

Flintridge sacred heart
Young Writer's Society
presents
Verité
2021-2022
Summer
by Anya Millard
you sit in my chest like an ugly rock attempting to jump out
in droplets that water my need for you
burn my skin and light me up
calm me down and make me long for you
A school girl’s lover
Just you
i hate what you remind of as you draw away and i spend all my time wishing you’d come back
you make me nostalgic for something that will always return and never come back
The same way
as i grow older i know your brilliance will
Wilt
your beauty will remain as a disgusting, beautiful feeling i will slowly forget
it’s march and i can’t wait for you
it’s june and i love you more than ever
it’s august and i’m clinging to you with every breath and cursing you with every other
it’s january and all i want is to see you again
bicycles, popsicles, condensation dripping down a plastic cup of too sweet iced coffee, tearing off a sweater, lying on the rocks, over saturated blue and too-red-to-be-real love
Go away
leave me be
stop tearing my heart to shreds and my youth to pieces
And come back
keep repairing my heart and revitalizing my ever-dying youth
i miss you and i hate nothing and absolutely everything about you
you make me Glow
and you make me Cry