On Not Loving Yourself by purgatorygray, literature
Literature
On Not Loving Yourself
i.
popping pills one by one in
different colors
sizes
numbness.
(they say it takes more anesthesia
in surgery
for red heads than blondes
and i believe it, because it
used to take so fucking much
to numb the pain.)
cracking, flipping
what the hell happened here-
to me, to you,
the needing.
[i was 2 bottles deep when i decided there was no turning back.]
ii.
i heard the words you slipped about yourself
in a hateful tongue and it just
tore me apart.
because i do not understand how you [don't] see.
every little detail
every minuscule glorious bit
is picked at by your
self conscious being.
your tall stance shrinks in as your
shoulders fall int