Courtney Peppernell

Sometimes I wonder if fear is really the ghosts inside us

of the things we should have said

but didn’t

But all the things you can’t stand

about yourself

are all the things I can’t

go a day without.

It hurts a little and sometimes a lot

when you care about someone

but you’re both kind of messy

and the timing is all wrong

and you don’t feel like

kissing someone else

but you can’t force what’s not

and letting someone in

is scary enough

but even scarier

when your heart

isn’t as strong