11: Open - Nov 2021

My Own Stains

Your Dirty Hands left marks on me.
And when I wash them off
My own stains are revealed to me.

My insecurities are like a red wine stain
On a white summer dress
Hard to look at

My shame, dirtier
Like the stains on my sweatpants
thrown in the back of my closet

Dirtier,
is my Anxiety
You can smell it from two blocks down
Ripe as the oversized
-used to be white-
t-shirt that I worked out in 3 days ago

Dirtier than my own stains 
Like the stains in my sheets
left by Men who won't say they love me

My own stains are the hardest to look at

-Collin A Cyster

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