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Maggie Oct 2021
I die each night
To be reborn with every sunrise

But never the same
Maggie Oct 2021
It makes me sick
That all my best poems are about you

While all my worst memories
Are about you
Maggie Oct 2021
Our love lays in an unmarked grave
Covered with autumn leaves,
Wrapped in unsent letters

I tend to it secretly, silently
I make pacts with Gods I don't believe in,
I pray to Gods who execrate me

But you
You dance around it
Shouting about your new love
The best one you ever had,
The first one you ever had
Maggie Sep 2021
Sometimes I drag my bones through supermarket floors
I roam the aisles with a hologram instead of a face
As if a discount on tinned beans was to bring me peace
But I go ahead and rest my heart for a second on a cereal shelf
I catch myself humming the jingle and feel alive just a bit
After all
It aches less among fellow souls picking the ripest pears
And crying in public toilets is no different from group therapy
Maggie Sep 2021
I ​spend most days with head underwater
Screaming until everything makes sense
And it never does before I run out of air
Maggie Sep 2021
I caught you playing with a stare from across the room
And thereupon was ready to shatter my ribs, break my joints
Just to fit in this tiny space you called your love
Maggie Sep 2021
I crawl underneath the bed to cry in solitude
Even though I've been here alone
Four months straight
And I sleep levitating five feet above myself
Because I can feel your weight in my bed
I bet there is still a mark on your bedroom's floor
Where I laid and succumbed to the charms of death
When you told me, when you told me...
Yet for you it is a chunk of wood
No different from your desk or the cross on the wall
No chalk, no tape, no monument
Is it wrong to wonder if you'd cry at my funeral?
Or what kind of flowers would you bring?
I wish I could wander
The doors are open
But there is no getting out
I'm the architect of my own cage
And I still don't manage to escape
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