Sincerely, Jennifer x

Blood and soil make a home under my fingernails,the water in my bathtub boils,and I start to think about why it all had to end this way.I wonder if she’ll remember me when I was fighting off hordes,or if she’ll remember me pure, on a Sunday,barely up to my father’s knee.I used to have daisies…

There was nothing else I could say to myself.Nothing I could say,nobody to persuade,just a stunned silence under the stars,a planet that had stopped turning,surroundings that stood still, peering over my shoulder to see everything from my perspective.You can see my eyelashes from space,extended and decorated with diamond teardrops.I cry for what I can’t control,and…