Expressions, Issue III | Page 4

Instructions of the Beasts

By: Kaylee Phan

Each day another piece should be gone

Iron out the wrinkles in your cheeks

Throw away the bags under your eyes

Mow the lawn of lush lying upon your head

Tear away a heart that drips of blue misery

Replace it with space

An empty space for unfiltered thoughts

Give up your lungs that stopped your breathing

That stopped your living

Your healing

Your forgiving

The love that bloomed

Into a body that was no longer there

That was not ready

To be struck down once more

PHOTO CREDIT:

LAUREN O'MALLEY