GIRLS // Poetry --reupload (2016)

Footprints

you left footprints under my skin
almost like a declaration
saying, "this is where I've been"

you signed off your name
in inconspicuous letters
not understanding that
these scars will last forever

you're like a hurricane
that leaves behind eroded soil
and uprooted, battered trees

you stole our happiness
the thief that your are
- yes, the thief is you
and while I can blame
the loss of happiness and shift in life
on mental illness, the real reason
I have mental illness is because of you

your careless mistakes have caught up
with you - well, more like, me
when will finally see the destruction
that you've caused inside of me?

when will you recognize
that your actions have consequences
they say don't blame your parents
for the way you turned out
but if you're not responsible, who is?

my mother once said
that if you uproot a plant too many times
eventually it will die

and so here I am
pathetic, miserable, broken
with an empty shell of a life