Title: Lost in Limbo

Warnings: swearing

Lost in Limbo

I think the summer fucked me up.

I don’t even know who I am anymore.

Am I the optimistic one, the one who used to cheer people up and drive them harder?

Or am I just the cynical little bitch that I know is just hiding, and ready to come out whenever I’m angry?

My friend used to call me her mom.

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What did the young men, barely adults, feel like when they had to fight in the first horrible war? While, yes, some may have been excited, some may have been proud, I believe that some knew that it wouldn't be just a walk in the park. Why is it, though, that this generation was called the Lost Generation? Why did they have to fight in a war, that ( Read more... )

Outside my window ( Read more... )

Fractalized demons dance electric in the night ( Read more... )

So, I took this job just west of your old house, out on country roads.
I know that we haven’t spoken in weeks, but
every quiet stretch of pear trees feels like I’m driving to you.
To your porch, where we smoked cigarettes at midnight
and I looked out at the crossroads ahead of us, wearing your Batman shirt.
To your room, your football jersey ( Read more... )

her hands resting

on my chest
she keeps
pinching my skin
tight between her fingers
regripping as needed
after several tries
she finally says
deep inhale…
…and let it out

sharp pain invades
almost immediately replaced
by pressure
harsh pressure
forcing fresh pierced skin
into bone
pause a second
then the jewellery goes in
and the pressure returns
crushing my ( Read more... )

love showed me the big picture
and now that i know what i am
looking for, the puzzle
is practically solving itself

There are two loaves of bread in my fridge ( Read more... )

Feeling so hopelessly okay ( Read more... )

Hi all! So I just joined LJ, and one of the first things I did was look for good places to post my work... I love it here! I thought I'd kick off my introduction by posting a poem I wrote a while back - I'm a self-proclaimed feminist and humanist, so pretty much everything I write tends to have shades of that. BTW, I'm from India and you can call ( Read more... )