Monthly Archives: October 2013

sometimes i wish i could keep memories in a dainty little music box and take them out to relive them again once in a while how wonderful it would be to go through all the highs and the lows, your first time on a bicycle without training wheels (how proud you were then) the firstContinue reading “wishes, memories, and music boxes”

“i’m sorry,” you muttered with a solemn glance but sorry does not make up for tear-stained pillows, 3 AMs spent wide awake, fluttering butterflies that always led to disappointment it does not make up for midnight anxiety, conflicted thoughts, the hopes that rose only to fall an abundance of stale apologies do not make upContinue reading “3 AM and i’m sorry”

I want to waste Thursday nights with you and nine-thirties and Saturday mornings. I want to scavenge through tiny bookstores with you and read melancholy poems with you and watch the rain fall like I did for you. I want to watch scary films with you and cover your eyes with my hands and hideContinue reading “needing you”

one word two syllables a messy jumble of seven sad letters five consonants two lonely vowels. Perfect was the girl with long raven hair and shimmering green eyes who wiped away mascara stains and hid her wrists under bulky sweaters because she felt hate towards the reflection in the bathroom mirror. Perfect was the girlContinue reading “Perfect”

it is one thing to have a pretty face, and another to be beautiful i don’t want to seem like i belong somewhere else, the cover of a magazine, or on some prestigious runway i don’t want to be loved for the way my hair shines under stage lights, the length of my eyelashes instead,Continue reading “what beautiful really means”