Tell me i am a premature burial;
tell me existing feels like being buried alive
& it’s okay to feel that way—— George Abraham, from “the Olive Tree speaks of deforestation to my body,” al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas
Tag: bow down
The worst thing about chronic emptiness is that you keep trying to fill the space inside you by doing dramatic and drastic things but nothing helps and you’re left with so many regrets and the same desperate emptiness
I etch my own face upon my wicked flesh. / I am my own devastating god.
Rachel McKibbens, from “Shiv,” Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (via lifeinpoetry)
wear your anger like a crown, wield your wrath as a sword, force them to bow at your feet
i accidentally showed some weakness earlier today it was disgusting i would not recommend it
I do.
I did it.
I did.
I had to.
I have to.
I have to live.— Aisha Sasha John, from “I like it when we give the world to itself,” I Have to Live
Icarus 