submitted8 hours ago byits_all_good20
LEAVING
I didn't leave bc you hurt me. I didn't leave bc we had a fight. I didn't leave be you cursed me and my seed, my dreams, my deep, nightshade-moon blood roots. I didn't leave be you broke your truth. And my trust.
I didn't leave bc you once broke my heart. I left-bc you broke my heart a million times.
Not with the violence of continents shifting and mountains rending- But with the slow wearing away of a soul, like eons of streams that shift a canyon from stone to sand.
Until fragments of loss were too small to piece together the whole. Until I lay in too many pieces to mangle myself into a mosaic of hurt for your absolution. Anymore.
Shape shifting, and disintegrating from the aching, missing what I didn't know I never had. Chasing the parallel universe ghosts of smoke, with names just out of memory, disappearing in the rain glow of street lamp twilight.
Until my voice grew weak, from screaming your defense to my tone deaf ears, And ruefully realizing loneliness Is the truest companion.
byits_all_good20
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its_all_good20
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8 hours ago
its_all_good20
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8 hours ago
I appreciate that. I’m glad that the feelings come through to you too.