This is a set of two poems :3 43Please respect copyright.PENANAlWS0DPpPRu
(First on love, second on heartbreak.)
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her tears taste like honeydew with a43Please respect copyright.PENANAGo0jHXZ0EK
hint of extraterrestrial redshifting.43Please respect copyright.PENANAmCJAhSZuLB
she walks with the grace of moonlight43Please respect copyright.PENANAgXqnPBTJil
and has eyes like protostars.43Please respect copyright.PENANAqRdzI4oD0G
she’s not quite up to societal standards,43Please respect copyright.PENANAub9q9aE0V5
and she lives in the future, not the past.43Please respect copyright.PENANAKUJ1fdaIAm
i still chase after her anyways,43Please respect copyright.PENANADRSAib9qyp
tail wagging, tongue lolling like the dog i am.43Please respect copyright.PENANAervfRIcHnb
CW: SH, body dysmorphia/body image43Please respect copyright.PENANAM5foxW1qqm
who taught you to hate?
“who taught you to hate your hair?”43Please respect copyright.PENANAO7kOkbDLRS
she did, with her idle remarks43Please respect copyright.PENANAuVIOXBiCvO
about how it would look better curled.43Please respect copyright.PENANAQhe4yz186X
(i curled it into long ringlets.)43Please respect copyright.PENANAQqDPpBolPH
then she said it would be better short43Please respect copyright.PENANAytdMzC8QnJ
(i chopped it all off with a swiss army knife.)43Please respect copyright.PENANAnb6i2f2qHi
it’s been bleached, stained, and cut43Please respect copyright.PENANAX8B1gyrMNX
in all manners of ways.43Please respect copyright.PENANA2EWoXJsBjt
(still it was never enough.)
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“who taught you to hate your freckles?”43Please respect copyright.PENANAUyZxcgTOBi
she did, tracing constellations on my cheeks43Please respect copyright.PENANAHoQzg5VmCh
with a permanent red sharpie until it looked like43Please respect copyright.PENANAshNO1AkW8L
i had wept thousands of scarlet tears.43Please respect copyright.PENANAsMG5CXRhu2
(i spent all night scrubbing it to no avail.43Please respect copyright.PENANAaRzgIyXuLN
she offered no help, only a faint smile at my struggles.)
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“who taught you to hate your skin?”43Please respect copyright.PENANA0u9t7Duhvd
she did, with her languid tongue and43Please respect copyright.PENANA5wyiQyNx9L
knife-sharp jabs. too pale, not tan enough,43Please respect copyright.PENANAAF2qoOXTpN
she said, running fingers down my arm,43Please respect copyright.PENANAh0JzXEfvWW
like a vampire, coming to suck blood.43Please respect copyright.PENANAAnDuEdj6ut
(i dug my nails into what made up my outsides43Please respect copyright.PENANA2dsHH5MQuI
and tried to pry it off my very bones.)43Please respect copyright.PENANAcnFWcsBrWa
i’m was left with only scars.
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“who taught you to hate your bones?”43Please respect copyright.PENANA4w7qfGPIAh
she did in late nights spent curled together43Please respect copyright.PENANAy9E80uWsr8
in the back of my pick up truck, poking43Please respect copyright.PENANA9FB76M9viL
and prodding at my body, saying that43Please respect copyright.PENANAaAb1CKEXwN
i must be pretty big-boned to weigh so heavy.43Please respect copyright.PENANAoBfkJdsZsl
(i dug my fingernails into my thigh, peeling back flesh43Please respect copyright.PENANAoimwyrGypC
until i could claw away at the bone hidden beneath.)43Please respect copyright.PENANA6scd22jt3s
the hospital tutted and bandaged me up,43Please respect copyright.PENANALdwWZTr0cF
and stuck me into a small box with a self-proclaimed43Please respect copyright.PENANAYZFzRv2oEL
therapist whose only job was to make me feel worse.
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“who taught you to hate yourself?”43Please respect copyright.PENANAZIp2kmQ35z
she did with her loaded gun questions43Please respect copyright.PENANAk6TFes4yM5
and sketchy answers. late night calls43Please respect copyright.PENANAAGsu770Eee
of ‘i love you’s’ and tired apologies43Please respect copyright.PENANAeiIlwyosuS
when it was never truly my fault.43Please respect copyright.PENANAUQKl86sw33
she taught me to hate myself.43Please respect copyright.PENANA4sJHP0gUEw
(what is love if not another form of hate?)