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

by Halsey

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work. Let my skin sink into the armchair and lose its shape. Lose its form. Collapse into a sigh.

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

There’s a love/hate relationship with noise in my brain.

I feel like myself again deep in my chest.

A mixtape where I used to keep my brain

Daydreams running like an Amtrak train

I will listen to the same sad songs over and over and over again till they vibrate in my skull when the volume ceases.

I would protect you till the end of time. I would lie down in the middle of a tornado and cover you.

’Cause when I write it all down I have to face it But when I hold it inside I can pretend it’s okay

My mind is messy but it’s beautiful