Never apologize for your heart beats
Or how the script reads
Show me how pain bleeds
With ear-splitting screams
Or passive lullabies
Just hand me your heartache
Force me to feel in my own ways
Make your pain mine
Change me completely
Assign me first chair in your symphony
Allow me to shatter like glass
Against obsidian
Watch me rise, a Phoenix from ash
As your scars strengthen mine
Don't pull me back from the brink
Propel me off the cliff
Keep me along in your broken ride
That junker car on the back of the tow truck
I was there, I really was
Until you uttered your…
About the Creator
Deanna Repose Oaks
Deanna Repose Oaks started writing poetry as a teenager and never stopped. Inspired by an Editor's Choice Award for "I Give Up" from poetry.com in 2006, she started publshing books in 2007.
Find her on facebook: @deannareposeoaks
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