Don’t Tell Them

[webweabings]

BE STRONG, BE BRAVE

Poem “Problem Area” (2016), in Last Sext, by Melissa Broder; // Unknown; // “The Waves” (1931), by Virgina Woolf; // “Notebooks” (2017), by Tennessee Williams; // “Fast Car” (1988), by Tracy Chapman; // “The American Crisis” (1776), by Thomas Paine; // Quote by @maplepecanpastry /// Stills from “Joan of Arc” (1948), by Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman

[u-me-and-insomnia]

[rosariumpartone]

quote from Pan’s Flute ⚜︎

[silent-insanities]

I wish you needed me in the way I need you.

[love]

Sadness or pain by Crystal Erickson

[sad-bitchconfessions]

I didn’t get to say goodbye.

I held you in your last moments, I screamed and pleaded,

But I didn’t say goodbye.

I called your husband to let him know you were never coming home,

But I didn’t say goodbye.

I followed your body until they put me on the gurney,

But I still didn’t say goodbye.

The last moments, you weren’t gone yet, you looked straight into my eyes, like you were waiting for permission to leave us all behind.

I kissed your forehead and told you “it’s going to be okay, baby, we’ll get you help”

I didn’t realize that was the last thing I’d ever say to you.

I didn’t say goodbye.

Two years later—and I just want to say,

I won’t say goodbye to you.

[chronicallyonlinesworld]

Felt this a little too much

[slwtforb4rbiturates]

[brok3nvinyl-deactivated20240624]

My heart and mind are empty and it’s your fault James

[scared-to-live-again-wk]

I saw you in my dream last night and

I swear I didn't want to wake up

[shisasan]

May 20, 1929 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

[flowerytale]

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to John Allan (November 1829)

[flowerytale]

Forugh Farrokhzad, from ‘Forgive Her’, Sin: Selected Poems

[metamorphesque]

the name of the person you love is more than language

Patti Smith, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nicki Lantz, Claude McKay, Pablo Neruda, Marina Tsvetaeva, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce

buy me a coffee

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert

[tamsoj]

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude

[flowerytale]

Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990