Love or Stockholm Syndrome
A Poem
Was it love or Stockholm Syndrome
You always kept me home
I never realized it ‘til now
How bad you were for me
I thought I loved you
But now I see
You just had all the power over me
I escaped when I could
Like Odysseus
I slipped away from the slumbering brute
Sometimes through the door
But sometimes I had to shoot
Down the roof I slid
Or sometimes that’s just where I hid
Until I could get away
And here I am today
Trying to do the same
You don’t know
Or realize
That she’s the one
The one that’s kept me in your life
You should be grateful to her
For I would have left you long ago
Like my bare footprints
Melting in the snow
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Powerful and intense. So, so well written. Loved it! 🤍
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