Writer’s Spotlight: Kendall Cruise

Things You Can Never Run From (Another Poem With its Meaning between the Lines)

By Kendall Cruise 

“Kendall is a junior English (Creative Writing) & Adolescence Education major. She has previously been published in Gandy Dancer & Iris Magazine. When actually writing and not thinking about writing and deciding to play The Sims instead they pull from the complications of gender identity, ways in which we are socialized as children, the 'future self,' and questions surrounding belief.” 

-Boys with bursted bones 

|they will try to swallow you, hollow out your guts; 

they are no good for you, keep you reeling back too| 

-Heartaches in the morning 

|there is no love left for cowards, patience is a luxury item; 

you get over it, the only other option is to get dead| 

-Remembering, always remembering 

|they are always faster than expected, crash harder into the ground; 

And hungry, so hungry that you would think nobody had been feeding them| -Hope 

|don’t believe it is salvation, have you heard of fool’s gold; 

Nothing good is real, didn’t anybody teach you| 

-Warmth from summer sun 

|not everything happens on the cliff’s edge though; 

Some moments are perfect, you are allowed to be grateful for that| 

-Dandelion eyelash 

|it doesn’t matter that you wished so hard, they will let you fall with no one at the bottom; I’m sorry, but you should know better than that, than to believe| 

-Knives 

|they are not real in the way you want them to be, not the kind you’re thinking of; It stings, it turns you on| 

-You 

Isn’t that tragic?