Teen Ink

Your butchering words In the beginning Went through my head As a child who listens To every word you say Your constant sarcasm Your words which I thought were the truth The never giving...

i asked my father if i could swim, and he said that i would drown. The Sea would imprison me – he said if my feet had left the ground. So i walked out to the water, and cried out – how...

   Why do you always win?I pull one wayYou pull the other.And the rope frays.My hands are burned from outside in.But no matter how much my feet are anchoredAnd no matter how hard I...