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

by Halsey

FOREVER… IS A LONG TIME I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green. I spent a long time substituting honest with sarcastic and I cursed my tongue for being mean. Weightless, breathless, restitute. Motionless and absolute. You cut me open, sucked the poison from an aging wound. And now 50,000 war cadets would cower at this small brunette. To my surprise, not 6 feet high, who’d reach and grab the moon, if I should ask, or just imply that I wanted a bit more light, so I could look inside his eyes, and get the colors just right. I spent a long time calling all my parts by evil nicknames, and I told myself they hate me too. But you spent a long time, tending to a home that’s burning in flames and your patience made me love you. Build love, build god, build promises build calluses, then build provinces ’cause I have found somebody who would build life, then demolish it. And we could simply hit rewind, to live it all a thousand times find views in fucking Kathmandu, to watch it from a different height (and we’d comment how the sun shines) I searched the world to find you hiding inside me the whole damn time. Weightless, breathless, restitute…