You Ruined Me, I Ruined Myself.

• Lara Katsineris - Paine, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2014

why couldn't you just stay a flower,
why’d I have to make you my whole goddamn meadow.
you were a solitary star,
but I breathed you in and made you my solar system.
my god, I didn't mean to make myself bleed
when I cut myself open to see if there were
pieces of you inside me.