my name

my name is leah.

i am happy all the time

but i don't get many people

to talk to.

sometimes it's the hyper kind

of happy--that's occasionally.

could be the content kind--

almost never.

i don't say much anymore.

i'm leaving soon.

 

my name is mai.

i like to think i'm 75% violence,

25% sexuality. do the two go

together?

it's not the stewing kind of angry,

just short fuse and no patience

and a crazy temper. i'm inconsistant.

i'm a tease.

i speak all the time, but i don't think

i have a listener anymore.

 

my name is shay.

i'm not one for emotions. i know much

about some things but nothing about

most things.

in that way i am childlike, no experiences

to document my stilted life, merely the girl

with the frozen face, dutifully taking notes

in the back.

i have always been here, but my presence

has been swelling recently.

 

my name is alex.

i am tough. and i say this body that i inhabit,

this mind i overrun, is inferior to me.

worthless.

i constantly feed it hatefulness and it

gives me shelter. i pound my fist against its skull

and spots of blood rip open the skin on

its arms.

shouldn't the body be dead of this agony?

i grow like a parasite.

 

my name is pandora.

i am haughty and proud. beautiful and brilliant.

i am slim and sleek and strong, and i hate

everyone.

the way you trip over your words, speak around me

about music and good-looking boys, it all makes me

feel so superior. i whisper, i am so much better

than them.

you might say i'm a narcissist, but i just say

i'm honest.

 

my name is kira.

not my real name, no more than the rest are

names that belong to the body, just the thin slices of

the mind.

i am the crash, the cold fog, the desperation

adoration, realization, mutilation. i'd say i was fine

if you asked me. labeling the worst parts of myself.

i am finished.

burn a finger on a candle flame, tiny razor scratches.

i am dead.

Author's Note

if i had multiple personalities? that's what you think.
for L.

Reviews

[Miss unknown]

I like it. I just learnt this type of poems in my recent creative writing class. Unique way of telling stories through a poem. :) good work!

[Lyzzy Redd]

I now get your status update thing. Wow. This is powerful. For the first stanza, I only thought it was a poem of someone's story, but now I realize it's kind of EVERYONE'S story. Anywho. Just my random mumblings.