To Make Monsters Out of Girls

by Amanda Lovelace

& what else is there to live for besides your one true love? - & now i would tell her, “everything.”

the boy who isn’t sure about anything is sure about me.

you had years on me & i was too young to realize you were the one who should have known better. - red & wolf II.

he’s something out of a bedtime story, but i have yet to decide if he’s the chivalrous man come to rescue me or the ravenous monster come to devour me & leave me screaming in the dark. - i don’t think i’d mind either one.

maybe i’m such a night owl because of all those mornings you woke up & magically decided you - no longer wanted me.

he may have gone, but i’m still finding his fingerprints on every surface of me. - intruder.

i’ve come to realize that i am always learning. right now, i am learning how not to see the image of your face coming through his & that’s okay. i know you’re somewhere doing the same, albeit for very different reasons. - my fear / your regret.

there’s no such thing as deserving abuse. - let me get “controversial” for a moment.