free verse
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I am consumed by thoughts that are pulling me in a thousand different directions. Exhaustion is calling my name but sleep never arrives. I feel restless and reckless. I want to take back control because I feel so helpless. Less. I feel it. Less alive. Less than human. Less than myself. No one can save
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I fell in love the first day I met him. It felt natural to love him. Everything about him was beautiful. The problem was that he fell in love with me. I’ve been broken from the start. Old pain creating new. A never ending cycle. Tragic really. To call him my lover is one thing.
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I knew that I loved you from the very first day that I met you. It was something about your eyes that pierced my heart. It was the first time that I felt the way that people do in movies. It was something out of a fairy tale. Things weren’t easy for us. We fell
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There is no denying it now. I’ve spent my entire life trying to live up to the ideal. My own personal superhero. I never believed that I was worthy to be her daughter. My anxiety has lied to me for as long as I can remember. Telling me that I was never good enough. But
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To be in a state of mind where you don’t want to die but you don’t want to live To traverse the line between life and death. Breathe in hate and exhale frustration. To be unsure of the future, afraid of the present, and haunted by the past. I don’t envy people in this state
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My heart feels like it’s an ocean away But it’s here tucked safely away in my chest That’s not entirely true. My generosity belongs to many. But my love is reserved for a select few.
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Patience was never my strong suit. Its virtue seemed to elude me. I wanted to escape my fate. Instead, I ran headfirst into it. I found you along the way. Or I should say, you found me. I still don’t understand why that happened. Maybe I never will. I keep writing to prove to myself
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My mother’s words echo in my head “Your love is strong, quick, and fleeting.” Scorned lovers whisper in my ear. “You weren’t kidding when you said you were a tease.”
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There’s a place that we share. One that I crave simply because. I long for its warmth. Those moments where the world melts away. And we’re left in its wake. It feels more like a dream. Caught between what’s real and what could be. That sacred space where we become one.
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Letting you know how I felt was the bravest decision I ever made. I’ll admit you took my breath away. I was one to play by the rules. But rules didn’t matter when I met you. Nothing mattered as long as I had you. Had you. Have you. A love I’ll never let go.
Trapped In The Margins 