Submissions by t8ojetz
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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standing in the doorway with your hands on your hips,
you are prepared to judge.
i guess i cant blame you
picking apart has always been your first instinct.
knocking down instead of building up, you’ve burned many bridges
and broken several foundations.
the foundations i spent so much time putting together, with steady, careful hands
like folding pieces of blank paper into cranes to hang on string from my ceiling.
you crushed them.
every single one, you crushed them.
you didnt do it intentionally but because i didnt speak up, you didnt...
you are prepared to judge.
i guess i cant blame you
picking apart has always been your first instinct.
knocking down instead of building up, you’ve burned many bridges
and broken several foundations.
the foundations i spent so much time putting together, with steady, careful hands
like folding pieces of blank paper into cranes to hang on string from my ceiling.
you crushed them.
every single one, you crushed them.
you didnt do it intentionally but because i didnt speak up, you didnt...
#depression
#father
#parent
#betrayal
#emptiness
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