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

by Halsey

I have found a home here amongst the chaos.

I can’t carry all this weight, so I must put it somewhere and somewhere is with you. You will take good care of it?

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work.

It’s simple. Write.

I love my whole body though you once made me hate it.

And my eyes leak Like a broken faucet.

I am not allowed to want to die anymore. Believe me, I have tried.

He’s so uptight and I’m no control

I drew what I wanted to be, and what was forbidden to me.

I’m sorry I’m having another bad day.

Jesus did a lot over the weekend when we thought he was dead.

And all you have these days are bad days.”

How strange to write about “having” when for so long I’ve drawn inspiration only from longing?

But we are not free until all of us are free.

So love your neighbor. Please treat her kindly. Ask her her story, then shut up and listen.

Abandonment is a complicated complex.

Why can I love him, only when he leaves?

Because I know you needed someone who was fine with feeling small. But

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

don’t say it often, but I’m proud of the woman that I turned out to be