I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

by Halsey

I hope you’ll stay. But I would leave me too, if I could.

The average baby is 20 inches long. I was 14. And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn’t measure up, and I never would.

I guess I found it easier For me to charm a man ’Cause a woman always crumbled in my hands.

The truth is you were first.

God who will judge Me as hard as She can, ’Cause I won’t love a man

My mother told me pick your battles wisely but you made me angry at the world so I chose them all.

When all your lovers start to die. You wake alone and wonder why they left you here to document the wreckage.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.

Of all the wrongs you committed, the worst was keeping me from the beauty in anything that wasn’t you.