• BridgetD96 wrote about the word dense 1 year, 7 months ago

    my heart is packed down dense, maximum capacity, filled to the brim with all of you.

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word concern 1 year, 8 months ago

    “are you going to be all right?” she asks me so sweetly, so well rehearsed. her voice is dripping with mock concern. poisoned honey spread over stale toast.

  • long division, you and i. a slanted line, two dots. i never really got the hang of it in grade school, and i don’t know any more now then I did back then. You walk away from me with the ease that only someone with practice could master. and here I am, still unsure about [...]

  • long division, you and i. a slanted line, two dots. i never really got the hang of it in grade school, and i don’t know any more now then I did back then. You walk away from me with the ease that only someone with practice could master. and here I am, still unsure about [...]

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word sponge 1 year, 8 months ago

    my mom always used to put our sponge in the microwave. I wish I knew why.

  • is it so easy for you to transport all your love from one person to the next? pack up your feelings, shift that intensity to the next likely candidate? tell me, how is it that you can leave nothing behind, not a trace of what you shared with the last person? how do you erase [...]

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word answers 1 year, 9 months ago

    has anybody got the answers? i keep asking and asking, perhaps it’s the wording that’s the problem. when it’s so hard to convey my difficulties, how is anyone going to help me solve them? i need answers before i implode out of frustration.

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word ill 1 year, 10 months ago

    In the most eloquent words of Lil Wayne, I present to you, “mothafucka i’m ill, not sick.”

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word cells 1 year, 11 months ago

    Yesterday’s certainty lies crumbled on the linoleum floor. You’re shattering the remains, sending pieces rocketing up into the empty future as you move your feet, recklessly dancing away from the wreckage. I’m still chained in my cell, voiceless.

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word belief 1 year, 11 months ago

    what is there to believe in anymore? We reach for something to hold onto because we can’t bear the idea of being without a purpose.

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word train 1 year, 11 months ago

    it took one long night without you, and she took off running. a bottle of wine in her system, she started spilling old memories. she ran the miles to the train station and told me she’d come back when she could recall your voice. she took the 3:21 with two dollars to her name, a [...]

  • i need this just as much as you do.

  • i reached out and embraced her,
    just to make sure she was still there
    body shaking, heavy breathing
    i had never been more scared.

  • “i’m coming up only to hold you under.”
    - Band Of Horses, The Funeral

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word rise 1 year, 11 months ago

    i rise at 5:30, alarm clock is buzzing. morning air is crisp and cold against me skin. slip out of the sheets. first sip of strong coffee, start of a new day.

  • BridgetD96 wrote about the word corner 1 year, 11 months ago

    You and me – we’re not halves of a whole. You occupy some piece of me, yes. A fourth? Do I share a fourth of myself with you? No, a corner. Just an edge, a tiny corner. A corner of me is you.

  • our memories begin to slip through my fingertips, a heavy rock now grains of sand.