You let love break
You let love take
You let love shake
You let love steal and create a well for hate for rage
For a self that could not know
For a self that could not show
A true love because that love was never known
That love created a being afraid
Afraid of that change
A being that would run back to what she knew instead of wait
So I wait
I feel the rage, I feel the pain
I feel the distain
Knowing there’s no one to blame
I build a Requiem for this day
This day, this age
Because I’m no longer afraid
Afraid of losing everything
I welcome it
I welcome the pain
Of a heart that’s ripped of its fiber, it’s soul, it’s brain
The thoughts it has will change
And I will sew with new thread new tissue
A heart that cannot mirror anything
It’s not gold, it’s not ore, it’s not valuable to anyone who looks for prestige and wants to be known
It’s flesh
Flesh and cartilage
What I was born at the start with
Something fragile something vulnerable
Something only my soul could know
This heart I grow with a light that has shone
Shone upon a sea that only now has started to churn
Because the gold was only a shield for the pain I didn’t know
The pain I was shown
I love what I hate, and I didn’t know until that day
Now from the spindle I spin veins not gold
I create a heart, I strip ore from my bones
I love the way the hurt flows
The emotions that create
The past I condone
I let it all go
I’m a human
I am ok with this human
I don’t cry tears of gold
I don’t have a heart of stones
I cry salt
And my heart cries blood
Blood that drips from my soul into my lungs
And leaves the body cold and numb
The soul is dead and the body is done
That night I died
I also came to life
A being was created
A soul
A life
And this requiem I built, a homage to my old life
Is so beautiful, more than beautiful
It was made by the inner child
The inner child that still cries
And is enraged at the one who passed them the knife
But I guess it’s time
The ceiling fell
And the foundation is gone
And I’m relishing the build
My inner child is done
Hibernating as I rebuild this soul breathing life into its lungs
Then she can create
Now that the emotion has flown
The pain has been shown
And I laid to rest this love I had once known
Thank you for attending my requiem.
About the Creator
VT
Where words fail my poetry speaks…
and I’m really not good at speaking.
Comments (3)
Great poem!
"I cry salt". Such great words and a poem that really had a lot of emotion. Well done!
Im in love with this and will be rereading this. Can I read this on my podcast?