Lee - Hello Poetry

Lee 6h

How can I have loans to pay,
when i can't even find a way,
to keep my guts from spilling out?

How can I save each bug,
So many small holes dug,
Where do I get little gravestones?

Struggling with life but I stop to save each bug

#bugs #nature #death #beetle #moth #fly #wings #soft #odd #animals

Lee 7h

all jazz band members are the same

I asked if you recalled
the time in the snow
to mega bed you hauled
your bag and your speedo
Got there, you sprawled
said your back had a blow
Said the mushrooms you did
made your self-worth glow

You claim you're too busy though
can't let me know you care
but something warm fills me whole
not happiness, its unfair
How you once trudged through the snow
just to smell my hair

#college #friendship #relationship #love #school #lost #dorm

Lee 7h

The First Garter

Walk home,
Trot home
No moonlight around the sky
Laces come loose
Balance you lose
lean on the rock wall to tie

Hold up the flashlight
Hold up your head
See there’s a snake leaning on your thumb
Shriek, scare the creature
Dads laugh, beware the creature
But now snakes make your heart thrum

Written about the first time I ever met a snake in an unexpected situation, before I befriended them. I was walking back from my aunts camper when I leaned on the wall to tie my shoe, after I felt something I put my small flashlight on it to see a garter snake. The handsome fella was leaning on my thumb, but I was startled, heart POUNDING. Nowadays Herpetology (The study of reptiles and amphibians) is a huge passion of mine - Lee

#snake #walk #night #forest #moon #alone #childhood #memory #nature #creature

Lee 9h

Show up. Not like that.

Come here unannounced
Pizza grease trapped in the seat
Say get in you ******* ***
You know I need to eat

Now In the tub I sit
Tears drip down my cheeks
You said If we ever had a kid
You’d only love it conditionally

#relationship #emotion #love #hurt

10h

Lynn Stillman

Trust

I trusted in you
You put me on a pedestal,
and then let me fall.

14h

Alex

Hand Covers Bruise

She stretched her sleeves to cover them.
The knife cut deep on her scarred thighs.
I said I didn't mind that she hurt
Herself. Still, the hand covered the bruise.

She ate little. The mirror scoffed
Still. "Fine!" I'd say. "I'll eat alone."
I said I didn't mind that she starved
herself. Still, the hand covered the bruise.

I wish I pulled her hand.
I wish I didn't just speak.
Lately I can't eat too.
My hand covers the bruise.

#bruise #love #relationship

Lee 15h

Fruits of your happiness

My momma hates fruit
She always said
She’d never take a bite
She’d rather be dead

But since she had medicine
A serotonin pill,
She said she likes the berries
That she always had and will

#mother #family #pill #medicine #depression #fruit #food