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The mark I leave behind.

User Profile: LoveMyMoonflowers
LoveMyMoonflowers December 7th

Hi. some of you may know who i am. some of you may not. But… yeah, either way, I realised i rarely share any of the stuff i write. this is just something i wrote not too long ago. I was supposed to submit this to my writing group but decided to post it here instead… lol. So yeah. bleh. here it is.

The mark I leave behind

The mark I leave behind,

will it be a scar?

A reminder of the demon I was?

Will you ache

to rub it off your skin

the way I need to shed

my past, my plastered pain,

my scars, my life? 

You can go back to the beginning,

but nothing would change.

We both know it would be the same.

The child I was crawled and grew into a girl

The girl trudged on through life

and became a hungering ghost

only to haunt her own corpse

I could start my life again,

but I would always reach

the middle, the mess I made

of my life.

So when it’s time for me to leave,

Will the mark be everything I dread?

Everything I see in myself?

Will you wish I was never there?


- that idiot named Ni 

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User Profile: BlueDarkAurora
BlueDarkAurora December 8th

@LoveMyMoonflowers beautifully written<3 the words reflect the pain so well. Hope you're doing okay<3 Some of us have to deal with a shattered life and are so hurt by the brokenness of it all but it won't be the thing that defines us, I hope it's the strength that we show, the love that we carry and the kindness with which we glow. You'll leave a beautiful mark, you're a beautiful soul :)

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User Profile: LoveMyMoonflowers
LoveMyMoonflowers OP December 8th

@BlueDarkAurora thank you ❤️

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User Profile: azurePond
azurePond December 8th

@LoveMyMoonflowers 

I love how you capture the internal struggle and the weight of the past. The imagery is so vivid, especially the line about the "hungering ghost" haunting her own corpse – it really hits hard. It’s a beautiful reflection on marks, both literal and emotional, and what we leave behind. Thanks for sharing this – it’s really striking!

You have certainly left a beautiful mark with this poem. Take care<3
User Profile: wIthpeACE
wIthpeACE December 8th

@LoveMyMoonflowers

The phrases you used were so clever. The word choice was pot on! ^^ It clearly shows the depth to the misery portrayed through the lines you wrote. I find- 'Only to haunt her own grave...' - extremely moving. I hope you are okay and find peace with yourself. <3