My dad has been letting our lovebirds outside. First, it was near their cage. Then, it was in a sealed room. Then, he let them outside. Told us he was right, they came back. They always come back you see. Today he left them outside in the garden. They left. All of them. They’re stuckContinue reading “Cage”
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The right one
You said, you were waiting for the right one to come. but if I was right, why did you want to run back to her? t.l.
Smile
It’s okay to be mad to want to throw yourself off a cliff and then pick all the pieces together and smile again. t.l. Did you catch yourself trying a natural smile in the mirror?
Decisions
You don’t have to be scared now that they’re gone and nobody tells you what to do. You get to make your own decisions now some of them will be bad but they will be yours. t.l. It will all be worth it
wild horse
you wanted to tame me put blinders on my eyes chained me, called me by new names. you wanted me to change not my improved self but someone you can manage. well, now, I break free like a wild horse escaped from a racing field. now I run for myself not for anyone else. t.l.
read my mind
what to write what to write if only you could read my mind say things I’m about to say hold me when I tell you to stay away. t.l. I’m so used to saying the opposite now I don’t know which one is real.
Ready to leave
I’m always ready to leave I couldn’t stay long enough for them to see the worst in me. t.l. they would leave me then.
Tolerant
I tolerate but that doesn’t mean you can take me for a fool. t.l. I need to learn how to say no
Sand and the sea
If all my miseries were white sand, and you were the sea. every time you came to wash away all that melancholy I was happy, I was drown in your blue trapped in our drama, in you. everything looks better underwater but we both know the sadness never disappeared. and every time you left, IContinue reading “Sand and the sea”
Autonomy
did you lose a limb after loving her or him? now it’s time to grow back those arms you lost, to regenerate into a new self. it might take a few months or a few years, but you know you’ll get there in the end. it’s hard to pull yourself up from the underground butContinue reading “Autonomy”