose not to

Acknowledge their actions
Nor see their faults
I will rain down my own personal
Hell.

My Way.

I was once taken advantage of
And that day
I decided several things.

1.) No.

2.) Not again.

3.) Never.

4.) Again.
99 · Nov 2020
Untitled
C F Nov 2020
Smite. Fight.
I find myself angry at me.
I hope you're happy.
This thought strikes me often-
I want to crucify you.

Well done.

You've forced me to resort to relying on my old self.

I sincerely hope you've achieved the effect you wanted.
99 · Mar 2020
Kindness is Free
C F Mar 2020
I don't mean to pat myself
On the back
But...

I am the sort of person
To hold up a shopping trip
When I spot a small child
By themselves

Which I know is
Morally correct.
However

I am also the sort of person
To pull over the car
When I see a dog by themselves

I insist.
I carry a leash for a purpose.

I can't help it.
I wish I could.
Well...

No. I don't.
I know it would make me easier
But I can't
And at the same time, I won't.

My mother always told me
Being kind is free
And despite the fact that she might be outdated
I am evidence of that fact.

I will stop to help
Innocence
Helpless

I don't want a monetary reward
I just want them to be safe and happy.
So I will stop and watch and ponder
I will step in if I absolutely must.

I can't help it.

Well, technically I could.
I just won't.
Kindness is free.

My mother said so
And she's almost always right
In matters of the heart.

She would wish the same
From a by-stander
Near me.
97 · Dec 2019
It's Funny
C F Dec 2019
You know?
I've mapped out every situation
In which my life
Could end.

From work,
To class,
To daily tasks,
I've thought upon it.

The easiest time to
Off me
So to speak,
Would be those last few days
Between Christmas and New Years.

But even in those,
Your odds are worse
Than you might have thought.

For you see,
I might not look it.
But, I have persons
Depending on me.

In fact, nearly every
Second
Of every day.

I am either
Responding to emails
Or
Responding to calls.

Yes. Its funny, when you think about it.
But if I went missing
Approximately, 211 people would fall.
[Not including the dog)

Yes.
She might be annoying.
But shes incredibly In tune
To me.

When I whimper,
She cries.
When I scream,
She whines.

Yes, it's rather funny.
You see?
But if I went missing,

In fact the moment
I stopped breathing,

I'm pretty sure,
That my mum
Would somehow know.

So then,
Yes.
Its rather funny, isn't it?
If I disappeared for
Only a moment

Not only two
But three individuals
Would search for me.
(Not including the dog.)
96 · Jun 2020
Switzerland
C F Jun 2020
Black or white
The rivers have had their fun

They've finally done it.
Your countrys waters are murky.

They have torn it all asunder.
Muddling the waters with red
Poisonous elements to ensure
You are blind.

Child or not
I am blind too.

I wish I weren't.
I wish I was removed.
I had enough of the bloodshed for
Race and religion in Yugoslavia.

Your words will turn empty
They will fail on the deaf
Fall off the angry shields
And fists.
They always do.

But
Maybe you'll be the lucky ones
Maybe the system you fight for support
Will actually turn around for you.

I wish I could be Switzerland
I wish I'd never come to the U.S.
People here are just as terrifying
As they were at home over 20 years ago.

But I'm not a child anymore
So I can't use that excuse not to be involved
But, I'm scared.

I wish I could just go home instead.
Witnessing the history of violence
Taught me that it doesn't solve
It only angers more and more and more.
95 · Jan 2022
Once.
C F Jan 2022
I was once left in charge of a class of
Literally 20 2-3 year olds.

They were waking up from nap time.
A nap time they went to bed with a
Whole different teacher
Who then asked me
as a favour
To sub for another sub.

I was a dummie.
Huge dummie is more appropriate.

I was 23 years old,
0 children of my own.
A sister in law recently had a kid,
But he was like 6 months old.

I began asking each kid who they were,
Who their sleeping buddy was
And suddenly this easy thing,
It was so difficult.

They didn't know who tf I was,
I didn't know them.

So past me, bless her,
She panicked and did some quick calculations.
She choose to ask the
50 year old teacher across the hall,
For help!

That gal came in like a fecking wrecking ball
A classy one at that.

One shout of "GET UP. PACK YOUR MAT AND SIT."
and past me?
I just bowed my head and said thank you
And I ran out like my rear was on fire.

Bless past me.
94 · Jan 2020
Hesitant
C F Jan 2020
He's so
Hesitant.

When he attempts
To genuinely scold
Me.

He always appears
With his Xbox headphones on
And a kiss to my cheek
Or my forehead

Before he tries to
Quietly
Chide me
With his mic silenced.

It's like he's attempting
To demonstrate that
He means no harm.
Only care and concern.

Perhaps it's due to
The temper I've built
Over years of abuse.

(Heaven's know I could slash one's mortality with it.)

Or perhaps it's due to
My skittish behaviour

(Which I  know appears to be inaccurate.)

But he comprehends
(Unfortunately.)
That I have an incredible flight-or-fight
Instinct

And a towering man over me
Within my bed

It automatically ignites
My fight

And I will fight to the death

If I must.







It's not like I haven't died before.
I won't hesitate to die again.
94 · Feb 2020
Weary
C F Feb 2020
I am so
Weary.
Lately

I feel so tired.
Lately.

The kind of tired
Sleep can't
Fix.

I try to pick
Myself up off the
Ground.

Not for me,

But also for me
Because it's for me
Because I know he'd

Do the same.
92 · Feb 2020
Different
C F Feb 2020
I've realised
That the life I've lived
Isn't incredibly conventional
In the traditional sense of the word.

It could alienate me
Elevate me upon a pedestal

But I've also realised
That we're not so different.

I also enjoy ****** shows
And puppies yawning
And pets getting belly rubs.

We're not that different, I promise.
I know our experiences are.

But, I'm still at the age
Where my bills sometimes go unpaid
And I choose to surround myself with Netflix
Rather than do the laundry.
91 · Dec 2019
Ive got a voice too
C F Dec 2019
I often find myself
Wanting to scream
And shout.

But I feared I could only

Watch.

The atrocities I so despised
From a cage within the back
Of my foggy mind.

I sometimes find myself
Being silenced

By your need
To be heard

But you see,
I have since discovered
That I too
Need to be heard

My voice helps me
Feel
And Express

My voice allows me
To be heard
And be helped.

My voice helps me
Garner the attention of others
That require my assistance.

When I was little,
Too little to fight

I didn't realise I could shout

I didn't realise I could scream

I didn't realise my words could fight

I didn't realise I did not
have to always agree.
As my elders voiced their
Impure demands.

So now finally
After 23 years of silence

I don't care if you
Or my grandmother
Or even my father

Tell me to be quiet
That I'm talking too much
That I should strive
To be seen and not heard.
Like a good little girl should.

You will hear me.

And you might even fear me,
Which I apologise for.

I honestly lack
A happy medium
Between happy and furious.
I am either content,
Or I will storm your castle.

So I will strive to
Shout
And scream,
Until my throat feels black and blue.

Because I've got a voice too

And by God,
I don't care what waves I have to make
I will be heard this time.
90 · Mar 2020
I'll Pull You Up
C F Mar 2020
When you're feeling down
Like you're living
Inside dust and dirt

When you feel heavy
Like you're heaving
The brunt of everyone else's
Pain and sadness, their business

All you need to remember
Is that I'll grab your hand
And we'll rise up
Through the dust and pain and dirt

We'll claim the throne
You and I
All for one and
One for all

I'll grab your hand
And catapult you
To the surface

I'll pull you up
By the sweat of my brow
To claim your rightful throne

I promise.
Not because I'll gain
By it.

But because,
I promise
You deserve it.
90 · Feb 2020
He Says
C F Feb 2020
He says
I am loved
That he would move heaven and hell for me
If I asked.

And I reply
with a smile and a thank you.

I love you too
and I'm so-so sorry
sorry that you chose me.

When I give him a
Hollow smile in return
He sees right through it.

Chiding me carefully
Softly.
With warm cups of tea
And soft kisses to my forehead.

He knows.

but I wish
I wish he didn't have to know

He says
I am strong
That we can weather
That he can do it with me
Through My storm

Together.

And when
He says that
I believe him.





I just don't
Know if I could survive
Letting him go
Even for his own good.
89 · Nov 2020
Tired
C F Nov 2020
I wait for you to see what you've done.  
I wait for you to speak.
You do.

But you don't acknowledge me.

You go at your own leisure,
Don't you?

I am blinded.
I scream, and shout.

But I only destroy what was.

I can't take the reins,
But I can no longer wait.
89 · Sep 2019
Walk
C F Sep 2019
I know that I do not walk alone.
There are so many people
That have walked alongside me
these past years.

But I also know that
each step I take
is on hallowed dirt.

My heavy feet strut
upon the heads of freshly
laid corpses.

They are the bodies  
of those that felt the
need to sacrifice for me.

Weary backs carry me
thru the fog.
Gnarled oaken fingers point
towards my goal.  

And away I go
Plodding atop legs
which once leapt
bounds around me.
89 · Feb 2020
It's True
C F Feb 2020
It's true,
He is my rescue.

He is my
Life boat
Fighting the currents
Refusing to let me drown.

I might be
Catatonic.
But.

He won't let me drown.
An oar in hand,
Each splash could be
His last.

But.

I know he'd fight each wave
To his very last breath

Sea water
Fists
Or bullets

He doesn't care
What it takes.
He'd fight until
The last beat of his heart.

It's true.
He would.
Just for me.
88 · Feb 2020
You're so sweet
C F Feb 2020
You're sweet and
Kind
To me.

It's superbowl Sunday
And I've pulled up a chair.
To sit with you outside

I caught a glint of
Metal
Sharp and shiny

From my periphery.
I flinched and went on the attack.

And you came back
With

Apologies.
Sweetness.
Kindness.
Humility.

I apologised immediately
Through out your own apologies
That you knew better
That you were sorry and you just wanted to put the
Scissors inside.

I felt awful.
It was just instinctual.
I can't believe I thought you wanted to hurt me.

You're just too sweet
For something as broken as
Me.
87 · Dec 2019
Our First Tree
C F Dec 2019
So this is our first tree!
Its the most scrawny and skinny thing
I've ever seen.

But It's lovely as can be.
To me.
Especially with an ornament for all three.

When we flicked on those lights
I might have said I felt a bit of delight.

Forgive me for rhyming,
We just happened to do this
At about 4AM this Saturday.

I'm a little sleep deprived.
But that's actually normal for me.

What's not normal,
Is that he turned
The lights on
This past Sunday.

And slept with them
Ever since

I guess that's love for you.
87 · Feb 2020
Scare
C F Feb 2020
Sometimes I scare myself
Because I don't hesitate
To call myself

Your wife
Your future bride
Your one and only

I don't even feel
Like questioning it
Nor am I
The least bit
Anxious about
It.

I'm not scared to claim it
And that is what
Scares me the most.
87 · Apr 2020
Ingenious
C F Apr 2020
I told my boyfriend,
Just in passing,
I didn't think much of it at the time

Of a genuius move I'd come up with
On the fly

The tactic is:

When being chased by one
Who wants to do you harm
And you didn't exactly dress for a chase

Let your chaser get close-
But, only for a second
Then stop.

Calmly remove your shoes.
Pick them up.
Wait for your chaser to notice
Wait for him to back-track

And ****** take off
Run your heart out-
With your shoes safely tucked.

My boyfriend actually asked
If I'd outran them with my tactics
And I genuinely chuckled

I didn't think about it, to be honest.
Of course I did
How else could I be here
On the couch with you
With a dog that is serious about
Covering every bit of my torso with her body
86 · Jul 2022
Something to Sing About
C F Jul 2022
I realise I've been in a gloom, a fog you can't lift.
I apparently won't let you, especially as I slept.

I seemed to have worn my own experiences, feelings, injuries-I thought I wore them like a badge of what I've overcome.

I was wrong.
I'm sorry that when you stopped me from bashing my head on a nightstand,
I repaid you in not only attempting to claw your eyes out,
But also the thrashing about, kicking you in your intimates.
I am especially sorry for wrapping my hands around your throat and trying to choke you.

You see, this you that I know and love and find comfort in.
He does not suddenly appear to save me from what has already happened to me.
I was out of options then.
Fight or flight, those were it.
And I picked fight.

Each night it seems I lose and I feel worse in the day.
I tried to stop him,
I kicked
I clawed
I even, actually, attempted to choke him,
But my hands were too small.

I was too small.
I feel powerless.

So now, consciously I make due with the cards I've been dealt.
I have no passion.
No fight.
I once walked through the fire. willingly and yet,
I feel nothing. I see the emotion. I mimic it.
But I am hollow now.
I have nothing anymore, lately.

So please, give me something to sing about.
85 · Apr 2020
This Story
C F Apr 2020
This one starts a little...
Strange.

One night,
I was washing my car,
Just getting rid of the pollen
And self-pity I had suppressed
For 3 weeks of quarantine

I'd just picked up the hose,
Just to wash off the dirt, the impurities
When my dog gave a quiet warning

I paused, holding a running hose
She didn't often give these
Except to me

Only to me
When she couldn't reach me
And she was worried for me

So of course I glanced at her
And she looked, exasperated
At best.

Like she couldn't believe
She'd ever considered the possibility
That I could be out in the dark by myself

But when I turned,
I couldn't see anything.
It was too dark.

But,
She could and she barked

So,
I turned again and spotted
A hint of light in our neighbours doorway
Just across the street

Somehow I felt eyes on me
And I let my light go out
Not without noticing that she was just as

Exasperated as before
Like a mother that couldn't believe
Her kid just tried to lick the wall, again

I casually turned off the water in the dark
And started up the stairs when she barked
The hair stood up on my arms.

It wasn't playful, it wasn't nice.
It was a warning, either to me or others, I didn't know
But she was about to jump the fence
And I knew her instincts well enough
that it wouldn't be good.

But then my partner opened the back door
Checking on me as I stepped onto the back porch
And she herded me indoors,
Granting a few glances across the street.

Somehow, I didn't find myself wallowing
In self-pity anymore.
I genuinely forgot a whole 3 weeks of it.

Instead I focused on the fact that my own dog
Had not only alerted me
But that shed somehow alerted my partner
While shuffling me inside with a chiding look.
84 · Jan 2020
Leave
C F Jan 2020
Leave us alone,
God
Why can't you take a slap to the desk?

Yes, I said
Leave us alone
You hounding *******

So your parents didn't give you attention
So you got attached to my boyfriend
(way back when)

I don't care.

You know what's funny?
I used to feel sorry for you.
I used to feel the need to bend to your will
Because I felt bad for you.

No, he didn't cheat on you.
Let it go
No, he most definitely did not use me to cheat on you.
Let it the **** go

It ***** you decided to cheat on your new
Boyfriend.
It does. You're an awful human being.
But guess what?

It's not my ******* problem.
Mind your own, for once and stop trying to make my life difficult.
82 · Mar 2020
Life
C F Mar 2020
I've known that
We're all going to die
At some point

I've known since I was
Maybe 7
And I was taught the life cycle of cells

Somehow it made sense
I am made of cells
If they die
Then I die

Simple.

I just hate that
My cells can't feel direct
Emotions.

I like to think
That if they could
That maybe then
They'd hold on a little longer.
82 · Jan 2020
I learn
C F Jan 2020
I watch and I learn.

I learn I can help
I learn I can hurt

But I don't want to.
At all.
Unless you deserve it.

Drunkard.
81 · Jan 2020
Wrong
C F Jan 2020
I have developed a sense of self
That is solid.
It is dense.

Packed with years of
Abuse-not by my parents
But by people I willingly
Chose to surround myself with.

My sense of self
Is strong
It cannot be attacked.

But I often wonder if it is
Wrong.
78 · Dec 2019
I like to think
C F Dec 2019
I like to think
That my hair
Is made of strands of hay
And cotton

Woven together beautifully
To form a bit of spun
Gold

I like to think
That my eyes
Are made of chestnuts
And moss

Pruned with tender loving care
To form a
Masterpiece of living beauty

Reflected Back with a
Curious gaze at you

I like to think
My lips were carefully painted
By God
To be a daunting
Ruby red.

But I know I am
Paled
I know I am greeted now
Dulled

No one wants used clothing
These days anyhow.
77 · Jan 2020
I Swear
C F Jan 2020
I swear I'm not some
Sort of Mega-mind
Replica.

I'm neither the anti-hero
Nor the Hero
I am merely an extra.
A set piece, if you will.

I just have eyes
I just have an abnormal brain.
I just understand patterns.

I think that's why I've always
Had so many issues with
Symmetry.

You see, patterns
Make up life.
Humans are habitual patterners.

We like to shop at the grocery store.
We enjoy taking familiar streets.
We love seeing the same things everyday.

I'm not saying I take advantage
Of this.
I do it too.

I'm just saying
Our habits
Make it easier for me to
Understand us.
77 · Apr 2020
Earned
C F Apr 2020
There are some lessons
In life
That you shouldn't have to learn.

But trust is now something
That people must earn.

Because I've slowly learned
I'm not tempted by pretty blue eyes
That give me flowers

Please don't give me flowers,
I hate watching
The life leave with each watering.

I hate that I have to watch
Pretty things as they wilt away.
75 · Mar 2020
Same
C F Mar 2020
I'll make the same mistake as you
I'll f-k you over and over and over
And expect all of zero consequences

I actually hate to tell you this,
That is how it works with me.

Girlie

Compared to the fantasies that
You seem to be fond
Of spreading about me
When you're not spreading fantastical
And utterly impossible rumours
About me.

Why?
I might be arrogant
Or wise
Depending on your point of view.

Maybe it's because I was making terrible
Mistakes before you knew
Armpit from ***

Maybe it's because I was dating
Before you could
Spell your ABCs

Girlie

I won't let him go.
Y'know?

He says I'm a stubborn ***
And I tell him those are the same things

Fact is that,
We're the same age.
We're of the same understanding.

You were just a little too,
Well.
I guess, little.

Sorry.
Just be happy that
You're young
You're innocent

You might think you're broken
But I promise you're not.
I promise I'll fight to keep you
The same as I once was.

Young.
Innocent.

He just happened to be
The same age
The same amount
Of broken and betrayed
As me.



If it'd make you feel better
I can fix him
And **** me
And then you can have him

But, only after I'm gone.
Girlie.
75 · Jan 2020
Untitled
C F Jan 2020
Have you ever looked someone in the eye
and watched them die?

It's just a little.
Piece by piece.
They become ever so
slightly more brittle.
75 · Apr 2020
It's About Time
C F Apr 2020
I think it's about time
To learn how to be
More forgiving with yourself

To learn to forgive
All those mistakes
And choose to take
Lessons from them instead.

All the self-loathing
All the self-pity
All the self-containing

No.
It wasn't fair.
It isn't fair.
But...

It won't change anything
Anything at all.

You've just got to let it go
You know it's about time
It's time to carry on now.

You need to learn how
How to just be okay now.
74 · Feb 2020
Untitled
C F Feb 2020
Please leave me alone,
Stop telling me that
You're sorry.

I'm just so tired.
71 · Apr 2020
I'm not going to Lie
C F Apr 2020
She scares me
Because I see so much
Of me in her.

So much of the
Broken and disheartened
Me within her

But then I remember
She didn't have to
Make excuses for her
Black eye at work.

Shes a fake.

She brandished
Copies. Fake plastic pieces
As a weapon against me.

Parading a cloak make of
All the cracks my heart felt
When my skull splintered
On a concrete kerb.

But she still scares me.
Because if she came to
My own wedding

I don't know if I could
Summon the anger to
Toss her out.

She's scary because
She pretends.
So well, that I almost believed
Her story

Until I realised it was mine
She stole it
She stole it and tried to pretend
My saviour was the cause
Of her collapse

I'm not going to lie.
She scares me.
She's not a psychopath.
She lacks an anti-social disorder.

She scares me because
She simply means to
Destroy me.
71 · Mar 2020
Something
C F Mar 2020
If I say something wrong
teach me

If I do something wrong
teach me

If I am incorrect in my beliefs
teach me

I will not learn better
Until you show me
Why it's better.
70 · Jan 2020
Titanium
C F Jan 2020
Do you want to know
What my fondest childhood
Memory was?

Well, it's short.

I once had a dream
From freakin' David Guetta's song
Titanium.

I dreamt I was flying
I could soar any and everywhere I wanted
And I was indestructible.
Titanium.
58 · Jul 2020
I know better now.
C F Jul 2020
Let's try a hint of bluntness
Honesty.

When I was little
I didn't know
That the Redskins name
Was wrong.

No one taught me.
I knew it sounded weird
But not for anything heartwarming-
I thought more about cannibals
Wearing someone else's skin
Than about racial discrimination.

I wasn't able to pinpoint

— The End —