If I am to become another berry picked too ripe so I can be sold to the masses I will use the cut I was given so you can rot away in the warm sun on the vines. I won't let you, my daughter, be eaten by the people even if you must eat me alive in exchange.
snippet of Dear Daughter I Never Wanted
All Girls are Angels in Their Dreams.
writing: Everyone is watching and looking and judging. I'm just meat to be consumed by others, I'm for others. And I should be grateful, oh please eat me and spit out what you hate. Pretty please sink your teeth into my flesh, eat me. Don't worry about the pain, I should he grateful. I am. I am. Don't yell. Use my flesh to silence your anger, your pain. Please. Oh do I hate this dream.
i wanted to be my firsts first and now ive lost the purity in me to something dirty and it makes me feel sick. i have nothing to repent for yet i have a need to fall to my knees and beg for something.
There was nothing resolute you could do about sadness, you were finding. You simply had to embrace the forlorn notions, and live out across the day, finding concentration in the other things you loved. Whilst realising that that thing you once loved was never coming back.
There was a simple joy in just staying up for a while longer. Consciousness could be exhausting. Often it was. But it could also be sublime. And so there was the option to go to sleep. But you thought you may as well just stay up. There was time to do things, learn things; and you didn’t need to be anywhere tomorrow. So, simply stay awake and keep your mind going for a little longer.
The anger was just boiling up. I didn't know what to do with the excess water. It was overflowing the styrofoam cup and I needed to put it somewhere. I needed to throw something. I had to punch someone so hard it hurt me more than it ever hurt them. I grabbed my scalding cup and poured. A whispering drizzle ran down the hill side drilling into the dirt digging at the rocks breaking the dam of soil to bring forth a rushing river. Hurt yourself. I pounded my fist into my thigh. Hurt yourself. I scratched at my arm nails on a chalkboard. Hurt yourself. I didn't stop when I started bleeding. Hurt yourself. My skin was stuck under my nails. Hurt yourself. I was drowning head down in the deep waters so hot it was icy cold to the touch. Hurt yourself. I liked it. That hurt the most.
If only I were pretty in the way girls should be pretty.
If I had long flowing hair and gorgeous glowing eyes.
If I sucked it in so much my stomach just stays like that
If I cut the gap into my thighs
Do you think that would work?
Remolding myself like a sculpture
scrapping away the unwanted and ugly
freeing the girl whos pretty in the right way
Being pretty because I am and not because Im not
hear me out
girl pretty
unconventional
body positivity
why can't I just be pretty?
in the way girls are supposed to be pretty
Pretty like the ocean lean and blue and bright
Pretty like the setting sky colorful and stretched and impermanent
pretty like a whoring pig in a wig
except I don't have the money for a nice wig
and Im not pretty enough to be a whore
If I were a runner I'd be a sprinter
And if I were a painter I'd never buy varnish
If I were your rich great aunt I'd bore you with stories of a drunken Italy
And if I were a mother I'd eat my children in one sitting
If I were your girlfriend I'd be the summer to your tom
And if I were a musician I'd have five singles you had to buy separately and burn onto one disk
If I were a writer I'd be a poet
And if I were a poet I'd never breath a word of this to you
I saw you looking
So why did you say you didn't care
why look at something you dont like
instead look at the trees blowing in the air
I caught you looking
and i caught the blush in ur cheeks
the soft smile on your lips
like the cutest little geek
I noticed you not looking
so i tried to forget
it wasnt all that hard
but then you had to look again
this time your eyes were lower
and i wouldnt have minded but
i saw you looking
then you said u didnt care
how do i tell her i made it?
all those nights dreaming of what waking up might feel like. all those mornings still stuck in a dream.
how do i tell her that every week day i wake up at six to greet the blue haze outside my window while i dance to the radio station and put on way too much highlighter?
all those hours longing for satisfaction. all those minutes longing for routine.
how do i tell her my days are full of a life which i live?
all those poems praying for my flame. all those prayers poeticizing the mundane.