Submissions by theblackbird

It always was, it always will be.

Who am I now?
Much different than the girl
Back there?
Isn’t that part of the fear –

To find I’d barely changed, barely grown
Despite the years, and the tears –

Stagnant.
Dead at whatever.

Go back, Carole King,
Florence and The Machine - “how could anything bad ever happen to you?”
Indeed, Selene, what the fuck, Selene –
Baby Selene, Teen Selene and her
Florence and The Machine,

I’m so sorry, darling.

Twirl around in your dreams,...