Loving you was numb,
lifeless and lackluster
At the end,
I felt my heart was
in the likeness of a paper doll, distressed.
Loving you was once bright red…
a haunting sunrise that would sink
fear into a sailors heart.
But I wasn’t afraid until
I couldn’t breathe in the cage
you put me in.
You pulled me out to play,
just to feel something
away from your own darkness.
In the process you put it in me
I tried to wrap it up in ribbons and pearls…
Make it pretty,
just so you could swallow it.
I couldn’t be your pretty thing anymore
That darkness ate her up until there was nothing.
I couldn’t even shed a tear for you and our loss;
It was you who put me there.
-emc
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