What Comes Forth From Your Dark Well Of Hidden Dreams?

*doubles over in agony*

The Shape of a Lack

You like a woman shaped like an absence / You like a woman who you can read like a mystery / You like an actress, ready and willing to recreate your favorite pornography / You like a good gander at your own reflection / You like a woman who is a mirror / She's flat, and bright, and all about you / You like a woman like a deer in the road / Crushed beneath your careless wheels / She's a mangled mess of thin, knotted limbs / But it's her own fault / She saw your lights and she froze / You like a woman like a blunt instrument / She's an implement to inflict injuries of your own self-hatred / You like a woman who you can put in a trophy case / So that you can invite other men to come have a gaze / So that other men can look at her and pat you on the back / So that other men can covet what you have / And just maybe that will heal the wound in the shape of your dad / You like a woman in the shape of a lack / She's a beautiful gap for you to fill / She's a handy little rag to clean up your spills / You like a woman you can burn through as quickly as striking a matchstick / You like a woman you can grift / After all, what use is having her if it says nothing of your own cleverness? / You want a woman like a party-trick / That, or a dog you can kick / You want to toss your stick out into the wilderness / Sit back and watch as she faithfully runs off to retrieve / You want a woman who won't ask you to stay / You want a woman who will never leave

"What would Jesus do?"

No, what would Sabrina do?

Oh, to be a bunny in a field of flowers with no responsibility and no problems🌸

*starts sobbing profusely*

L. A. Johnson, from "Birthmark"

"I would do anything for you"

Yeah well I only asked for simple things, and you couldn't do that. At the end of the day I didn't really want all the grand gestures, I wanted to feel safe, I wanted intimacy.

It's ok, we're just not the same.

BE THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE NOW.

Wear the clothes. Make the moves. Accept the responsibility.

Some people will say, "but I'm just a nobody, it doesn't matter what i do."

Yes it does.

History has its eyes on us all.

We all have the power to influence others with the way we live and the choices we make. To say that you don't matter is to lie to yourself and live in a delusion. It's not simply unkind or untrue.

If you want to have an empire,

BE AN EMPRESS.

princess top 5: other songs

5. that’s how you know, enchanted // 1, 2, 3

Cutting off the tongue seems like the practical solution

I DO MY BEST ON THE MARGINS,

when the perils of yearning is more than building a pyre

for the body, when cutting off the tongue to prevent it from

speaking your name over & over again like a hymn becomes

a practical solution. I so want to be acquainted with January

in a way that doesn’t swell my wounds of you. I wake with

carnations swaying in the mouth, a good use for the sweetness

that stems from your name—one day, you’ll hear your name

from the mouth of a lover, and it will all click, how everything

was in praise of you.

And a chicken nugget