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Chess
Relax- he's waiting for you to scream; sitting back watching for you to fail. He's gnawing at his dry fingernails, anticipating your...
Kendra Lyn
Jan 31, 20231 min read
Motherly
I'm just not motherly enough because her socks don't match, and sometimes she plays in pajamas with her hair wild, like her soul. I'm not...
Kendra Lyn
Nov 9, 20221 min read
Journal #5
It started out small; I asked him a question. I wanted to know if he was meeting up with another girl on his trip to Texas next week. He...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20223 min read
Toxic
He used to be like breathing. Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. It was natural and rhythmic; cyclic. He used to feel like home. Exhale. Exhale....
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Hobo
I can’t take watching him any longer. I walk in from a twelve-hour day and he’s there on the couch. He reeks of cigarettes, and says his...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
sharp
I still crave the blade. He calls to me when you blame me For your shortcomings; Whispers my name when Your anger rages. I still crave...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Abandoned
The only thing worse than divorce has to be abandonment. And I don’t mean me. I couldn’t give one single fuck less that he abandoned me,...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Entangled
Entangled in your web-of lies, of power, of manipulation; I searched for years hoping to find the strength to run away. I ran fast and...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Gullible
Two broken parents raising a child was catastrophic. It created this chaotic chain of events that ensured mutual and hereditary...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20223 min read
i broke him
I broke him. That’s the way he tells it anyway. He tells them all that I took his heart and ripped it out and stomped it into pieces....
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20222 min read
Battleground
It's a desolate world, in a land gone mad. You never even knew, what I thought we had. Shifting slowly I look to you. Your eyes have...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Cease Fire
“Cease fire,” I’m begging you! I can't handle this war any longer. War of heart, war of head, war of soul; it makes no difference, it all...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Used to Think
I used to think of love as a fairytale ending, where some miraculous man in a satin black tux would show up at your feet, begging you to...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
ghazal
He’s a monster in the skin of a sheep, but he wears it well. I’m the broken one, rippled with heartbreak, but he hears it well. He’ll...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
ABC
Any time I open my laptop, I expect to write, But my mind is jumbled and broken; Chaotic and twisted in a mountain of sadness. Drowning...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Norse god
I felt like I was drowning, or melting into mud; You didn’t really love me, I feared you never would. All your lies and secrets, and you...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
DTM
I buried you. Six motherfucking feet In the back of my memories. You rot with my feelings Of worthless inadequacy; Tangled in the vines...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Ashes
Someone, somewhere said something about things getting better. I’m still waiting for it. Someday, I’m supposed to be stronger, more...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
FOC
He’s doing it again And I want to scream, Shout, kick And throw him at the wall. But I can’t Because they’re watching And he’s waiting;...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
And Yet, I Stayed So Long.
You encapsulate your anger So you can shove it down my throat. We're always the danger That you will overflow. It doesn't matter what I...
Kendra Lyn
Jun 3, 20221 min read
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