Poems from rileyskye1
I come to functions alone
Sit and watch the couples and the crowds
It's kind of nice watching them buzz around me
While I float past and...
I would compare us to the Beauty and the Beast, but I have not such low self-esteem
so as to compare my countenance to that of the beast...
I beat. My head. Against. The ground,
My fists. Against. My chest.
I break. My heart. I hold. My breath,
Resist. The air. Itself.
I pray...
I don’t know what he thinks.
Does he think nobody notices?
Does he think he acts the same?
It’s always a secret,
he never lets us see him...
I have all the other ingredients:
two Hands, holdable
one Heart, unbroken
a fistful of Hope
three nods of Trust.
a bowlful of...