Poems from irisbateman
Mama once told me
“You’ll never find love
If you can’t love yourself.”
Maybe try to look like you care.”
She left me in the bathroom...
I think I started my new life
As an anorexic angel.
I woke up to my chapped pink lips
Breathing snow that looked like ash
In a world full...
And she danced
Along the bittersweet
Memory of the lips
Who could never wholly kiss
A girl with braces.
And the crushed velvet
That was...
Do you have any idea what it’s like
To feel cold from the inside out?
To emanate from your skin
The color that is emptiness?
To have your...
My face to the sky
I let it cry on me,
Knowing that rain
Is the most misunderstood miracle.
And I am forced to
Think again about how
I am...