Meet me under the moon,my melancholy love.This night belongs to us,two daughters of Venus,violet kisses against the walls of my old high school.There are no shadows, where we go,no secrets in our secluded state.I tell you that at last, I want to live,and I am blessed and cursed by the endless echoes of my footsteps,all…

I loved him in lilac,with his curls, once gold, now silver,soft against his furrowed brow,a boyish smile, never betrayed by the treasure map all across his weathered face,and my lipstick leaving a trail along each line. I really tried,with my sweet, almost sapphic sweetheart,but he was never enough,never the right side of my binary boundary,that…

Shell shocked with misty eyes,mascara runs, polluted river.There is a brook of blue and black.It’s all over my face,and I can’t face the hours as they creep towards me. I stand before my mirror,and I tell myself “I’m sorry”,I’m just trying to make sense of my mess,looking pretty in the new dress that I wanted…

It was getting close to eleven.I could barely hear you speak,but I didn’t need to, because I could hear my heart pounding and that was enough.Parties were never the place for me,but I swallowed my second thoughts until they were so small, and I showed up,rewarded by flat drinks and Taylor Swift’s early records being…