Alison Self is a queer singer/songwriter and poet. She is from Petersburg, Virginia, has lived all over the United States, and currently resides in Oregon. Alison was diagnosed with colon cancer in late 2018 and has been in remission since 2019.
Find Alison Self online at https://linktr.ee/alisonselfmusic.
Thursday night i got home and broke down
got down on my knees next to my bed
like a little kid would do in a movie
precious moments
cried my eyes out into my mattress
so no one would hear
i put my hands together and prayed
aint done that since I was little
when you grow up the way i did
you just figure god forgot about you
even if he was there, he’s just busy
take a number
and put your problems on lay away
i prayed to anything that would listen
that i wouldn’t have to move again
that one day i would feel safe, stable
nobody answered so i just went to bed
Would you come watch the rain with me?
We can take off our shoes
and take a drink
straight from the bottle
every time its intensity changes
and you can finish
telling me that story where
in a dream
you were floating
i’ll hold your hand
you can hold mine back
if you want to
ill cackle
as wine drips from the corner of your mouth
from holding back laughter
mid-drink
we can tear apart flowers
blades of grass
mindlessly
then each of us
can silently
feel bad for doing that
and imagine
what a funeral
for a flower
would look like
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