Even in those lowest moments, you keep your dignity. Even when things get so lonely, you smile despite the despair gnawing away at you like a rat chewing through cables. Sunken chests, and the way you paint your face even when no one is looking. Such beauty ignored in favour of sleaze, but cheap… Read more

  A taxi to your arms while running through the snow until I can’t breathe. Panic attacks in the shower, and as you hold me close, you just gaze into the whites of my tear-stained eyes. All this pain, hidden for so long within a maze constructed of damaged feelings and uncaring exteriors. Smoking in… Read more

  Mental Illness and the unravelling nature of visions beyond your control. The way your head flowers with cancerous thoughts. Dead skin and daydreams, too much saliva, and not enough love. There’s a poltergeist within your brain, thinking things you don’t want it to. Drifting away, the day is absent. Your eyes always open, never… Read more

  When I took her in my arms, she was spoon fed dead stars. Eyes wide, and the colour of frozen lakes. Black rainbow, with a halo above her wasted head. Crescent moon made of oil and snakes as it curved around the arch of her back. Would it make her tingle in all the… Read more

  It’s summer. Broken flowers and blankets. Sunshine and the pages of a book spreading always. Through the trees, she swirls like smoke, thin as air. Everything’s hazy. The gaze of no tomorrows. I lay in the bath. The chill of autumn, creeping slowly in through the window. The back of my aching throat, my… Read more

  Hallucinating my illness between your thighs, the sky is alive with days of drunken freedom and untold horrors. Buried deep beneath the structures of modern living, the need to breathe sinks heavy in the gut. To be graceful when shadows keep closing in. To cling to love when others try their best to crush… Read more

  She sleeps in fire, hot coals beneath her feet. The rest use their sex, yet she is a mind that will not bend to the limitations of the flesh. Turn away from the dim crowd, and be like the trees. The body fades fast. Drifting further away each day, those eyes that seek you… Read more

  The broken window, and the rain that splashes through it onto our hands. A lit cigarette that falls to the dirty floorboards. Torn curtains and traces of blood. Fingerprints in dust. As the clock unticks while you brush your hair, I take off my clothes and stand naked before the mirror. The veins in… Read more

She poses like a star, but she doesn’t shine brightly. Her flame went out long ago, extinguished by the adult world. There’s a million just like her, yet she clings to the belief that she’s one of a kind. All her life, she’s been a mess of self-obsession and glamour. From high school to nightclubs,… Read more

  Keep perfectly still. Don’t get upset. There’s nothing wrong; it’s just as it should be. Broken hearts. Drinking problems. Lost souls wandering like stray dogs on a taunting beach. Cold, harsh winds, and the scent of despair mixed with billion-year-old grains of sand. Such tiny little artefacts, slipping through your fingers as the hours… Read more