TW!

*rape
*emotional & physical abuse
*self-harm
*alcohol abuse
*starving yourself

my favorites:

• i used to think
i was broken

because i never once
spent my daydreams

plucking
swollen pomegranates

from
someone else’s tree.

-then i learned society’s broken not me


• im not scared
of the monsters

hidden underneath
my bed

im much more scared
of the boys

with messy brown hair
sleepy eyes

& mouths that
only know

how to form
half-truths

-my dragons


• the pain
did not
make me
a better person
it did not
teach me not to
take anything
for granted
it did not
teach me anything
except how
to be afraid
to love anyone




this book is really good. i related to so many poems (especially the ones above).

the only bad things about this are that

1. no trigger warnings

2. separating words
like this does
not
make it
a poem

OVERALL RATING: 4.0