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Sarah Flynn Nov 2020
I have met dates online.
I've had friends set me up.
I've gone to so many dinners,
and I've gone home with
more people than I'd like to admit.

I have slept with men
and I have slept with women.

I have left someone
and I have been left.

I've been in relationships
that ended mutually,
and I've been in relationships
that ended in heartbreak.

I learned the hard way that
*** is not equivalent to love.

I learned the hard way that
I didn't know what love
was supposed to feel like.

I learned the hard way that
I deserved so much better than
what I was doing to myself and
what I was letting others do to me.

I learned the hard way that
I was making the wrong choices.

but I am so glad that I learned,
even if it hurt.

some people never learn
to see their own worth.
Aahoc Nov 2020
Love from Others....................Love for Another
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Anais Vionet Oct 2020
I drive me crazy
- there's no hiding or help
for dark self distrust.

Frightening whispers
are like a levied tax of
doubt about my choices.

Anticipations
dulled on anxieties rough shore
- best to keep them deep.
self doubt is an internal cloud on a sunny day
Sarah Flynn Oct 2020
be careful when handling me.
my body was built with gunpowder,
and someone lit my fuse
long before we met.

be aware that at any moment,
I could burst.

you can run away now
and never look back,

or you can wait here with me
and together, we'll look up at the sky.

it's entirely your choice.

but, darling, if you can't accept
the chaos inside of me,

then you will have no right
to comment on
my beautiful explosion.
Sarah Flynn Oct 2020
my hands are in your hair
and your hands are around my neck,
and you’re choking me,
but I’m letting you choke me.
and it’s hard to explain
because I am not in control, you are.
but I am choosing to let you have control,
and that choice makes all the difference.
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my ****** did not listen
to my voice saying “no,”
but he did not take away
my ability to say “yes.”
I am a **** victim.
I am a woman who enjoys ***.
I am allowed to be both.
and if you can’t understand that,
you are part of the problem.
Francesca Grey Jul 2024
‘do not fall in love with girls like me’, she said:
‘we’re smiles and charm, worn jeans on skin;
but there is an emptiness inside us,
and we forgot how to be loved a long time ago.’

‘you’ll love me like you love the sun,
with wide-eyed breathless wonderment;
I’ll spin in circles until I fall from grace,
and burn the very heart from you.’

‘I’ll dance barefoot in the grass,
and sing a thousand wordless songs;
I’ll whisper prayers into your ears:
“I hope your heart might chose more wisely.”

‘do not fall in love with girls like me’, she warns,
‘not with girls who dream of yesterday.
not girls with starlight glinting in their eyes,
and sunsets burning in their souls.’

choose instead, to be loved as you deserve,
to find someone who’ll love you boundlessly.
‘do not fall in love with girls like me’, she warned,
it was, in truth, the kindest thing that she could say;

and yet, she found that fool chose to love her anyway.
do you know, that silly fool still loves me, even all these years later. i rather think I love him too, but shh, don't tell.
Charlotte Ahern Oct 2020
Good and bad are always housed
Under the same roof
It all depends
On who you make your bedmate
Comprende?
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