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Wallflower.

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i am whole and yet a broken
china doll, a grisly smile painted
vermilion over my flared face.
a promised lie of happiness.

and the crisp night air is tender on my skin
like it knows: this fabric draped over
my skeleton is all that keeps me.
from dissolving against the night sky.

i dig my fingernails into the skin of my arm
the tiny half-moon imprints are
a vision in red, smiling. like
they know ciphered snippets i don't.

i am introverted, a empty shell
of dull pink and speckled yellow
hoping for a boot to close over my maw.
and crumple me into
n o n - e x i s t e n c e.

for sometimes, being the faded flower
that twines in the crevices of the wall
is all that i have.
despite that:
silent content swells in the hollow of my chest.
sometimes all i do is just sit there and listen. and that's okay.
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writingwolf's avatar
beautiful :) and perfectly okay (in reference to your author's note)
were you perhaps, at all, inspired by the movie/book Perks of Being a Wallflower when you wrote this?