"I am a love without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself"
- Warsan Shire

self improvement.

i thought my love for you
would somehow make you better

but it's only made me worse

fool me once, shame on you.
fool me for five years, ...

fuck. who's the bigger asshole, me or you?

the headlights behind me on the highway at night
aren't lights at all
but eyes
of formless, faceless demons
chasing me
racing
trying to capture me in their unbreakable grasp

it is all that I can do to stay out of their reach

belittle me.

make me feel small in all the best ways.