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Growing
Motherhood did not heal meIf anything it broke me a part in new waysGave me hopes and dreams and fears, god bone crushing fearsThe uncertainty that I’m doing this right, that I’m not ruining your childhoodAnd the love just grows, between our little family I get overstimulated in ways that make me want to peel…
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depress
it doesn’t feel like sadnessthat’s the part that’s hard to seeit isn’t tearsor sometimes it issometimes it’s sobbing until there is nothing left but salt it doesn’t really feel like sadnessthat’s what i’d want you to knowit’s more like a nothinga numbness creeping crawling through my thoughtsand it’s so heavy it doesn’t really feel like…
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lullaby
could you sing me to sleep?just this oncelull me into something safei won’t ask againwon’t beg for your attentionsi just need a little solacea little clam could you sing me to sleep?i’ll pretend that i’m yoursyou can pretend that i’m herwe know we’re just stand-ins for the people who don’t love us backbut maybe we…
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lighthouse
i think sometimes you don’t know how to care for mei am not calm waters blue skiesi am a dinghy on rough seassometimes all i can do is bail water outpatch the cracks in my hullhold on to the mast and resist the siren call of the deep the thing is i don’t need you…