Some days, my mind still flickers, but the light doesn’t stay on. Kind of like the hope I felt when your fingers squeezed my palm. But they simply call that a reflex.
HANNAH PEARL
HANNAH PEARL
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Hannah Pearl40 quotes“Some days, my mind still flickers, but the light doesn’t stay on. Kind of like the hope I felt when your fingers squeezed my palm. But they simply call that a reflex.”
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You have always been enough. Allow yourself to finally feel it.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl What an intimidating kind of beauty a rainbow holds. Then of course, there’s the jealously dripping between vampirish teeth of those who dare mock it.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl If I’m wrong about you, let’s face it instead of fading like tire marks swallowed by rain. Run me into the midst of a storm. Leave me to drown there.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl Needle in a haystack, a small town on a roadmap, searching for you through the abstract- how incredibly hard to find.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl If y’all like spooky season just examine my brain. It’s plastered across this page on display.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl You ever stare at something so long the colors blend together? Even the most neutral tones take on a life of their own, fold themselves into shapes that morph into creatures – wolves and goblin.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl When words tripped off the side of your grin, I felt the statement slip toward my ear like the slide of a skateboard on griptape – how it led me to hate a sport I’ve never even tried.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl I wait and wait and wait and god I am sick of waiting. To not see your face anymore. To not know the burden that belongs to you. To not imagine the window I looked through the night I found out.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl Your promises shatter like glass. Sliced nerves for every lie that travels from your tongue.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl I am hurting. I am angry. I am one hundred and thirty-two synonyms of regret, but atleast its proof that I was here.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl I wish I could bottle up this scent for winter days when it feels like this town will never see sun again.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl The hardest part is when the leaves abandon the trees. I seem to always lose a part of me.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl Don’t bother finding a soulmate. Your aunt tells you, your fluffy scrambled eggs are the best she’s had and dammit, you can enjoy those all by yourself. No need to share the wealth.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl Indigo child, you hid secret under graves, picked at the lamb stuck between teeth, felt around for monsters we once reaped. But the monster turned out to be free.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl Surely I could never be certain of how many stars I’ve counted in the sky or of how such tiny particles can be build into wild-eyed stories like Aquarius and Cassiopeia. I could read you as I would the constellations and never tire.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl Write me as if I were already a poem. Pen the stanzas as if storms and ships could birth something sacred. Color it a religious experience.
Hannah PearlHannah Pearl
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