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hells-sound · 3 years
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i am not a pretty girl
i am not a perfect girl
i don’t have a loving doting family
or pride in everything i do
i don’t have perfect health
or perfect teeth
or the perfect group of friends
i don’t have a terrible home life either
nobody in my family assaults me
they don’t go out of their way to annoy me
they don’t hate me
i’m not imperfect in some cute way
i’m just a girl
a girl who can’t relax
even though i know no one is there
a girl who can’t sleep with the lights out
a girl who has hands that aren’t steady
hands that curl in automatically
ready for a fight that will never come
a girl who has my head in a book
and my nose in the clouds
or is it the other way around?
a girl who focuses on the tiniest insignificant things
because i think they might be important
a girl who thinks i might be sociopathic
but prays that i’m autistic
because i don’t like not having empathy
or no understanding of the way people feel
i’m a girl with friends who aren’t there
in every meaning of the phrase
a girl who’s thumbs hurt from incessant texting
and not to people who i’ve ever met
i’m a girl who doesn’t trust authority
but i follow it anyway
with no justification than cowardice
i’m a girl who can’t learn another language
but will watch movies in that language anyway
because i like to pretend
that my mind isn’t slow
and i’m smarter than they think
i’m a girl who survives solely out of spite
because nothing else peaks my interest enough
i’m a girl who will write anything and everything
because i rarely feel the emotions myself
so i give them to someone else
i’m a girl who loves the fictional world
for fantastical reasons
and daydream about the day i’ll get sucked into some death world
i’m just a girl
who lives in the middle
with my own problems
and my own worries
and my brand new tears
without a door to close on them
just a curtain to hide behind
like a child who pretends
or maybe just hopes
that nobody can see them
- me
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hells-sound · 3 years
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just because i don’t look at you
like you’re my whole world
doesn’t mean i look at you with disdain
it just means i don’t look at you
like you’re my whole world
- excerpt from a poem i’m working on
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hells-sound · 3 years
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have you ever danced
with the night in your arms
and bare feet?
it’s exhilarating.
my throat hurts
and my feet are cold
but i feel alive.
i laughed at the night
because it looked so silly,
all starry eyed and moon faced.
but he laughed back
because i looked just as silly,
with wet socks and bent glasses,
but we were laughing.
the night told me i looked beautiful,
and i said he looked gorgeous.
nobody told me
that you could laugh like this.
i dressed up for the night
and he put on his best sky for me
he said he loved me
and i said i could not
and he said it was fine
that liking it was enough
-me
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hells-sound · 3 years
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we live in a society
where your worth is dictated
by how well you fit into a box
and, at first, the box was big
all encompasses
there was room for everyone’s stuff
but then
the box got smaller
and you had to get rid of things
or get out
we live in a society
where your worth is dictated
by how good you look in a certain outfit
and most people would
but to get that outfit
you have to jump through hoops
you have to be rich
you have to be slim
you have to be smart
you have to be pretty
you have to be
not you
and suddenly that outfit doesn’t look good on anyone
because nobody can fit in
- me
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hells-sound · 3 years
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at one point
we are going to facetime and just sit there
doing nothing but working on our portfolios
or go on walks in our respective neighbourhoods
just to say we've been
or go to each others birthday parties
and be obnoxiously loud
and the birthday girl will act all annoyed
but secretly love the fuck out of it
because there's someone there who does stuff like that for them
it will be better when we live together
because then we can do that stuff with physical contact
cuddles on the couch
while we watch some horror movie on netflix
before deciding that
two o clock in the afternoon is too late to be watching any sort of horror
so we'll slip in captain america tfa
the disk because
this is worth the investment, i promise
we won't have to rely on wifi
and coo over pre-serum steve
while we relive our childhoods
for the four hundredth time
baking parties
where we probably made a mess
and you might have powdered sugar on your nose
and there's definitely fruit in my hair
but the kitchen smells delightful
and the old lady next door knocks on the door just to say so
so she gets one of the pies we made
and then we dissolve into giggles because
why can't everyone be as nice as ms dayer
cleaning sessions
where we're singing along to the insanely loud music
blasting songs that don't need to be blasted from the speakers
and we both get wet
but that's fine
the kitchen's clean
and the laundry was going to go in anyway
writing sessions
where we sit in complete silence
while we tap on our keyboards
the laptops are like ten years old
but they have files from highschool
highschool, dan. do you know how much i wrote in high school?
running ideas by each other with enthusiasm because
my publisher said yes and this is gonna be the big break, i can feel it
walks through the city or the town
where we share earbuds to listen to a podcast and
there are young children right across the street
but there's also a bakery
and it'll never taste as good as the things we make together
but you bought it for me
so i enjoy it just as much
visits to a pet shelter
because even though we love loki
he's a bitch
and we just want to surround ourselves with puppies that exude happiness
and maybe we accidentally adopt that small tuxedo kitten who's being bullied
but loki loves bianca and
it's not like we can bring her back now
evening meals
that are always put off until the last possible moment because
the day can't possibly be over now
but it is
so i make the most of it
and cook something that you refuse to believe has broccoli in it
even though you watched me cook the dish
there's no  green, e
there can't be broccoli
nights where neither one of us fancies being lonely
or someone had a panic
or a nightmare
so somehow we end up tangled up in a ball of blankets and limbs
i'll wake up to my ungodly alarm
and shove my newly showered hair in your face because
it's time to get your lazy ass up we're going to be late for work
and maybe you tease me for the mickey mouse plush
but i see your captain america
and remind you of book week during sixth year
and i get a face full of pillow
but you're smiling so i know anger is the last thing on your mind
breakfasts
where i might have fed you too much sugar
and you definitely tried to switch our mugs
but i like the smell of coffee
and maybe my sleepy time tea will bring you down from your sugar high before you crash
and we woke up at four in the morning
but we're still rushing out the door
and barely stopping to kiss ms dayer on the cheek
but she packed a lunch for us
so it's only polite that we invite her over for dinner
but we really have to go
thank you so much, ms dayer
we're going to be happy
i can promise you that
and even if it's not me that you find valhalla with
at least it's out there
and you'll know what to expect
because you deserve everything you want
and so much more.
-me
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hells-sound · 3 years
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if i were a celestial body
i think i’d be the moon
dark and hidden during the day
but bright and playful when everyone else is asleep
except for once a month
when i am just as asleep as everyone else
a quiet influence on the tides of seas
if you were a celestial body
i think you’d be the sun
too bright and gorgeous for most of the world
but never ashamed of being the largest thing in the sky
a warm light on everyone around
if we were celestial bodies
we would be opposing each other
but the moon would not shine without the sun
and the sun would be too hot without the moon
if we were celestial bodies
we’d be the same as we are now
just bigger and brighter
and certainly less thought about
i quite like being star dust
but being a star might be too much work
although, in all honesty, if you were to be the sun
i would be your moon
i don’t think i’d ever leave
- e.m.
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hells-sound · 3 years
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i want to read
i want to immerse myself in something
something so wonderfully crafted, i never want to emerge
i want the words to surround me like air
and the pages to cover me like blankets
i want to live in the worlds where everything has a deeper meaning
and if it doesn’t
we find one anyway
i want to read about things that happened years ago
i want to read about something so far in the future, i’ll never see it myself
i want to read about things that will never happen outside of our imagination
i want to read about a world i can fix with just a small word change
because nothing i do in the world i’m in will ever have any difference now
i want to read
because reading is better than living
it’s magnificent
- me
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hells-sound · 3 years
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can you hear
the sound of the dark
the cries of the dead
the wails of the lost
i've heard them for far longer
they sing me to sleep
and comfort my soul
i was afraid to be without light
i was afraid to be without direction
but the voices aren't that scary anymore
they're just lonely
hell often is
- me
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