Tag: acceptance

  • Allēna left this poem collecting dust in our notes app, and frankly I think it’s illegal to just leave it there.

    So here y’all go. She can yell at me later, I don’t care. It’s worth it.

    I eat, I sleep, I feel my grief deep
    I want to cry, I want to scream
    But there are times it seems
    I can't remember how to speak anymore

    One time I dreamt you stared at me
    Slack jawed as I was carried
    On broad shoulders through a revolving door
    And I hate to say it but I think
    That's the kindest I can recall
    Your eyes ever beholding me
    And I don't ever want more than
    The simple vindication of your
    silent cry matching mine
    All those nights years before

    You don't know me, you never did
    I never wanted you to
    You were more in love with the bathroom mirror image of me
    Than who I really was at my core

    But I go on, I mock you now
    The jokes practically write themselves
    You're snowed in while I fly free
    Not yours, never yours, not even close -
    Not anymore

    -unnamed notes app poem by Lēna, posted by me (Castor)