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

by Halsey

I hope you’ll stay. I hope you’ll stay.

But I would leave me too, if I could.

“I have given so much to the page, please tell me I am not worthless.”

To find the world not worthy of your words, and to find yourself unworthy of the world.

It’s simple. Write.

I hope your brother turns out to be nothing like you.

I have not seen the Sun in 7 days.

I’m not like you and you’re not like me, or how we used to be.

“Why all this silence?” You answer, “Mind’s been so violent, a tyrant.”

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY I am not allowed to want to die anymore. Believe me, I have tried.

Cellophane in the place of a windowpane A mixtape where I used to keep my brain Daydreams running like an Amtrak train

TELLTALE I think it’s for the best if I should open up my chest and mail the contents to your hotel room to wake you while you rest.

Does a ghost know that he’s a ghost? Does a saint know that she’s forgiven? If no one knows, then I don’t know if I might be the villain. I don’t trust the author anymore.

You’ll get older and wish you had known girl. ’Cause you gave way too much of your soul, girl.

And then yell at the top of your lungs. Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues, for the people who had to grow up way too young, there is work to be done, there are songs to be sung, Lord knows there’s a war to be won.

Rejection breeds obsession,

But she rolls over and her mind escapes to an empty corner of the ceiling. Knee-deep into my own cliché, I sink.