#MentalIllness
you go to touch me, and i bite your soft, warm fingers… then when you’ve left, i cry because i’m cold.
you hurt me so much, but i never h… i just hated you for telling me it…
i’m dissecting you with a scalpel… i’m slapping you on the rack, reac… pulling out your intestines and di… doesn’t feel so good, does it?
i flick the lighter on, on, on off. a useless fidget, one that turns my thumb gray and r…
staying alive is the most terrifyi…
please don’t leave me. you swing your legs, sitting on th… we used to climb it a lot after sc… are you saying you’d miss me? you… yes, fucking yes, i would.
i’m whispering “baby,” up to the n… relishing in the roll of the word… the hum of influence, consequence,… like a storm, like a burn, like an…
i’m sitting in an old 2000s chevy with r&b music playing loud from t… my shoulders slipping out from und… and i’m either a sex symbol or something holy.
trying not to cry in the holiday i… my mama said something mean again
everything is muffled and clean wh… i have bathed in dust and soil, an… i lay on your cool kitchen tile an… a constant reminder that i’m here,… but now with me here there is mud…
god lives in a church. so, i’ve been breaking their stain… trying to figure out which one he’…
there’s a swarm of vultures overhe… something is dead.
i’m waiting for the good part, i’m praying real hard that it’s st…
i love my dad; he makes me sad he cries in work trucks, i cry in bathrooms. he likes to soothe burns with ice… he also likes to stay still when b…
god carries a honey-soaked stake w… and his lovers scream at me to sto… to let him sink it into my chest,…