SADIE FRANCES BETZ
Sadie Frances Betz is an 18 year old poet and creative currently residing in Chicago, Illinois. Their poetry explores the complexity of trauma and the destructive habit of finding solace in your own pathosis. They write in a very intense and animalistic tone, aiming to capture the rawness of fear and true disturbance while still, simultaneously attempting to remain beautiful and enticing. Their work has been described as “a delicious piece of meat being fed to a dying angel.”
IG: @sabiedoll
Closed Casket
jesus wept as he carried me back up
catatonic
my body gutted
all physicality disfigured
my soft face
intricate fingerprints - unrecognizable
i never knew true ugliness until now
mauled baby,
will have to find serenity and safety trapped behind the gates of the heavens
though mercifully
divine beings cannot physically judge
wince
cringe
nor recoil
all through god’s eyes is beauty
pure beauty and grace
he will continue to hold me
even if now i am nothing more
than a
mutilated and molested
heap of churned insides
skin and with the indescribable
never ending fear of a lost animal
forever looking for it’s mother’s warm embrace
and fierce protection