Eyelids

I taped back both my eyelids so that

I could spend more time with you,

and when morning came you seen right through

the bloodshot veins and bags both my eyes were carrying.

Each step I took embedded into your carpet

was another step towards trading in goodnight kisses for head,

and If I had known it was the last time

in a bed that wasn’t mine,

I’d have slept easier knowing

you only seen me as someone else’s daughter.

Nosebleeds

In a room full of nose bleeds,

numb gums,

grass stained fingertips and

teeth chipped on crystal ware,

I am watching through my fingers,

tiptoeing along on carpets,

floral and fading,

waiting for the guy with smoke clouds in his hair.

Lilith

I press my hands into my thighs,

And wash away this smile of mine,

I am she with crooked teeth and bruises on my knees.

I had to let her be someone so

I stole her from a midland humdrum,

A fever with a lovely name and she’s coming for you in your sleep.

Black nights drip down like molasses,

pretty boys with silly names,

faces that will come and go

but feelings that will never change.