haven’t eaten in days
totally consumed by you
I feel like edward when he can’t read bella’s thoughts
I don’t get you
and also want to kill you
or kiss you
and am scared
If it’s not for me it’s for her
and I feel like princess diana
I feel like Marilyn Monroe
I feel like Jackie o
I feel like a woman
you hold me like a seatbelt
play me halsey and lana del rey
we talk like babies whenever we feel like babies which is a lot of the time
you clean the dishes I feed the cat
we hold hands when we sleep
you open all the blinds turn on all the lights
I close everything down for the night
you draw the bath, froth my milk
I water the plants, cut the grass
we laugh and laugh because we are laughing
we feed food into each other’s mouths at dinner like those couples do
and even make us hate ourselves
a little bit less
You only ask me if I am upset when I don’t have the right to be
You are a child, and I always meet you more than half way
Baby talk and sleepless nights
Knowing no one else will love my disgusting self
I daydream of going back home
Knowing there isn’t one
316 miles and I feel every inch
I ask about your family
You never fucking check in on me
You said to me let’s be friends
This isn’t that
You talk about me
I haven’t been able to spit out your name in like 8 something years
You pool in my chest, I’m convinced I’m cursed
316 miles and I no longer own a single thing you’ve touched
The blue, paint-splattered sweatpants are gone, the car’s been sold
Even if I could speak your name would anything change
It just pains me too much
Bethany
You sobbed so much that your tears ran down my cheeks
It was the closest I’ve been to crying in years
I went home with your brother - not how it sounds, but a little bit that way
everything I do is a homage to you
I don’t know if I want you to know that
Was it just time that made us like this? Because we spent so much time together? No that can’t be it. Must have been the kind of time. No, it was what time it was. Formative years. I was forming. And you formed as part of me? Am I as desperate for other parts of myself? I’m not, but ... it’s projecting, I projected the pieces of myself I am most obsessed by and made them you and now I associate you with them dying, or still being here.
Maybe I should try hypnosis.
You know, maybe it was everything that never was. I’m simply a romantic who pines for the feelings, the passion, the upset. Never knowing what we were, and definitely never expecting this is how it would be.
"Life is Easy"