Torn Sheets

By Ella Rye

Bottled Up
Broken Down
Trying to find all these lost pieces
of myself

From the poet that brought you, The Girl: Unspoken Words Collection. Comes the new collection, Torn Sheets

Torn Sheets explores the frustrations and anxiety in relationships. Also, shining a light on living with an autoimmune disease.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ella Rye
• Release date: Dec 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386916024

Ella Rye

Ella Rye grew up in a small town in California. She grew up loving words. An avid reader since a young age. During her teen years, she developed a love of poetry and began writing. The words flowed out of her naturally, never even really knowing what type of poetry she was writing. Over the years, poetry helped her throughout her life. It was therapeutic, now she hopes that her poetry can help those who are going or have gone through the same things. Love and heartbreak have always been a major theme.

Book preview

My Love

My Love

You’re Lost

The Alcohol has taken hold

Tainting your soul

It calls to you

And you don’t ignore

My Love

You’re lost

You’re dragging us down

Can’t you see you're destroying us?

You ignore the pain

For that ounce of happiness

My Love

I’m tired

You’re going to self-destruct

And we’ll be left in your dust

Don’t you see?

You may not always have me

How long can this go?

My Love

I’m gone

Incurable 

I feel this disease eating at me 

No one understands it

I’m in pain 

But no one can really grasp it 

My reality is this

Pain everyday 

I feel like I could just sleep 

I can’t remember certain memories 

My mouth feels so dry 

It's hard to swallow

This disease

I don’t really understand 

I’m attacking my own body 

But no one can really see 

I feel like people think I want pity 

But I don’t 

This incurable disease 

People look at me 

I’m perfectly healthy

But inside 

My body is at war 

And I can’t do anything to stop it. 

I have to live with it. 

I have to deal with it 

Alone.

I Remember When…

I remember when I was eighteen 

I left my hopes and dreams on the counter

But they were forgotten 

My world didn’t let me linger 

I remember when I was nineteen

I met a boy 

Who would ruin me 

He took my innocence 

While sleeping with another 

But I didn’t know till seven years later 

His lies became my world

And his words began to hurt

I remember when I was twenty-six

I grew the courage to get myself out of that mess

His words had hurt me

But made me stronger 

I didn’t look back 

I ran 

from the nightmare that became my life 

That’s when it all changed 

The relationships were different 

But the men seemed the same 

I remember when I was 30 

I had a baby growing in my belly 

I didn’t know she’d be my future 

She came too early but she made it

I was a mess 

Another life I had to nurture 

When I wasn’t sure 

Lots of nights’ tears would stream from my eyes 

Was I doing it right? 

I’m now thirty-five 

She has the sass that is so her 

I see myself in my daughter 

I hope she never has to feel like I did at nineteen 

I hope she reaches for those dreams

And doesn’t see her mistakes as failures 

That she holds on to the memories