17 Dec

28.09.17

I haven’t washed the dishes in two days. They’re beginning to pile up in the sink. All my cups are stained with coffee and my chest is beginning to throb painfully with each sip I take. The quotes on my wall, that despite knowing them off by heart remain encouraging on good days, have...
26 Jun

Him

As she slept, her chest rising and falling too quickly, and then evenly, her body grew familiar to the air she breathed in. The front door made a soft ‘click’ as it closed, one foot dragged itself quietly behind, and then in front, of the other foot. She couldn’t see it, but his eyes...
16 Apr

because

because love was a concept that wrapped itself around and sewed itself into and out of the crevices of my thoughts nestling in the twisted corners long enough to make sense but never to evoke any feeling in me because it was beautiful in the pages of the romance novel I kept borrowing from...
09 Oct

28.09.16

Here comes a feeling I thought I’d forgotten wrapping itself around my waist filling the spaces between my toes each grain of it getting heavier and heavier like suffocating under sand making its way into the deepest corners of my being It’s words replaying in my head- pills caressing my palm growing more familiar...
11 Sep

Until Then (05.09.16)

I don’t know you yet but I know your eyes will be my favourite windows into the evergreen soul you have. Your lips will be my pass time and your words, little affirmations that’ll scream everything I need to hear softly so as to not rouse my demons. Your neck will crave my fingers...
14 Aug

08.08.16

You subject my melanin to harsh bruisings and turn around with eyes wide in confusion at its hurt state You spew words that dig at the seams of my thoughts and wonder why my body rocks back and forth and back and forth each time your lips part You measure my worth as you...
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