May the Good Times Last 4/27/23 Please don't leave me, Please don't go away. Please don't be the next one On the list of broken dreams. I'm so ashamed to beg, But I'd love for you to stay. We have adopted you so thoroughly. Even my folks believe you're family. Reminders of you flash joyfully On man...

Editing 4/27/23 I always pare down my edges for acceptability. Who I'm talking to only determines how severely. Everyone has their limits, even in therapy. I'd like it better if you'd just tell me openly. How much of me is too big for you? What's overshare, what are your boundaries? When am I likel...

I Found Rest in You 4/27/23 This city might not be my home, but you are, I thought as I lay beside you on your bed. My nerves constrained me from exploring far, But I found peace and joy in a narrow room While your soft dark eyes could gaze into my head. You bought my path to freedom while I broode...

Susan's Second Adolescence 4/25/23 Of course we don't react the same When our throne's a broken memory, And the golden dream vanishes In the cold grey English morning. My kind and practical girl, You wore your shining flowers With gentleness and grace, And tried to lead the best you could While kin...

Bonsai Apples [4/24/23] I used to feel proud on behalf Of a bonsai apple tree. If it could bear fruit I could too, No matter how small I might be. But sometimes it may be no sin, To rest and take the easy path.  My branch is small and frail within, Roots still reaching for what's true. Apples are h...

[Skipping my bonus one from yesterday because I think it dealt topically with some less g-rated issues.] The Long Goodbye 4/24/23 I going to build a life without you, Though I wouldn't choose to lose you. You were interwoven into almost every part of me. The way you spiraled and cut ties with loved ...

Long-distance 4/23/23 A thousand gentle feelers of connection Branch out through mechanical minds. My heartstrings splay out in extension Along aetherial ties that bind Me to my knowledge of all of you. I glow golden with joy, Though my face is lit in monitor blue. Such power we've found, for good ...

Where Dryads meet the Hope of Glory 4/22/23 Brother River, Sister Tree Star Cousins singing silver in the sky; Guardians and little spirits, let it be We seek our Parent, finding why We play our part in season's song and dance. Made for love and wonder, we will roam Through the strangest fractal ta...

The Worst Recipe 4/21/23 My heart is simmering shame On the back burner, And it's stinking up the house. But I cannot lift it, It is too heavy for me alone. All the things I haven't done And should do, Wishes left so long unattended They are rankling unfulfilled, Chopped like vegetables In a stew. ...

There was a short story I read once, and haven't been able to find again since. It was about a mostly-human monster girl who was trying to pass in the human world, until she accidentally broke the masquerade for a human doctor boyfriend who decided all monsters were things to be "cured" un...