poetry of the week (16)

PC: Lexi Jude

​Blue

One year sorting pills.
One year is all I could manage.
The love which would never be--
until it did.

You saved my life,
he said – saved
but burdened.
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He touched me.
I couldn’t.
Side-effect.
Pills.

I saved my life.

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Author - M.D. Wheatley

M.D. Wheatley is a postgraduate creative writing student at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work explores topics including the ecoGothic, queer experience, sexuality, pornography, and gender performance.