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…

All that I was, was whatever truth I told that day.Fiction fades into fact and back again,and you’ll never know the difference between a dream I let you get lost in,or a dire reality,so,just take me as I come.