tyrants

By putrescent

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the kind of love i've been dreaming of 2018 - 2023 #29 in poetry, 2nd april 2023 #56 in prose, 23rd may 2019 ... More

ghost
an open letter to being the second choice
sea shells
it's so hard to love anything
hamartia
a monologue to you
unravel
if it's alright
glass suns
absinthe
search for more
awful things
love-less
sweet creature
cabs after clubs
dont know what this is but alright
north atlantic
loving someone
love like this
home
sex
honey, smoke, shiver
soft
diving for pearls like stars
lovers
wild hyacinths
unfinished 01
fireflies
butter salt, unfinished 02
an aside
oh wonder
confessional 1
worthy
i dont know how to put what im feeling into words so this'll have to do
my words are failing me
i dont give a damn anymore
icarus in my reflections
new person, same old mistakes
i have to confess
whore
babe, we ought to be
i miss you i love you
solaces
hold on to me hold on to my pride
i love you
for a kiss upon her shoulder
last goodbye
comin down
i have questions
3
angelskin
i am made of her flesh
(*'ω`*)
:^)
yeah
no matter the years
sisyphus
rape
visitor
frenetic
A little death (again)
guys. i really love my boyfriend
30,585,600
Keep ya safe
20 monologue
Ancestry
english spring
irresistable
survivor
stormborn
-
today i was born again
morass
hiver
january
in the lamp light
persimmons

sacrifice

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By putrescent

i know what you're going to say but please just don't because i really don't want to hear it. i'm not sick, i'm not. i'm fine. i'm fine. i'm fine. i'm fine until i am not and that's okay because i'd rather have every breath i take spontaneously combust in my lungs and turn my bloodied tissue into ash than feel your fingertips dip into the fissures of my fractured soul.

you did not break me with your poisoned love. i broke me. i broke me like how a child breaks a doll except with me there's more of a finality to it
i used to be a goddess clothed in the skin of a human girl in a time when i did not allow myself to be defined by you

so maybe in hindsight you were the crack that shattered the mountain but nevertheless i am not the deity i was before

i cast myself out of heaven for your sake but you merely sawed off my wings and traded in my feathers for gold

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