Mercury

Mercury

VT

17 years old

Posts

  • By Mercury

    Union

    Love should be a warm blanket 
    not a dance over hot coals, crumbs in your bedsheets 
    or threatening glances
    And if it is a dance, let it be one 
    where I am yours and you belong to me. 
  • Who am I

    (spoken word performance)

    I once described myself as a river
    I flow, I change, I fill spaces the way that they need to be filled. 
    I am like a tree, reaching my roots into the ground, the dirt sliding up my skin

  • Storm Warning

    (meant to be read out loud) 


    It came when I didn't expect it, and it cried 
    Like a child, it screamed longer than it should've 
    and I couldn't ignore it, nobody could

  • Time is not on our side

    Whittlers while away time with sticks and knives. 
    Me, I wait with diamonds, scratching lines into the sky. 
    Down, down, down, down, and then one across 
    One for every hour that waiting has cost. 
  • Home

    Hold up my head, hold my hand, because I am falling 
    Hold me together, with tape, with glue
    Prayers aren't enough anymore, nobody's listening. 
    Tie a noose with the laces of your hole-filled shoes.
  • Peach

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 
    How did you not see this coming, sir? 
    You've been sitting behind your desk like charlie brown's teacher, wah wah wah, while we're here saying, really? 
    I can imagine the phone calls now: