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🌹Wilted Roses 🌹

Happy Halloween!! 🪦

By Caitlin CharltonPublished 2 years ago • 1 min read
🌹Wilted Roses 🌹
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🥀Peel me off your skin like a sticker, do you feel my pain?

Lick my edges and fold me to send me off

Because time and time again

I explain

Don't ruffle my feathers or drink my patience.🥀

There's a lot within my veins,

Insecurities that drives me insane.

I am not a fool I can fix my pain.

-•-

🥀If you surrender to your tongue,

you might reverse all the work

I've done… so run!

It's all fun.

-•-

Die to yourself to deliever me

I sink in my tub.

High on a reverie

-•-

Be patient with me, as I am with you.

It doesn't take vinegar to make a sour beginning, watch the 🥀

way you use your tongue.

It's not just for fun

I run.

—•–

To make a curse for you in burning bush

🥀 The tongue is a form of thief, it will give you that push

Wilted roses is not a gift to receive

What lengths it will go to achieve?

A way to exist, a reason to live, to destroy on Halloween.

Photo by Jon Sailer on Unsplash

Mental HealthFree Versesad poetry

About the Creator

Caitlin Charlton

Writer first. Close reader and self‑taught critic shaping eloquence.

A survivor reclaiming her territory.

I write dark fiction and poetry through symbol, shadow, and fracture.

Always sharpening the craft. ✏️🔥👠

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    Written by Caitlin Charlton