Poetry & Art

No More Blood

by Nicole Burton • January 3, 2019

*Content Warning: This piece contains references to suicidal ideation, which may be triggering to some.

Sometimes I wonder

if I like the bathtub

because it reminds me

of a darker time.

When I used to wish

to drown myself.

If this is the same hole I felt

safe in Is this perhaps why

I still tun to the same tub when

I’m scared. Though this comfort

sheds no blood.

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by Nicole Burton

Hello, my name's Nicole, I'm 24 years old, graduated from California State University of Long Beach with my major in English: Creative Writing, and a minor in Sociology. I love reading and writing, it's my passion to write whether it is fictional or personal. I started writing fiction 4 years ago, but last year started moving to poetry and non-fiction. I believe that there is a rawness in writing about yourself and your experiences, I chose to write to let others know that whatever they are suffering with that they are not alone, I have and still suffer/ struggle. Its okay to be vulnerable, to be heard.