Better Off Without You

I Found myself once I lost you. How dare you call me back, asking me to lose myself again. I made myself small for you, shrunk down my words, swallowed my sentences. Now I'm speaking, shouting, screaming and you are upset about what is being said? Honey, you should have realized you couldn't kill me even though you thought I was better off dead. -M.D.L

Cry Me a River

If I had a place to keep all the tears I have cried over a man I would have a damn ocean to drown them all in- M.D.L

Wolf in Sheep Clothing

He wrapped himself in new skin with a big smile on his face, carrying the same insides around like heavy luggage under his facade. He knocked on my door, begging me to let him in because he's "different" this time. I thought to myself, when is he going to stop with this charade? Better question was, when was I going to stop falling for it? -M.D.L

Writing Prompts

You bound my hands behind my back, you took away my freedom and told me what I lacked. You didn't know what you had coming, if I were you I would have started running. My powers were greater than you could see. Don't worry darling you will remember me. I stole your heart from the very start, lit a match to it and called it art. You thought you could conquer all that I am, make me silent and call me your little lamb. I'm not a lamb in this story you see, you are the only one who wasn't free. You thought you could burn me up in flames, tear me down and destroy my name. You forgot one part of this story that cannot be undone, the witch doesn't burn, no not in this one. -M.D.L

because "love yourself" is not as easy.

I have loved so many different people in deep, soul aching ways. I have loved so many people I forgot to love myself. Who is going to love me? I am afraid no matter how far I stretch my heart there will never be room for me inside it. My heart is the giving kind, not the taking and I do not know how to come back from that.-M.D.L