steampoweredmedia:

1. Wolves
2. Rabid wolves
3. Misguided aspirations
4. Broken glass
5. Dran-o
6. Great white sharks
7. Killer whales
8. Runaway bus
9. Spills
10. Lose rugs
11. Stairs
12. Knives
13. Cheese graters
14. Romantic loves who are careless with hearts
15. Bobby
16. Bourbon
17. Excessive drinking
18. Cocaine
19. Crystal chandeliers
20. Exposed wiring
21. Fireplace
22. Loose bricks
23. That weird smell near the bathroom
24. Bookshelves
25. Guest bathrooms
26. Bathtubs filled with body parts and lye

weissewiese:

Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly. 

As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.
She was splintered wood and sea water.
They said she reminded them of the war. 

On her fifteenth birthday you taught her
how to tie her hair like rope 
and smoke it over burning frankincense. 

You made her gargle rosewater
and while she coughed, said
macaanto girls like you shouldn’t smell
of lonely or empty. 

You are her mother.
Why did you not warn her,
hold her like a rotting boat
and tell her that men will not love her
if she is covered in continents,
if her teeth are small colonies,
if her stomach is an island,
if her thighs are borders? 

What man wants to lay down 
and watch the world burn 
in his bedroom?

Your daughter’s face is a small riot,
her hands are a civil war,
a refugee camp behind each ear,
a body littered with ugly things, 

but God, 
doesn’t she wear
the world well.

thepensivebrony:

“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”

finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever