Poems from flowers.from.a.failure
Your lips curve over ridiculous words,
so that mine will curve into a smile.
Your eyes light up, and it fills
me with life.
Your face...
Paint a face over the mistake to keep cool.
A mistake. A distraction.
Is not the point of a distraction to distract?
I will paint more of...
Lucky me.
To be alive.
To wake up every morning feeling perpetually lost.
Wasting time.
Wasting chances.
Wasting away.
Opening my eyes...
I am something,
And what of that?
I am nothing.
I am a girl,
Who is afraid.
I know nothing.
And I write,
I can’t help it.
It means...
I closed my eyes to see how
Tall the canyon had grown
The walls stretched farther
Than I could have ever known
My foot slipped and I...