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you start to think breakup songs are about grief

there’s really no simpler way to put it

songs you’ve heard a million times about love and loss and heart ache means something else entirely now

you don’t think of your crush or your 10th grade boyfriend or your first love when you hear the word “loss”

you think of her

“how blind was i” you think

how idiotic to have thought that a sad song could be about anything but her death

after this epiphany, the world is tinted

like the dark glasses you wore to her funeral

these songs are not about unrequited affection, but love being torn from your grasp

the hopelessness of a break up song makes more sense

now it isn’t hyperbole

because you truly never will speak to her again

the only place you can feel her is in the music she made brand new

and as you hit play

the weepy lovers may have been fooled, but you know it was written just for you

oh, sing to me again

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We all got that homie whose air of silliness doesnt hide the haunted look in their eyes😂👆

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I wish I could send postcards

From that tucked away little place in your arms

And tell everyone

The view from here is amazing

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Guessing if I'm reallly high

By looking at my pupil size

Hit till I'm forgetting why

I'm not someone I recognize

Packed dark bags under my eyes

I'm just another fuck up guy

Beat myself up when I try

Stab my keys into my thigh

Hope the pain will purify

Thoughts that keep me up at night

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I SAY GOODBYE AT THE GROCERY STORE by judas june

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staying alive - mary oliver

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Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

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— Georgia O'Keeffe

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Secret wishes

Playboy front page kisses

When I still ate off disney princess dishes

There are obvious hints that everyone misses

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Threw my shit into the laundry

tried to rid me of your stink,

or i thought that i could scrub you off

in the kitchen sink,

because i finally did the dishes

crusted on were our last meals,

now my hands are bleeding cracked and dry

it's just like winter feels,

cuz it's so cold in my bedroom

since you left me on my own,

but I got piles of clean laundry now

and I am not alone.

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Like pail attracts a shovel

I had a bounty for my lover

And she gave me things the tide has washed away

But when bad things start to bubble

I am not afraid of struggle

I know with me my love will always stay

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“I recreate myself; that is my only power.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The scent of you is in my hair

I'm in a state of disrepair

My makeup smeared halfway across your face,

Your love's as wild as the flowers rising up between the towers keeping late night drunken drivers in their place

Started out as simple fun

But I knew you were the one,

Tonight my arms have found their home around your waist

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poetry magnet time

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Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"