Hello, my old heartbreak. The one who made me feel like the most important thing at fifteen, the one who said he’d love me at sixteen, and broke my heart when i turned seventeen. The one who told me to “wait, I’ll get you my jacket” when i was cold, but never did. The one…

This is a letter to that girl in 1st Grade, who told me I would never amount to anything, because I was getting better grades than her.This is for those girls in 2nd Grade, who bullied me to the point of not wanting to go to school anymore, because I spoke better English than all…

I should not be listening to sad songs, I think, as I play the Twenty-One Pilots’ cover of My Chemical Romance’s “Cancer” on loop.Turn away, if you could get me a drink of water, cause my lips are chapped and faded.I should turn this off before the lyrics start getting under my skin. I stare…

I really do not understandHow I can be so sadFor days at a time,For months,And years,And still have enough tearsTo soak through pillows,To fill up oceans,To drown my sorrows.I do not understandHow I can look at youAnd think about leaving,Think about disappearing,Think about ending it all.I do not understandHow you can still love me,This mess…

My mother calls me selfish.All the time.Because I refuse to do what she wants me to, because I have already begun to put myself first, because I refuse to now please the crowd she puts before me.My mother calls me selfish because I do not like being the only one assigned to watch over unruly…