longing to escape responsibility of my suburban life I became 21 again and did drugs and fucked stranger men I never meant any harm, I just wanted to know what it was like to not be looked at as someone’s mother, someone’s wife
I don’t want to but have to be the boss the boss of my family the boss in my relationships the boss of my life it sucks to take charge and dominate all of the spaces it sucks to have so many responsibilities thrust upon me it sucks to always have to shrink myself for egos it sucks to never be in a space where for once I can be soft
flickering ashes, among them, the bride’s dress dreams of a family dreams of a white picket fence all went up in smoke jilted and pregnant bride cries on the floor, waiting for the sentencing from her parents now that her lover jilted her and couldn’t make an honest woman out of her
I’m soldier of love too lost battles for me to count and recount how many times I’ve had to stitch my heart over and over again from the many knives past lovers have stabbed me with with the last one, I almost lost all hope for love It made me lose my sanity and almost gave me PTSD Still the romantic in me refused to die and resurfaced this year Told me, “this time it will be different, this time you have self respect and you’ll be choosy over who’s worthy of your love energy”
raindrops serendipiciously hit the window panes of our room and the wind sings a song everyone can hear I lay on your chest in our bed in awe of what just happened caught lovestruck with a smile of love thankful for this second chance at marriage for so long I thought I was doomed to be alone never expected to find you especially the way you showed up in my life and now there isn’t a space between us and you look at me with goofy smile of yours the one that inspires the poet in me and say “we need to make up for lost time”
Y’all should have known better than to fuck with me trying me on while I was still finding my footing as a woman to lust after me because of my curves and pretty face Never thinking my brain was still developing Never weighing the consequences of how your selfish ways would hurt me Instead I was just fodder for your game of lust- and you became inspiration for stories and poems about trauma I still wonder who I would turned out to be- if only you two would have left me alone
between heartbeats and honeysuckle, they fell in love this time, it was different for both of them this time it didn’t take much to see that both of them Wanted to exchange I dos this time they believed in forever and happily ever after
I give you the gift of my heart with everything in it so please be careful with it I don’t want it to be broken apart again if you decide to leave on a whim
this is a dangerous road I’m traveling on smiling at your messages Creating a playlist inspired by you romanticizing every interaction we have liking every single one of your posts Wondering if you’re safe enough To get to know you beyond the walls of this simple friendship
my pleas for love fall on the deaf ears of the universe I scoff and get angry with her Wondering what’s left to heal what’s left for closure what’s wrong with me that I need to fix in order to attract someone to love for the crazy, creative and complex woman that I am
the empty wineglass sits at the edge of the coffee table after I’ve written another poem about you it needs to be refilled so my mind gets tired of being inspired by the memory of you
next valentine’s day I want to be calm especially if I’m still alone I want my nervous system to be ultra regulated and not the mess it currently is
next valentine’s day I don’t want to entertain vengeful fantasies of getting my baseball bat to scare couples in the middle of their romantic dinner
Next valentine’s day I don’t to keep playing the role of bitter,jaded, and lonely bitch who allows herself to become a wreck at the mere mention of romantic love
Next valentine’s day I’m rewriting the script of grief stricken lonely girl and will make it a day that will reflect on all of the love I have in my life
I’m looking for the rhythm of a new heartbeat to fall in love with A heartbeat that goes with the flow of my intense intimacy A heartbeat who doesn’t call me angel or princess only calls me by my name a heartbeat who’ll fall in love with the real me and not the idea they have of me or the persona I play on social media A heartbeat who can handle my crazy and chaos A heartbeat who accepts and understands me and never tries to change me