Wordy Wednesday

I promised this blog would include posts about my personal life and my interests outside of makeup and fashion, so I've decided to share some of my creative writing. (I'm actually even more passionate about writing than I am about like floral tank tops and freaking mascara.) Here's a free verse poem I wrote last semester and am actually pretty pleased with:

To My CR-V

by Taryn R. Martin

Cleaning out my totaled car

was opening the time capsule

I wasn’t ready to see yet.

The burn mark on the arm rest

from her vanilla Black & Mild.

The steering wheel I squeezed tight when

he finally said, “I love you,”

and I couldn’t say it back

on the drive home in that storm.

My aviators air-bag bent

in that third and final crash.

One last glance at the trunk where

we would sit or lie, door open,

as he peeled labels off countless

green bottles in parking lots when

life was easy and love made sense.

The spool of lucky robin’s egg

ribbon I’d tied to all their wrists,

Which now lay forgotten atop

My driver’s registration

In the cold glove compartment.

And the McDonald’s happy meal

monkey that watched it all, and

silently judged our actions.

What do you think? (Please be kind.)

XOXO, T

P.S. Sorry the font's all weird where I copy pasted.