fix me tell me i’m pretty and there are good things waiting if i just keep trying.. fix me in the hollow cave there’s a tiny cry for help echoing like laughter instead. fix me like how you kissed my scars and said that they are beautiful fix me and turn my heart of fireContinue reading “sugar water”
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freak show
i’m a three-hour freak show i can go up fast and down slow i often laugh when I wanted so hard to cry i squeezed the toothpaste from the middle sometimes too much, sometimes too little. my limbs just move on their own i often don’t feel my weight or feel too much like death,Continue reading “freak show”
stay
stay i could be much better i could be a boy i could be more alive i could sing you that song you like i could stop crying i could be more obedient i could take out all the piercings i could be more quiet i could be a brand new person i could evenContinue reading “stay”
idontknowhowtotitlethisone
london’s blue sky the trees are losing their limbs i wanna feel high can you get hallucinations from a tooth infection? cars passing cold winds foggy roads and strangers’ smiles now everything seemed like a short film winter wonderland and the busy bus ride birmingham to norwich and back again i used to love singingContinue reading “idontknowhowtotitlethisone”
the worst
i told myself never write when you’re angry but that’s when i needed to write the most i hated how this world works but i didn’t do anything to change it put the bucket down once at a time and tried to dry the ocean close my eyes so i won’t burn them with theContinue reading “the worst”
Poetic music
poetic music so you actually exist flow into my ears like honey to deers the best of both worlds you have it all. i want to taste you for dinner and save more for later i want to put you in my ink write it out until you sing to me in my sleep andContinue reading “Poetic music”
happy
time to sleep, my darling turn on that headspace episode and let yourself be free from all the worries and all the overthinking and all the manic-depressive energy and all the ugly crying. let the quietness consume you take you to bed and put you in a transcendent dream where you are secure, with highContinue reading “happy”
serendipity
i should be leaving but instead, i’m still here holding on to the last falling leaf winter is coming has it already been a season since we last said goodbye? we both knew from the day we met that we were not meant to be together and yet, we took that chance hoping we couldContinue reading “serendipity”
my voice
someone barged in and said, why are you speaking this foreign language? have you forgotten your roots? are you learning Vietnamese? again? you sound like a snake that wanted to erase its old skin the words you’re speaking doesn’t make sense to us. speak Vietnamese like you’re one say “xin chao” and “xin loi” whenContinue reading “my voice”
Grinding teeth
our love was like grinding teeth we didn’t even know we were doing it there’s no sign at first no headache, no bleeding no facial pain everything seemed fine.. and then, we realized the closer we get the more we tear down one another. t.l.
Tsunami of Words 