Pandemic

I am tired of sitting here. 

Windows feel like walls, solid. Memorized. 

I have seen far better days. 

I'm chasing butterflies inside my mind.

Strangely, I'm ok. I'm quite ok. 
 
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Mercury

VT

18 years old

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  • By Mercury

    Union

    Love should be a warm blanket 
    not a dance over hot coals, crumbs in your bedsheets 
    or threatening glances
    And if it is a dance, let it be one 
    where I am yours and you belong to me. 

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  • Poetry

    By Mercury

    Who am I

    (spoken word performance)

    I once described myself as a river
    I flow, I change, I fill spaces the way that they need to be filled. 
    I am like a tree, reaching my roots into the ground, the dirt sliding up my skin

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  • Poetry

    By Mercury

    Storm Warning

    (meant to be read out loud) 


    It came when I didn't expect it, and it cried 
    Like a child, it screamed longer than it should've 
    and I couldn't ignore it, nobody could

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