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
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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.
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Comments (4)
This a vital lesson
People will call you an ice queen just for having a single crumb of self respect. I say, "people", we know which people I mean 😜
Oh this is pure gold, it’s authentic and from the depths of the heart! Thank you for sharing!
This makes me sad, the person who looses most is the queen herself.