My stomach bled in some attempt to tell me to take it easy. I didn't know how to do that and refused daily to learn. Everyday, I drank a little more to remind myself of this ( Read more... )

I coughed up blood my first semester of college for a few months. I hid it away in my breast pocket and in the depths of my purse. Everyday I gleamed despite this ( Read more... )

You're all I have left
And I don't even have you

All that you say
And all that you do
Is cutting through me

Because I miss you

I last saw you
on the twelfth of may.
You were bearing gifts
and the means to make me cry
but you kissed me instead.

God loves ugly but he also loves disguise
So dump my scarred body in the cattails

I can't look at my writing

Because then I'll think about you

My body was your canvas and you made the most beautiful painting on it that I have ever seen

I don't intend to make one strike through it with each of my rendezvous'

But every stroke of another brush feels like I'm tainting the entire picture you drew.

You weren't my boyfriend ( Read more... )

Don't ever do to another girl
What you did to me

Hurt worse than a one night stand
Because you got to know me

Stung a little more because I think of
All the ways I didn't meet expectations

Didn't even have the decency to say
Hey, you're a nice girl. We just didn't

Click.

I just think that you're okay without me
And it's not mutual