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Ice Queen

Frozen Heart

By Stephanie HoogstadPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Ice Queen
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You call me Ice Queen

I froze you out long ago

Made the part of my heart that belonged to you inaccessible

Iced over so I couldn’t feel it anymore

The alternative was too painful:

Letting you in so that you could hurt me again

Your judgmental ways and expectations

Knocking me off a pedestal I never wanted

Trying to mold me into a shape

Of your own design—

No! Never again will I

Thaw that part of beating flesh

Just for you to toy with it

And throw it back onto the pile

Broken, unwanted—

I’d rather be cold

Than misused

sad poetry

About the Creator

Stephanie Hoogstad

With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.

Learn more about me: thewritersscrapbin.com

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    Written by Stephanie Hoogstad