To Survive
Tiara Page
Tiara Page
I don’t wanna be
A rotting fig tree
Is there any way
I could forgive me
I sleep to tuck myself away
In my dreams
If I tell you something
I have a hard time breathing
I’m unafraid of bleeding
I wouldn’t know if I died
Take liking to the familiar feeling
Like my bones are sinking
Inside my body’s tides
I would disappear
Gone so quietly
But I’ve seen nothing yet
I want to see the mountains at sunset
And I want to see snow melting on the crest
I never learned to swim
I walk the walls of the deep end
Never feeling the water on my skin
I can’t fall back to sleep
When I close my eyes I see
Butterflies looking at me
Feeding on carcasses
Because all things will hurt
Just to be
A rotting fig tree
Is there any way
I could forgive me
I sleep to tuck myself away
In my dreams
If I tell you something
I have a hard time breathing
I’m unafraid of bleeding
I wouldn’t know if I died
Take liking to the familiar feeling
Like my bones are sinking
Inside my body’s tides
I would disappear
Gone so quietly
But I’ve seen nothing yet
I want to see the mountains at sunset
And I want to see snow melting on the crest
I never learned to swim
I walk the walls of the deep end
Never feeling the water on my skin
I can’t fall back to sleep
When I close my eyes I see
Butterflies looking at me
Feeding on carcasses
Because all things will hurt
Just to be
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Tiara Page is a 19-year-old woman currently attending school at Polk State College. She is a
first-year psychology major. Page struggled with homelessness in her youth but graduated with
her high school class in 2020. She has never been published before.
Tiara Page is a 19-year-old woman currently attending school at Polk State College. She is a
first-year psychology major. Page struggled with homelessness in her youth but graduated with
her high school class in 2020. She has never been published before.