Too Painful


Drawing of red eyes.

“All I ever wanted was for you and everybody to love me just the way I am,” I whisper into her fur collar, not caring if she doesn’t hear, I don’t know why I’m talking anymore anyway. “But now I just hate everybody. I don’t care about anyone else because I’m so hateful.”
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America


The opponent never
shows her deck,
a magician needs
no reality check,
she broods then hexes
as if it’s true,
she never fully
has trust for you.