samantha

your average poetess

[samantha @singingsparrow_]

sometimes I fear you’ll leave
pack your bags
take a piece of me as a souvenir
to remember your travels

please don’t treat me like a hotel
I cannot afford another vacancy

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

happy birthday sammie

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

high school burnout
extinguished
by the breath of another

words can harm
a fragile flame

so she became a forest fire

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

a little closure

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

it’s probably time I wrote you a poem
detailing my love in adoring alliteration

but I do not know how to write poems
for men like you

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

somewhere buried in the past
is a version of me who shriveled
like a sweet fruit
unaccustomed to the heat
she dried herself out
shrunk herself down
until she was nothing more
than a raisin in the sun

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

i’m mad at the moon
when it rises again
and you are not here

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

thoughts grow wild
in the garden of my mind
they wind about like weeds
flourish like flowers

only here
can they sprout
unruly and untamed
unchecked and unapologetic

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

a reminder that you’ll be a hundred people. learn a thousand lessons. and cross the finish line a million times before you realize it moves.

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

i turn
toward you
the same way
a flower
faces the sun

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

my body is not
a rite of passage
an object of entitlement
for rent
for sale
for you

my body is mine
it belongs to me
and I will do with it
as I please

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

you are not vanilla
bland couldn’t bear to be
associated with someone like you
you might be strawberry
a little too sweet
or chocolate
decadently deep
in a cone
a bit of a mess
but you
are not
vanilla

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

we adorn ourselves
with diamonds
forged by pressure
often
our most powerful traits
are products of pain

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

and I bring you home
you get undressed
get into bed
but we don’t have sex
they say boys always want to
but I disagree
I know it hurts them
the same way it hurts me

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

she wore pain like jewelry
sapphires of sadness strung
softly across her chest
rubies of rage wrapped
reverently around her wrists
a reminder that eventually
her grief will glitter

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

i like lipstick
black coffee
dark chocolate
red wine
i liked you
then realized
you wasted
my time

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[samantha @singingsparrow_]

your smell lingers
in my nose for too long
it gets under my skin
into my veins
you
get under my skin
into my veins
under my clothes
into my head

— confusion

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