demureminds : Writing

A Flourishing Addiction

A Flourishing Addiction

A Poem by demureminds


I am addicted to people. The way they can smile at you and automatically make your day. The way they charm their lovers, pouring t..
A Beautiful Society

A Beautiful Society

A Poem by demureminds


Spoon-fed labels of being too ugly, too fat, too worthless, too not-good-enoughLittle boys and little girlstousled hair and ribboned curlslearn that t..
To Call Myself Enlightened

To Call Myself Enlightened

A Poem by demureminds


To encase myself in your skin, feel the warmth running through your veins. To walk a day in your shoes, swimming in your pain. ..
Yearning

Yearning

A Poem by demureminds


And if I leave,would these pale wallsremember me?Would my scent be foreverhidden beneath the covers?Would the morning air wisp through these windows r..
Walls

Walls

A Poem by demureminds


And if you somehow took that wall apartever sogently,slowly,you’d seethat shewas a sheshe didn’t wantto be.
What Suffocation Feels Like

What Suffocation Feels Like

A Poem by demureminds


It is the desirable urge to escape.It is the battle you have with yourself once you’re tired of fighting,wondering whether you should give up or..
To Be She

To Be She

A Poem by demureminds


So innocuous she was,walking on stiltsshe wiltsso harmless.Her lies they slitherher face she paintsher skin she lathers oneach day.Her palms stitched ..
If I Were Not Me

If I Were Not Me

A Poem by demureminds


If I were not metrapped in a life so aimless,I’d roam the world as it should be.I’d feel the natural airsailing through my fingertips.I&rs..
A Smile Did Hide

A Smile Did Hide

A Poem by demureminds


A smile that crawls on indefinitelyWith lips like moundsAnd cheeks for hillsWith rivers that trace the linesThe curves that hides those liesAnd the wh..

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