“Everything hurts and no one is telling me how to heal

I mediate with rose squartz resting in my palms

I eat more bananas

I make a spell with bat’s wings and dandelion water

Something has to work,

But I am waiting, at the end of my rope,

Braiding my hair into broken,

Twisted cups of thread,

In a desperate way of begging the universe to put me somewhere safe”

-Schuyler Peck

“I need you to be monster

Which is to say, I am trying not to love you

Which is to say, I am still dreaming of kissing your claws”

-Fortessa Latifi

“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang’.

The sun said, ‘it hurts to become’”

-Andrea Gibson

“I wonder if I will remember this as the winter where everyone died but  wasn’t overcome with sadness”

-Chrissy Stockton

“It is a Tuesday when I love someone who doesn’t love me,

No, it’s not the first time

But it’s a sad time, oh, it’s always a sad time

But my heart doesn’t listen, doesn’t understand,

Soars like a child in a rocket ship,

Doesnt’ believe in gravity, doesn’t believe in learning a lesson,

Wants to give until there is nothing left but glitter”

-Yena Sharma Purmasir

“To love me is to love a haunted house

-it’s fun to visit once a year,

But no one wants to live there”

-Brenna Twohy

“When it rains I know you are looking at the same rain,

I have to believe it means something different to you than it does to me”

-Jones Howell

“The truth is,

Some pain just isn’t worth it.

Sometimes, the hurt gets old

Sometimes, you get tired of being the one who has to heal”

-Caitlyn Siehl

“I love you head over handles,

Like my first bicycle accident

--before the mouthful of gravel and blood,

I swore we were flying”

-Sierra DeMulder

“It’s been three years since I’ve spent the night with someone who liked me enough to get breakfast in the morning.

Still, I spread my heart  thin like butter on toast, hoping someone else will come along and snatch it off my plate”

-Trista Mateer

“I care

Like it is an alternative to breathing and every available ounce of oxygen has suddenly gone missing”

-Danielle Shorr

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