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Orchid

A Poem by messytessa

I still have the potted orchid you gave me for our first Valentines together I watch it burn and wither in the unforgiving summer sun I keep waiti..

Tulips

A Poem by messytessa

This afternoon, I walked in the spring air I saw the tulips stretch towards the sun I wondered what it must be like to live for someone else ..

Reckless

A Poem by messytessa

Nothing could have prepared mebut what else was I supposed to do?No one can see me!No one can talkabout my body unless it is brokenI divorce myself fr..

{unfinished draft}

A Poem by messytessa

Who starts a journeyhoping never to arrive?Only a fool in love.Yes, it is true that I love you,though I didn't in the beginning.Funny how that word is..

In which i write a letter

A Poem by messytessa

Dear past lover, I thought of you today And my whole heart wept From the tears, grew flowers their stems to strangle my throat with If being with you ..

Take Note

A Poem by messytessa

Take note:I do not have a strong stomachBut I do have a strong heartAnd I did not climb all the way to the top of this mountainJust to sit with someon..

Scarlet

A Poem by messytessa

There is a boy who says hi to me in the hallway,and tells me with his eyes what scarlet means,I blush up to the sky, to be wanted is to be wanted,Is t..

my brother

A Poem by messytessa

I should not be surprised.The cat, my stuffed teddy bearand my golden heart.We curl up under the covers;this is the first and the last time,things wil..

flame

A Poem by messytessa

The thought‘things will be better when I am thin’soon turns into'things would be better if I was dead’every problem has a flame at i..

pulse

A Poem by messytessa

there is a start and stopa rhythm only the everythingfeels, and I am on the wrongside of this pulsemy gutter shape does not fitinto this grand outline..