maybe one day I'll be what you need
because I do everything for you.
I take the beatings
even though my mind was screaming.
I changed my name because
you said it didn't go right at 3 in the morning when I lost the game.
I started planting flowers because when you called me ugly, I wanted you to have something pretty.
I forgave you for cheating because you said I'd be no good without you. I started to skip school because we were too busy getting high in the bad part of town. I painted pictures on my skin because you said you'd be nothing without me.
+ this is a big unorganized mess but please enjoy, I worked vv hard on this one
YOU ARE READING
astronomy•poetry
Poetrythese poems are for the lonely, forgotten, the lost poets at three am, and everyone else in between cover credit: -sidjenkins
