Gravestone – Why Pears

Everlasting

I am everlasting, even after this body dies its nutrients will rise giving life back to the soil, to the cracks where wild flowers grow— this I know. I am uncertain of the future in a lot of ways but this was the life and the body I was given so as long as I …

Illusion

She goes to sleep with the illusion of human connection glowing from her TV and spends her days watching people in a box as if real people she could hug and touch were only a thing of museums and she had to pay just to get in, because if she can’t rely on her loved…

Woman

Understand that I will not chase you as I am a woman not a bitch with a bone.

Armor

I wear these words as armor because if I can’t rely on you to hold me to protect me to embrace me, I’ll do it myself.