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For Fulk's Sake

Maybe
You failed a test You didn't know You were Taking Maybe you should have studied anyway

Every so often
I want to disappear Underground Where the noise Expectations obligations Perceived and real Can't reach me Where strangers can't tell me How to be And I don't disappoint When what I'm supposed to be Is just not Me

On the Breeze
I forgive you I'll never tell you that To your face I prefer never to see Speak think of YOU ever again Such is not my choice I invest too much Expect too much I expected someone to come Running No one cared And I cracked Nothing mattered Not the effort Tears Rejection The way I hated Myself Everything The way I treated My family Risking so much For what? Not even a backwards glance Not even a hesitation Just Vanished You don't exist in my Universe any longer Do ghosts "exist

Forever
I didn't get to spend all my days With you Not here But I get to spend the rest of my days with you Here That is everything

Turtle shell
When I was a younger version of me, I loved to play pretend. Not the way you are taught to play pretend as you grow. REAL play pretend. I imagined myself in all the most mystical of places. One of my favorite places to visit was my turtle shell. See, when turtles retreated into their shells, I envisioned it being a quaint, cozy apartment. Something straight out of a Chip 'an Dale cartoon. Sigh. Maybe in another universe. Also, I'm sorry Annabelle. This fairytale is probably

Bucky
Part 1 It's funny how I see things now How old thoughts Feelings That would have taken me out Transform suddenly Judgement Ego Bad decisions I see it now Sometimes good grows From shit Sorry Grandpa You never liked swearing But you really should give Henry and the Hendersons another chance I've always loved the hidden, weird Outcasted Until I was an outcast Until I never grew past 5'1" But the weight grew instead Fitting in Being liked Be accepted Nothing else

A little lazy
Relax it's just indigestion I am magic I am moon Stars I contain multitudes I'm trying not to thinkin terms of Right and wrong But I was wrong She says cheekily Context is so Important But I was wrong Once again It's inside out Not outside in I'm ancient Stars I've existed for millennial And I'll exist for millennial more I only need to exist This is not hubris This is waking up I got the magic in me She says cheekily The tools, my beloved trinkets, the relics Only enhance Wh

Three Poems
Did you feel that? the one that always played the jester was in reality the queen all along just look at that crown ​ Today  I don't hex but if you find yourself extra itchy today Maybe today was the day I changed my mind. ​ Mischief  Is this all new? Or am I just starting to remember? Was it lost? Or forgotten? Or ripped from me? By this society that taught me to hate me before I really ever knew me loved me Could defend me But it is FLOODING back now All

Force
I've ever told you "I love myself" I was lying If I've ever told you "I've finally accepted myself" I was lying If I've ever told you "I'm beautiful just the way I am." I was lying I have spent years loathing myself tearing myself to Shreds every second of every day Screaming Screeching Shrieking Internally How am I still Here? How did I not succumb To those wounds A small voice was there Gasping Crawling Fighting For air Enough Stop Why Help A stream of light Through the cav

Ever forwardÂ
Everything lives rent free in Fran's mind Every interaction, every word, every hurt, every joy It is all in there all the time Dancing around Singing Laughing Screaming It can get ever so loud In a world that is already ever so loud and complicated unfair hurtful But Fran knows there is magic too everywhere it's been buried by all that other stuff Fran felt it a light A small glimmer back in the deep space of her mind like a small beam of light breaking throug

Trees
When I started talking to Trees I truly thought "this is it." I've gone well and truly mad But it was better than the current location truly so I kept talking And then I started listening Have you ever really listened to a tree? Perhaps not If you aren't well and truly mad Have you marveled at they're roots how they snarled and anchored stretch and twirl into their trunk The perfect stage for the branches to dance and sway their leaves like a million butterflie







