Rose

Instagram ~ @roseedmondson

[writingsforwinter]

Not All Men, But All the Men So Far

He wants to know if I’ll send him nudes.

A stranger, who has never met my fingertips, or been introduced

to each one by name, who has no idea how the back of my neck tastes,

or the way my hair reveals itself as red in winter.

He will open each one like an oyster

and examine the pearl of his efforts.

Me, clumsy, me behind the camera that captured all the tulips

I seduced for middle-school photography class.

Me, opening at the close.

Everything I have left is for sale.

Everything I have left is all choke and whimper, all mouth

and sorry sorry stop now please don’t finish this,

please begin, no, wait- beginning is the worst part,

please don’t let me

go through this alone.

I don’t have to outline all the men this poem is about.

There’s no SparkNotes summary for each of their lives.

No condensed few paragraphs I could possibly study

to figure out which one to avoid.

They say the Holy Trinity consists of the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

None of them were holy.

If anything, they left me with holes.

Put your fist inside this one

and the deepening will never end.

The word anyways kills me.

Like there’s ever anything else I could discuss besides this.

By this I mean what happened to me.

By what happened to me I mean what was done to me.

By this I mean his.

By his I mean every body part of mine

he took and never gave back.

By his I mean him.

By him I mean not all men, 

but all the men so far.

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

barbie is not a feminist because she’s a doll, but your memories are real & they matter & they’re barbie

[poemswords]

[iambrillyant]

“just as easily as you can outgrow people, people can easily outgrow you too. no two paths are the same, no two journeys are identical, and people are allowed to become who they are without you attaching bitterness or sadness to their evolution.”

— iambrillyant

[gnarhh]

sometimes people change, things go wrong and you outgrow a few people. stop trying so hard for those that don’t want you around anymore. they are allowed to change their minds about you, if they want to leave; let them. 

[iwontwrite]

“You start to feel like you’re outgrowing the people around you. It doesn’t matter what history is there or the memories you have together. You just get a sinking feeling and know that it’s time to move on.”

— m.t.//things i’ll never say out loud

[idktorn]

“It’s hard when you miss people. But, you know, if you miss them it means you were lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.”

— Nathan Scott

[radiantquotes]

“Love didn’t hurt you. Someone who doesn’t know how to love hurt you. Don’t confuse the two.”

[cwote]

You’re better off being alone than being with someone who makes you feel alone.

[the-devils-sin-deactivated20251]

You.

You are meant for so much more in this world than crying over a man who doesn’t love you.

-Makenzie Hipple

[her-minds-a-mess]

What a silly thought

to think that the point of a relationship

is to be forever.

I have had forevers last six months

and forevers last two years

and still they run through my veins

as lessons

as experiences

as growth.

Never minimize a relationship as a failure

just because it has completed its’ course

[somepiecesofmyheartandsoul-deac]

“It hurts a lot to heal, there is no doubt about that. In fact, it will hurt even more as soon as you wake up in the morning. And as time goes by, you strip away the parts that hurt and then you just wake up one morning feeling like everything is not as terrible as it was before, that you finally have a new start in your hands with a genuine smile on your face.”

— Lukas W. // It hurts to heal

[leerachanee-blog]

“I lost myself when I was with you, now I need to find myself without you”

—

[colourofoctober]

Chronic illness is not fair. It's okay to be upset. You don't have to be "strong" all the time.

A reminder to myself and anyone else who needs it. xxx

[macrolit]

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[theselfcarelifestyle]

Block them. If you’ve been wanting to block them because being reminded of them is painful, but you don’t want to be ‘rude’? Guess what? I give you full permission. Prioritizing your health is in no way rude.

[teenagecrush]