There’s a tree that grows inside of my body. He absorbs my blood, my heart is his own. There are branches filling up my lungs; I cannot breathe. His roots are piercing my skin, My freckles are outnumbered by splinters. Pollen rains down on us like a storm of springtime snow. It poisons our waters, And now, barbed wire grows […]
Eleanor? The wind whispers, No one else knows your name. You walk again, A stranger’s voice echoes on Eleanor? Glass shatters on marble tiles, You see a silhouette from the corner of your eye. There’s no one here. Eleanor? Your eyes stare back at you, They’re a different shade of blue than what you remember. Eleanor, is it you? Truth […]
I have leaves for memories. They fall from my heart and I keep them between book pages, An album of moments that I wish to forget, But cannot bear to. My heartstrings are the roots of my childhood. They made me who I am, But they are so hidden, so deeply buried within me, That reliving them feels like watching […]
I have a bed made from thornes of roses. I welcome the pain as I lay on it at night. Petals brush against my skin, thorns dig into my flesh. They lay into their dents, they’re at home in artificial dimples. My body has altered itself to accommodate them. They are part of me. The pain is everlasting, I rejoice […]
I keep a dagger beside my bed, it has a dull, rough blade and the softest, white marble handle. It’s the first thing people notice when they visit, and I reassure them it’s to protect myself, in case of intruders. For once, I’m not lying. But I’m lying in bed and I can’t breathe. I know what’s happening right now, […]
I’ve laid in bed a hundred nights and whispered a thousand names to myself, eyes closed and hands clasped together for warmth beneath my pillow. Waves far off into the distance dance, and I trace the same pattern with imaginative hands from my thumb up to my collarbone. When will it get to a thousand and one names? Or will […]
“The next person that says something about my sister is going to lose his head, and I mean it. The Mother said that it’s my turn to pick the next victim anyway.” I said as I polished my ceremonial knives and showed them to Her. “First of all, they’re not victims.” She says, reprimanding me as always. “Sure, it is […]
Boxes of bones and cartilage holding everything I have ever owned. They’re never emptied, and my belongings have now calcified. Yet I spend my nights looking through them, at everything that helped shape me. But before I can dismember it and dig one of my many hearts out, someone calls my name and I snap back to reality. I have […]
I waited everyday for her, even if our encounters lasted mere seconds. Four o’ clock would come, and I would be there, waiting. Warmth would fill up the room, and I would try to trap the light, to keep her with me and prevent her from leaving. It never worked. The sun would set anyway, leaving me waiting on my […]
My heart moves within my ribcage, making its way towards the surface, until it has reached the very first layer of flesh, mere centimetres from the skin that separates it from my chest. It lets out a gasp, finally breathing once it has arrived at the edge of my body. My blood runs. My back has been drained from it, […]