ummbree

paper skin

And maybe we write about these things

Turn these things into movies

and books to watch our own demons fall away

To watch them decay on their own

and die knowing that we exist in something outside of ourselves

To know that we aren’t the only ones suffering,

even if our characters die off

or their stories simply never continue

I know I’m not just broken bones

fixated to a broken heart

and a dead girl\'s fairytale

I made my own movies

from paper skin,

drugged up princess,

cardboard princes,

plastic smiles

and denial

and somehow,

I am still alive.