Lily Eldridge
Updated: 3 days ago
Biography
Lily Starling Eldridge is a 16 year old girl from Northern Virginia, who enjoys writing poetry, photography, drawing, singing, and playing video games.
broken butterfly 🦋
“butterflies can’t see their own wings” my wings were unique, folded and geometric i felt proud, never hid them like a secret i was called brave ↳”i’d want to die if i were you” i pulled my antennas over my eyes i naively accepted compliments at face value (i belonged) when it came time to fly, i could only flutter that’s all my wings could do (i was okay with that) i wished for someone to lift me up or at least visit me back on the ground but they towered above me in the sky eyes i once imagined as kind turned one by one into despise i was both a spotlight and invisible i discovered my being was laughable what if i should force my wings back? crush myself against the will of God to please his better projects? (please come back and turn your mess into a masterpiece) i nail these paper-thin wings against a cross my crime is existing without a second thought is my disappearance alone enough to forgive the imperfections of the universe? does nothing compare to the shame i was cursed with? as my fragile body rips off the nails i try to escape this trap i made and fail (my wings are folded even in death)
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Blog entries by Lily Eldridge
First My Soul, Then My Voice (27/03/2025)
you are golden (27/03/2025)
broken butterfly (27/03/2025)
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