The difference between your words and the ocean,
Is that the ocean's waves crash against my skin
At a rate of which they leave bruises,
But that's the way they are and will always be.
Your words, however, leave scars on my wrists,
And up and down my arms.
You do it to get a rise out of me,
To make me feel like I am nothing and never
Was anything.
The only similarity is that is the way you both are
And will always be.

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water - a collection of poems
PoetryI started this poem collection in 2018. I just recently rediscovered what I had wrote and wanted to continue with it. I honestly have no idea how I was able to describe what I'm feeling now without going through anything comparable to what I had exp...