Deadly Games

Broken Girl

You said those three words to me tonight

"I love you"

But before you do, there are a few things you should know.

Because I

am not the perfect girl I appear to be

and I want you to be prepared.

I have cobwebs growing between the spaces of my ribs

and I have scars that may never go away

that each have a story to go with them

There are parts of me that have only been touched by blades

And my mouth tends to turn down

more often than it turns up.

I keep my eyes to the ground so that no one can see that my soul

tends to bleed out from the corners.

My heart is riddled and torn

infected with the bitterness of good intentions

gone horribly wrong

I'm wounded

I'm a lot like broken poetry

I don't flow smoothly

or rationally

I'm pretty much a giant mess,

tangled and cracked.

So let me ask you, now that you've been warned

Are you prepared to fall in love

with such a broken girl?

(e.b)