Phoenix rising

They spit fire at us with gasoline surrounding our feet. Trying to light us up and burn us to the ground. Don't speak like that, dont stand up for yourself like that, dont wear that they say with hatred in their eyes and cold breezes running through their hearts. You asked for it they tell the girl who was raped while wearing a full body suit. It was in your eyes they say. Somewhere along this path we become the weak ones, the ones asking for hatred, to be scarred and broken form within. Women are dying everywhere but they are still alive, dying on the inside, shattered and damaged. We shout for justice with lungs that only produce a whisper. When will they hear us? When will our small roars be loud enough? We shout in the faces of men who created similar sins so they could care less. Our voices are silenced but our hearts are not. This world was built by hands of monsters who take what wasn't given to them and run free. Women all over the world are tired of feeling oppressed we seek liberation, finally its not from the heart of a man, as men are the oppressors. We seek liberation for what men define us as because we didn't ask for it. We will speak like that, we will stand up for our-self just like that, and we will wear whatever the hell we want because hatred was the fire we were built upon and it stopped burning long ago. -M.D.L

Self care

Don’t go thirsty trying to water a plant that’s already dead. -M.D.L

Shards and pieces

Being broken is hard, but tell me how many times have you chosen to be broken over being whole? You can’t complain about the hole you dug and stuck youself in simply because someone else handed you a shovel-M.D.L

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