Claire

Claire

VT

13 years old

Posts

  • The Girl Inside

    It’s only been a few days and sadness feels so far away

    This feeling, it isn’t salvation

    The girl who used to scream for others pains is shut out

    She fights to be free, to make me suffer for something I don’t feel nor control

  • Still Here

    Did you ever know how much your pain hurt me?

    That it haunted my sleep?

    That I tried to feel it?

    That I cared even then?

Loves

  • The mirror

    I looked in the mirror

    And today

    Instead of focusing on my flaws

    On picking out everything I hate about my face

    Instead of being my own worst enemy and self-critic

    I looked

    Really looked

    At this girl

  • Cliché

    We are such a cliché,

    boy meets girl,

    fall hard and fast.

     

    Our heads are a mess,

    would you wait for me?

     

    Obviously.

     

    Too young to think anything through,

  • Young love

    I remember that warm summer night,

    we argued about who could jump farther off the swings,

    we were only 14.

     

    It down poured,

    they didn't set the fireworks off,

    you didn't care,

    neither did I.

  • Two Birds and No Stone

    Don’t kill my birds.

    Tommy pays taxes.

    April runs a side hustle selling cursed bath bombs on Etsy.

    They have dreams.

    They have a 401k.

    They just bought a tiny house in a haunted forest