[prepgoth]

[primulaceas]

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

[indigo-side]

my stomach turns and twists as soon as those thoughts start to creep in. actually they’re not creeping in, they feel like a forceful wave that I can’t stop. I can never tell what’s paranoia and what isn’t, I can’t tell if I’m lying to myself or if everyone else is lying to me.

[lafusione]

“Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.”

— Sylvia Plath from Sylvia (2003)

[lifeinpoetry]

I [forgive] myself for loving

those who have harmed me    for cooking them dinner & burning the rice    forgetting to add pepper    or make myself a plate     I [forgive] myself for staying     I [forgive]

myself for staying      until I left my skin

— Brandon Melendez, from “Standing at The Mirror, The Author Writes A Poem for Himself in Which the Word Hate Is Replaced with The Word Forgive,” published in Frontier Poetry

[honigimohr]

“some days, it comes in waves. some days, tsunamis.”

— nav k (via navk)

[bigskycastle]

what are your pronouns?

why. what are you saying about me

[logophile-teen]

There were two reasons I was scared to let people in; the damage they could do, and the damage they could find.

- Chris Mc Geown

[huariqueje]

Lady's Thumb - Margot Glass , 2020.

American, b. 1965 -

14 karat gold on blue ground, 12 x 9 in., framed: 14 x 11 in.

[dxbz]

[love]

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

[heatlightnings]

detail from the execution of lady jane grey, paul delaroche. / solstice on the middle fork, catherine abbey hodges. / i see boats moving, fernando pessoa.

[danger]

[heavensghost]

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters.

[aidashakur]

being a person who feels things deeply is exhausting.

[ritasv]

Silk Ribbon Embroidery by Di Van Niekerk