melancholy settles on the tongue like syrup. misery is thick and heavy, like soup. weighed down by these emotions, i am drowning… @amateur_poet
melancholy/misery/drowning
Tag: short
but i didn’t listen
<but i didn’t listen> Love me enough to stay, love me enough to leave, you told me it was silly to dream outside the four walls of your heart. you told me to clip my wings, you lied and said the world wont accept a girl who follows her heart and strays from reality and [...]
The wind told her–
The wind told her to fly, The ocean told her to sing, The moon provided the stage, And the clouds gifted her with wings.
detangling the storm
detangling the storm above me, i hurry to push pen to paper– to quiet the thunder, the lightening, the rumbling clouds that threatens more than common rain.
she tastes like the lies
she tastes like the lies you once told me.
Mecca-Amirah Jackson 