consume me

i've got daddy issues pumping in my blood, leaking into my soul, like the drugs that lift my spirits to forget them. i will never be who you want me to be, dearest father, but i am who i am, and if i'm everything you so desperately hate, then so be it.

[moonlightsdream]

⁂ Reborn 焕羽 (2025) Episode 14 | running out of courage   

[sizzlingcandyjellyfishhhhhh]

you met me at a very mentally ill time in my life

[havingapoemwithyou]

after the fire by Ada Limón

[daily-spooky]

[remanence-of-love]

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[strokeofserenity]

Franz Kafka, “Letters to Felice.”

[strokeofserenity]

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[two-bees-poetry]

[kiragecko]

[Image shows a poem with a space down the middle. The poem can be read in full, or either side can be read separately. The left side is titled, "lady macbeth", and the right side is titled, "macbeth".

Together they read,

i love you you have transformed me with strange tenderness and i am the monster that startles me in the mirror. and i have come full circle. i cannot allow this. this is me, myself as I was destined to be from my birth. so soft it hurts.

The lady macbeth side reads,

i love you with strange tenderness that startles me and i cannot allow myself to be so soft

The macbeth side reads,

you have transformed me and i am the monster in the mirror. i have come full circle. this. this is me, as I was destined from my birth. it hurts.

End ID.]

[weltenwellen]

Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

[heavensghost]

Richard Siken, from Wishbone; Crush, 2005

[bnmxfld]

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace / Infinite Jest

[timbllr]

[kosmogrl]

[obsolescencia]

[heartpeacenquiet]

It's okay if it takes a little longer than you thought.