"Looking at me from the outsidewill never be good enough. It’s notthe outer layer of me that..."

“

Looking at me from the outside

will never be good enough. It’s not

the outer layer of me that you

have put through pain. Open me

up and see for yourself. See

what you were capable of.

See what you did to me

without a hint of regret

of how it may push me away

from others who are

worthy of my love.

I don’t want to say

that you ruined love for me,

because that sentence itself

is much too good for you

to even be able to read aloud.

So next time you invite over

a girl who looks like me

at 2 a.m. don’t tell her

that her skin reminds you

of someone you once loved.

You should know that

my skin is not a map

of places that you have

been to, and you do not

have the right to compare

my tainted from your touch body

to her mangled limbs.

She will never be able to

love you in the way

that I was able to. Not even

with a tongue coated in

hope that one day

she will come close.

”

- "Even your heart knows that she can never really replace me," - Colleen Brown