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The Truth
I have never lied, to anyone but myself. All the things I told you, spilled over, pooling outside of a heart that is too tiny to contain the world, but tries her best anyway. Always too much. Always too true. I’ll tell you the truth. I have temptations but they don’t entice me like you…
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It’s Happening Again, and I Am Reacting In The Exact Same Way, Again.
I’m tired of being told that I’m being taught a lesson. Sick of suffering because fate forgets how to use her words and just tell me what the fuck she wants to say. Don’t teach me how to survive, because you know I’m not going to do it. Don’t lock me in this eternal classroom,…
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When I See You Again
The world wanders around us, cider bottle, forgotten in the grass, as I drink in your kiss, convinced we are the only two left on the Earth. Summer has come. I am in your arms and the world feels right again, blossoms bound along the ground, swans singing as the sun goes down, and I…
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I Am A Woman and I Have Shit To Do
I think I remember the first time I noticed I was a woman. I was seven, and a man’s eyes lingered too long… On what? I’m not so sure, because I was so small, so bereft of something to stare at, plain, unchanged from the flesh flower my mother had given to the world, not…
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Getting All Mixed Up While Filling In The Census Form
It’s that time again. Time to break my arms and legs, let myself fit neatly and uncomfortably into the ethnicity box on a form. For many years, I’ve ummed and ahhed about how all the stars in the sky that fell down and created my human form can be categorised. Brown eyes that have been…