Into love and out again,
        Thus I went and thus I go.
Spare your voice, and hold your pen:
        Well and bitterly I know
All the songs were ever sung,
        All the words were ever said;
Could it be, when I was young,
        Someone dropped me on my head?

Within this shell I shall hide
safe from all I see outside
the things that cause the soul to weep
by people who blindly follow like sheep
seek the path that no one see's
you'll find your countenance lifts with ease
all the negative thoughts dispel
when I'm hidden within my shell.

Lost at sea
Alone in my fears
Everyone has gone to bed early but I stay up for days on end
Tortured by day.
Solace is in the silence
That night brings
But it's dangerous or a
Woman to walk alone at night.
Funny how my genitals are an excuse
For everything I try to achieve
Cotton candy bubblegum
Doesn't fill my veins.
I am also not a closeted
*******
Just because my face is pierced
And my hair is bright.
I am not an object.
I am not a thing to be taken.
A thing to poke at with sticks
To see if I bleed sweetness.
No one cares.
No one takes the time to look
At my face without noticing
My chest first.
I bleed the same as you
Sir.
Please don't touch me
Sir.
Stop
Sir.
SIR.
Get off my appearance.
Care for once.
Not about my looks but
The flesh and bone
You are prodding
With sticks.
I only have so much
Blood to show you.

Please don’t convince yourself not to love me anymore
Please don’t wake up in the middle of the night and realize that I don’t fill the emptiness of
your bones, the cracks of your rib cage, the spaces of your hands
Please don’t look at someone else and see everything that I cannot be, the things that I
cannot achieve, the words I cannot speak
Please don’t’ let our flattened conversations phase you, know that even without something to
talk about we are still together
Please don’t tell yourself that my mental state is something you cannot handle, that I cannot
be helped, that I cannot function without a person to depend on
Please don’t turn my name into poison that you will speak to another girl when she asks who
you used to love, who you used to give your life to, who you used to believe in
Please don’t turn around and see that I am weak, that I can barely hold myself up, that I am
not as strong as you
Please don’t believe what others say about me, that I cannot handle this, that I cannot support
you, that I cannot take care of you
Please don’t love someone else
Please don’t make me fall out of love with you