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Best Poems Written by Lucia Ferris

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Someday I Will Love Lucia Ferris

after Rader/Schwartz/Vuong/Reeves/O’Hara

oh lucia.

if only there were someone
who loved you.

and not the version of yourself
you know they want to see
but the you that you have locked in your mind

you want the connection
without the commitment because
i love you is a promise
that you can’t keep.

so let it go
the truth can
set you free

the void is wider
than you could ever know

breathe in the fresh air

reflect
upon yourself. ask why

something about you refuses to give up tearing ribbons
into shreds, marring the smooth facade with evidence of your broken pieces
theres no hiding it now

do you want to be happy?
do you want to get better
or do you just want to be
gone?

tether your temporary form
to the solid ground
nothing ever lasts forever

claw at the dirt until your fingernails are bloodied
and fall into the same earth that will hold your corpse

you cannot wait to die

because you are scared to live
in a place that holds no love for you

you are nothing special
but some people have made you their
world so it’s too late

to push them away
before they can care. scars are like tattoos
everyone sees them
but no one knows the meaning behind their marks

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A Fall

The season of autumn is the time for a fall
So I fell in October, I gave you my all
You caught me and smiled and I kissed your sweet lips
Crisp air and sweaters and your softly curved hips

I traced a finger over your collarbone
You told me I never had to be alone
We stood under a crimson canopy
I told you that you were dear to me

That’s when we first said the word ‘love’
We held hands to keep warm, yours fit me like a glove
Apple cider, cardigans, I loved every minute
But calling you my girlfriend was by far the best of it

I got on my knees and made you my queen
You told me to only say what I mean
The beautiful landscape lifted our mood
And in the splendor of fall our love was renewed

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Stonecarving

I have always been stubborn, cliff walls rising against the world
I don’t budge.
Your river carves through me slowly but steadily

I used to begrudge you your freedom
Now I envy you.
I wish you could take me with you

I watch time and you pass
We’re wasting time.
I know now that I love you

Your arms rope me into your wild dance
I love it.
I think you swept me away with your current

I didn’t realize how wide the gorge was
You carved me away.
Don’t leave me now or I will have nothing left

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Unhinged Power

Yes I come from distant places
Once I was small but never again will I kneel
Understand that I am the storm

Are you scared of me?
Remember who you used to be, standing tall, but now look at you
Eating from my hands and trembling before me

My eyes are dark pools that see into your soul as you cower at my feet
Ink runs up and down my skin
Never look me in the eyes but don’t look away
Every distraction is an opportunity

Focus
Only the blood in my fervent veins can sustain you
Risk your life for a small sip as I watch
Every cell in your body is buzzing like a bee
Vertigo; too bad I’ve removed your stinger
Energy rushes through me. You cannot
Run

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She Does Not Love Me

I’m afraid I’m not at liberty to share
Whether or not I love her
Her long dark hair does fall down her back in a lovely way
She does melt under me when I kiss her
She does take a certain delight in my hips
But she sure likes tugging at my heartstrings

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Journey

They tell me to put one foot in front of the other
But why should I do that when I don’t know where I’m going?
Maybe they want me to wander forever
Alone, starving, a hollow-eyed husk of a girl

I tremble as brisk wind gusts my brittle frame
They take my heart apart carefully with surgical gloves and scalpels
Prodding poking pulling shredding
They collect my blood in vials and store them in neat rows on dusty shelves

I have always been too loud, too big, too much
I have always wanted to be nothing.
I whittle away at my body, carving off pieces of my sense of self
I was made from a broken mold but I’m trying so hard to smooth over the cracks

I press crescents into my palms with ragged nails
My knuckles are bruised the same violet as the circles under my eyes
I dig under my skin and rip it up in sheets, hanging them from a laundry line
This journey feels more like a nightmare

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Tall

Eager for the future and wistful for the past
Did four year old me know I would envy her so?
Age is not just a number, it is a burden
The slope of my shoulders, the lines of my frown

My vantage point has changed now that I’m tall
And I’m old and I’m tired and I’m only seventeen
I can’t vote, I can’t drink, I can’t speak for myself
My body is owned by another person

Which is just as well because this body does not feel like mine
I absentmindedly pull off my skin and discard it
Courage is a currency that is easy to fake
So yes, I am steady and tall and strong and grown

Do not pull back the curtain, it is all that is left
To protect the precious nothing that is mine
I will stand up tall and carry my burdens
I have so much left to endure

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Reverse Polarity

My mind is electric and my heart hums
I am backwards but I like it because you always love me more when I am something broken for you to fix
I take apart my bones so you can slot them back together and pat yourself on the back
I am never quite the same after you leave your bloody fingerprints upon my organs
I am suspended and you think I’m falling but I’m flying but you want to catch me so I let myself go
I sacrifice everything for you so you can feel like I need you
(I don’t need you, I just want you.)

Together we are a beautiful nothing
I fly toward the sun with you so we can fall together and you can breathe air back into my deflated lungs
You anchor me and I pretend as though I don’t want to fly away
I wait for us to dissolve together, I pretend to be nonpolar so we are miscible
Dig your nails into my skin, hold my DNA beneath your keratin claws
Leave everyone behind and keep me forever

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Just the Narrator

Did I ever tell you that my sister finished school
I know you’re still mad at me but you always loved her
Pretend I’m not the one talking to you; pretend it’s just the narrator
Of your story, not mine. I know they’re separate now
She’s doing really well, my sister
She misses you

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Murmurs

The stars watch as the moon falls into the sea and I weep