⊱ Poppy ⊰'s Reviews > Salt

It still amazes me that how can words have such an effect on us. Words, "Such a simple word yet a complicated one. Some words can destroy you, some can heal you, some can change you, some can break you"

This book was utterly beautiful, yeah it is Beautiful, Amazing I must say. Because never once Poetry played with this force with my heart and mind. I am not a huge fan of poetry. But yet this book, this gem made me a fan of it. I was always wary of picking any Poetry book but now whenever I found a good potential Poetry book I won't wait for anything and pick it up in a blink just by remembering my experience with salt..

These are some of the poem which hit home like nothing else.

what
massacre
happens to my son
between
him
living within my skin
drinking my cells
my water
my organs
and
his soft psyche turning cruel.
does he not remember
he
is half woman.

~She asked
'you are in love
What does love look like'
to which I replied
'like everything I've ever lost
come back to me.'

~My whole life
I have
ate my tongue.
ate my tongue.
ate my tongue.
I am so full of my tongue
You would think speaking is easy.
But it is not.
___ for we who keep our lives in our mouths.

~I don't pay attention to the world ending.
It has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.

i think one
of the most pathological
things i have ever seen
is
stabbing
someone
and
then telling them that
their
pain and anger
over being stabbed
is
making you sad.
"white guilt"

" what i never
learned
from my mother
was that
just because some desires you.
does
not mean they value you.
desire is that kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.

-- the colours of low self esteem. "

“i bleed
every month.
but
do not die.
how am i not magic.
– the lie”