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Robyn Todd

Robyn Todd

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Why do I feel guilty for moving on?
I’m so scared to fall in love with you,
and accept that I am past him.
What he did,
What he said.
How do I begin to love again,
when love has taught me wrong?
— please teach me what right love feels like.

Autres oeuvres par Robyn Todd...
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I surround myself with meaningless… I create a narrative in my head w… to make my own feel ever so slight… I pace my room for hours on end in… to make the pounding in my chest o…
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You do not need a final conversati… You do not need to sit across from… their lies, their excuses. You do not need to forgive them fo…
my heart was in your hands.

I gave you absolutely every part o… to the point there is none left fo… I gave you everything I had, everything I was, everything I needed myself.
growing up.

Waiting for the sunrise on christm… I don’t know what happened, or why… I’m not sure when playing out with… scuffed knees and sticky mouths, hands caked with mud and memories,
a shower is not enough.

A shower is not enough. condemning a loofah to a string, a bar of soap to a pebble, hell, even the tiles to plaster. if i could tear myself apart
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misplaced plots.

You have become a dog-eared book a… Pages I will stumble upon some da… To find the pencil marks fading, and the highlighter bleeding. To find tattered corners,
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How have I survived this long bei… and how I do learn to live any dif… — I am so tired of tearing myse…
nothing rhymes with orange.

Nothing rhymes with orange, No word perfectly follows it, No word perfectly matches it. No word perfectly flows alongside… It is not perfect.
changing the world

I don’t need to change the whole w… Just my corner of it. — and what a beautiful corner i…
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There is so much pain in this worl… Not with the tattered receipts and… or the photos of friends on every… Candid photos; ones I probably wo… Not with the bookshelf and the pil…
papercuts and pencil shavings.

How many pages is this going to la… How many chapters am I going to h… How many times am I going to chan… How long is this going to last, I’m running out of paper; flowing…
granddaughter– grandson.

I’ll be the grandson you always wa… I’ll stand in the garden and marve… none of which I can pronounce. I’ll help you with the sunday roas… “yes, these are the best roasties…
emergency contact.

You are still my emergency contact… You are still the person they call when I am distressed, when I am sick, when I am too tired to even take c…
did you or did you not?

What were you wearing? Was your voice too high, your skirt matching? Was your tone too tough, your strength not enough?
let me keep you in the margins.

Please don’t ever become a conspic… Please don’t ever become another a… Stay in the margins, please. Let me doodle your heart in the si… let me separate you from the words…



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