Break it
it’s what’s wrong
break it.
Do it.
Waiting?
Do it.
Do it till it can’t
be done anymore
Break it apart
till it bleeds.
Beaten
Bulldozed
Battered
Burned
Busted
Bruised
******
Br­oken

Beautiful.

The soft silver in a grandma's hair.
The trophy purple of a love bruise.
The blushing pink of just kissed lips.
The unfathomable grey in a lover's eye.

Life gives you the colours.
Assemble your own rainbow.

there were
drops of
dark purple spots
on your
neck
like blooming violets in
the morning
and for
once
i was at
the corner
of the
room

You told me I bruise the same way flowers bloom,
but the flower patch of my body knows that you can not force things to grow.
Love does not get stronger when it’s pushed up against a wall.
I once wondered if I was good enough to be with you,
now I only wonder if my skin is thick enough to fight against you.
Your hands leave marks in the same places you kiss and there has to be something wrong with that.
Lipstick stains and bruises are not the same shade of red.
You say you love me but I was never taught to love like this.

Oh Romeo,
Oh Romeo,*

                   She cried in the bathroom,
crying for air
                  And working on her final escape plan
Concealing the bruises keeping it cool
                 So you won't see until the end.

another sorrow-less high to drown out sorrow
with a fit of rage to late continue it
as a fist hits her face and a bruise swallows it
what an unforgivable monster you are

She has a bruise on her left knee
reminiscent of science-book nebulas,
and the veins reaching into her palm
look like the ivy vines wrapped around
the old oak at the end of my grandmother’s

driveway. But as she presses contacts into each eye,
her pupils dilate and contract like a camera
lens shifting to accommodate for motion
blurry as her unaided vision, and her wrists
crack as if made of ill-fitted cogs chipping away--

both a tempest-tide and midnight snowfall,
yet the sum of neither.

He hit
me hard
with
His big head.
My lip
turned red
as
it bled.

Honey-coloured skin
Covering
Over-used bones and
Abused muscles
That have seen the inside
Of blisters
And bruises, hidden beneath
Mismatched, jarring wool
And tight, black
Material that only just
Manages to contain her.