i am not the sinner

i am not the sinner yet i am made to feel as if even baptism won't cleanse my tainted soul or save me from hell. i do not pray to the gods for i do not seek redemption from the crimes of others; neither do i banish the demons that seem to live within me …

a fantasy that cannot exist

she adds another book to the shelf, and tries to erase the name off the spine - it's a chapter no one needs to relive yet the pages keep turning, keep writing themselves as she failed to end the novella with a fullstop and in doing so she committed herself to writing the sequels she …

so i’m twenty i guess?

ello, i'm writing this post since i'm twenty now, or as my younger bro likes to remind me, two decades old *eyeroll* i thought i'd just ramble about things i want to accomplish and let you keep me accountable for it all. these are dreams i want to catch before i turn twenty one... career/education: …

lost forever

soundtrack: find what you're looking for - olivia o'brien please listen to the song in the background whilst reading the following this one's dedicated to all of you who have walked away from people with devastation in your heart. this one's dedicated to those of you who let someone go without realising what you were …

dear diary

dear diary,   i've spilled ink over many different pages in my life, but i never thought i'd be the keeper of a diary that documents my every footstep without casting a shadow on my soul. you soak up my tears yet the page don't scab over. my hand may shake as i pour my …

my love, it seems

my love, it seems, is never good enough for the people i want to keep. they like to drain my heart and soak in its warmth till they've quenched their thirst and then leave in the most heartbreaking ways ever. people like to take my emotions into their hands and mould it into agony and …

it is what it is

he's there, but at the same time he's not. he taunts me with his presence i cannot touch yet still makes me wish for the impossible when my mind knows i'm holding a dead rose which no one wants to water but i cannot bring myself to bury the past yet. i see your face …

grave after grave

Prompt: I didn't know what to do; I just knew it needed to stop. Grave after grave after grave. I got tired of burying my friends. The darkness weaves protectively around me as I stand in the woods. I'm here to bury the bodies, not to dig up distant memories. I never thought I'd be …

guardian angel

she knows how to mend my heart without tape and glue and heal my wounds without stitches and thread; she knows how to guard my back without reaching for a knife and she knows how to shelter me from danger without buying me a house. she treats me without adorning me in silver and gold; …

demon child

i'm a demon child who has perfected leaving a trail of destruction where she dares to walk; my heart - it beats to the tears you spill; my veins surge with wrath and i happily remember to take another breathe because the spite in me wants to see the agony i cause with the fires …