“God, if you’re a thing with ears: please, please.”
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
Richard Siken, War Of The Foxes
Christian Wiman, More Like The Stars
Never mind. I invented you. I invented you, as far as my purposes go. I invented loving you and I invented your death. I have my tricks and my trap doors, too.
Alice Munro, from Collected Stories; “Tell me Yes or No,”
Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein from, “I’m glad your sickness.”
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
“(…) and then there’s the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore.”
Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things; The Quiet Machine
H.D., The Look-Out
Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie, In My Version
Lucille Clifton, The Death of Crazy Horse
repetition in poetry // part v
(part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv)
love yourself despite it all. love yourself even when you said the wrong thing. when you messed up in class. when you got a grade you didn’t like. when you haven’t been outside in a week. accept yourself in spite of it all. accept yourself even if you didn’t get into the university you wanted. when you broke up with someone you thought you would stay with forever. when the guilt is eating you alive. when you feel like you can’t take it anymore. you are already whole, you are enough.
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
~Sylvia Plath
here again to tell you that some days are just not going to be that easy, some days you’re going to want to stop everything you’re doing and take a blow to the leg so you stop walking and carrying all the weight you are because of that fraction of population that you met. Those days don’t come as easy as they go, those days are going to have the tightest grip on you till the fact that you’re going to be gasping for air, and they’re going to make you BELIEVE that there’s no way you’re going to be making it out if you haven’t pressed past a ten fold sheet. I’m going to tell you to take a step back and give yourself the time to let all of that unfold, let it lay itself out so you can finally decide the path you’ve been wanting to walk on this entire time, and I promise you with my whole heart, mind and soul that you WILL get that chance, you will and I’m going to be waving at you from the other side of it all :) you strong strong human being
Gentle reminder that being vulnerable is a blessing, and an even gentler reminder that you can put your socks on and go to sleep, wanting to keep yourself warm is a need, we all accept our warmth and source it through different beings around us, whether or whether not you decide to find that warmth within the linings of the page you happened to accidentally read is completely subjective and understandable, it’s beautiful, so continue to keep it close to you, to have ourselves our own shelter, to have ourselves our own warmth.
Its a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.
Beau Taplin (via to-be-okay)
⚠️ TW : (kn1ves , bl00d, g^ns , we@p0ns) ⚠️ read at own risk !!
.͙✼̥୭⁺ '🧺🖇🕊 Mafia au prompts ~
“baby you’re bleeding , it’s a nice colour on you”
“Let me see those crystal tears”
“Bold of you to assume I loved you”
“She took all the guns and for what ?!!”
“Don’t you dare step near me.”
“Oh that’s easy , (name) pass me a grenade”
“MARIA NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT BOMBS TY AND STEP DOWN FROM THAT ROOF”
“Bet all your guns and I’m in”
“Well lookie here , we’ve got ourselves a rookie ?”
“Run while you can kid”
“I bet these nails can do more than just trace your jaw sweetie”
“Hold it like this , shoulders down , this way she won’t be able to aim for your back”
“IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL A SHOT BYE THIS IS FUNNIER THAN YOU GETTING YOUR HEAD STUCK IN THE TOILET”
“Omg you did not just swallow that”
“I had to clean my hands on the sophomore’s shirt , girl has Bloody Mary written all over herself now”
“IN MY DEFENCE SHE SLAPPED ME FIRST”
“Sometimes you don’t always get what you want”
“Gimme that fucking knife-“
“She took ALL OF MY AMO ?? Oh she is on”
“Her amo is as precious as her nuggets , when I tell you she goes crazy for them , I mean crazy”
“Bet this looks better on your throat than in my pocket”
“Well haven’t you got a bull’s eye ay ?”
“I will choke you with this if I have to , do NOT TEST ME.”
“Who said victory came with an easy sacrifice ?”
“Your our’s now”
“Wipe that smirk of your face or I’ll snap you in two”
“They blowed up our warehouse and you’re more concerned about your missing ice cream ?” “Why yes yes I am”
“Well now we have nothing to fight them with but forks and butter knives because SOMEONE DUMPED OUR WEAPONS IN THE RIVER”
“We’re so done” “what makes you say that ? With me in lead we’ll catch them in no time” “you know you saying that doesn’t make it any better”
“I hope you knew that wasn’t soap-“
“The supply ? Oh .. ABOUT THAT UH-“
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The world seems to be ignoring this, so allow me to remind you all:
PEOPLE WITH BPD ARE NOT INHERENTLY ABUSIVE
i think as a society we should go back to designing furniture w little feet. it would heal us.
god calls me on the payphone, tells me there aren't enough magnolia trees in the garden. asks me a question. i spend my whole life answering it.
“the flowers were dressed in nothing but light,they let me bathe in my vulnerability”
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