papillons en papier

a collection of writing by @evelizard originals tagged #byw ko-fi.com/evelizard

[02seo]

[canforasoap]

Callosamia promethea

[pbs-r]

LOIS DODD . BURNING HOUSE, LAVENDER . 2007

[especially]

[tinypaperbutterflies]

you hurt because i let you, i ask you, i wanted you to

[tinypaperbutterflies]

I have never been so close to telling someone I love them

I catch myself at every sentence

and realize how it was going to end.

I want to leave you,

I don’t want to be together anymore

I could hate you. I could rip you apart with my teeth. I could beat you to death with these hands

(I am telling you that you’re a beautiful and kind person, that you deserve the world.

I could hate you)

I could tell you I love you

I want to leave you

-byw

[asoftwrongness]

Just a couple of Frogs in Love

[tinypaperbutterflies]

arithmetic body

(you make me want to vomit

i thought about cutting you open)

thank you for sticking around

I know how easy it would have been to leave

[tinypaperbutterflies]

Maybe I’m not a poet,

Is this supposed to be easy?

Cotton-mouthed again

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Flower Garden: Autumn Plants’ (Edo period). Attributed to: Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858).

Woodblock print.

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[the-eternal-moonshine]

[hatin]

via weheartit

[teenagetragedyflm]

[tinypaperbutterflies]

Have I destroyed my own soul?

[tinypaperbutterflies]

Maybe I’m not a poet,

Is this supposed to be easy?

Cotton-mouthed again

[tinypaperbutterflies]

Have I destroyed my own soul?

[canforasoap]

Callosamia promethea

[tinypaperbutterflies]

the poems are about love

and the slimy things that imitate it

they’re about mistaking moths for butterflies

(the larvae look the same, but the butterflies don’t eat away at your mother’s wedding dress)

they’re about things being ugly

they’re about that being okay

-byw