Tag: family
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[blueprints]
I’m still pissed that you took the future you promised me and left me holding the empty space, like I’m supposed to fill it with things I never even asked for. You told me over and over, “we’re in this together.” You said it like it was fact, like we were writing our story, page…
amelia james poetry
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[Why]
Why is she the onewho wears the promises we made?The vows I stitched to the sleeves of my skin,all the futures I pressed into my palms,carefully,until he let them sliplike a breath caught too deep. I wanted the life she gets to call hers.I wanted the pieces he promisedbut never gave me.Instead, I stand in…
amelia james poetry
Amelia James Poetry 