Loneliness has taught me more things about myself than love ever has.
ALLIE MILLERLoneliness has taught me more things about myself than love ever has.
ALLIE MILLERYou were poetry in a dark hallway whispering to know me in a psychotic way the way your neck tattoos straddle my throat I’m envious of every girl you’ve ever known.
ALLIE MILLERWhy do you call me only so you can control me god I know you are lying but remorse sounds so good in your throat?
ALLIE MILLERMy very survival is a spit on your face don’t fuck with a woman who knows her worth.
ALLIE MILLERAnd when I pour myself unafraid like the shatter had a purpose I become the wave.
ALLIE MILLERI want my cake and to eat it too but bulimia runs rampant and she is a fucking bitch.
ALLIE MILLERI fought my way through plastic men the woman in me learned how to show her teeth no matter how fucking unladylike they say it makes me.
ALLIE MILLERA woman of integrity I swallow stones I used to throw grace was daunting until I surrendered then everything changed a woman was made.
ALLIE MILLERI am a woman writer the last thing I am is weak.
ALLIE MILLERIt’s those Saturday mornings laughing underneath the sheets its a glimpse of everything I dreamed that makes me feel hope for us. Saturdays could be our thing.
ALLIE MILLERI gave names to all my disorders to humanize the pain.
ALLIE MILLERAnxiety feels like over-explaining chronically.
ALLIE MILLERYou were the best and worst nights of my life fucking while the flames lick us at least you’re a distraction from my spiritual death. You’re a god damn angel in a crack den.
ALLIE MILLERI believe the ashes of my past life were stepping stones to becoming free.
ALLIE MILLERI imagine poetry to be a living entity in me.
ALLIE MILLERDry throat on the days I’d rather just watch the candle burn.
ALLIE MILLER