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teach me to let go of the past.

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i painted careful designs
on the outside of my glass heart—
the fatal flaw being,
of course,
that you could see right through me.

i suppose
you didn't want
the fragile girl,
the one who was romantic and sad
and everything you weren't. you said
something along the lines of, "oh god,
you're not becoming a sad girl,
are you?"

because everyone knows
sad girls
are the worst kind of girls to break.

and everyone knows
sad boys
are the worst kind of boys to love.

but my glass heart,
delicate lungs 
and empty stomach
weren't right for you.

you're the boy that sleeps on the floor because
he hates his bed; the boy who cries into his pillow
at night and thinks i don't know but i do; the boy
who covers his sadness with a thick coat of sarcasm
and anger
while i covered mine
with fog.

instead, you took a solid heart.
and another,
and another.

my glass one
is still lying on the floor
shattered—
broken.

refused.

i used to wish i could force you to step on the shards,
but now i just wish 

i hadn't

used

glass.
-J.
© 2014 - 2024 The-Jelly-Princess
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Streamwhispers's avatar
"and everyone knows
sad boys
are the worst kind of boys to love" :heart: