i love the dimple in your cheek when you smile at me stuttering out the punch line to a corny joke i learned from my father before the alcohol poisoned his veins and he started to take the pain out on me
i love the quirk in your eyebrow as you think too hard about an answer to a question that i ask you when we stay awake too long at night and all of your secrets come tumbling out
i love the way your eyes look as they search mine for all of the answers i've never given and all of the secrets i've kept hidden for all of these years
i love the way your nose scrunches to your face when it's hit with a gruesome smell caused by me attempting to cook spaghetti because i remember back in 6th grade when you said it was your favorite meal
i love how your hands shake as they rip the razor out of mine to stop me from carving the words fat and useless into my skin, for they were my mother's favorite describing words, because to me this shows love
to me this shows that you love me for all of my disasters
you love me for the way i will subconsciously stop eating and you'll have to remind me of how perfect my body is and that you wish i was naked all the time
you love me for all of my anxiety episodes at 3 in the morning that keep you from getting any sleep and how you have to hold me close and whisper sweet nothings in my ear
you love me and all of my scars that litter my thighs, stomach, and wrists when the voices screamed too loud and i couldn't take it any longer
you love me and all of my deadly baggage i have because my demons are not what define me and i have learned that because of you
which is another reason to love you
- j.s.
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