Shelby Lynn

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[writingmadly]

i'd decided to leave

right after the last time

i'd let you take my clothes off.

i fell out of love

with each bruise

i could feel your hands leave

on the skin of my ribs.

just like that,

my mind closed up

the chapter of us

and tucked it away

until i would be ready

to face the damage

i'd let you cause.

i let you take my clothes off

for the very last time,

and just like that,

i decided to leave.

'saving my own life' (free falling through thorns & wildflowers) [ shelby lynn / writingmadly ]

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[writingmadly]

'baby in heaven vi' by shelby lynn [burn scars & paint stains] unreleased

[writingmadly]

i hope you mention my name while she’s under you. and that she is the one who walks away from you. in the end you’ll be both our favorite sins.

shelby lynn's Call It What You Want 2023

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[writingmadly]

" in my head though,

words have a different face. 

their skin red and purple,

hearts filled to the brim 

with affectionate anger. 

they are screaming, 

shredding their fingernails

against the walls of my skull,

as their throats grow raw and bare,

tears streaming from bloodshot eyes.  "

-Shelby Lynn's Call It What You Want 2023

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[writingdose]

genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like

[writingmadly]

when i marveled over stars

you painted clouds over them

and told me to love them instead

- you manipulated far more than my view of the sky

'night sky' (clouds amongst the stars) <shelby lynn / writingmadly >

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[writingmadly]

thank you
for breaking me.
really.
i just wish you could see
all the stitches sewn in me

by my own burned fingertips.
i wish you could see
just how deep i buried you.

'up in smoke' [excerpt] (call it what you want) <shelby lynn / writingmadly>

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[ghostgirl369]

Shapeshifter

my chameleon eyes learned independent motion— tracking threat and need.

tenderness called for pink cloud skies.

truth demanded blinding white.

a heavy room expected pale grey-blue.

when collapse threatened— kaleidoscope.

all fracture, all motion,

arranging myself around the sharp parts so no one had to admit there was damage.

they see how well i blend.

not how often i disappear.

no longer wondering what color am i when no one is looking?

instead asking

when the room is empty and no one needs saving—

who arrives?

the creature underneath it all is still waiting for a place that requires no camouflage.

[writingmadly]

artists die young

and so i did

and these brittle skin and bones

is whats left

staring at a blank canvas

with nothing but an empty ache

somewhere inside

where she used to be

before i survived

and she didn't

-from the burn scars & paint stains files (unreleased)

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[writingmadly]

from the burn scars & paint stains files, on chronic illness

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[paper-wounds]

[writingmadly]

i would never leave my family

stuck with the financial responsibility

and yet on days of excruciating flare

i long for the root cause

to take my last breath

accomplishing the job for me

like a tragic accident

because for those i love

i will never do it purposely

-burn scars & paint stains [unreleased]

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[nixscriptum]

[writingmadly]

i spend so much time

writing from the past

because it is the only evidence

the euphoria was real

- writingmadly 'fever dreams' [burn scars & paint stains] <unreleased>

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[writingmadly]

how strange it is

to be strangers once again

when your hold was once familiar

how strange

that theres no hard feelings

yet a stern disconnect all the same

how strange

seeing your family in church

and what joy it brings

how strange

we gave eachother a day each week

a seven month long secret

becoming an unspoken elephant

standing between us

in a church parking lot

how strange

to care for your wellbeing

yet having no business knowing

- writingmadly 'a strange close' from the burn scars & paint stains files [unreleased]

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[writingmadly]

for those mourning who they were before chronic illness...