Gorgeous

Let me be gorgeous
for just an hour
Let me be winsome
and sweet
and kiss you
and turn
and walk
away
Let me be pretty
for just a minute
Let my hair be flowing
and my hips be swaying
and my eyes be twinkling
Let me believe it
for just a second
Let me think it so much
That it can’t be untrue
Let me be gorgeous
For a moment in time
Just a split [...]

Another’s Eyes

In my sickness, when my brain goes rotten, it is then I see myself through another’s eyes. One person I’ve chosen to represent all of the ill things I think of myself…all of the worries I have about the things I am and the things I am not. Who treats me the way a small part of me [...]