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Grace for caringThough I knew it wouldn’t end well,I didn’t know it would change me.Grace for my reactions when it happens,Linking all the times,Every pain point looping on full blast.Grace for being so hurt and so angry for so long,Trying but the words stuck in my throat,Waiting.Grace for feeling EVERYTHING,Holding […]

Music.Potatoes.A gift.Something cute.The awesome people in my life.Damn, a smile like JTT.Choir Boy blushing.Choir Boy in a t-shirt.Choir Boy in less.That stubble on that serious face.I’m ovulating.Butts.I know.My sisters know.Best of luck to you.Or not.-Melissa Donley

It means nothing. Absolutely nothing.It means there are no french fries greasing my fingers.It means I am bored. To death. Literally. Almost.It means I didn’t sleep well without my comfort human.It means test results are concerning.It means you don’t know me and that’s why you can’t read me.It means you […]

It was my faultMaybe mostly or moreMy trauma, my trigger, my reactionMy emotions to feelTo resolve and to healMy wiring, my chemistry, my brainI needed to talkTo resolve and to healI needed to talk toI needed to tai needed to talkNevermindThank you for your time-Melissa Donley

Unknowingly my neighbor busted a stitch in my vulnerableRaw and mangled it spilled everywhereIt took me too long to realize the seams had always been poorly tacked at bestI scooped it up to ask, but the hurt strangled tightI knocked on the door and rung the bellLeft a note under […]

The walls were papered and named a garden.No soil. No water. Nothing to till and seed.Arid brittle flakes.The room a stagnant cage.No bed for real to root in.No nutrients to heal the withered.There are no blooms in dead air.This is where I leave you.-Melissa Donley

It didn’t matter to themRequests brushed away, no initiative takenI didn’t matter to themRejection, abandonmentIt’s not about themWounds linking, decades difficult to healTrauma triggered on repeatNo tools, no manual, empty co-pilot seatSad for me, learning the hard wayHaving to learn so much, so lateAlways reaching nothingI learnedI finally learnedTo not […]

I spoke with your godOf what I gaveOf what you tookMy anemic veins splayedLife pouring into youSplashing in your mouthSticky in your poresA special blendSlow to coagulateFresher, longerBottomless vessel, you lapped it upUnworthyThat’s okay. You keep it. You need it.I always make more.Empty, cold silence, refusedThat was too much.On your […]

I found your heart in a dark dusty jarYou had to protect it so long, I’m sorryYou’re shaking again, you aren’t you without itLet me help you put it back inFix it in place one little act at a timeGo slow, breathe deepThere’s no opiate for this reunionHave the tea, […]

Quick-mix easyCulled cod carcass crystallizedSolo flame sailing in zero Kelvin darkStatements null and voidEmpty calorie crickets and clichesBridges charred and chuckedBlistering stone embedded in the soleCurrent in a broken circuitLess than littleSame as the ones beforeUntoppled by gale forceHow could they? Again?No thank youThis is not for me-Melissa Donley