After Hesitating For Forever To Share Poems Online (like My Overthinking Brain Usually Does) I Finally

You break me like a mug and tell me to put myself back together and hold your coffee.

I want to look like I stepped out of a black and white film sometimes.

Is that too much to ask?

That stage in the crush where you listen to maneater songs so you don't crash out waiting for a text even though deep down you're just a lovergirl and you just wanna hold hands and talk about anime.

I was so young when I behaved twenty-five

yet now I find

I've grown into

a tall child

-Mitski, "first love/late spring"

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Please take care of my darling for me, old world of ours. Please give more smiles than scraped knees. Good tears, and dancing, and rainbow lights scattered along the ceiling. Give dappled sunlight beneath leaves of whispering green. Give windows-down nights and wind through dancing hair. My darling belongs to the sunrise and the star speckled sky. Be kind to my darling, dear old life of ours.

-from me to you🧸

We are connected to eachother through legend and myth.

"We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories."

–Jonathan Gottshall

If my ribs crack from the pain, nature will grow me back.

Real💅

Ok but what if I want you to "bother" me? What if I want you to send me 12 msgs back to back? What if I'm waiting for you to come curl up next to me on the couch while we watch your favorite show?

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person