Cherry red lines lined along porcelain.
Glides over delicate, leaves a stain.
The internal is external now.
The body betrayed, mind asks how.
A two year hiatus thrown away.
But she was doing okay.
(She wasn’t doing okay.)
Cherry Red
- Tagged
- abandonment
- abuse
- alone
- am I lovable
- anxiety
- bad habits
- baggage
- breakdown
- confused
- daydream thoughts
- discussion
- emotional abuse
- expression
- fear response
- fears
- feel so alone
- feelings
- fireandfemale
- flashback
- forgotten
- fragile
- free verse poem
- heartbreak
- help
- honesty hurts
- house on fire
- hurt
- late night thoughts
- life is hard
- loneliness
- losing myself
- lost in my head
- mental health
- mental health awareness
- midnight thoughts
- more than anxiety
- nightmare
- no one would understand
- not okay
- overthink
- overthinker
- people suck
- personal
- perspective
- physical abuse
- poems about heartbreak
- poems about pain
- poems about trauma
- poetry
- poetry blog
- poor choices
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- ptsd
- red flags
- regret
- secrets
- she's not doing okay
- short poem
- struggle
- stuck in my head
- stupid heart
- surving abuse
- this is anxiety
- thoughts
- toxic
- toxicity
- trauma
- trauma response
- trigger
- unlovable
- violence
- why did I do that
- words left unsaid
- working through the trauma
- write
- write it out
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