taanu

[taanu]

You would put a bandaid whenever you came along

My wounds were open and bleeding ,

When you removed all the bandaids and saw the skin all healed

You closed your aid kit and went on your way

You've left my heart full of love

But....

Did you know ?

You missed a spot.

Or should I say left one.....

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[paper-wounds]

[paper-wounds]

[violettes4roses]

[hungry-skeleton]

Why isn't "too scary" a good enough reason to never drive a car

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[mournfulroses]

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

[deadlypoetacademia]

[kameneva]

you didn't know i was dying

@kameneva

[taanu]

At first , i would wonder

Why would you do that to me ?

What had i done so wrong ?

I realise now , i had set myself up for becoming a joke to you

Running behind someone who had fun playing me

I made myself a fool for you

For someone who didn't care one ounce for me

For the longest time I wanted answers

I wanted explanations , you found it weird that i needed one

..you didn't even respect me

All my love turned to hatred

But hatred means something, it meant I resented you for not having you anymore

Now I don't feel hatred , just apathy

And pity to my younger self for trying

[taanu]

Mama ,I killed someone

pulled a trigger , now she's dead

the girl who tried to be enough...for him

the girl who stopped wearing makeup ,

because he said he liked natural beauty

the girl who stopped sleeping early,

because he stayed up late

the girl who tried to be less "loud"

because he said she was too much

a murder has taken place ,

of the girl who thought she was never enough

I miss that girl and how much she could love

because I don't think i'm capable of the same

[ahotknife]

megan lynne

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[madgirlscosm-deactivated2025051]

— Anaïs Nin

[taanu]

The world feels like it's falling apart

Among all of it , I blame myself

for falling in love with you

And I don't seem even remotely close to the person i was before

was i always like this?

the person in the mirror seems older

and a lot more childish than i expected

Maybe i would have never reached this version of myself

,if I had not met you - I tell myself

Afterall I'm a bit happier than I used to be

and everything seems to be falling in place

[dionysian-mystery]

Sophia Loren / Unknown / @ ojibwa / Adélia Prado / Unmade Bed by Sally Strand / Paul Auster / Unknown / Lucille Clifton / Unknown Artist / Kaveh Akbar / Unknown Artist / Marguerite Duras / Claude Monet