Sugar Packets

Isabel Chaplain
To be a teenage girl
Is to bury a hundred dreams and 
Live 
A thousand nightmares.

To be 15
Is to fall  in love with 
Everything
I felt.

The summer of 15, 
I poured sugar packets 
In my mouth to make 
Her lies taste sweet.

Her lips
Tasted so good
Once I started 
To believe them. 

Which is how 
I let her hand
Up
My dress.

Which is why
I forgave her 
When
Her words broke.

Why I poured more
Sugar packets 
Down
My throat.

Hoping,
That when her lips
Touched 
Mine,

The nasty truth
Would melt
Into 
Delicious lies.



Attempts at Love Sonnet



Rosewood

bite me until your teeth pull all
my strings loose and watch me 
unravel. 
press your mouth to mine and make 

me think of your breath as
summer breezes 
& clouds
&

smooth brooks 
that bubble and giggles under my tongue. 
planting my tongue on your neck 
and savoring the flavors of

burnt sugar 
and rum.


II.
Raspberry

spark fire between my teeth, 
trace your fingers over the embers of my cheeks,                                                                                                                                                    

watch me for the first time 
burn,

against the promises
held underneath your fingertips
whispers of warmth that
fill your eyes who

watch me fall,
watch me fill,
watch me ache, 
all because of the way you kiss me. 

yes, 
you can do that with just your mouth. 


III.
Desire

forget the lipstick and 
watch me 
turn 
all shades of fire.

it was the first time my lips were bitten 
so purely pink 
i never wanted them to be any other shade 
for the rest of my life. 

rose
&
ruby
&

almost
beautiful.