I see people who want to help, like, I’ve always tried. Now though I realize, how you help is what matters. People don’t need my judgment. My perfect words & idealizations. To be told to be better, that they need to change. To be someone else. To be more like this. To think this andContinue reading “Cancelled”
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Now that I’m older
As a kid, I forgot how to speak. My feet turned to lead, when I’d nervous sweat at nothing. My mind mute, letting it ring. The thoughts moved too fast, and my actions too slow.
Am I Enough
Am I enough? It is a question I used to wrestle with. During the nights I felt alone, And the days I did too little. When the pressure got too much, And the days blurred together. My family always distant, With my friends so far away. Am I enough? I’d ask as I tried toContinue reading “Am I Enough”
Feed the Screams
Why Can’t You Be Normal?
Why can’t you be normal? It is a question I’ve thought about, but only because I’ve heard it so many times, in so many different ways. When I play a song on repeat for hours on end or wake up wide-eyed at 3AM. The times my body demands to dance, while my lips sing theirContinue reading “Why Can’t You Be Normal?”
H.B. Catherine 