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i’d rather build my kingdom from scratch than wear your broken crown
inheritance isn’t the only way to rule | c.j.y. (via illuminosity)
allmcn.
didn’t have to. didn’t need to. he didn’t get it. he n e v e r got it. the FEAR in her eyes when he swept her away from their home ; the whining, the crying. three years. half of those were spent in pure terror. afraid of him. she’d felt trapped. encaged at his side, lock & & key on him at all times. she didn’t have to run away ? she wanted to. & & as her stomach churned after one look at him, she was reminded why. tarnished. corrupted. blood on his hands. ❝ i didn’t ? ❞ question posed in near disbelief. ❝ right, because you would’ve let me go freely. ❞
SHE’S YOUR BABY SISTER. you’re supposed to protect her, aren’t you? and, what do you do when she needs protecting from you, and when you don’t even know how to deal with yourself? ❛ no, i i would’ve, just . . . later. when we found mom, or dad, or anybody. ❜ you only wanted to be sure she was safe. you don’t know what happened to your other siblings, or parents; you couldn’t leave her alone. too young for this, too young for the rot, and grime, & you were only trying to be good again, you’re still only trying for that. you’re unused to having to explain yourself this way, you don’t know what else there is to say. ❛ you have to believe me. ❜
you are taken back she has pretty features, looks as though she could be crowned queen of a party if she cleaned up. yet, she only speaks harsh words., nasty things; & you’re unsure: did he hear you this way too? or did you stay as sweet as he had met you until the end? ❛ well, uh, put on some sunblock then? ❜ it is hard for you to take this in. you are shallow, & always have been. you think you would have been more than a stream in another life with different people, and you are trying to grow here, now, but cannot seem to still your tongue; always flowing, always from the same tainted pool. ❛ or stop, drop, & roll? i don’t know. ❜
@cvllista. ❛ when i’m angry, i don’t yell i burn. ❜
MILK & HONEY POETRY RP STARTERS BY RUPI KAUR. PART 1. FEEL FREE TO MODIFY PRONOUNS.
❛ we are capable of love but choose to be toxic. ❜ ❛ you have a sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live. ❜ ❛ i’m difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow. ❜ ❛ you are a war. ❜ ❛ every revolution starts and ends with his lips. ❜ ❛ the truth is.. you make me speechless ❜ ❛ he makes my tongue so weak it forgets what language to speak in. ❜ ❛ what drives you crazy? what keeps you up at night? ❜ ❛ so that’s what you do.. you command attention. ❜ ❛ you look like you smell of honey and no pain. ❜ ❛ i always get myself into this mess. ❜ ❛ i’m a dreamer and that will be the death of me. ❜ ❛ you were so distant. i forgot you were there at all. ❜ ❛ don’t mistake salt for sugar. if he wants to be with you.. he will. ❜ ❛ you were temptingly beautiful but stung when i got too close. ❜ ❛ don’t come here with expectations and try to make a vacation out of me. ❜ ❛ the thing worth holding on would of never let go. ❜ ❛ love made the danger in you look like safety. ❜ ❛ i don’t grieve.. i shatter. ❜ ❛ when i’m angry, i don’t yell i burn. ❜ ❛ we began with honesty. let us end in it, too. ❜ ❛ your voice alone drives me to tears. ❜ ❛ like a broken promise.. let it go. ❜ ❛ our backs tell stories no books have have the spine to carry. ❜ ❛ you were a dragon long before he came around and said you could fly. you will remain a dragon long after he’s left. ❜ ❛ the world gives you so much pain, and here you are making gold out of it. ❜ ❛ you split me open in the most honest way there is. ❜
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Vanessa looked at him with eyes that loved him, adoration spilling out and surrounding him, trying to protect him. It would require work, that a look alone would protect someone so in need but if anyone could perfect it would be her (God willing). “Gifts? Am I hearing you right?” Unexpected but she still held herself poised and polite. In times so dire everything had a price, absolutely everything had a return so naturally, she was interested by his selflessness. “Because I see the greatest gift standin’ right in front of me.” Something between the youthful life of the living and company, for her those were two of the ultimate gifts still possible. “Not sure you what more you could offer me that goes above and beyond that little smile of yours.” Meant to pull it out from hiding, him seeming so unsteady in himself and Mama wishing to stabilize the earth beneath his feet.
boy once golden, scrape the rust from your heart. she is giving you everything you could ever need: she is kind, and she has welcomed you in from day one ---- are you truly going to turn your face to stone? what are you gaining? don’t you know the benefits are all that matter? ❛ uh, yeah. you did. ❜ be careful when you listen to her, you might lose your grip: you should have died, you are nothing, & you sealed it for yourself. you clutch your guilt tightly, it is all you have left: of him, of her, of your life before. ❛ brought some blankets. ❜ you are right to be slow in taking your bag from your back, just as you are to offer it without hesitation: she may not be who you feel you need, but she is someone you can trust, nonetheless. if only you could get over yourself.
❛ you can’t make homes out of human beings. someone should have already told you that. ❜
no, no, you were only trying to keep your’s. you were only trying to hang onto what sliver you could find. when you were pulled away, it was not with ease: your nails are bloodied, chipped, and you wonder if people can see your desperation. you wonder if she can, you wonder if she would ever understand. ❛ yeah, well . . . thanks for the advice. ❜ . @pearlezcent.
allmcn.
three word starter prompt. @resiidem [ everyone i’ve ever cared for has either died or left me. ].
a d e v i l she’d been trying to evade. her own shadow who grabbed at her every chance he got. on her trail … and she swore she’d lost him. finally free as she settled. met at a crossroad - fitting. feet separated them, a canyon she was adamant to keep out of sheer fear of the other. ‘ CRY me a river. you either kill them or they run away from you ; take a hint. ’
you have waited what feels like decades, for this? for her to greet you with accusations? your blood should be boiling, but you are too weak to let it. there is no strength in cowardice. & it is oh so hard for you to not feel scorned, robbed. all this time devoted & she doesn’t want to see you. you should be enraged, you should yell, you should call HER out for being ungrateful. ❛ teddy, i ❜ what are you hesitating for? your self-control changes nothing. ❛ you didn’t have to run. ❜ why, because you weren’t going to hurt her? only in a world where you hadn’t become frustrated with her icing you out, & that isn’t this one.
❝ Touch my mouth / And hold my tongue / I’ll never be your chosen one ❞
ft. @resiidem
❛ where did it begin? what went wrong? ❜ from teddy
how do you explain that you believe you were born with this in you, that you think every moment has been for nothing, or somehow FAKE? you know there is an answer ( * DON’T, YOU DON’T ADMIT TO SOMETHING SO SHAMEFUL ), cold & disgusting, but you refuse to follow it; thus, you are alone, and lost, and always have been without his boot on your throat. all you have left is your honesty, and you can only hope it makes her stay. ❛ i stopped talking to him, ❜ too poor, dressed too ratty, didn’t talk proper: you remember his reasons clearly, you took them without question. ❛ and i shouldn’t have. ❜ but you did, you did it and didn’t think about it again until it ruined your own life. how selfish. . @allmcn.
warsan vs melancholy (the seven stages of grief) | the poetry sentence meme
warsan shire is a kenyan-born somali writer, poet, editor, and teacher. you may know her as the woman whose poetry was adapted into beyonce’s visual album, lemonade. i am using snippets of her poetry EP “warsan vs melancholy (the seven stages of grief)” which can be found here (the link redirects to a bandcamp page). last time on our poetry sentence meme series, we used warsan shire’s poem “34 excuses for why we failed at love” which you can find here.
feel free to change pronouns, punctuation, words, etc., as needed to make these prompts make sense—and please be sure to look up her work if you think it sounds as divine as i do!!! – LIZZY
the unbearable weight of staying (the end of the relationship)
❛ i don’t know when love became elusive. what i know, is that no one i know has it. ❜
❛ i think of lovers as trees, growing to and from one another, searching for the same light. ❜
❛ this is all i know how to do: carry loss around until i begin to resemble every bad memory, every terrible fear, every nightmare anyone has ever had. ❜
❛ did you ever love me? ❜
❛ of course, of course. ❜
❛ are you made of steel? are you made of iron? ❜
❛ i need someone who knows how to stay. ❜
dear moon (the distraction)
❛ you cold, unimaginable thing. ❜
how to wear your mothers lipstick (the desperation)
❛ your mother is a woman and women like her cannot be contained. ❜
❛ you look nothing like your mother. ❜
❛ you look everything like your mother. ❜
❛ i thought i told you to stop calling me. ❜
❛ you taste like years of being alone. ❜
questions for the woman i was last night (the honest conversation)
❛ how far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps? ❜
❛ how often have you bartered with bone, only to sell yourself short? ❜
❛ why do you find the unavailable so alluring? ❜
❛ where did it begin? what went wrong? ❜
❛ who made you feel so worthless? ❜
❛ if they wanted you, wouldn’t they have chosen you? ❜
❛ all this time, you were begging for love silently, thinking they couldn’t hear you, but they smelt it on you. you must have known they could taste the desperate on your skin. ❜
❛ and what about the others? that would do everything for you? ❜
❛ why did you make them love you until you could not stand it? ❜
❛ how are you both these women, both flighty and needful? ❜
❛ where did you learn this, to want what does not want you? ❜
❛ where did you learn this, to leave those that want to stay? ❜
i think i know what we did wrong (the realization)
❛ we loved like two people who did not know god. ❜
❛ what a shame. ❜
for women who are difficult to love (the affirmation)
❛ i could never leave you, forget you, want anything but you. ❜
❛ you dizzy me; you are unbearable. ❜
❛ every woman before or after you is doused in your name. ❜
❛ you fill my mouth. my teeth ache with the memory of taste. ❜
❛ my body is just a long shadow seeking yours. ❜
❛ you are always too intense, frightening in the way that you want me. ❜
❛ no man can live up to the one who lives in your head. ❜
❛ so what did you want to do, love? split his head open? ❜
❛ you can’t make homes out of human beings. someone should have already told you that. ❜
❛ if he wants to leave, then let him leave. ❜
❛ you are terrifying and strange and beautiful. something not everyone knows how to love. ❜
(the prayer)
❛ (dear god), if it will keep my heart soft, break my heart every day. ❜
CARELESS BOY ignorance is no longer bliss, ignorance itself does not exist. every breath you take is loud & exhausting, every motion heavy to take. you are carrying guilt atop your chest. you are sleepless, and unbearable. why do you keep subjecting people to yourself? you were meant to be doing better by them. ❛ excuse me, ma’am? ❜ do you think she can hear your nerves? you do present them so readily these days. ❛ i have gifts for you. ❜ . @matrmvdita.
Are these golden hearts always heavy?
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