Poems from RiaBarrett2000
There is dirt underneath my fingernails.
Two years ago that would have made me cry.
Now I’m just thankful I have a boyfriend.
I still pick...
In a cab, unknown driver begging the question “where to?”
Cheap lipstick in one hand and broken stilettos in the other
Because they were...
I am crying.
Thunderclaps outside my window bring flashes of images burned into my retinas.
Each tremor reminds me that “safety” is a...
Pen touches paper
Ink touches sheets
The marks on my skin
Are the words you can read
I let it all go
I stop and unwind
For a girl who gets...
You don't know it yet but you are an infection.
A stain stung so deep into this earth's rich soil,
that there will be no mistake about...