“Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.”

Alone is the safest I have ever felt.

These hands keep a score of everything.

I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.

Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.

I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.

You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.

You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.

Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.

Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.

I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.

I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.

Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.

Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.

Its okay if all you did this year was survive.

Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.

The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.

Do good without the expectation that your favour will be returned.

A tear once lost returns but a love once lost is lost forever.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

We all return to dreams, don’t we? The unattainable is alluring, desire is tenfold.

Refrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.

Foolishly hoping you return with a kiss.

I gave you all my pieces, and you returned it as my heart.

It’s a big relief to love and be loved in return.