Poems from avollea
Hello! I'm an artist and pianist in college who likes to write slightly terrible poetry about my mental illnesses. Gloomy, I know, but maybe I'll branch out sometime. Maybe.
it was innocuous at first.
(doesn't it always start off like that?)
my lips were just a little too chapped and
it looked bad,
so i peeled...
do not tell anyone about your father's condition, my mother said,
it is between the four of us in our family.
no one needs to know.
but...
when i first met him i thought that
he would fight off my demons,
but it turns out that i just needed a friend to
have my back so that
i...
every time it touches me it
feels so real, but when it's gone
i keep doubting myself and life becomes a
game of was-it-real-was-it-not and...
i can still hear its
voice, saccharine and cloying, telling me
you worthless girl
they'd be better off without you
you're just a burden
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