Luminous Scars

Luminous Scars

How many nights

have you spent without sleep

in the false fervency

of dreams inescapably deep?

What extent of excruciating pain

have you endured

to have finally mastered the art

of sculpting a smile so pure?

How many steps have you taken girl,

and stood up after the worst defeat

to feel nothing with a thorn

stuck in your bleeding feet?

How many rivers have you cried

in numbing silence

to love so unconditionally

against fate, in fearless defiance?

sweetheart your palsy, honeyed eyes

make me restless

and when your teeth grazed my neck

for a flash, I wasn’t a corpse, what horror!

your touch almost brought me to life

honey, you mortify me

and like a moth I chase your glow

hungry for more, I jump to your arms

I crave more of you, your tongue

your lips, your fingers, your teeth

.

I’ve come to loathe your devoted gaze

the way you sound in the mornings

or right before bed, quiet, soft and inviting

one word and I could fall to my knees

beg and drool for more, more, more, more

.

your softness stabs me with all innocence

and I bleed all guilty on these white sheets

your affection breaks my obstinance

and I choke on my own pride and reason

your devotion is a knife to my lungs

but I yearn for something to fill my chest

.

I am a woman that turns love to violence

and you, with all your downy intensity

and grotesque affections..

what are you?

I have no words for you

I have no words for you

-Nidhi Bhasin, excerpts from a book I don’t want to write

me, reading my own incomplete writing : *gasp* and then what happened?

the complete lack of instruction I've been given for my maths class is ridiculous.

Literally just heres the answer, you've got to figure it out for the rest of the questions :)

you! the person reading this! please tell me one good thing that happened to you today

i hate when you sweep the floor and then you have to remove the broom's toupee