Life’s not always what it seems. You think I’m living high, My struggle is deep. I act like everything’s fine. But you’d never know. Because I’m a pretender. Pretty smile. Eyes shining. Quick wit. Though, my cheeks hurt from the smiling. And my anxiety is overpowering. You’d never know. Because I’m a pretender. I makeContinue reading “Pretender”
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Preternatural
Do you know what it is to love a thing?When you’ve have never loved before?The touch of it beneath your fingertips.The taste of it on your tongue.The feeling of living and dying at the same time. Locking eyes with you from across that crowded space,Time melted away.The people in between us just disappeared.I saw noContinue reading “Preternatural”
Freedom
In doing the thing she feared the most, She freed herself from her past. The memory will still linger, But the pain of it won’t. She forgave herself For being small. For being afraid. For being unable to kill the monster. Now she had the strength to fight back. Vanquish the demon, And release herselfContinue reading “Freedom”